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Died. Lieut. Colonel Hermann Kriebel, 65, participant in Adolf Hitler's beerhall Putsch of 1923, onetime chief military adviser to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, member of Germany's 1919 Armistice Commission; in Munich. His farewell to the Allied Armistice Commission: "See you again in 20 years...
Economic schoolboys love to argue over who is the world's most powerful industrialist. Last week the argument could almost be regarded as settled. The winner: beer-bellied, red-faced, medal-breasted Hermann Göring...
...ring's rise is a study in speed. By decree (July 23, 1937) he took over low-grade iron deposits in Salzgitter. Two days later and with $2,000,000 (at 40? to a mark) of the Reichsbank's money he formed the Hermann Göring Works to compete with his steel friends in the Ruhr. With the help of famed U. S. Engineer Herman Alexander Brassert, he built a smelter, a rolling mill, a canal over ten miles long, houses for 150,000 workmen. Then, like a geyser, the Göring Works shot up into...
Thus Göring cannot be called the world's richest man. But he is certainly Europe's, probably the world's, most potent industrialist. Last month the Hermann Göring Works was reorganized under three sub-holding companies: one for mines and ore refining, one for arms and machine production, one for shipping and inland waterways. But the full range of its products (among them: synthetic oil, guns, turbines, textiles, typewriters, tanks, ships) is a Nazi secret...
...Hamburger Fremdenblatt claimed that the father of all the Görings was none other than Duke Albert of Brunswick, great-grandson of Henry the Lion, great-great-grandson of Henry II of England, whose daughter Matilda married into the German royal house of Saxony. To welcome "Iron Hermann" into the ranks of royalty, the city of Brunswick, where Henry the Lion is buried, sent him a replica of that ancestor's statue...