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...March, 1930, that Bruening succeeded socialist Hermann Mueller as Chancellor of the Weimar Republic under President Paul von Hindenburg. As Parliamentary chairman of the German center party, he represented the moderates who desired to uphold the peace treaties of 1919 and to stand by the League of Nations...
...mustachioed German physicist, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, published an enormous volume on the physics and psychology of musical sound. Its enormous title: Lehre von den Tonempfindungen als Physiologische Grundlage für die Theorie der Musik. Terser English translators called it Sensations of Tone. Composers and prima donnas paid little attention to Physicist von Helmholtz' monumental brainwork, but the science of acoustics was groggy from it for half a century...
...first traversed the Jewish and radical labor quarters. Any resident in one of these dingy blocks of flats could with certainty have shot the burly Feldmarschall who rode along beaming, waving his gold-starred baton at Viennese who, whatever their private opinions, screamed at the tops of their voices: "Hermann! Hermann! Our Hermann...
...Austrian people are Catholics, and since Orator Göring's serious purpose in Vienna was to persuade all Austrians to vote "Ja" on April 10,* the most conciliatory part of the speech was addressed to the Church. "We have no desire to destroy religion," said Hermann Wilhelm Göring. "In Germany we have not destroyed the Church but only the clerical politicians...
...During the War, Baron Manfred von Richthofen was German Daredevil No. 1, and No. 2 was Airman Hermann Wilhelm Göring who, after the death of No. i, took over command of the famed Richthofen Squadron, daredevils...