Word: hessian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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with Frankfurt's Hessian Radio Orchestra
...manuscript, a letter in 1899 to a young Hessian named Ernst Schramm, stated that "All just people ... must refuse to become soldiers...
...Under no circumstance can we inflict violence on people, torture or kill them because we think such acts could be of use to us or to others," Tolstoy wrote. He delivered this advice to his young correspondent in the knowledge that the penalty for evading conscription into the Hessian army was death, even though it was a time of peace...
...Hessian post office forwarded Tolstoy's letter to Bavaria. The Atlantic concludes that Schramm decided not to join the army, but to flee the country instead...
Clerk to Chairman. Lotz was chosen because he seemed equal to all those problems-and more. Son of a Hessian farmer, he became a Luftwaffe general-staff major assigned to assessing war needs. "That was my first strong contact with industrial planning," he says. At war's end he took a clerk's job in Mannheim with the German subsidiary of the Swiss firm of Brown, Boveri & Cie, which makes all kinds of electrical equipment from home appliances to locomotives. Within twelve years, Lotz rose to chairman. He and the Swiss fell out over a small computer company...