Word: politik
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...full hero's welcome, West Germany's President Theodor Heuss earnestly trundled about the country to New York (where he received an honorary L.H.D. from the New School's President Dr. Hans Simons, who attended Berlin's Hochschule für Politik with him some 40 years ago) from the Grand Canyon (which, in good statesmanlike fashion, he painted). Sampling the lighter side of U.S. life, Dr. Heuss bounced two miles in an old-fashioned buggy to a rodeo in Prescott, Ariz. (His comment: "I looked to see if they dressed the way cowboys...
...Saxon accent reveals a rich European background. Born in Leipzig, Germany, Neumann did his undergraduate work at the University of Leipzig and went on to Heidelberg and Grenoble in France for graduate study. Later, he joined the staff of the Deutsche Hochschule fur Politik in Berlin, the only political science school in Germany...
During the war, he helped train senior officers in military government and worked with the OSS in Washington. In 1949 he returned to Germany as a visiting expert on education and helped reestablish the Deutsche Hochschule fur Politik which had been dissolved by the Nazis. He also visited his old colleague, Theodor Heuss, now President of the West German Republic...