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Born in Würzburg, Neckermann worked in Berlin during the Nazi era, acquired for a bargain price a textile mail-order house belonging to a Jew who was forced to sell and flee. Neckermann joined the Nazi Party, did well selling uniforms to Hitler's armies during World War II. After V-E day, the Allies confiscated Neckermann's property and put him in jail for a year. He kept up his textile contacts and in 1950 set up business in a rented barracks at a refugee camp, where labor was especially cheap...
Married. Princess Anastasia of Prussia, 21, great-granddaughter of Kaiser Wilhelm II, a Frankfurt kindergarten teacher; and Prince Aloys-Konstantin, 23, law student at Würzburg University; in Erbach, Germany...
From the Annunciation to her Assumption and her final crowning, Mary's life, both on earth and in heaven, is re-enacted in a series of shell-like stages that were one of the hallmarks of the Renaissance sculptor, Tilman Riemenschneider. He had come to Würzburg in 1483 as a painter's apprentice, rose to be city councilor and finally mayor. Then, during the Peasants' War, he flatly refused the bishop's order to take a stand against the rebels. He was stripped of his honors, "harshly judged and tortured," and legend...
Julius Doepfner, 45, youngest member of the College of Cardinals (TIME, Dec. 1). Born in Hausen, near Würzburg, he was ordained only a few weeks after World War II began, returned to Germany, became vice rector of the training college for priests in Würzburg. In 1943 Pius XII appointed him Bishop of Würzburg and last year Bishop of Berlin, where he won the sympathy of refugees and young people, took a firm stance against Communism...
...small farmer in Franconia, Julius Doepfner early earned a reputation as a godly activist-as likely to show up in a refugee camp or a coal mine as in his pulpit. At Würzburg he gave special attention to refugees and young people, salted church dogma with sport talk, made church land available for housing projects, started a Catholic daily...