2013 Happy New Year’s Greetings! It was March 30, 1996, in the waiting room of the hospital in Sioux City, Iowa. A worried looking pastor approached me with the words, “Mr. Reppmann, I’m sorry to have to tell you your wife might not survive.” It was a terrible moment. Only a few yards from where […]
Barbara (Basia) Neil öffnete Türen und Herzen – Gerhard Stoltenbergs Zigarrenkiste und Fonds (Rede - Verabschiedung von Frau Neil, Staatskanzlei, Kiel) Damals, im Januar 1978 trafen sich der Lübecker Dietrich „Didi“ Eicke und der Flensburger Joachim „Yogi“ Reppmann in ihrer Kieler Studentenbude am Sophienblatt, um systematisch eine erste gemeinsame Forschungsreise in die USA vorzubereiten. Unser […]
A large north German media group (shz, 16 daily newspapers) published for the first time in Deutschland a weekly English speaking column. Stefan Richter editor-in-chief invented the concept for "Moin moin from USA". We had the pleasure to write the below short articles from 2009 through 2011. A selection of our weekly columns which covered many aspects of […]
"After our quick walk around the old harbor area, Yogi decided to make a brief stop at Rantrum on our way back to Flensburg. I snapped one last photo, we loaded in the car, and began the short drive to the town where Jürgen Peter Ankerson was born. As I stared through the windows of […]
Kiel, Germany: Every student and every single member of the alumni knows the name of “Olshausenstraße” from every day’s trip to the city of Kiel’s Christian-Albrechts-University. This street was named in memory of the brothers Justus and Theodor Olshausen. To keep their memory alive, a monument was dedicated to them; erected on June 5th, 2009. […]
