Originally Published by Germanic ROTARY MAGAZIN, Hamburg – September 2020 In 1931, American Rotarians sought to send a symbol of peace in uncertain times around the world. This ultimately led eighty-nine years later to an international project. // Matthias Schütt www.Peace-Pipe-Proposal.com The publishers Joachim Reppmann (left) Ivy and Tony Conn holding their book. Keokuk—the Indian […]
“Art and Food” is an enchanting new cookbook by Marliese Heimann-Ammon (the spouse of the German Ambassador to the United States). She was recently profiled by the monthly newspaper The Washington Diplomatin an article titled LIFE of ADVENTURE – From Fashion to Art, Wife Spotlights ‘New Germany’: Since coming to Washington in 2011, Heimann-Ammon has […]
Legacy of 1848: Transplanted Ideas & Values in America’s Past and Present Conference, 2017 The “Forty-Eighters,” were a relatively small number of individuals who emigrated from Europe in the late 1840s and early 1850s after fighting unsuccessfully with both pen and sword for liberty, democracy, and national unity. Many of the German Forty-Eighters immigrated to […]
Warum nur wollen so viele Deutsche nichts von der Geschichte ihrer Demokratie wissen? Ein gebildeter deutscher Bürger spricht zu uns: Georg Cremer, geboren 1952 in der Bundesrepublik, Volkswirtschaftler und Statistik-Experte, Generalsekretär eines der größten deutschen Wohlfahrtsverbände. Er habe, so gab er vor wenigen Tagen in einem Interview mit derSüddeutschen Zeitung zu Protokoll, erst in der […]
English Translation of the article in Kieler Nachrichten, January 4, 2016 Sylt Love MovieThe Couple from a Picture BookBy Kristiane BackheuerA couple from Sylt are becoming movie stars more than 100 years after their deaths. During his research, Dr. Joachim Reppmann, a historian from Flensburg, came across the story of Mathilde and Bleik Peters, who […]
