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13 unusual facts about Waldheim


Anagarika Govinda

Ernst Lothar Hoffmann was born in Waldheim, Germany, the son of a German father and a Bolivian mother.

Gerhard Reinhardt

He was arrested and in 1936, sentenced to a prison term in the Zuchthaus in Waldheim, Saxony.

Hans Wussing

Hans-Ludwig Wußing (born October 15, 1927 in Waldheim; died April 26, 2011 in Leipzig) was a German historian of mathematics and science.

Horst Sindermann

In March 1935, he again was arrested for attempted high treason, tortured and put in solitary confinement for six years at Waldheim jail.

Kriebstein Castle

Unter Georg von Carlowitz (1544 - 1550) erreichte die Herrschaft Kriebstein mit Dörfern und den beiden Städten Waldheim und Hartha ihre größte territoriale Ausdehnung.

Nacht und Nebel

The prisoners were often moved apparently at random from prison to prison such as Fresnes Prison in Paris, Waldheim near Dresden, Leipzig, Potsdam, Lübeck and Stettin.

NKVD Special Camp No. 1

From there, a part was released in 1950, the remaining prisoners were handed over from the Soviets to the East German Communist government and brought to Waldheim on 9 and 13 February 1950, only to be "convicted" in the infamous Waldheim Processes.

Pillory

When permanently present in sight of prisoners, it was thought to act as a deterrent against bad behaviour, especially when each prisoner had been subjected to a "welcome beating" on arrival, as in 18th-century Waldheim in Saxony (12, 18 or 24 whip lashes on the bare posterior tied to a pole in the castle courtyard, or by birch rod over the "bock", a bench in the corner).

Royal Saxon State Railways

This had been necessary, after the private firm, the Chemnitz-Riesa Railway Company, had gone bankrupt due to the cost of structures needed between Waldheim und Döbeln.

Waldheim, Saskatchewan

Many came from Manitoba, but others arrived directly from colonies in Russia, from the Danzig region of Prussia and from Kansas, Nebraska and Minnesota where they had settled in the 1870s.

White Buses

A total of 211 prisoners were collected from some 20 establishments, among them Dresden, Cottbus, Luckay, Zeithin, Groitsch and Waldheim (east of Dresden).

Willibald

Miraculously, Willibald survived and at the age of five was received into a Benedictine monastery called Waldheim (now Bishop's Waltham) in Hampshire, England.

Ziegra-Knobelsdorf

The villages of Forchheim, Kleinlimmritz, Limmritz, Poschwitz, Schweta, Stockhausen, Töpeln, Wöllsdorf and Ziegra have been incorporated into Döbeln, Gebersbach, Heyda, Kaiserburg, Knobelsdorf, Meinsberg, Neuhausen and Rudelsdorf into Waldheim.


1981 in Afghanistan

During the General Assembly session, UN Secretary-General Waldheim and Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, UN special representative for Afghanistan, have separate discussions with the Afghan Foreign Minister Shah Mohammad Dost and Pakistan's Foreign Minister Agha Shahi.

Landscape urbanism

Speakers included Charles Waldheim, Mohsen Mostafavi, James Corner of James Corner/Field Operations, Alex Wall, and Adriaan Geuze of the firm West 8, among others.

This issue includes contributions from Charles Waldheim, James Corner, Mohsen Mostafavi, Adriaan Geuze, Susannah Drake, Kongjian Yu, Frederick Steiner, and Dean Almy.

Othmar Karas

He is married to Dr. Christa Waldheim-Karas, daughter of Kurt Waldheim and Elisabeth Waldheim.

Takeshi Araki

To this appeal of ours, both Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim and President H.S. Amerasinghe of the General Assembly, representing the United Nations, respectively emphasized that the sufferings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are sufferings to be shared by the whole of mankind, and that a new concept of world order should be built from the ashes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.