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{SPEAKER name="Michael Neufeld"}
I am waiting for the leader to go past here.
Ok, this is an interview with Karl Heimburg by Michael Neufeld, Huntsville, Alabama, November the 9th, 1989.
Tape 1, side 1
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Ok, Mr. Heimburg could you give your full name, your birthplace, your birthdate.
{SPEAKER name="Karl Heimburg"}
My full name is Karl Ludwig Heimburg. I was born at Lindenfels, in Hessen. My dad was a forester, therefore I grew up on the countryside. And my father was transferred close to Giessen, in Hessen, so that we could go by train to school at Giessen. I was the youngest one of four. This transfer was in nineteen hundred and fourteen. I was born in nineteen hundred and ten.
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{SPEAKER name="Michael Neufeld"}
What was your exact birthday, was?
{SPEAKER name="Karl Heimburg"}
29th of January nineteen hundred and ten. I went to school at Giessen and after finishing the Realgymnasium at Giessen in 1928, I went to the Technikerberufsschule at Darmstadt. After I had practically worked for half a year at Krefeld in a steel plant. You know the term technical education as for a practical education as an electrician or as a mechanic, and describes in detail where you have to work. And at a minimum. And this, in my opinion, is a very important education site which is missing in the United States.

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