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Saxony: Baroque Meets High Tech
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Minister President
Georg Milbradt
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The Free State of Saxony is this year's main sponsor of the German Embassy's celebration of the Day of German Unity on October 3, and Minister President Georg Milbradt will travel to Washington to take part. With Saxony’s burgeoning industrial and high-tech sectors along with the painstaking restoration of its baroque treasures, this most populous of the New Länder is exemplifying the “blossoming landscape” that then Chancellor Helmut Kohl predicted for eastern Germany. In this InFocus, Germany.info looks at the aspects that make this the state where “Baroque Meets High Tech.”
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President Milbradt's Words of Greeting to Germany.info Visitors
Celebrating German Unity with Saxon Flair
Guests celebrated German unification and German-American friendship on
October 3 at the German-Ambassador's Residence in Washington, D.C. With
the motto, “Baroque Meets High Tech,” the Free State of Saxony
was the main supporter of the evening.
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Theodore Roosevelt – A Summer in Dresden
A political dynamo in his day, Theodore ("Teddy") Roosevelt was the youngest man ever to become President (at 42). When Roosevelt was a boy, his father took him abroad to expose him to the world. He spent at 1873 a summer in Dresden:
When we reached Dresden we younger children were left to spend the summer [there]…. From that time to this it would have been quite impossible to make me feel that the Germans were really foreigners. The affection, the Gemüthlichkeit (a quality which cannot be exactly expressed by any single English word), the capacity for hard work, the sense of duty, the delight in studying literature and science, the pride in the new Germany, the more than kind and friendly interest inthree strange children - all these manifestations of the German character and of German family life mace a subconscious impression upon me which I did not in the least define at the time, but which is very vivid still forty years later. (Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography. New York: Charles Scribners’s Sons, 1946) |
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