Hans Reichelt was a German politician of the Democratic Farmers' Party of Germany (DBD), a GDR-Bloc party. He was Minister of Agriculture and Forestry in 1953 and from 1955 to 1963, and from 1972 to January 1990, Minister of Environmental Protection and Water Management, as well as Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the GDR.

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1925Rudolf Steiner, Austrian philosopher and author (born 1861)^[†]

Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner was an Austrian New Age philosopher, occultist, social reformer, architect, esotericist, and claimed clairvoyant. Steiner gained initial recognition at the end of the nineteenth century as a literary critic and published works including The Philosophy of Freedom. At the beginning of the twentieth century he founded an esoteric spiritual movement, anthroposophy, with roots in German idealist philosophy and theosophy. His teachings are influenced by (Christian) Gnosticism or neognosticism. Many of his ideas are pseudoscientific. He was also prone to pseudohistory.

Headlines from March 30, 1925

Coolidge's Secretary Calls Him a Talker; Finds President Adept at Handshaking, Too

Col. Stewart, Missing Oil Witness, Turns Up; Says He Went to Colombia, Unaware of Call

Squad of 102 Police Sent to Water Front In Secret Hunt for Rum-Runners and Thieves

70 Per Cent. of the Vote Cast.

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