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Issue 52.1 of the Review for Religious, January/February 1993. ; rel i gious Christian Heritages and C0mempora~ Living JANUARY-FEBRUARY1993 ,,VOLUME52 ¯ NUMBERi Review for Religious (ISSN 0034-639X) is published bi-monthly at Saint Louis University by the Jesuits of the Missouri Province. Editorial Office: 3601 Lindell Boulevard ¯ St. Louis, Missouri 63108-3393. Telephone: 314-535-3048 ¯ FAX: 314-535-0601 Manuscripts, books for review, and correspondence with the editor: Review for Religious ¯ 3601 Lindell Boulevard ¯ St. Louis, Missouri 63108-3393. Correspondence about the Canonical Counsel department: Elizabeth McDonough OP ¯ 5001 Eastern Avenue ° P.O. Box 29260 Washington, D.C. 20017. POSTMASTER Send address changes to Review for Religious ¯ P.O. Box 6070 ¯ Duluth, MN 55806. Second-class postage paid at St. Louis, Missouri, and additional mailing offices. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Single copy $5 includes surface mailing costs. One-year subscription $15 plus mailing costs. Two-year subscription $28 plus mailing costs. See inside back cover for more subscription information and mailing costs. ©1993 Review for Religious for religious Editor Associate Editors Canonical Counsel Editor Assistant Editors Advisory Board David L. Fleming sJ Philip C. Fischer SJ Michael G. Harter SJ Elizabeth McDonough OP Jean Read Mary Ann Foppe Joann Wolski Conn PhD Mary Margaret Johanning SSND Iris Anti Ledden SSND Edmundo Rodriguez SJ S~fin Sammon FMS Wendy Wright PhD Suzanne Zuercher OSB Christian Heritages and Contemporary Living JM',/UARY-FEBRUARY 1993 ¯ VOLUME 52 " NUMBER 1 contents 6 feature The Religious Life Futures Project: Executive Summary David J. Nygren CM and Miriam D. Ukeritis CSJ provide a summary of "The Future of Religious Orders in the United States" (FORUS), a comprehensive study of the opinions, beliefs, attitudes, and practices of men and women religious. 56 69 growing spiritually A Developmental View of Salesian Spirituality Joann Wolski Conn examines a process of self-knowledge through the lens of the lives of St. Francis de Sales and St. Jane de Chantal. The Cloistered Heart Nancy Shuman provides snapshots of her journey into a heart cloister for finding a union with God. discerning vocation 86 The Transfer and the RCIA: Process and Ritual 102 Kathleen Hughes RSCJ and Barbara Quinn RSCJ draw outlines of development from the RCIA process for the transfer of a religious from one community to another. Vocations among Teaching Brothers Eleace King IHM provides the encouraging results of the CARA study of vocations in teaching brothers communities. 2 Review for Religious 111 119 131 living religious life Internationality: Intentional or Accidental Catherine M. Harmer MMS focuses on the structural aspects necessary for a religious group to be intentionally international. Mission before Mission: God's Mission within Us A. Paul Dominic SJ develops the insight that the mission of individual Christians is one and the same as God's mission in themselves. Talents for Living in Community Melannie Svoboda SND proposes eight "lesser" gifts of personality and attitude which enable people to live more graciously with others. departments 4 Prisms 140 Canonical Counsel: New Communities 147 Book Reviews January-February 1993 3 prisms Anew year ushers in new life. Newspapers in every city vie for the picture of the first baby born in the early moments of a new year. Perhaps all of us need to image ourselves in that picture of a newborn and ask our-selves what kind of fresh life we seek in this year 1993. As we enter into this new gift of time, God's grace con-tinues to be a light to our mind and a strength to our will. In 1993, what light do we seek for our faith, and what strength do we need to live in closer union with our Lord? Review for Religious hopes to focus some light where it will be helpful by highlighting an article in each issue of this new volume. Our present issue is privileged to publish "The Religious Life Futures Project: Executive Summary." David J. Nygren CM and Miriam D. Ukeritis csJ have worked some three years on a major study of religious life and its future in the United States. By means of this arti-cle, they present in a concise and understandable form the conceptual background, methodological considera-tions, research findings, and major implications of their three-year study. Because this article attempts to provide easy entrance to the complete study shortly to be pub-lished in book form, it also gives our readers a ready ref-erence for use with future articles that will either critique assumptions and method or suggest further developments implied in this study. The importance of the study lies especially in the breadth and thoroughness of its col|ection of data, rep-resented in it~ six independent elements: a national survey, leadership studies, a study of caring people and one of visioning groups, individual interviews, and a final theo-logical/ historical monograph. There is no doubt about its timeliness gince the church is now looking forward to the Review for Religious ninth assembly (in 1994) of a worldwide synod of bishops. The theme of the synod is "The consecrated life and its role in the church and in the world." Since bishops, priests, lay people, and religious need to be involved in the preparation and the followup of this and every church synod, Review for Religious hopes to be a channel of grace by bringing to its readers clear informative articles as well as inspiring motivational ones for the ever richer living out of the spiritual heritages found in particular religious families such as the Benedictine or the Franciscan. It is especially crucial that members of the institutes of con-secrated life become active participants in the presynodal reflec-tion. As for the hierarchy, the apostolic pronuncio reminded the assembled bishops of the United States in November 1992 that every bishop has a special responsibility regarding consecrated religious life. Ultimately all active Catholics need to become involved because the church is as healthy as religious life is healthy. For if the Spirit's charismatic structuring of the church, represented in the ever fecund religious-life form, appears to be weakening or becoming attenuated, then the body of the church in all its members suffers. Such an interrelatedness is reflected in the Pauline principle about the Body of Christ, and church history provides the data of its reality. While special articles will highlight this synod preparation, Review for Religious through its usual wide variety of spiritual topics will continue to bring fresh understandings and applica-tions of spiritual legacies to our Christian life. We hope that our readers will find both light and strength for their spiritual growth in 1993 through the contributions of our many authors. I would like to draw your attention to a new name added to the listing of our Advisory Board members. Joann Wolski Conn, with her doctorate in theology, teaches in the Neumann College Graduate Program in Pastoral CounselinF and Spiritual Direction, a program which assists spiritual.directors to use four great tra-ditions (Franciscan, Ignatian, Carmelite, and Salesian) in their ministry. Her books, Women's Spirituality (1986) and Spirituality and Personal Maturity (1989), have been well received. In this very issue our readers will profit from her "Developmental View of Salesian Spirituality." We look forward t6 her contribution to our board discussions and decisions for the good health and progress of this journal. David LI Fleming SJ 37anuary-February 1993 5 DAVID J. NYGREN and MIRIAM D. UKERITIS The Religious Life Futures Project: Executive Summary feature In this Executive Summary we attempt to provide in as concise and understandable a form as possible the conceptual back-ground, methodological considerations, research findings, and major implications of the Religious Life Futures Project. VVe also recognize the range of interests and various needs of the many persons like yourself who bare expressed great interest in reading the results. With that in mind, the following description of the con-tents of the various sections may assist you in selecting the point at which you would prefer to begin your reading. Section I presents the purpose of this research project. Section H provides the theoretical perspective. This includes some background information on the concept of trans-formation as used in studying groups and organizations. It also David J. Nygren CM, an organizational psychologist, and Miriam D. Ukeritis csJ, a clinical psychologist, began work on this three-year study at Boston University in 1989 and completed it at De Paul University in Chicago in 1992. Nygren is now director of the Center for Applied Social Research and assistant professor of organizational psychology at De Paul University. Ukeritis is director of the Institute for Leadership of Religious Organizations at De Paul and a research associate in its Center for Applied Social Research. They may be addressed at De Paul University; Center for Applied Social Research; 2219 North Kenmore Avenue; Chicago, Illinois 60614. NOTE. This study in modified form was originally pub-lished in Origins 22, no. 15 (24 September 1992). 6 Review for Religious provides some information on the levels of change (social institution, congregational, and individual) considered in this project. Section III provides a description of each of the six research units and of the methodology for each of them and then offers summary find-ings. Results are presented in terms of the analysis described above. Section IV, "Conclusions: Shaping the Future, "presents the summary conclusions of the entire project. If you are interested in "bot-tom lines, "you may want to start your reading with this section. Some may wonder why we did not present this chapter first. When, in shar-ing our results with some groups, we began by presenting a summary of our findings, we were repeatedly asked, "Where/bow did you reach these conclusions?" Hence, in this executive summary, we begin at the begin-ning and work through to the conclusions. Subsequent publications of the results of this study will refer to these findings as The Future of Religious Orders in the United States (FO~U3). Table of Contents I. Introduction and Purpose .8. II. Theoretical Perspective . 9 A. The Concept of Transformation . 9 B. Levels of Change . 12 III. Research Units . 16 A. National Survey . 17 B. Leadership . 30 C. Visioning Groups . 35 D. Caring People . 38 E. Individual Interviews. . 40 E Theological/Historical Monograph .42 Conclusions: Shaping the Future .42 Acknowledgments . 51 References . 51 Bibliographical Notes . 52 January-February 1993 7 Nygren and Ukeritis ¯ Religious Life Futures Project I. Introduction and Purpose The 30 years since the Second Vatican Council have been turbu-lent ones for Roman Catholic religious orders in the United States. The average age of the members of many congregations has increased to 67 years, while the number of religious has decreased approximately 45% for brothers and sisters and 27% for religious priests. Sevei'al "traditional" works, have been called into question while other works and other definitions of mission have arisen. The understanding of ways of living the vows ha~ changed substantially within many congregations. The distinction between religious life and the "laity" has also decreased considerably, with many "lay people" now developing some type of formal associa-tion with religious congregations and many religious identifying more clearly with lay people. How can such phenomena, which apply in many congrega-tions and across the traditional distinctioris of religious life (con-templative, monastic, mendicant, and apostolic), be best understood? How do individual religious and congregations expe-rience and understand the changes that have taken place in reli-gious life? What do these changes portend for the future of religious life? And, most important, what changes must yet occur if religious life is to remain a vital gift to the church into the next millennium? These were the questions with which we began the Religious Life Futures Project in 1989. Our own congregations, the Vincentian Fathers and Brothers and the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, are but two of the hundreds of congregations that were seeking to transform their lives, ministries, and institutions. With the support of our respective congregations and with a gen-erous grant from Lilly Endowment, we designed a comprehensive study of religious orders in the United States. Basic Purpose of the Research Our purpose was to examine the changes that are occurring in the experience and the understanding of religious life. To accom-plish this end we embarked upon a project that would have as its outcomes: 1. identification of the norm~ative beliefs about religious life and how they will likely shape the future of religious life in this country. 2. building a national data base of all male and female religious 8 Review for Religious that includes current demographic data, membership informa-tion, existing and emerging structures, current member atti-tudes on multiple dimensions, and projections for the future. enabling the leadership of religious orders to identify the current paradigms of effective management of transformation, consol-idation, merging, or extinction. labeling the changes that must yet occur if religious life is to remain a vital social and theological gift to the church into the next millennium. In this summary we hope to indicate how the lives of 121,000 religious are reflected in the opinions of the more than 10,000 religious priests, sisters, and brothers who took time to share their ideas and beliefs with us through personal interviews, ques-tionnaires, workshops, and written communications. We worked from several assumptions: that only religious can describe their experience of faith as religious; that the sociological data we gath-ered would serve them in their own self-direction; that without significant change religious life in the United States will continue to decline an, d, more important, that those who most need the help of religious will not be cared for; and that the generosity and self-sacrifice still present in the lives of religious must be articulated for others if they are to consider following Jesus in this manner. The study sought the broadest possible input from leader-ship, membership, and those with unique perspectives to offer. These latter were persons identified by their peers as possessing vision about the future of religious life and/or possessing notable caring attributes. This summary combines all the results and shows what, after all these scientific undertakings, we believe will make a difference to individual religious, to the various congre-gations, and to their ministry. II. Theoretical Perspective A. Transformation "Transformation" is perhaps most familiar to Christians in Paul's call to "be transformed into Christ," but the dramatic change undergone by religious orders and organizations has expanded the meaning to include organizational considerations. In the organizational realm it refers to qualitative, discontinuous shifts in members' shared understandings of the organization, accompanied by changes in the organization's mission, strategy, January-February 1993 9 Nygren and Ukeritis ¯ Religious Life Futures Project and formal and informal structures. In contrast to simple and gradual changes, organizations undergoing tranoCormation come to understand themselves and their: .missioh very differently from their original understanding. Studies of transformation focus on one or another level at which .the change occurs: either the industry or the social insti-tution considered as a whole, or a particular organization, or a part of one (individual persons). In contrast, we investigated issues related to change in religious life on all three levels: Religious life as a whole (the social institution). This inves-tigation revealed that, while congregations may differ in their expression of religious life by virtue of gender or tradition (apostolic, monastic, mendicant, or contem-plative), all groups share broad-based beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors. ¯ The particular congregation (organization), namely, the 816 groups that participated in the survey. This survey investigated the shifting ways in which the groups expe-riencing transformation interpret a shared past, select value priorities, allocate resources, and assess mission opportunities. It also investigated the shifting metaphors and rituals which members use to express their beliefs and which draw them together with a shared sense of belonging. ¯ The individual (126,000 sisters, brothers, and priests). The study investigated the implications of transforma-tion for the individual members of religious congrega-tions. These three approaches enable a more complete understand-ing of how intercongregational, congregational, and individual experiences can affect each other and of how the various types of change can occur. A Model for the Process of Transformational Change Transformation usually begins with a crisis, an awareness that the understandings currently shared by the organization's mem-bers are no longer adequate. Several types of crisis may occur: performance may be poor, leadership transitions occur, some pow-erful subgroups' interests may no longer be served, management practices may no longer be successful, or, most typically, a major environmental shift may.confront the already existing interpretive schemes. The easiest response for the organization to take is to defend itself against the challenge and perhaps not to respond at 10 Review for Religious all. For transformation to begin, the experience of crisis must "unfreeze" the members' present understandings of the organi-zation by presenting a strong enough challenge to their validity. After unfreezing takes place or in conjunction with it, various individuals and groups begin developing alternative understand-ings. These lead to new types of action and most likely to changes in the structures of the organization. Moreover, the new types of actions that take place are likely to occur out-side the organization's traditional boundaries (for example, AT&T's work moved beyond telephones to include computers and other forms of communication as well); bound-aries are likely to break down. There is likely to be considerable conflict among the original and the developing interpretive schemes and the. subgroups espousing them. Groups that hold one particular new perspective, for example, are likely to find themselves in conflict with indi-viduals or groups that espouse the original perspective or a different new one. The conflict may take various forms: one perspective may clearly dominate various other perspectives and may stand aloof from them, or leaders may acknowledge the potential value of, and .thus encourage, interac-tion between several different perspectives. Leaders can have a strong impact on the outcome of the con-flict between perspectives. If they support only one perspective, they are likely to decrease the creativity of the transformational process and the active involvement of members whose perspectives are not taken into account. If they "separate out" the different perspectives, they are likely to perpetuate splits between the groups. If they enable conflicting perspectives to interact with each other, they will increase the chances of paradoxical trans-formations, of new and creative shared understandings that emerge from the interaction of the competing perspectives. The process of transformation is not affect-free. Rather, it is often paralyzing and disorienting and is experienced as a sequence In contrast to simple and gradual changes, organizations undergoing transformation come to understand themselves and their mission very differently from their original understanding. ~anuary-February 1993 11 Nygren and Ukeritis ¯ Religious Life Futures Project of deaths and rebirths. Initially, various members' primary feelings are likely to include shock, defensiveness, loss, and anger. Throughout the development of new interpretive schemes, mem-bers will experience both ambiguity and confusion, not only when it is unclear that any satisfactory new understanding is develop-ing, but also when there are multiple potential perspectives. The conflict among subgroups will create additional tension. If and when a new synthesis is reached that people experience as acceptable, there is likely to be a sense of rightness and satisfac-tion, at least among members whose perspectives have been incor-porated. Summary Application of the Conceptual Model In this study we assume that religious life, congregations, and religious priests, brothers, and sisters are in the midst of a trans-formational process and that the new understandings of religious life held by significant numbers of members have not yet been fully developed. We also assume that the environmental change that most stimulated the transformation process was the new understandings of the church proclaimed during Vatican II and incorporated shortly afterward in documents directing religious congregations to begin the analysis and revision of their basic principles and practices. Presently, diverse, sometimes contradictory understandings of religious life have been developed among groups of religious. In addition, environmental forces that strongly support the devel-opment of particular understandings are present (for example, among the hierarchy and in various segments of the laity). How can the process to this point be best understood? What will hap-pen next in the transformational process? To what extent can leaders influence the transformation process? B. Levels of Change Change at the Level of the Social Institution The changes that have taken place generally in religious life have, of course, occurred in many different congregations. Schneiders's (1986) work describes a shared shift across many congregations--in the understanding of many of the components of religious life such as the vows and community. In addition, books suggesting that religious are meant to be "prophetic" or 12 Review for Religious "countercultural:' (for example, Woodward, 1987; Foley, 1988) are written to religi6us as a group, not to particular congrega-tions. Thus, the first level this study will consider is religious life as a shared entity across congregations. Shifts in understanding are frequently intertwined with shifts in structures, both formal and informal, and these structural shifts include not only new types of relationships and divisions among subgroups, but also the breakdown of formerly established orga-nizational boundaries. At the level of the universal church, Molinari and Gumpel (1987, p. 19) ask, "Is the consecrated way of life a structure in the church or a structure of the church?" The latter phrase implies only one structure of divine origin, namely the hierarchical one, while the former implies multiple divinely willed structures in the church. At the core of the dis-tinction is the degree to which the hierarchic structure governs the pneumatic components, the charismatic dimensions, of the church. Depending on the response to the question of one structure ¯ or many, structural diversity and change will occur in very dif-ferent ways. Many religious believe that their traditions repre-sent the pneumatic or charismatic dimension of the church that was evident in their founders and foundresses, and that these tra-ditions are better structured and controlled without the influence of the hierarchic structure. Areas for Investigation. In addition to the changes occurring within religious life in relation to the church, intercongregational structures have also been developing. We examined in a limited way intercongregatiofial changes such as mergers that are associ-ated with shifts in understanding or direction. What in particu-lar has happened to the boundaries separating religious from the diocesan clergy and from the laity? Change at the Level of lndividual Congregations Mthough some changes in understanding have been occur-ring across congregations in religious life as a "social institution," others have been occurring differently within different congre-gations. Moreover, many of the changes that have occurred across the board have been experienced by members of individual con-gregations as occurring within their own congregation more than in religious life as a whole. Thus, this study was concerned not only with changes in religious life generally, but also with changes occurring within specific congregations. .~anuary-Febrtmry 1993 13 Nygren and Ukeritis ¯ Religious Life Futures Project For example, Bartunek (1984) described how the under-standing of the educational mission in one women's congregation shifted from the mid 1960s to the late 1970s. At the beginning of the change process, education was viewed as synonymous with activities that took place in schools the congregation adminis-tered. By the late 1970s, however, the educational mission was seen primarily as "seeking justice with the heart of an educator," which might or might not take place in formal educational set-tings, let alone schools the congregation administered. Beres and Musser (1987) have described how during that same period another congregation broadened its mission from particular areas of service to a general philosophy of service, with priorities shift-ing from the works of the congregation to the works of the con-gregation's individual members. Within religious congregations Nygren (1988) found that both male and female religious are adapting their structures and categories of membership to their emerging self-understanding. In a survey of 740 leaders of religious congregations, he found that 70% of the female leaders indicate that they are adapting their membership to include the full or partial membership of lay people. Among female congregations 18% of the total sur-veyed expect to amalgamate with another congregation, province, or monastery to adapt to internal changes. Correspondingly, 25 % of the male leaders anticipate altering membership categories, and 12% of them expect to amalgamate with another entity to adapt to change. These anticipated or accomplished changes affect both the existing members and the organization's self-definition. In one congregation studied by Bartunek (1984), members' shifts in understanding were intertwined with the development of several cross-province groups and commissions. They were also intertwined with the breakdown of formerly established exter-nal boundaries. Many congregational members started working with groups that had been clearly outside the original boundaries of the congregation. These structural changes eventually resulted in a merger of the U.S. provinces of the congregation. Areas for Investigation. How broadly applicable are the types of changes described above? What types of structural changes are occurring? What effects.do these changes have on the develop-ment of new understandings? Next, what are the processes through which new under-standings have be~n occurring? The model articulated above sug- 14 Review for Religious gests that change typically includes an initial experience of crisis, accompanied by strong feelings such as sadness, anger, and defen-siveness and followed by the development of differing under-standings on the part of various organizational subgroups. Feeli.ngs and reactions also accompany this stage: ambiguity and confu-sion about the possible understandings as well as conflict between groups. The introduction of the new Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious, for instance, introduces legitimacy to a divergent opinion among religious leadership. When a new syn-thesis is reached, a sense of rightness occurs. If it fails to occur, more destructive dynamics may characterize the group's func-tioning. In addition, from which elements of the environment do members of a particular congregation receive messages or con-straints regarding appropriate (or publicly appropriate) self-under-standing? In particular, how do the hierarchical church and the laity have an impact? How do intercongregational groups and networks affect the development of understandings within the congregations that belong to these groups? Next, how has leadership been affecting the experienced changes in religious life? The role of leadership has been ana-lyzed !n detail for an understanding of how leaders contribute to the development or decline of organizations. Change at the Level of Individual Members of Congregations It is clear ~hat changes have not left individual members untouched. For example, Ebaugh (1977) showed that the changes had strong effects on why members of women's religious con-gregations left the congregation. Others have indicated that one of the typical effects of a transformational process is an increase in the stress level of individual members. This is due to the ambi-guity that accompanies the change and to conflict between sub-groups. There should be more to the experience of individual reli-gious, however, than difficult feelings. Bartunek and Ringuest (1987) found that members of a particular congregation whose work took them across the congregation's original boundaries during the early 1970s, and who remained in their congregation, eventually came to perceive themselves as more influential in the congregation than did members who continued to carry out tra-ditional works. January-February 1993 15 Nygren and Ukeritis ¯ Religious Life Futures Project Thus, we are concerned not only with the change taking place on the congregational and intercongregational level, but also with the way various members of religious orders and particular sub-groups are experiencing the change. In addition, the differences between the experience of men and women religious may be rel-evant. We address two questions regarding this experience. Areas for Investigation. What has the experience of change been like for individual members of congregations? The model we have presented proposes that individual members of congrega-tions should experience a wide range of feelings during the change process. The departure of such a large percentage of religious has also had an impact on those who remain. Those who con-tinue to live the vocation to religious life surely have a unique perspective on their role and are rooted in a spirituality that sus-tains them. With this frame of transformation, then, we designed a .comprehensive assessment that could give us some measure of how change is occurring and affecting religious life at the level of the social institution, congregations, and individuals. III. Research Units The design of the Religious Life Futures Project contained six independent studies. They are described below. Figure 1 depicts the six research units, and a brief description of each unit follows. Figure 1 Religious Life Futures Project Research Units Hist/Theol Monograph Leadership S~udies Interview Survey Caring People Study Visioning Groups 16 Review for Religious The National Survey was a comprehensive questionnaire asking 9,999 religious sisters, brothers, and priests to express their beliefs and opinions about spirituality, motivation, services they provide, issues they consider to be negative or positive influences on the future of religious life, and various other matters of religious life in general and their orders in particular. The Leadership Studies were based on the recognition that leadership is a key factor in sustaining the life of any group. Investigations of leaders' views, of members' perceptions of their leaders, and of the competencies required ~or"~utstanding leadership were pursued in this research unit. The Caring People and Visioning Groups units of our project were constructed on the reason-able assumption that these subgroups could offer distinct perspectives. The caring people were identified by virtue of their exemplary car-ing for others, and participants, in the visioning-groups unit con-sisted of people nominated in virtue of their hopeful, positive, and compelling vision concerning the future of religious life. Individual Interviews, using a standard protocol, were pursued with persons identified as particularly knowledgeable about reli-gious life. These interviews probed for the interviewees' under-standings of the nature and purpose of religious life, of the challenges facing women and men religious at this time, and of the qualities required for leadership in the future. The Theological/Historical Monograph was commissioned to be written by Elizabeth Johnson CSJ, PhD, with a historical postscript by John W. Padberg SJ, PhD. Their material wi!l add perspective to the wealth of information collected, analyzed, and evaluated. The Religious Life Futures Project contained six independent studies. A. The National Survey Purpose and Method The purpose of the National Survey was to obtain informa-tion about members' attitudes and practices regarding religious life. Questions ranged from general demographics to patterns and attitudes about living arrangements and job satisfaction. The sur-vey also sought information regarding attitudes toward vows, var-ious aspects of religious life, spiritual growth, and future plans. .~anuary-Felrruary 1993 17 Nyffren and Ukeritis ¯ Religious Life Futures Project Early in 1990 each major superior in the United States was contacted by letter with a request for a list of the names and addresses of their members. From the more than 121,000 names received, a stratified random-sample design selected the partici-pants for the survey. This random sample was stratified to ensure statistically valid comparisons according to tradition (apostolic, contemplative, mendicant, monastic) and vocation (sisters, broth-ers, religious priests). The 335-item questionnaire was mailed in October 1990 to the 9,999 religious priests, brothers, and sisters selected in this manner. With postcard and phone follow-ups, an overall response of 77.4% (7,736 responses) was obtained. The data base used for reporting results consists of 6,359 usable surveys. In the data anal-ysis, the responses were weighted to reflect population proportions of sisters, brothers, and religious priests and of apostolic, mendi-cant, monastic, and contemplative groups. All data were analyzed according to age groups that would reflect developmental stages (ages 19-45, 46-60, 61-73, 74-96). Data Analysis and Results The questions throughout the survey represented a broad range of topic categories. Initial principal-components factor anal-yses were conducted on a select number of the items in the sur-vey. Separate factor analyses were conducted for vocation (sister, brother, priest), tradition (apostolic, mendicant, contemplative, and monastic), and age group (19-45, 46-60, 61-73, and 74-96). The results of these analyses, presented in terms of level of analysis and grouped in meaningful clusters, appear in Table 1. As indicated, four major clusters of factors emerged on the level of the Social Institution: structures, innovations, restraints, and cred-ibility. The clusters of factors are listed on the chart and will be defined and discussed below; summary findings, too, will be pre-sented on the following pages. Social Institution: Structures The National Survey factors related to Structures include role clarity, permanent commitment, external authority, systemic change, and hierarchical alliance. Because of the significance of role-clarity findings in this study, we present an extended discus-sion of this issue and then a summary of the other factors. 18 Review for Religious Categorization of Factors Derived from the Religious Life Futures Project Table 1 Social Institution Congregation Individual STRUCTURES Role Clarity Permanent Commitment External Authority Systemic Change Hierarchical Alliance INNOVATIONS Diversity Expanding Lay Roles Greater Inclusion RESTRAINTS Cultural Threats CREDIBILITY Commitment to the Poor Anomie LEADERSHIP ' Spiritual Intensity Charisma/Individual Consideration Intellectual Stimulation/ Inspirational Laissez-Faire Active Management by Exception Contingent Reward DYNAMICS Community Living Involvement Influence Ongoing Development GUIDANCE Procedural Clarity Effects of Renewal Support of Sponsored Institutions SPIRITUALITY Oneness with God Intensified Spirituality Structured Prayer BELONGING Congregational Commitment Affiliation Intention to Remain ACTION Faithfulness to Vows Works of Mercy Role Clarity. Role clarity for religious is defined as "the indi-vidual's perceived level of understanding regarding his or her pur-pose and function within the current structure of the church." On this measure 55% of the sisters reported high role clarity, along with 65% of the brothers and 68% of the priests. More than 30% of the women reported low role clarity, indicating a lack of understanding or clarity regarding their role in the church today. The discussion of leadership issues related to the National Survey may be found in the section which fbcuses exclusively on this topic. ffanuary-Felr~utry 1993 19 Nygren and Ukeritis ¯ Religious Life Futures Projea Considering the data by tradition, we find 77% of the con-templatives and 64% of the monastics reporting high role clarity while only 59% of the apostolic and mendicant religious indi-cated they have a clear understanding of their role. Role clarity may be proportionately greater in the future, for, while only 52% of the youngest members reported high role clarity, 71% of the oldest did so. This finding parallels research that finds in many professions greater role clarity among those who have been in the profession for a longer time. Interestingly, the more highly educated members of religious congregations experience lower role clarity as religious. In terms of the fields of study, religious in the more applied disciplines such as business, education, and health care were less clear about their role as religious in the church than religious whose training is in the more theoretical disciplines such as theology, the human-ities, and the social sciences. The role demands of health-care providers or educators may present pressures that replace or com-pete with, rather than complement, the current role of religious in the church. Other research has demonstrated that ambiguity regarding role can, in general, lead to anxiety, reduced ability to meet role requirements, decreased ministerial satisfaction, lower trust and self-confidence, increased sense of futility, and greater propen-sity to leave a religious order. The lack of role clarity that a high percentage of religious experience may contribute to still more decline in the numbers of religious. There may also be some con-nection between the equal number of women and men entering religious life now (in contrast to women's former, three-times-greater number) and the greater number of women now experi-encing low role clarity. Taken together, this data signals the essential need for role clarity if religious orders in the United States are to be revitalized. Permanent Commitment. In responding to questions related to the normativeness of a lifelong commitment for religious life, all groups (considered by vocation, by tradition, and by age) reg-istered barely moderate agreement. On a scale wher~ 1 repre-sents "strongly disagree," 3 represents "neither agree nor disagree," and 5 represents "strongly agree," the group means ran between 3.1 and 3.5 on the matter of their agreeme.nt that permanent commitment is the norm. External Authority. All respondents tended to disagree that 20 Review for Religious reliance on external authority would influence the future of reli-gious life favorably. There was a general rejection of seeking input regarding thought, opinion, or behavior from outside sources such as church or group authority, indicated by the fact that, on the five-point scale described above, means for all groups were between 2.5 and 3.1. Systemic Change. Sisters, brothers, and religious priests experienced little connection between their work for sys-temic change (defined as "efforts to influence the social and political struc-tures which tend to discriminate against disadvantaged persons") and their per-sonal and spiritual fulfilhnent. All means were greater than 3.0 and less than 3.4. This did not change when considered by age groups or tradition. Hierarchical Alliance. The cluster of items that reflect a positive relationship between the hierarchy and religious or a positive attitude regarding the church's hierarchy and magiste-rial authority was not typically rated highly by religious. The more highly educated members of religious congregations experience lower role clarity as religious. Social Institution: Innovations The National Survey included items measuring participants' responses to trends in religious life that introduce greater diver-sity into community living. Items inquired about the conscious inclusion of persons who have declared their homosexual orien-tation, about the comfort level of minority-group members as perceived by members-at-large, and about the impact of includ-ing lay associate members. Admitting Homosexual Persons. Survey participants were asked to respond to this statement: "Declaring a homosexual orientation would not exclude an individual from being admitted to my con-gregation." Sixty-four percent (64%) of all respondents indicated either agreement with the statement or uncertainty. Thirty-six percent (36%) disagreed. Considering the data by vocation, only 16% of sisters agreed with the statement, and nearly 50% expressed uncertainty. This was significantly different from the responses of religious priests and brothers. Agreement of religious priests registered at 43 %, January-February 1993 21 Nygren and Ukeritis ¯ Religious Life Futures Project with 22% uncertain. Thirty-five percent (35%) of the brothers agreed, with 25% uncertain. Among the four traditions, 53% of contemplatives indicated disagreement, im:plying the least expectation that persons declar-ing a homosexual orientation would be admitted to their con-gregations. "Agree," "uncertain," and "disagree" percentages were rather evenly split among the other traditions. Among monastics the greatest percentage (39%) agreed. Thirty-eight percent (38%) of the members of apostolic groups (again the greatest percentage) indicated uncertainty regarding admission of candidates with a known homosexual orientation. Considering the data by age, 45% of the members under 45 expressed their belief that a person with a homosexual orientation would be admitted to their congregation. Forty-three percent (43 %) of the oldest age group felt that homosexual persons would not be admitted, and 46% of the same age group expressed their uncertainty. Members of Minority Groups. When asked to respond to this statement, "Members of minority groups may feel uneasy in my congregation," the sentiment among religious in general is fairly well split: 36% agree; 22% are uncertain, and 42% disagree. This response pattern reflected the response pattern of the sisters, the brothers, and the religious priests considered separately and also of the apostolic, the mendicant, and the monastic religious con-sidered separately. But 52 % of contemplatives disagreed with the statement, while 27% agreed. Analysis by age reveals the greatest differences. Fifty-two per-cent (52 %) of the youngest group and 44% of the next age group (46-60 years) indicated their belief that members of minority groups would feel uneasy. In contrast, half of the 61-to-73 age group and 53% of the oldest group did not believe minority-group members would feel uneasy in their orders. At present, less than 10% of the members of religious orders in the United States are members of minority groups even though, in the near future, 50% of the U.S. Catholic population will be Hispanic. The real-ity of multiculturalism must be addressed by religious orders. Lay Associates. In response to this statement, "Inclusion of lay associates as members of my congregation may undermine what it means to be a member of my congregation," only 16% of the respondents agreed; 65% clearly disagreed. Lay associates, includ-ing members of the opposite sex and married couples, appear to 22 Review for Religious have widespread acceptance among religious. In general, religious reported little concern about having lay associates as members of their congregation and about the effect their presence may have on the meaning of membership in it. Other Factors. When asked to rate the impact that expanded lay roles in church ministry, feminist thought, the ordination of women, and the inclusion of married persons would have on reli-gious communities, respondents of all groups consistently indi-cated their belief that these situations and possibilities would have little effect if any. Social Institution: Restraints Respondents were invited to rate (on a five-point Likert scale where 1 represents "not at all" and 5 represents "extremely") aspects of contemporary American culture such as capitalism, technology, and affluence in terms of their potential threat to the future of religious life. Data analysis by age and tradition shows that religious view them as minimal threats. Considering the data by vocation, sisters indicated a greater (but not high) concern regarding the impact of cultural realities than did brothers and religious priests. Social Institution: Credibility The "credibility" cluster consisted in working with the poor and anomie. Commitment to the Poor. To measure a member's stated com-mitment to work personally with the poor, survey participants were asked to respond to this statement: "Although there is in.creasing talk about working with the poor, I feel little commit-ment to that." Mean scores for all vocations, traditions, and age groups did not exceed 3.5. (Sisters, members of apostolic groups, and religious in the 19-45 age group yielded the highest means in their groupings.) Thus, members of congregations express little commitment to participate in an activity which has increasingly become a value espoused by many congregations and, quite explic-itly, by the church. These findings suggest that the greatest commitment to work with the poor would be found in a young sister in an apostolic congregation. This group currently shows the least tendency to increase in size. Anomie, defined as a state in which normative standards of January-Felrruary 1993 23 Nygren and Ukeritis ¯ Reli~ous Life Futures Project conduct and belief are weak or lacking, is characterized by dis-orientation, anxiety, and isolation. Loss of conviction about the vows, lack of clarity about the role of religious, reactance to authority, lack of a corporate mission and ministry, and disillu-sionment with leadership pose significant threats to the future of religious life. The mean scores for all groups were greater than 3.5. These concerns increased with age. Congregational Level." Leadership The National Survey used specifically designed items related to qualities of spiritual leadership along with Bass's leadership scale to assess members' perceptions of their leaders. So that all leadership studies may be reported together, these findings are incorporated into Section III B, Leadership. Congregational Level." Dynamics The National Survey .also measured several factors affecting community living, including involvement, influence, and satis-faction with opportunities for ongoing development. Involvement and Influence. Involvement is defined as "the expe-rience of having, and the desire to be engaged in, activities related to the life of one's congregation"; influence, as "the experience of having and the desire to have some impact regarding the deci-sions and future of one's congregation." On a scale where 1 rep-resents "strongly disagree" and 5 represents "strongly agree," agreement regarding involvement in congregational activities was high (ranging from 3.9 to 4.0.), with nearly the same means across the three vocations (sister, brother, religious priest). Levels of perceived influence wei-e significantly lower, with means ranging from 3.2 to 3.0. Vv-hen the factors of involvement and influence were considered by tradition, the range was the same. Considering the data by age, interesting patterns surfaced. The youngest group had the lowest mean for influence and the highest mean for involvement. The 74-96 age group, in contrast to the 19-45 group, had the highest mean for influence and the lowest for involvement. A consistent pattern did emerge: The members' perceived or desired level of influence in their congregation is consistently lower than their experience or desire of involvement in it. This raises serious questions that touch on group-commitment and ownership issues. 24 Review for Religious Ongoing Development. Respondents' satisfaction with oppor-tunities for ongoing development through education and forma-tion, rated on a scale of 1 ("very dissatisfied") to 5 ("very satisfied"), averaged about 4.0. In general, the high levels of sat-isfaction and the high expectations that possibly accompany that satisfaction may encounter significant frustrations or difficult choices when, as is likely in most congregations, they encounter decliriing revenue and personnel. Congregational Level: Guidance The National Survey also investigated the degree to which a congregation's policies and structures promote the effective func-tioning of the group. Procedural clarity, effects of the renewal process, and members' willingness to support sponsored institu-tions are the focal points for addressing this question. Procedural Clarity. Analyzed by vocation, tradition, and age, religious indicated a moderate level of satisfaction with the clar-ity of their congregation's policies, and procedures. The group means ranged from 3.5 to 3.9. With the scale ranging from 1 ("strongly disagree") to 5 ("strongly agree"), it is fair to say that members do not experience an.overwhelming sense of clarity con-cerning their congregation's policies and procedures. Effects of Renewal, Thirty years ago the Second Vatican Council directed religious orders to examine their structures and update themselves. A return to the spirit of the founder was identified as a critical part of this renewal process. Members' assessments of their congregation's efforts and success in remaining faithful to the founding charism or in maintaining the prophetic character of religious life reflect once again only a moderate level of agree-ment. Across age groups the highest rating (the mean was 3.8) reflected the assessment of the 61-to-73-year-olds. Significantly, this was the group that provided most of the leadership during the past 30 years. The youngest group expressed the lowest satisfac-tion. There were no differences between the various traditions in their ratings of the effectiveness of renewal efforts. Support of Sponsored Institutions. In an effort to assess the com-mitment of members to their congregation's institutional com-mitments, respondents were asked to indicate their willingness to work in an institution sponsored by their congregation and their willingness to live in such an institution. Overall, 93% of the religious responding to the survey January-February 1993 25 Nygren and Ukeritis ¯ Religious Life Futures Project answered yes regarding their willingness to work there. This rep-resents 94% of the religious priests and brothers and 92% of the sisters who responded. A smaller but still sizable percentage (88%) indicated their willingness to live at an institution sponsored by the congregation; this figure represents 84% of the sisters, 91% of the brothers, and 92% of the priests. ~'hese results present the opportunity to leaders, congrega-tional planners, and institutional decision makers to consider the availability and willingness of members of religious organizations and to direct their efforts toward a corporate mission. The empha-si~ on individual ministries that has evolved in recent years may now be shifting or open to reconsideration by members. Individual Level: Spirituality Spirituality was considered in terms of the experience of a sense of oneness or harmony with God, the degree of increased spiritual intensity, and the value of structured prayer to personal and spiritual fulfillment. Oneness with God. M1 religious report a moderately high level of agreement on a five-point Likert-type scale (1 represents "not at all" and 5 represents "frequently if not always") to questions assessing a sense of oneness with God. Sisters and contempla-tives score highest. Not surprisingly, this sense appears to deepen with age insofar as mean scores for age groups increased as age increased. Intensified Spirituality. The survey also measured changes in spirituality in terms of the degree to which respondents reported finding greater value in religious life and having deeper belief in Jesus Christ and deeper appreciation of the value of prayer since the time of their first profession of vows. While sisters, contemplatives, and members of the 74-96 age group reported the greatest levels of intensified spirituality, the other groups reflected high levels. StTv~ctnred Prayer. The degree to which structured prayer ex~)e-riences such as common prayer, an annual retreat, confession, and devotion to Mary were reported to be a source of spiritual and personal fulfillment was also measured on a five-point scale. Considered by vocation (si~ters, brothers, priests), all resporidents registered agreement beyond a level of 4. I. Consistent with their tradition, contemplatives had the highest mean of the tradition groupings in reporting structured prayer to be a very valuable 26 Review for Religious contributor. The experience of structured prayer as spiritually and personally fulfilling increased with age. Individual Level'. Belonging The National Survey measured individuals' commitment to their congregation as well as affiliation and the intention to remain. Commitment to Congregation. All traditions, vocations, and age groups reported moderately high to very high levels of congre-gational commitment. Not surpris-ingly, levels of agreement steadily increased with the respondents' ages. Affiliation. As was the case for commitment to the congregation, all groups (vocation, tradition, and age) were strong in their agreement with items indicative of high affiliation. Sisters, contemplatives, and members of the oldest age group had the high-est means in their respective cate-gories. Intention to Remain. Members of all groups (considered by age, voca-tion, and tradition) expressed--at or beyond the 4.2 level on the five-point "strongly disagree/strongly agree" scale--agreement with items related to their intention to remain in their congregation. This high degree of durability may be viewed both as cause for celebration and as cause for concern. Religious women report chastity as most meaningful and least difficult, while men report chastity as most difficult and least meaningful. Individual Levek Actions The National Survey also measured respondents' manifesta-tion of belief through their fidelity to vows and works of mercy. Faithfulness to Vows. Self-ratings regarding faithfulness to their vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, when analyzed by voca-tion, tradition, and age, ranged between 3.7 and 4.1. Because the purpose of this study was not to delve into the details of behav-iors of religious women and men as they relate to observance of their vows, the research asked only for individual self-reports of fidelity to each vow. Of greater concern in this investigation were those individual that were related to persons who do or do not perceive themselves as faithful. January-February 1993 27 Nyg~ren and Ukeritis ¯ Religious Life Futures Project Regarding practice of the vows, the researchers learned that religious women report chastity as most meaningful and least dif-ficult, while men report chastity as most difficult and least mean-ingful. In a ranking of difficulty, obedience emerges as more difficult for women than for men. Works of Mercy. The belief that direct action to help the sick or poor made a somewhat valuable contribution to their spiritual and personal fulfillment was registered most strongly by religious priests and sisters. Considering the data by tradition, members of the mendicant and apostolic groups reported that their practice of the works of mercy was somewhat valuable to their personal and spiritual fulfillment. Monastic religious experienced such works as less valuable, and contemplatives, perhaps as a function of their lifestyle, experienced them as least helpful. Factor Conclusions: Social Institution The social institution of religious life in the United States continues to reflect the dynamics of an organization in signifi-cant transition. The lack of role clarity for a large percentage of religious and the ambivalence regarding permanent commitment to the classic vows leave the social institution vulnerable to innu-merable other social and cultural forces. The results would indi-cate that the population of religious in general is moving toward a much more permeable system of membership, commitment, autonomy, and inclusion. While on the one hand this reinforces innovation that includes diversity and broadened assumptions about religious life, the research also indicates that religious do not see how clearly they are influenced by cultural assimilation. Likewise, the credibility of many religious may be lessened in the eyes of those they serve and in the society in which they func-tion because of the discrepancies between their espoused values and their practice. By their own admission, religious see indif-ference and a lack of passion to be a major threat to themselves as persons and to religious life overall in relation to other social sys-tems in society. Factor Conclusions: Congregation Leadership is a critical force for the clarification of the role identity of religious in the United States. Within congregations, 2 8 Review for Religious particularly among women, there exists a fair degree of satisfac-tion with leadership. The hidden side of the satisfaction is that it may signal complaisance among members who at the same time find it difficult to influence the direction of the congregation. For many, the congregation lacks a coherent approach to col-lective action, particularly regarding sponsored institu-tions. In addition, the efforts at renewal have not met indi-vidual hopes. Community life continues to engage mem-bers, and they feel deeply committed to congregational life, willing to be more involved than they currently are, but also feel less influen-tial with leadership in the matter of setting the direction of the congregation. The high need for affiliation noted in the survey results may, in fact, stifle the creativity necessary to move groups into the future. Leadership is a critical force for the clarification of the role identity of religious in the United States. Factor Conclusions: Individual A facet of the research that addresses optimistically the lack of role clarity for many religious is the data that suggests how important spirituality and a vital relationship with God really are for many of them. Structured prayer, however varied the forms, continues to be a value. Individuals feel genuinely called by God to religious life and see an intensified spirituality as desirable. They are personally committed strongly to the community, they derive satisfaction from belonging, and most intend to remain in religious life. It is fair to say that the data indicates a stronger ecclesiology than Christology. Individuals emphasize participation in the life of the church and community as foundational to their spirituality. Their relationship to the person of Christ is less clearly drawn, perhaps because of the design of the study itself or maybe because of shifting language schemes to describe one's spirituality. What is clear from the research is that their spirituality will define their uniqueness in the church and their belonging will satisfy their affiliative needs. January-February 1993 29 Nygren and Ukeritis ¯ Religious Life Futures Project The data suggests also that, if religious experience difficulty, it has to do with the impact of the vows on their life and with their fidelity to the vows. The personal sacrifice that has been the foundation of the vowed life has found support in the effect it has had on the mission of the congregation and the church. Profound shifts have occurred in the interpretation of the vows and the willingness to live them. More fluid interpretations of poverty, obedience, and chastity are widely observed. In addition, some religious describe new vows--of ecology, for instance--as descriptive of the future. Personal understandings of religious life and the commitment required to live the life are very broad. This results in part from lack of role clarity and from the vast cultural shifts in American society that have had a significant influence on religious life. Most religious would see some return to normative behavior as neces-sary, but they are reluctant to do so if that means returning to the sect-like distinction of religious life of the past. B. Leadership The recognition and identification of leadership as a critical factor in the transformation of religious orders prompted the investigation of leadership from many perspectives. These included: 1. a series of regional gatherings attended by 192 leaders of religious congregations; 2. members'oat-large perceptions of their leaders through the National Survey; 3. a separate "Leadership-Competency Assessment of Leaders of Religious Orders" with personality psycholo-gist David McClelland PhD. One of the first issues to surface during the course of the Religious Life Futures Project was the urgency of selecting and training leaders who not only can manage the complexity of reli-gious life that is predicted to intensify during the next 10 years, but also can focus the attention of their communities on a vision that will unite individual efforts inspired by the mission of their founder or foundress. The most striking weakness among cur-rent leaders is their inability to formulate a strategy to achieve a purpose or mission. Also of concern was the increasingly widespread use of con- 30 Review for Religious sensual processes and team leadership. The findings indicate that, while potentially effective, such approaches can often lead to mediocre management, representing the least common denomi-nator within an organization. Uninformed implementation of consensual methods often paralyzes the visionary leader. Leadership Workshops At the Leadership Workshops the participants were asked to write, in the form of a letter to their members, their vision for the future of their congregation, of the people whom their congre-gation serves, and of religious life in general. A content analysis of these "letters" yielded four categories of leadership: Value-based leaders expressed a sense of direction for their con-gregations or themselves in terms of the conceptual and cultural aspects of religious life. They were able to give expression to their values, but were unable to ide.ntify strategies to actualize them. For example, the author of one letter expressed concern about the environment, but only vaguely proposed that the congregation become involved in recycling. A letter simply urging the eradi-cation of "oppressive structures" without any suggested imple-mentation illustrates another value stated without a strategy. Visionary leaders, on the other hand, expressed a sense of direc-tion in terms of the structural and organizational aspects of reli-gious. life. The articulation of a strategy to accomplish their vision marks the difference between visionary and value-based leaders. One of the letters, besides proposing a new form of community in which nonvowed members would participate in governance, named specific guidelines and thus coupled a vision with a strat-egy. Conflicted leaders were unable to address change and often expressed frustration, anger, sadness, and even despair. These feelings were frequently directed toward members of the con-gregations. One such leader wrote, "It seems to me that some of our religious are unconcerned. They seem to have lost the orig-inal enthusiasm for their religious calling. Life has become drudgery for them, and membership in our congregation is a bur-den. Nothing we do or try to do seems to change this picture, and it is of great concern to me." Incognizant leaders, those who are unconscious or unaware of major issues facing their orders, failed to address any of the con- January-Felrruary 1993 31 Nygren and Ukeritis ¯ Religious Life Futures Project cerns facing their congregations or the church. For example, one leader wrote, "There is no secular history/profane history; there is only sacred history. God is present in everything and in all. God journeys with us, with all people. God is the force, the life, the purpose behind everything and everyone." The researchers note that, while God is ultimately the means and the end of reli-gious life and leadership itself, incognizant leaders do not realize their role in enabling the action of God. From these workshops, the researchers concluded that there is often a gulf between the responsibilities of the office and the abilities some leaders bring to it. In many cases, leaders lack the necessary competencies or training to function effectively. Members' Perceptions of Leadership from the National Survey The National Survey measured members' perceptions of their leaders, using a measure of leaders' spiritual intensity and Bass's transformational and transactional leadership scales. The spiri-tual intensity of their leaders is rated highly by both men and wbmen. Both female and male religious expressed a slighdy higher degree of satisfaction with individual leaders than with leader-ship teams. Women were generally more satisfied with their lead-ership than men were. The survey measured the degree to which members viewed their leaders as transformational and transactional. Transforma-tional leaders provide vision and a sense of mission while instill-ing pride and gaining respect and trust. Transactional leaders focus on administrative and operational details. Typically, trans-actional leaders orient subordinates toward achieving goals by monitoring their performance, rewarding their accomplishments, and taking corrective action when necessary. Sometimes they abdicate responsibilities and avoid decision making. Both women and men tend to consider their leaders to be transformational people who embody charisma and individual consideration as well as intellectual stimulation and inspiration. On a scale where 1 represents "almost never" and 5 represents "frequently if not always," sisters' mean ratings of their leaders on charisma and intellectual stimulation were 3.67 and 3.57, respec-tively. Conversely, male religious consistently rate their leaders higher on transactional qualities, contingent reward (brothers' mean was 1.78; priests' mean was 1.70) and active management by exception (brothers' mean was 2.38; priests' mean was.2.26), than 32 Review.for Religious do female religious (contingent-reward mean was 1.62; manage-ment- by-exception mean was 2.06). The findings showed that, while spiritual intensity was the most frequently observed behavior of all outstanding leaders, charisma or individual consideration of members was the most significant predictor of satisfaction with an individual leader or a leadership team. Leadership Competency Study This research unit assessed systematically the competencies required for outstanding leadership. The model of competency assessment developed by McClelland and associates at McBer & Co. was employed. It began with the convening of a panel of experts to assist in identifying a criterion group of 24 present or former leaders of religious congregations regarded by their peers as "outstanding." Using the "Behavioral Event Interview" (BEI) method also devel-oped by McClelland, the research team interviewed this group of 12 women and 12 men. Similar interviews were conducted with a control group of 15 "typical" leaders (11 women and 4 men) matched with the criterion group for age, gender, tradition, size of congregation, and length of tenure. These interviews were then transcribed and coded by two separate raters for leadership competencies. Analysis of the data revealed that outstanding and typical lead-ers share certain "threshold competencies," including an ability to articulate the mission of their congregations, an inclination to act efficiently, basic conceptual and analytical skills, self-confi-dence, and avoidance of impulsive or emotional expression. These can be regarded as foundational competencies for leaders of reli-gious orders. Outstanding leaders, however, were found to differ from typ-ical leaders in several significant ways. For instance, outstanding leaders expressed, nearly three times as often as did typical lead-ers, a desire to perform tasks well or better than they had been performed in the past. They stated more than twice as often as typical leaders that they wanted to find new ways to achieve goals and to make things better for the people their order serves. Approximately 65% of the outstanding leaders mentioned taking initiative to deal with anticipated problems at least five times. Only 22 % of typical leaders referred that often to taking such actions. January-February 1993 33 Nygren and Ukeritis ¯ Religious Life Futures Project Outstanding male leaders are more likely to start projects dealing with problems anticipated in the coming years than are typical male leaders and female leaders in general. The study also found that outstanding leaders were signifi-cantly more likely than typical leaders to mention using their power to influence group decisions or behavior; to build consen-sus and team spirit by soliciting the views of others; to attempt to see issues from different perspectives; and to draw on divine assis-tance in their leadership roles. Conversely, typical leaders were more inclined than outstand-ing leaders to mention that they had threatened sanctions to control the behavior of subordinates; had acted out of formal authority, not by building consensus; and had involved themselves with the per-sonal problems of individual mem-bers as opposed to the problems of the entire congregation. Typical leaders seldom refer to God in their leadership activity. The study' also found differ-ences between outstanding men and outstanding women leaders. Outstanding men appeared more likely than outstanding wo~nen to have begun new projects; to have acted assertively; to have offered more opinion, s, particularly negative ones, to subordi-nates; to have developed the leadership capacity of others; and to have experienced the benefit of God's support. The outstanding women, on the other hand, appeared more likely to have focused on consensus building; to have pointed to the spiritual significance of events; and to have positive expecta-tions of others and of religious life in general. The leadership-competency assessment revealed that out-standing male leaders are more likely to start projects dealing with problems anticipated in the coming years than are typical male leaders and female leaders in general. Neither ?utstanding nor typical female leaders appear to initiate such projects. While all male leaders report more behavior that threatens members with termination of an assignment or with dismissal from a con-gregation than do female leaders, this is strikingly true of typical male leaders. Outstanding female leaders behave in this manner more frequently than their typical counterparts. This suggests the desirability of a moderate use of sanctions. 34 Review for Religious C. Visioning Groups Recognizing that various groups of members could offer distinct perspectives, the study was to include the views of persons who could provide specifically clear opinions regarding the future of religious orders. Individuals identified as future oriented yet rooted in their order's charism were invited to participate in one of four Visioning Groups. This research unit was conducted through a series of weekend gatherings. The aim was to learn about the personality characteristics and beliefs of the individu-als and to develop strategies and agendas that could implement the visionaries' images of the future of religious life. Their prospec-tive views would also be compared with those of both leaders and members-at-large of religious orders. Selection of Participants Subjects for the Visioning Groups were recruited through a nomination process that began with a letter sent to the major superiors of 550 randomly selected congregations. The superi-ors were asked to consult with their councils, similar groups of advisors, or members-at-large to nominate one member of their order to participate in a group experience. Criteria for selection asked that the nominee be a person of vision who is recognized for his or her ability to live the charism of the congregation in today's society and that the nominee be able to articulate a sense of hope and a belief in the future of religious life. A total of 92 religious-- 48 women and 44 men (12 brothers and 32 priests)--participated in the Visioning Groups' gatherings. "The Dilemma": Affiliation vs. Transformation One of the most significant findings of the Visioning Group workshops emerged from an exercise conducted during the course of each gathering. Participants were organized randomly into groups of three or four people and given the task of identifying those elements critical to the future of religious life. After a period of private reflection, participants were asked to gather in their assigned groups and share the results of their reflections. Each of these groups then joined another, resulting in groups of 6 to 8. They continued the conversation and were then asked to con-struct an image or metaphor that captured visually and graphically the components they considered essential to a future vision of religious life. The results of their work included such images as a January-February 1993 35 Nygren and Ukeritis ¯ Religious Life Futures Project kaleidoscope, a prism, a jazz band, a symphony orchestra, and the spiral of unitive consciousness. After all groups in a session had ~'eported and presented their images of the future of religious life, each person was asked to consider all the models and to stand near the one he or she found most compelling in terms of a future vision. Participants were asked to base their choice on their willingness to make a personal commitment and to devote their energy to realizing that future vision. This request invariably created a dilemma for the partici-pants. Preferring a model designed by another group produced in most individuals a sense of guilt, of betrayal and abandonment of the group with which they had worked to produce an image. This process replicated the dilemma which many members of congregations experience in wanting to be involved in actualizing a compelling vision of the future, but desiring also to maintain existing relational bonds. While this sense of loyalty or affilia-tion that inhibits change is not unique to religious groups, it does represent a critical factor in groups moving toward changing the future. Affiliation is generally stronger than vision. This tension is particularly important to consider in light of the National Survey's finding that members of religious orders experience a particularly high need for affiliation. This dynamic is an important challenge for religious leaders. Visioning Groups Conclusions: Social Institution Revitalized religious life, rooted in Jesus Christ and the gospel's values, will manifest that spirit in the world by challeng-ing systems that oppress others, by living in visible simplicity, and by renewing congregations' fidelity to their founding pur-pose. The visioning groups view authority as power that is shared among communities of equals. This perception, however, may level the traditional notions of the vow of obedience and bring more democratic ideals into the classical traditions of religious life. Viewing the global community as the locus of redemption, sisters, brothers, and religious priests will face alterations in prayer, expanding their language for a greater inclusivity. They will choose to share in the world's suffering and will shift away from the rigidity of regional and juridical thinking. Members of reli- 36 Review for Religious gious orders will express their relationship with Jesus in the con-text of belonging, in shared symbolic life, and possibly in a shift in primary language. The dominant language of religious life has shifted from theological constructs to social and psychological paradigms. Many religious no longer use sacramental or tran-scendental frames of reference to describe their experience of God. Multiculturalism as normative is desirable, but confronting the personal and systemic racism that marks our society and reli-gious orders could be the single greatest challenge in the area of membership. Conclusions: Congregation Religious congregations ought to provide opportunities for structural expressions of emerging forms of religious life. To do so, they will have to discern the contemporary expression of their founder's charism, redefine or reestablish boundaries for mem-bership and behavior, and confront the discrepancies between espoused and lived values. The images (discussed above) of a future vision of religious life that were constructed by small teams were efforts to isolate and highlight a particular manifestation of a charism, not as an end in itself but to show a possible direction for the congregation to move in. At present, such efforts to regain the founding spirit are often viewed by the majority of members as marginal. When those who may have the vision are pressured to conform to the group, revitalization may be undermined. Conclusions: Individual Individuals within religious orders will shift from an internal to a global focus. They will need to acquire new interpersonal skills and an ability to cope with moving from stability and secu-rity to change and risk that lead to a more clearly focused mission. Challenging a culture that has supported privatism and indi-vidualism, members of religious congregations will need to reex-amine nonnegotiables. Relinquishing many previously held tenets, they will respond to the call of serving absolute human need in the spirit of their founder. New members must demonstrate the maturity to live a life of sacrifice, must possess or acquire the skills for leadership posi- .~anuary-Fetrruary 1993 37 Nygren and Ukeritis ¯ Reh~ious Life Futures Project tions in global and church communities, and must be able to sus-tain intimate relationships in the context of a celibate commit-ment. Current members, too, who continue to belong to religious congregations will need these skills and qualities and must prepare to live in communities that require them. D. Caring People The Caring People unit studied the characteristics of persons identified by members of their congregations as "uniquely car-ing" or "unusually helpful, thoughtful, understanding, or caring persons." All selected subjects received mailed packets that included a cover letter, a six-picture story exercise (projective technique), the National Survey questionnaire, and a variety of open-ended and short-answer measures. Because traditional question-and-answer research does not easily permit the study of unconscious motives, open-ended (projective) techniques were used to study the motive structures of these persons. This approach was espe-cially important because much research about traits and behavior typically depends on self-reports which introduce the possibility of bias in the direction of socially acceptable responses. In other words, what might have been measured in other studies was the need for consistency of self-image, not necessarily the subject's willingness to go to the assistance of a needy person. By coding responses to some open-ended questions, we were able to con-struct a profile of caring people. Findings The Caring People study found that, in contrast to typical religious, religious who are perceived as unusually helpful, under-standing, and caring feel closer to and more trusting of God, who is seen as the source of healing and care. On projective measures, caring religious score higher in trust and lower in mistrust than typical sisters, brothers, and priests and tend to portray authority as benevolent. Caring religious con-nect divine assistance, in contrast to individual effort, with heal-ing experiences. They are less self-controlling and more spontaneously inclined to generosity. Caring people state that they often find the experience of contemplative prayer very valuable. They also demonstrate a 3 8 Review for Religious greater interpersonal involvement in caring experiences. Caring religious describe these relationships as growing and mutual and as containing a wider meaning or significance beyond the imme-diate relationship. Finally, these religious experience more joy in caring and more zest for living. This contrasts with typical religious, who describe caring for others in tension-reduction terms. That is, typical religious report their caring as a response to a need in themselves such as caring out of duty or as a repayment, or car-ing in response to special needs such as the illness, rejection, or trauma of other people. Presence of God This research suggests that, for caring religious, helping is not simply a transaction between two people. There is a third force in the relationship that .might most generally be called a "benevolent authority" or, more simply, God. The caring reli-gious stays in close touch with God and wants to share this behev-olent authority with others. When encountering a person in need, the goal of the caring religious is not primarily to relieve his or her suffering, but to create a three-way relationship in which Jesus and the gospel's values are deeply involved. Helpers of this type do not see themselves as agents in the process; at most they are partners with or assistants to the real source of helping. They do not feel ultimately responsible. For this reason and also because the helping is in itself joyous, caring religious do not as readily "burn out." This description also explains why caring religious who are so motivated are perceived to be helpful rather than manipulative. Because they so obviously believe that of themselves they can do nothing and because they want to establish a mutually rewarding i'elationship, caring religious are not perceived as egoistically threatening the self-esteem, interpersonal power, or indepen-dence of others. To the extent that responding to absolute human need is embraced anew as the ultimate mission of religious congrega-tions, the formation and development of this motive for religious life is clearly essential. Caring People Conclusions: Social Institution This part of the research effort assumes that a fundamental ffanuary-Felrruary 1993 39 Nygren and Ukeritis ¯ Religious Life Futures Project component of the role identity of religious is their call to care for others. It also assumes the motive of desire for oneness with God. Perhaps the future of religious life will be defined increas-ingly by these attributes or actions on behalf of others that medi-ate the presence of God. Caring religious live an operative Christology that is simultaneously immanent and transcendent. Conclusions: Congregation The Caring People study suggests that the heart of congre-gational life is the life of Jesus Christ in the gospel. The imme-diacy of the presence of the caring person to another is possible because of this effort to mediate God, whom they see as a benev-olent authority and the source of their action. Conclusions: Individual The focus of individual formation must be increasingly spir-itual. This research would indicate that those who learn to be authentically caring are inclined spontaneously to generosity, are trusting, and are aware that God acts in and through them. This level of freedom requires viewing God as a benevolent authority in whose name one acts as mediator. E. Individual Interviews Using a standard protocol developed for use in the Individual Interviews phase of the study, the researchers 15robed persons identified as particularly cognizant and understanding of religious life's nature and purpose and of the challenges now facing women and men religious and identified, too, as having the qualities required for leadership in the future. The purpose of this por-tion of the study was to verify the beliefs of members-at-large about the nature and purpose of religious life and its mission, about emerging forms and structures, and about future directions and to compare these beliefs with those surfacing in other forums. Conclusions: Social Institution Interviewees noted that the mission of Jesus will be the cen-tral focus and that the spirituality of congregations will be rooted 40 Review for Religious in their charism. Driven by pressing social and ecclesial needs, charity and justice will be the focus of mission and ministry, and most apostolic community life will be in proximity to the poor. Although a clear church identity will be maintained, the struc-tures of religious life will be based on mission rather than canons, and the unique charism of religious life will remain largely distinct from hierarchical functions. An inclusive atmosphere will be marked by multiculturalism, a clear inclusion of women and the feminine, and a genuine respect for diversity. Perhaps the most striking discrepancy in the portrait of the future of the social institution of religious life that emerges from the Visioning Groups, the National Survey, and the Individual Interviews involves commitment to the poor. The random sam-ple of members reveals at most a moderate commitment to par-ticipate in an activity which has become increasing!y a mission espoused by many religiou~ orders and quite explicitly by the church. Conclusions: Congregation Some of several changes in congregational living could strengthen the religious orders of the future. Specifically, inter-viewees indicate that religious community life will be marked increasingly by the intentionality of sha~ed values, purpose, and resources. Some congregations whose charisms are similar will merge, the number of apostolic groups will decrease, and many groups will become smaller. Because their members report greater clarity of focus and mission, membership in monastic orders may increase. The ranks of religious orders will be marked by older mem-bers, with few younger members and many second-career entrants. New congregations, though few, will contribute to the revital-ization of religious life. Religious congregations must examine the impact of what has often been an uncritical introduction of associational and affilia-tional forms of membership. This will entail a focus on the mean-ing of membership and in many cases the reestablishment of boundaries. Congregations that are vital to the church will have an explicit focus, and their effectiveness will be enhanced by the members' commitment to the collective mission. January-February 1993 41 Nygren and Ukeritis ¯ Religious Life Futures Project Conclusions: Individual In the view of those who participated in the interviews, com-mitment to works of mercy is critical. Most individuals who belong to religious orders were motivated at the outset by their impulse to generosity and are sustained by their special relation-ship with God. By serving those with absolute human need, sis-ters, brothers, and religious priests will dedicate themselves to a high-cost, high-commitment life in communities that can be wit-nesses to Jesus Christ and the gospel. E Historical/Theological Monograph Because it is important also to understand the findings of the study from both historical and theological perspectives, the researchers commissioned a theological/historical monograph. Elizabeth Johnson CSJ, PhD, of Fordham University, will write a theological monograph focusing on religious life since the Second Vatican Council. John W. Padberg SJ, PhD, of Saint Louis University, will provide a historical postscript to her work. This work, projected for completion in 1993, will add perspective to the wealth of information collected, analyzed, and evaluated in this research effort. IV. Conclusions:Shaping the Future of Religious Life If religious life is to continue to be a vital force in the church and the world, the FORUS study concludes that dramatic changes must occur in most religious congregations in the United States. Fidelity to the spirit of the founder and responsiveness to critical and unmet human needs are basic to the ongoing mission of reli-gious communities. Yet, while individual examples abound, only in limited ways have religious acted collectively to address absolute human needs, new forms of poverty, and demands that seemingly outstrip the capacity of any group to respond. Vatican II called religious to a return to the "spirit of the founder." While most congregations have engaged in much study and have made great efforts to move in this direction, the absence of corporate commitment to meeting currently unmet needs in the light of gospel imperatives stands in contrast to the collective vision and action inspired by God that marked the birth of most apostolic, monastic, and contemplative congregations. Religious 42 Revieva for Religious life as a social institution in United States society is at a crossroads. To achieve a desired future, religious as a group as well as indi-viduals must confront the forces that currently restrain them and reinforce the dynamics that will allow them to be in fact respon-sive to absolute human need in accord with their particular charism. A future marked by significant revitalization will emerge for congregations that--in union with God, in fidelity to their founding purpose, and in response to absolute human need--confront the current gap between the gospel and the culture. The research concludes with an equation of sorts, depicted in Figure 2 below, that can be applied to all con-gregational traditions in vary-ing degrees. The interaction of eight critical factors in the context of personal and collec-tive conversion will move con-gregations from their current states to their desired futures. The research also concludes that for other groups the The absence of corporate commitment to meeting currently unmet needs in the light of gospel imperatives stands in contrast to the collective vision and action inspired by God that marked the birth of most apostolic, monastic, and contemplative congregations. restraints on advancement are severe and may lead to decline. What follows is a brief summary of the conclusions drawn from the various facets of the study. 1. Individualism and Vocation Since Vatican II, shifting paradigms of vocation and con-comitant cultural trends have deemphasized the distinctiveness of the religious life. The research suggests that the personal call to holiness given to all Christians in Lumen Gentium did in fact impact religious life and the understanding of the religious life. Religious feel somewhat ambivalent about their current state while at the same time celebrating the advances of the laity in the church since Vatican II. The age of experimentation in the church paral-leled vast cultural shifts in kanerican society towards individualism, cultural assimilation, and the democratization of all authority. ~anuary-February 1993 43 Nygren and Ukeritis ¯ Religious Life Futures Project Figure 2 Shaping the Future of Religious Life in the US Restraining Forces ~ lndividualisrn]~ ~Average Loadershipl_~ Aut"orit V'i

Issue 52.5 of the Review for Religious, September/October 1993. ; . Contempora~ Living ¯ VOLUME 52 ~ NUMBER5 Review for Religious (ISSN 0034-639X) is published bi-monthly at Saint Louis University by the Jesuits of the Missouri Province. Editorial Office: 3601 Lindell Boulevard ¯ St. Louis, Missouri 63108-3393. Telephone: 314-535-3048 ¯ FAX: 314-535-0601 Manuscripts, books for review, and correspondence with the editor: Review for Religious ¯ 3601 Lindell Boulevard ° St. Louis, Missouri 63108-3393. Correspondence about the Canonical Counsel department: Elizabeth McDonough OP ¯ 5001 Eastern Avenue ¯ P.O. Box 29260 V~Tashington, D.C. 20017. POSTMASTER Send address changes to Review for Religious ¯ P.O. Box 6070 ¯ Duluth, MN 55806. Second-class postage paid at St. Louis, Missouri, and additional mailing offices. SUBSCRIPTION Ra\TES Single copy $5 includes surface mailing costs. One-year subscription $15 plus mailing costs. Two-year subscription $28 plusmailing costs. See inside back cover for more subscription information and mailing costs. ©1993 Review for Religious review fr°e[ ig oi us Editor Associate Editors Canonical Counsel Editor Assistant Editors Advisory Board David L. Fleming SJ Philip C. Fischer SJ Michael G. Harter SJ Elizabeth McDonough OP Jean Read Mary Ann Foppe Joann Wolski Conn PhD Mary Margaret Johanning SSND Iris Ann Ledden SSND Edmundo Rodriguez SJ Sefin Sammon FMS Suzanne Zuercher OSB Christian Heritages and Contemporary Living SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1993' * VOLUME 52 ¯ NUMBER 5 contents 646 feature Charisms and Religious Life Elizabeth McDonough OP underscores the importance of understanding charism and living it out in religious life. 66O living heritages Vincent de Paul's Charism in Today's Church Gerard H. Luttenberger CM presents Vincent de Paul's vision of the service of the poor and the search for God in a gospel context. 684 A Franciscan Discernment Experience--Part Two Joan Mueller OSF relates how one Franciscan woman witnessed to the discernment of God's will. 691 Ritual Leave-Taking Edward Foley OFMCap proposes the need and a way of response for a ritual reincorporation of retiring religious leaders. living with challenge 702 Christians and Their Passions James D. Whitehead and Eyelyn Eaton Whitehead encourage a befriending of our passions in order to live a full Christian life. 712 The Reality, Fact, and Fantasy of Incest Suzanne Zuercher OSB encourages spiritual directors to deal with the reality of incest issues even when a large measure of fantasy could be involved. 71.9 Dying--and See, We Are Alive Michael FitzPatrick OFM enters us into his experience of living with advanced prostate cancer. 642 Review for Religious 731 735 741 living sacramentally If Grain Could Talk Virginia Marie OCD presents an imaginative approach to our being grains of wheat. At the Heart of the Eucharist Joseph Allen Tetlow SJ suggests in parable form some focuses for Eucharist which receive less liturgical attention. Beyond Seven Sacraments Elizabeth Normanly SDSH reflects on the sacred reality that lies just under the surface of everyday experience. living consecrated life 745 Religious Vocations: New Signs of the Times Albert DiIanni SM focuses on the values important to young peo-ple as they consider a religious-life vocation. 764 Multiculturalism in Religious Life TodaY Catherine M. Harmer MMS explores how cultural and social minorities might be better integrated in religious congregations. 773 Religious Life---Mystery or Mistake? Annette M. Pelletier IHM draws attention to a link between the mystery of the human fascination with th~ Holy and the embodi-ment of that attraction in consecrated life. departments 644 Prisms 780 Canonical Counsel: Conciliar and Postconciliar Documents on Consecrated Life 787 Book Reviews S~pteraber-October 199~ 643 prisms Deadlines are a part of human living. There are deadlines for renewing driver's licenses. There are deadlines for research reports and for term papers in school. There are deadlines in the printing schedules of journals like this one. November 1, 1993, is the deadline for responses to the exploratory questions raised in the "lineamenta" called "Consecrated Life in the Church and the World"--the document intended to encourage reflec-tion and to solicit information and suggestions for use in the ninth ordinary general session of the Synod of Bishops. Although the Vatican Synod Secretariat has set a clear deadline for the responses it has invited, men and women religious have no deadline on the responsibility to con-tinue the study, reflection, and dialogue among themselves and with their local church people, clergy, and bishop so that we take advantage of this specially graced time for the whole t].ody of Christ. Of major importance in this ongoing discussion is the appreciation for the mystery of the church in its complexity of laity, clergy, and religious and in its hierarchical and charismatic elements. One hopes that a number of the bishops participating in the synod are conversant with the three-volume Council Daybook of Vatican II, which shows that the 1960s church included widely varying theologies of consecrated life. Where religious life fits within the church, God's people, was not a quickly or easily resolved question for the bishops as they formulated the council documents. Neither were there easily-agreed-upon theological understandings of the evangelical counsels and the elements of the life called reli-gious through the ages. Since few bishops who were in the debates and discussions leading to the Vatican II decrees 644 Review for Religious. remain active, there is no easy way to make use of those debates and discussions in efforts to move beyond the limitations and com-promises of the then-new Vatican II thinking. But we should not simply lament that the bishops who will participate in the synod have limited experience and acquaintance with these specialized topics; we should become aware that our own continuing familiarity with the documents and decrees of Vatican II and subsequent documents may be, at best, spotty or even nonexistent. We need to take to heart the sentiment expressed by T. S. Eliot in "Burnt Norton": What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present. How can we make present to ourselves and for our times the richness of the Spirit's gift of consecrated life--to us religious and to the church? As I announced in the January-February issue of this year, Review for Religious for its own contribution to our synod preparation features an article in each issue which suggests a significant theological approach for this age of ours. We hope that all these articles provide material for further personal reflec-tion and community discussion. In addition, Elizabeth McDonough OP in our regular Canonical Counsel department recalls for us a number of the recent ecclesial documents that are relevant to informed dialogue on the topic of consecrated life. We may need to face the question, for example, whether charisms, even corporate ohes, can be timebound. Might whole religious groups, because their charism is incarnated, have a tem-porary lifetime? Should we spell out chastity, poverty, and obe-dience as vows essential to religious life when as vows they have not specifically marked the consecration of a number of religious groups? We might ponder whether evangelical counsels in their nonspecificity say more about what marks religious life. Since both lay persons and the clergy share in religious life, is the lev-eling quality of this identity in the church vital for internal reli-gious- life administration? Any number of questions can and should be raised and seen in the light of tradition and new theological understanding. Whatever the results of the October 1994 synod, our own ongoing preparations as religious and as church promise, beyond any wintery deadline, a springtime of redeeming grace. D~ivid L. Fleming sJ September-October 1993 645 feature ELIZABETH MCDONOUGH Charisms and Religious Life Before Vatican Cou_ncil II, charism was certainly not a fre-quent topic of conversation in Catholic circles, and dis-cussion of the charisma of religious life was relatively nonexistent. Nor does any conciliar document actually employ the word charism in reference to religious life as such, even though various discussions of council partici-pant~ specifically included charism as central to conse-crated life in the church. To be sure, Vatican II documents clearly recognize the charismatic nature of the diversity of gifts of religious life, just as they clearly affirm the pat-rimony or heritage of institutes--that is, their own proper character and functions--as important for the good of the whole church (Perfectae Caritatis, §1 and §8). The council also stressed the need for faithful retention of the spirit and aims of each founder and foundress, as well as for fidelity to each institute's sound traditions (Perfectae Caritatis, §2b). Charisms: Postconciliar Development Pope Paul VI was the first to use the word charisms officially in relation to religious life--in his 1971 apostolic exhortation on the renewal and adaptation of religious institutes after the council (Evange/ica Testificatio, §11). This and other documents during Paul VI's papacy referred Elizabeth McDonough OPis well known to our readers since she serves as the canon law editor. Her address can be found on the inside front cover. 646 Review for Religious to charism as providing a constancy of orientation while allowing for internal growth and change (Evangelica Testificatio, §12). Charism was also presented as the experience of the Spirit by founders and foundresses which was then transmitted to their fol-lowers for continual development in harmony with their role in the ¯ church (Mutuae Relationes, §1 i). In addition, during this time a direct connection was affirmed between the obligation of superi-ors to protect their institute's specific charism and the right of the institute, to maintain an appropriate autonomy'of life and gov-ernment (Mutuae Relationes, § 13). Subsequentl~ the word charism appeared among the norms concerning consecrated life during various stages of the revision process of the Code of Canon Law. In the final version of the Code promulgated in 1983, however, these references were replaced by conciliar terms and phrases mentioning the spiritual patrimony or nature or character or sound traditions of an insti-tute (see, for example, cc. 577, 578, and 631). Some writers sug-gest that the nub of difficulties for religious in the church today is the distifiction, or even the supposed contradiction, between the hierarchical and the charismatic.1 Nevertheless, Pope John Paul II, in a letter directed to the bishops of the United States in 1983, exhorted them to encourage and assist: religious in living faith-fully according to their charism. Shortly thereafter he issued an apostolic exhortation addressed to religious in which he viewed charisms as gifts approved by the church for the good of the church and of the world and as fortifying and fostering religious com-munities in both their life and their apostolic service (Redemption# Donum, §15). More recently the 1990 Vatican Directives on Formation in Religious Institutes reemphasized the importance of their particular charisms to the life and development of the vari-ous religious communities (Potissimum Institutioni, § 16). While it is quite clear that the Second Vatican Council treated consecrated lifeforms more as dynamic, living i'ealities than as static entities defined by legislation, it is also clear that Vatican II attempted to articulate certain theological understandings and practical boundaries within which the various gifts of consecrated life should continue to exist and function. These conciliar positions treated consecrated life as an integral part of the life and holiness of the church itself and saw certain evangelical counsels as peren-nially significant in all historical manifestations of consecrated lifeforms (Lumen Gentium, §44). More than a quarter century of September-October 1993 647 McDonougb ¯ Charisms and Religious Life discussion on the charism or charisms of religious life, however, has still left the notion theoretically elusive and practically debated. The question still arises: What, if anything, can be reasonably articulated and plausibly understood with regard to a charism of religious life? Charisms: Meaning and Expression Any genuine charism of religious life is a pure gift of God for the good of the church. Accordingly, a religious-life charism can generally be described as a window on the gospel, a framed vision of people following Jesus that attracts others to do so in a similar way. They encounter in the charism of great religious founders and foundresses--the Benedictine charism, the Dominican charism, the Franciscan charism, the Mercy charism, the Daughters of Charity charism, and so forth--a phenomenon both intellec-tually and affectively compelling. Indeed, both history and our own background witness to the fact that people often respond to genuine religious charisms at great personal cost and by over-coming a variety of formidable obstacles. Moreover, charisms attract people to engage in an overall task together rather than only or primarily as free agents in independent endeavors. A charism of religious life can be recognized as a lived and living reality. It is a ~eed planted in fertile ground that takes root and grows and multiplies abundantly. It becomes a strong plant that can be transplanted to other climates, other cultures, and other eras. A genuine charism of religious life can also transcend ethnic differences, social and economic classes, and the several generations alive at a giyen time. It enables people .to say, "Yes, we who have such diverse origins and experiences can live together constructively in a consciously Christian manner." A genuine charism of religious life can transcend economic theories, politi-cal preferences, and personal prejudices. Indeed, a genuine charism of religious life has the potential to transform people's lives no matter who or where they are. Charisms are expressed in an entire way of life, a compre-hensive culture, not merely in various norms and particular prac-tices. They are deeply rooted in healthy spirituality. They exhibit sound and supple structures. Genuine charisms have customary practices that are formative of the chosen lifestyle. They also make valuable, constructive ecclesial contributions; for charisms of reli- 648 Review for Religious. gious life do not exist--indeed, cannot exist--merely for their own sake or merely for the sake of those who embrace them. As an indication of this, note that, according to a recent three-year soci-ological study in the United States, membership in a particular community primarily for affiliative belonging rather than for "the mis-sion of the church and the extension of the charism" needs to be addressed by religious institutes if they hope to survive.2 Another significant element of genuine religious charisms is that they live only in people, not in documents. The charisms are gifts to people, and they captivate and transform the recipients. However enamored many religious may be with popular refounding, reweaving, and re-creat-ing trends, there is actually no future for any institute that did not begin with--or has not been successfully grafted onto--a genuine religious-life charism. No amount of well-disposed and concerted effort can create a charism of reli-gious life. Whatever sociological or anthropological sleight of hand well-intentioned people might employ, it simply cannot be done. Historically speaking, in the United States a good number of religious communities (especially of women) seem to have been founded to perform a particular spiritual or corporal work of mercy at times when there were tremendous practical needs and when American bishops actively sought a willing and capable, if not always large, work force. Some groups that were eventually rec-ognized as religious institutes responded to these needs with valiant efforts and heroic virtue. Some others, however, may have begun and responded somewhat superficially, without the deep rooting of a genuine religious-life charism. For a number of them, the Vatican II mandate to return to the gospel and to the spirit of the founder or foundress resulted in their being confronted with salvaging an historically borrowed and circumstantially time-bound way of life that was not founded in a genuine charism and, consequently, was not well sustained by a deep and relevant spirituality. For others, A religious-life charism can generally be described as a window on the gospel, a framed vision of people, following Jesus that attracts others to do so in a similar way. September-October 1993 649 McDonougb * Cbarisms and Religious Lift the conciliar mandate resulted in their being confronted with prac-tices that seemed to have little or no connection with the original charism of their founder or foundress. For still others, the conciliar mandate to return to the original charism seems to have resulted more in selective borrowing of rhetoric to justify desired alter-ations than in a clearer awareness of the original heritage with a view to embracing its authentic beauty and, often, its concomi-tant demands. In regard to the latter, for example, after the council a num-ber of institutes of women claiming Dominican roots readily opted for contemporary participation in the order's preaching heritage, but just as readily deemphasized the order's original heritage of common life, liturgical prayer, and assiduous study of sacred truth. Similarly, after the council, followers of the Mercy charism quickly and rightly reemphasized Catherine McAuley's concern for women, but simultaneously transformed her notion of Mercy communi-ties as separate institutes in the various dioceses into one of uni-fied national organizations espousing global causes--a quantum leap from the "amalgamation" that produced the Mercy Union in the United States in the early 20th century. Or again, at least some postconciliar followers of Francis promptly translated his incar-national theology into a diffuse ecospirituality while managing not to do anything very concrete and practical for Francis's Lady Poverty. Thus, at least in some instances, the Vatican II mandate that religious return to the roots of their charism seems to have stirred up speculation about what a founder or foundress would do if he or she were now alive, with actions sometimes resulting that were contrary to, or at best not very inclusive of, what the founder or foundress consciously espoused and actually did. Charisms: Basic Presumptions Regarding charism, there are certain rather obvious theoret-ical presumptions--and certain practical assessments directly related to them--which might strike some readers as simplistic, but which warrant articulation. The presumptions are threefold. First, either a religious community has a charism or it does not. If a community does not have a charism, it is not going to survive. Second, if a community has a charism, the members understand it or they do not. If a community has a charism but the members do not understand it, the community is not going to survive. Third, 650 Review for Religious ¯ . if a community has a charism and understands it, the members can either strive to live it or they can decline to do so. If a com-munity has a charism and more or less understands it but the mem-bers decline to live it, then that community is not going to survive. More pointedly: if any community lands on the negative side of any of the above disjunctive assertions, then it probably does not merit survival. But note again: this assessment is not directly concerned with the foibles and failures of human endeavors; it is concerned with the importance of the charisms of consecrated life as such. Precisely because charisms are gifts of the Spirit to and for the church, they are too precio~as to be left indefinitely in the trust of people who are heedless of a charism's inherent value or unmindful of their personal responsibility to embrace and live its practical consequences. If members of a community cannot articulate clearly its fun-damental spirituality, if they are functionally unaware of its sound traditions, if they cannot realistically recall or do not meaning-fully practice its formative customs, if they cannot understand its internal workings in keeping with who they are as religious, then the community probably does not have a charism. Although the full meaning of a charism can never be completely specified, any charism has at least some identifiable characteristics and some external lineaments for practical recognition. If members of a com- .munity 'have not a clue what these might be, then--more likely than not--the community simply does not have a charism. And, as disconcerting as the statement may be for the adherents of some contemporary trends, it bears noting again that no one can actu-ally refound or reweave or re-create a charism of religious life. In fact, in contrast to the pelagianism of prevailing literature in this regard, I would suggest that---rather than refounding or reweav-ing or re-creating a charism--if anything, people receive it and respond to it. All that having been said, what then does a charism actually do to the receiver, to you and me and the many other plain human beings who receive it? Expressed in the subjective way that each religious probably has experienced it at some time or another, a vocation to live within a certain religious charism is an over-whelming sense that something quite beyond clear description has dropped into one's life (or into one's hands or into one's heart or into one's head) and evoked a spontaneous personal response such as "Oh, my God, if I take this seriously, it could transform me September-October 1993 651 McDonougb ¯ Cbarisms and Religious Life drastically for the rest of my life." However differently one who has experienced the call to live a religious-life charism might express it, or in whatever circumstances one might have experienced it, this dropped-into-your-lif~ gift--stirs awareness and promises transformation both drastic and continuous. In fact, if received and responded to, radical transformation is precisely what a charism has the potential of accomplishing as a person becomes publicly, consciously, perpetually committed to following Jesus more closely in this fashion and with these people and for this pur-pose- whether after the manner of Benedict or Francis or Dominic or Angela Merici or Ignatius Loyola or Louise de Marillac or Catherine McAuley or other such leaders. Although charisms live only in people, not in writings, nev-ertheless rules, constitutions, and other fundamental documents of a religious institute are important because they schematically and historiographically suggest a lifeform and purpose about which the church confidently says to individuals, "If you follow this form of gospel life, you will not be led astray from your true end." That is the assurance given to religious in recognized lifeforms through the ecclesial approval of specific charisms. The documents of any religious institute, however, are at most merely the best possible articulation of the lived understanding of the institute's charism through its generations of existence. Documents can do no more than suggest the cumulative richness of the lived experience and self-understanding of a community with a charism, for only peo-ple actually embody it. In fact, it can be hypothesized that, if all the documents of a community with a genuine charism were destroyed but its members were to survive, others would still be able to grasp the full import of the charism through the living members. In contrast, if all the members of a religious institute that has a gen-uine charism were to cease to exist but the documents were to survive, others would not be able to grasp the import of the charism or would be able to understand it only superficially. More point-edly: charisms exist, not in dead letters, but in living persons who themselves are formed and informed by the original charism both lived and written down. Charisms: Living Example As an example of a charism being lived, I would suggest' St. Dominic, with his passionate concern for the Truth--not in the 652 Review for Religious abstract, but in the person of Jesus, the Word of God--and with his unmitigated compassion for people, all of whom God loves in his beloved Son. That is to say, perhaps people cannot truly be Dominicans if they claim passionate concern for the truth while disdaining people, especially people who disagree with them--which at times seems a Dominican penchant. Those who embrace the Dominican charism in any age may have no other option--if they wish to continue in existence--but to ardently desire, dili-gently pursue, and freely share the Truth who is Jesus. Moreover, this desire and pursuit and sharing must be accomplished in the manner of Dominic amid the great collective wit-ness of his followers through the cen-turies. This witness includes fearless, respectful encounter with the people in the areas where the gospel needs to be preached. Such evangelization is fun- Radical transformation is precisely what a charism has the potential of accomplishing as a person becomes publicly, consciously, perpetually committed to following Jesus. damental to Dominican apostolic life: compassionately meeting people where they are and being for them channels of God's truth. On one occasion Dominic, on a journey to assist a local bishop in arranging a courtly marriage, met an innkeeper who was "wretchedly deluded" by the then prevalent Albigensian heresy. Dominic was moved to pity--not anger or disdain, but pity--and fervendy began to exhort the innkeeper, zealously discoursing with him through the night with such compelling wisdom that he was moved by God's grace to embrace the faith. There we have, per-haps, a Dominican paradigm for confronting the wretched delu-sion and incredible confusion of any era. As Dominicans we are obliged to be moved to pity, to plead emotionally, and to exhort fervendy--not merely with abstract propositions--so that the grace of God can be operative in others' lives. As Dominicans we must both believe and embody the truths we speak---so that the way we handle the attractiveness of truth is itself attractive. Dominicans must speak, not merely with their own wisdom or their own spirit, but with God's. Note, too, the circumstances of Dominic's encounter with the innkeeper. His sojourn at the inn occurred during his travel for the September-October 1993 653 McDonougb ¯ Cbarisms and Religious Life purpose of helping to arrange a wedding, a wedding that, for rea-sons quite beyond the control of the bishop and himself, did not come to pass. There may be a further message here for Dominicans, namely, that we should be willing to be surprised by, to respond to, and to work hard at tasks God sets for us by sud-denly rearranging the apostolic endeavors we ourselves had planned. Indeed, the specifically Dominican way of evangeliza-tion today might well involve pity, exhortation, and argumentation in the face of delusion, with an eye to people's eventual conversion in graced ways that are not of our doing and are not even the out-come of the kind of apostolic project we have dreamed of crafting. Let us return now to the matter of religious-life charisms as such. In this age in which people are incredibly confused about numerous personal, communal, national, and global problems; in the midst of great diversity of religious belief; after the break-down and fragmentation of many traditions; in the context of eco-nomic upheaval~ and political disagreement--in all this the living witness of any genuine religious-life charism matters. It announces uniquely, with specific and recognizable characteristics, that "fol-lowing Jesus" still has meaning precisely as a commitment to some-thing beyond whatever pragmatic tasks each religious is involved with here and now. This is not to suggest that the charism of a religious institute flourishes wherever any isolated member may be doing with dedication something worthwhile. Rather, the causal-ity is just the reverse: transcendent awareness and inner conviction and commitment manifest themselves to others only through the lived and living reality of the total charism, which is a grace received and, as such, not an energetic project of one's creative imagination. Charisms: Basic Sources What qualifies and practices, then, can religious look for in the experience and response of a founder or foundress to enable them to live their religious charism constructively today? The sugges-tions derived from basic sources include firm spiritual founda-tions; sound intellectual knowledge; tested advancement in virtue (perhaps reflective of the terribly old-fashioned notion that habits of doing good are significant); getting along honestly and chari-tably with others; responding to the graces presented in one's par-ticular calling; and constant reliance on God in all endeavors. The 654 Review for Religious way of life religious embrace is supposed to provide spirituality, customs of prayer, practical living arrangements, and opportuni-ties for ecclesial service. These things, these qualities, these prac-tices are desperately needed today as always for the sake of ecclesial service. God did not dabble with becoming human in Christ Jesus, nor did the recipients of founding charisms dabble with the gifts entrusted to them. Religious today who have embraced any charism of religious life in the likeness of great, sainted founders and foundresses simply cannot allow themselves the luxury of dabbling with the gift. If there is a certain urgency about what religious are about in the church and in the modern or postmodern world, there is also the possibility that religious can betray this urgency and bury their charisms just as, in the gospel parable, some buried the talents given them. If religious do this, the charisms will be given to others, for they are sim-ply too important to the vitality of the church for God to allow them tb be wasted. We religious can betray "and bury our charisms in intellectual arrogance. We can betray and bury our charisms in the comfortable patterns of recent and not so recent complacency. We can betray and bury our charisms in rampant individualism. We can betray and bury our charisms in personal or communal refusal to engage others in honest relationship. We can betray and bury our charisms by perpetuating a politically advantageous or per-sonally comfortable status quo. We can betray and bury our charisms by fashionable tinkering with fundamentals. We can betray and bury our charisms in person.al preferences and unre-flective compromise. We can betray and bury our charisms to the detriment of the transcendent realities to which we have been called and for which these gifts have been entrusted to us. And perhaps we not only can do these things, but actually have done them, for a variety of worthwhile or not so worthwhile reasons. Regarding the charisms of religious life, it is difficult to over- Religious today who have embraced any charism of religious life in the likeness of great, sainted founders and foundresses simply cannot allow themselves the luxury of dabbling with the gift. September-October 1993 655 McDonough * Charisms and Religious Life estimate the importance of initial and ongoing formation. Human beings as they are, religious are always beginners in something, but initial formation is especially crucial. Introducing people to a religious institute's specific charism, it makes or breaks the char-acter of that cqmmunity. Formation provides spiritual founda-tions; it imparts intellectual knowledge; it encourages progress in virtue; it provides opportunity for enhancing relational abilities; it implants or improves specific skills for ministry; it conveys the importance of humble reliance on God; it fosters a willingness to have everything disrupted for the sake of the Truth who is Jesus. Sound initial and ongoing formation is indispensable to the char-acter of the institute as such and, of course, indispensable for each member as well. All members should become increasingly imbued with the founder's or foundress's initial gospel insight. Formation in consecrated life requires a certain comprehensive submission to the heritage of a particular community precisely so that one can grow into it. In other words, it involves a conscious and practical surrender to the community's time-tested and effi-cacious ways of bringing the novice into its specific charism. It involves a lifelong endeavor to live according to this charism, and one's initiation into this life must necessarily include assiduous study of the charism's roots while experiencing its lived reality. And, if anything is clear from the gospel and from the great sainted founders and foundresses of religious institutes, it is that ministry requires prayer, a continuing relationship with the person of Jesus. This cannot be feigned, and it is the source of one's Christian identity within a religious community's own charism. As a matter of course, initial and ongoing formation provide encounters with our countless limitations. Our supposed matu-rity is challenged, as are our all-too-easily-acquired attitudes of superiority and complacency. Initial and continuing formation does this for us within our common life, which is relentlessly con-frontational. To be sure, confrontation is not common life's pri-mary purpose, but--as many religious have noticed--it has that characteristic nevertheless. Formation and confrontation remind us of our responsibility, our response-ability, regarding the charis-matic gift we have received. Common life continually reminds us of the smallness in each of us that has not the ability or the humil-ity- or the willingness to be bothered--to address some particu-lar smallness in oneself or in another. The old-fashion~d term for this is pusillanimity, the opposite of magnanimity, greatheartedness. 656 Review for Religious Charisms: Ongoing Personal Response How we live together and why we live together--indeed, if we live together at all these days--is not insignificant for reli-gious. We can respond to these questions in three basic ways: com-pliance, identification, and internalization. Compliance is an ¯ appropriate response to things with which one agrees, or acquiesces in because they are not worth contesting (daily schedules, maga-zine subscriptions). Identification is an appropriate response to things which connect us in some external way with a province or a congregation (attire, social customs). Internalization is an appro-priate response of making the elements of a particular charism one's own (one's understanding of the vows and one's practical ways of living them). Practical experience tells all of us religious that initial and also later experiences of fervor in religious life readily wane. What happens? Perhaps, at some time during the years, little by little, without our noticing it, we replace various appropriate responses of compliance, identification, and internalization with inappro-priate ones. In short, we get them mixed up. Some religious seem to prefer being identified more by their external attire (conve-niently donned and doffed) than by their interior spirituality (dif-ficult to acquire, but then probably difficult to conceal). Some religious seem to prefer being judged more by compliance to a schedule (objectively measurable) than by unselfish concern for those among whom they minister (difficult to assess). Probably all of us get these responses mixed up sometimes, some more, some less. And, unless I am quite mistaken, with rare exceptions we all learn eventually how to compromise, how to work the system for some personal advantage. Later on we may just forget our ear-lier enthusiasm for the life because we have become quite weary of it. We may find ourselves living our religious life from plateau to comfortable plateau, staying on each one as long as possible. Why? Perhaps--in wretched delusion, if you will--we some-how think we can "arrive" at being a religious in the context of the charism we have embraced. We settle into a place, consciously or unconsciously, and then no longer let the charism bother us in our complacent niche. For some, the "arrival" may have been when they once received the habit. For others, arrival meant first or perpetual profession or acquiring a particular academic degree or community responsibility. For still others, arrival may occur when they are recognized as professionally successful or feel personally September-October 1993 657 McDonougb ¯ Cbarisms and Religious Life renewed. In clerical communities the reception of orders might signify arrival for some. Whatever the point of one's arrival might be, we are inclined then to think, "Aha, now I have arrived. Now I do not have to hold the precious gift of the charism in my heart and say, every day, 'Dear God, if I ~ake this seriously, it can trans-form me drastically for the rest of my life, beginning today.' I do not have to do that anymore because I have arrived." Perhaps most religious at one time or another are tempted to think that they have, indeed, reached some acceptable point of arrival along the way of life they once set off on. The problem with such an "arrival" i~ that now we prefer to see the charism as inadequate ratheF than ourselves, for it asks us to do something that our complacency finds distasteful. Indeed, once we feel we have arrived, we fall prey to the temptation of having recourse to our charism merely as a storehouse of rhetoric to justify our doing what we have already comfortably settled upon doing, not what God might ask of us on the breath of our charism. It is at our own point of "arrival" that we religious need oth-ers to jolt us, jolt us out of our complacency. If we are lucky, they will. This is one of the reasons why we need common life, with its prayer, formative customs, and each other. We need every gener-ational cohort, every race, every national heritage, every ethnic grouping, every province, every viable local community. We espe-cially need ongoing encounter with each and all of those who have genuinely committed themselves to the practical manifestations of the charism and are willing to be captured and recaptured by it while striving faithfully to live it. Together we need to prevent our religious-life charism from being indiscriminately assimilated into the dominant trends of any culture, even as we strive to bring it to bear creatively on the problems of every culture. While we religious must admit that each of us pronounces vows in the first person singular and will one day answer to God for our living of them in the first person singular, any religious should also be able to say that he or she does not have to engage in this lifelong com-mitment alone. While each religious alone can become the person he or she is called to be, no religious is called to do this in rugged isolation. In short and in sum, any religious community either has a charism or does not; the members either understand it or they do not; and they either strive to live it or they do not. The future of religious life belongs neither to those who fondly reminisce about 658 Review for Religious yesteryear nor to those who self-prophetically dream about the next millennium. It belongs, rather, to those who here and now, simply and conscientiously, together live their response to the charism that captured them, to the God who has promised to transform them into the likeness of Christ. Notes ~ David J. Nygren and Miriam D. Ukeritis, "The Religious Life Futures Project: Executive Summary," Review for Religious 52 (1993): 13. 2 Ibid, 48. A Stop on Tour The occupants of the tour bus have all Been boning up on the saints: they circulate Little Lives snippeted for easy reference, easily Codified with the cathedral cities we visit. And here, in another cathedral square, obedient to the drone of tour guide, with pigeons overhead We ring the barrier where another stake Claimed its saint. Not Joan the toast Of the Dauphin in his cups, but like Joan The toast of the fire when it hiccups explosively, Fracturing the elemen.ts of wood, fracturing hers. Did she choose what to wear to be burned? Undressed quick enough by the faggots" fingers, She is scandalously handled in her nakedness By their probing thumbs, raped by fire. The fierce wounds she screams to, destroy The nerve endings, uncover bone. You would Have thought the cry of the burning to be i~tenser; The whine of flames is higher. Not yet char Underfoot, sainted, shrined, a Little Life Snippeted, her smoke ascends. Dizzily, then as now, The pigeons circle the cathedral spires. Picking Our cobbled way, we move onward with the tour. Nancy G. Westerfield September-October 1993 6$9 GERARD H. LUTTENBERGER Vincent de Paul's Charism in Today's Church living heritages St. Vincent de Paul (1581-1660) is well known as "Father of the Poor" and "Light of the Clergy," more by the for-mer title than by the latter. He founded a men's and also a women's community: the Congregation of the Mission and the Daughters of Charity. Both communities are, by constitution, oriented toward ministering to the poor. It is this ministry that, at least in contemporary thinking, ori-ents the spiritualities of their members. Priests of the Mission are "to follow Christ, evangelizing the poor.''1 Daughters of Charity are "given to God for the service of the poor.''2 All members of each community are to live simply, like the poor, and to consider the poor as their "lords and masters.''3 The call to dedicated and active concern for the poor rings clearly in contemporary church teaching and cur-rent spiritual theology. The church at Medellfn under-scored the fact that "action for justice is constitutive of the gospel." It speaks of Jesus' preferential option for the poor. The fourth chapter of Luke clearly speaks of Jesus being anointed in order to proclaim good news to the poor. And the Acts of the Apostles (see, for example, 2:42-47) indicates that the early church continued with like con-cerns. Gerard H. Luttenberger CM teaches at Immaculate Conception Seminary in Huntington, New York. His address is The Vincentian Community; 104 Anstice Street; Oyster Bay, New York 11771. 660 Review for Religious It is clear, however, that neither continued proclamation of the call for justice nor individual concrete effort directed toward the corporal and spiritual betterment of the poor is sufficient to mobilize and sustain the church in this endeavor. Deafness afflicts some; disappointment, discouragement, and burnout debilitate others; the lessening of spiritual energy and vision constitutes a threat to all who labor for justice. In the face of today's challenges for greater justice, the church needs a spirituality that shares the dynamic vision of Christ and promotes with active love the human and Christian betterment of all. The church needs a deepened communion with God in the labor of love, a labor that is ener-getic yet peaceful. This article deals with the service of the poor and the search for God in a Christian and gospel context. More specifically, it deals with the ways Vincent de Paul lived these gospel mandates by drawing on a more original and deeper life, which he had ifi Christ and in God. Christlike vision and life were gifts which God and God's Word, Jesus, gave him in the flow of his prayer, dis-cernment, and active ministry. This vision served to inspire mis-sionaries then and serves to inspire apostles in the church today. This essay, then, presents Vincent de Paul as a model for, and a challenge to, all who aspire to minister to the poor in the con-temporary church. At the same time it provides a critical analysis of the spirituality that motivated and sustained his energetic labor. The method will be rather direct and simple. Vincent's own words (letters, conferences, the Common Rule of the Congregation of the Mission) will be used, along with the record of his interaction with others (his own directors, persons he served, priests he worked with) and an account of the events of his life and decisions he made. Spiritual Adolescence: Vincent's Teachers Vincent de Paul, like us all, was a child 0f his time. He under-stood God and the ways of holiness in the light of the spirituality of "the French School.''4 This spirituality was characterized by a quest for a deepened mysticism, a dedication to searching out and aligning oneself with the will of God, an emphasis upon faith in contrast with reason, and in some circles a renewal in apostolic service.~ Vincent de Paul was touched by these movements, par-ticularly through Benedict of.Canfield, Francis de Sales, Pierre de B~rulle, and Andr~ Duval. September-October 1993 661 Luttenberger * V~ncent de Paul's Cbarism Today Benedict of Canfield (1562-1619), an English Capuchin who took refuge in France after his conversion from Puritanism, had a decided effect upon his God-seeking contemporaries through his much-read work Rbgle de perfection riduite au seul point de la volonti divine.6 Its theme, that Christian perfection is achieved as one becomes, in the words of Henri Bremond, "almost wholly absorbed into God and his absolute will,''7 and its directives regarding the ways of uniting oneself to that will (emptying oneself in active obe-dience to God's law.and in self-denial) provided a starting point for the reflections of many spiritual-minded persons, among whom was Pierre de B~rulle. It was in the company and through the guidance of B~rulle that Vincent himself absorbed Canfield's doctrine. Francis de Sales (1657-1622), the well-known bishop of Geneva, became acquainted with Vincent when the former vis-ited Paris in 1618-1619. De Sales came to respect Vincent so much that he entrusted to him the direction of a group of Visitation nuns, a community he himself had established. Francis de Sales's spiritual way focused on God's will, which he experienced deeply as love, salvific love.8 The will of God is sav-ing love for de Sales. This clear and warm thought affected one's understanding of God and of God's relationship to humankind. Fear of God necessarily gave way to utter confidence in God's saving love. This saving love became the final rubric for Vincent's understanding of the mystery of God, the person of Jesus, and the relationship of both God and Jesus to the world. Pierre de B~rulle (1575-1629), a highly spiritual man as well as a statesman and diplomat, served Vincent as a spiritual counselor during Vincent's early life and ministry.9 For B~rulle, God's will was perfectly expressed in the incarnation of Jesus. Btrulle was struck deeply by the richness of God's life and will as revealed in Jesus. Contemplation of the mysteries of Jesus' life, as well as of the very being and person of the incarnate Son of God, was for him a clear way of losing oneself and of being drawn into communion with God and God's will. Christians, therefore, would achieve holiness by binding themselves to God in and through Jesus, by reliving his "conditions" or mysteries. (B~rulle was powerfully influenced by having made the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius and by the teaching of Teresa of Avila, which had reached France by way of the Spanish Carmelites.) The self-abandonment of searching for and subjecting oneself to the will of God, therefore, became more concrete and more explicitly Christian in Btrulle than it had been 662 Review for Religious in Canfield; but the will of God remained central for understanding the life of Jesus, the way of Christian holiness, and the mystery of God.10 Leaving the contribution of Andrd Duval for later, we might sum up the influences of Vincent's teachers in this fashion: 1. It is God, in God's salvific will, who guides us and all his-tory to God's Self as its end. In adhering to God's will and allowing God to work God's saving love among us, we will attain holiness and happiness. We will know the joy of being perfectly one with God, who is our only master (Canfield). 2. In seeking to align ourselves with God's salvific will, we are invited to perfect ourselves in love (de Sales). (Vincent ulti-mately developed this line of thought into a spirituality of action, stating that this love is not to be merely an affective love; rather, it is to be an effective love.'1) 3. God has sent the Son, who shows us the way to the Father, all the while revealing to us the Father's love. Jesus came "to act and to teach," to be himself one who lives in perfect union with the divine will and one who teaches us how to do the same (B~rulle). These three sets of ideas were important in Vincent's spiri-tual and ministerial development. They contributed to his quest to meet God in an active life of service. A brief sketch of that life and ministry will offer insight into the ways in which Vincent used and also developed these resources; it will illustrate how central and effective these perspectives were in the development of a person united to God in active ministry. Young Adulthood: God's Will and the Discovery of Grace Born in a small village of France in 1581, Vincent de Paul was ordained in 1599 at eighteen years of age.~2 Though the Council of Trent'had stipulated twenty-four ~s the minimum age for ordi-nation, Vincent's early ordination was not singular in late-16th-century France. Priesthood provided a comfortable career for young men of his time, and he was not an exception to such aspi-rations. He hoped for a benefice out of which he would be able to provide for his family's needs. Apparently he had little success until, through the influence of Bdrulle, his spiritual director, he obtained a position at the parish of Clichy in 1611, when he was thirty years old. He found the people poor but docile, alive in faith, and eager for God's word. It September-October 1993 663 Luttenberger ¯ Vincent de Paul's Cbaris~n Today was a significant moment of conversion for him; he realized that his ambition for a "good benefice," for a life of comfort, had been a block to his happiness and his ministry. He came to know that he could be happy laboring for poor and simple people. I was a country vicar [he later recalled]. I had people who were so good and obedient in doing whatever I asked them that, when I told them they ought to go to confession the first Sunday of the month, they never failed. They came and confessed, and I saw from day to day the good they did their souls. This gave me such consolation, and I was so pleased about it, that I used to say to myself: "My God! How happy you are to have such good people! I don't think the pope is as happy as a vicar with people of such good heart." 13 Vincent's stay in Clichy, however, was short-lived; in 1613 Bdrulle advised him to surrender the parish to an administrator and take up the task of being tutor for the family of Philippe de Gondi, a wealthy count. Vincent was obedient to his spiritual director; such obedience had become his way of life. It flowed from the spiritual doctrine that he had been absorbing from B~rulle and several other serious priests who gathered frequently to dis-cuss spirituality and the. plight of France. Vincent's tasks at the Gondi household included, not only teaching the children, but ministering to the poor who lived and worked on the Gondi estates. He learned firsthand the religious plight of these people. One problem concerned confession. Many peasants feared confessing their sins to local priests who knew them well. The problem was compounded by the fact that some priests were so ignorant that they did not even know the words of absolution.'4 Hence, people would allow years to pass without seeking to be unburdened of their sins. Vincent soon began coun-seling a general confession as a remedy. In 1617 Mme. de Gondi, during a sojourn at her ancestral castle at Folleville, visited a sick man at Gannes, a few miles dis-tant. She recommended that he make a general confession to Vincent. The sick man was so relieved after confessing that he told her that he would have been damned had he not had this spir-itual opportunity. Mme. de Gondi was so distressed that she urged Vincent to preach on confession the following day. The result was that his words stirred the entire parish of Folleville to repentance and he had to call in the Jesuits from Amiens to help him hear the people's confessions and to catechize them.'S 664 Review for Religious What does this brief sketch tell us of Vincent's spirituality? It serves to I~ring into relief the major dynamics out of which his more mature spirituality and his effectiveness in ministry devel-oped. Attentiveness and responsiveness to God's will in all its man-ifestations appear to have been paramount for him, and fidelity to his spiritual director helped him develop these dispositions and align himself with God. This spiritual pattern filled him with life, energy, and zeal for the spir-itual growth of others. It enabled him to "move with God" in ministry. And it led him to a deepened sense of the spiritual, a sense of God's presence, power, and graciousness greater than he seems to have expected. For what exhilarated Vincent in Clichy was the effectiveness and power of God's sav-ing love among his parishioners. What uplifted him on the Gondi estates was his perception of God working con-version among persons whom others thought to be too insignifi-cant and too resistant to God's love for their ministerial concern. One could say he was filled with an awareness that God was truly alive in a little country village and among the forgotten people of a vast country estate. A second dynamic, deeply characteristic of Vincent's way, also emerges from this sketch: his spirit was inclined toward action. He moved quickly when he was convinced that God had made known the divine will. He responded without hesitation when he realized people needed the ministry of a confessor; he sought help when the number of penitents was too great for one person. He was a man of action. These two dynamisms emerged in definite circumstances. If we are to understand Vincent, it is of singular importance to note that his early experiences of God in union with his active min-istry took place among the poor, the most neglected. Focused upon everyday needs that drew most of their energy and atten-tion, they stood as a challenge to any priest hoping to bring them God's word and love. Already aware, at least in principle, of the limitlessness and inclusivity of God's love, Vincent became con- He was filled with an awareness that God was truly alive in a little country village and among the forgoften people of a vast country estate. Septentber-October 1993 665 Luttenberger ¯ Vincent de Paul's Charism Today vinced ,that priests must be willing to endure these people's inat-tentiveness and resistance and must rely heavily upon God, and only then should try actively to mediate God's care. Such an approach to ministry proved fruitful, not only for the poor, but also for him. A word needs be said about the unity of these two dynamisms. While fidelity to the divine will remained central for Vincent, he seems to have begun to experience the union of two distinct aspects of that.divine will: (1) The will of God that he wished to be one with and obedient to was at the same time (2) a will alive and active, leading others to accept God's love. In surrendering him-self to ministry foi" the poor, Vincent immediately found himself deeply one with and a mediator of that will. The two dynamisms of his spirituality were in fact truly one. Middle Years: Mysticism in Action In the early days of his ministry, Vincent, under God's inspi-ration, drew the outlines of a way to God and a way of serving others. We will trace three ways in which that outline developed in subsequent years as his spirituality gradually deepened, broad-ened, and became fine tuned. 1. The Founding of the Congregation of the Mission Shortly after the.powerful experience at Folleville, Vincent left the Gondi household at B~rulle's suggestion and obtained a parish in Ch~tillon-les-Dombes, far from Paris in the southeast of France. Very upset, Mme. de Gondi sent Vincent letters from many persons of rank, including her husband's brother Henri de ¯ Gondi, who was bishop of Paris, and B~rulle himself. The latter did not ask Vincent to return; he did, however, describe the lady's dis-tress and asked him to consider returning. In December 1617, after consulting with B~rulle, Vincent came to an agreement with the lady that he would remain as chaplain to her household until her death. He preached missions throughout her lands and at times called upon the assistance of other priests. This did not end Mme. de Gondi's worries, however. What would happen after her death? She persuaded her chaplain to seek the services of a religious community which might commit some members to this work, in perpetuum. No community would agree. So she, together with her husband and Jean Francois de Gondi, ~trchbishop of Paris (who had succeeded his brother Henri), urged 666 Review for Religious Vincent himself to select several priests to labor with him in this task. For their labors they would receive 45,000 francs and a place to live (the Coll~ge des Bons-Enfants, which the archbishop him-self provided). On 17 April 1625 Vincent signed a contract pledg-ing to establish within a year a community of six priests to preach these much needed missions, six priests who, going from village to village at the expense of their common purse, would devote themselves purely and entire.ly to the salvation of poor people, to preach, to instruct, to exhort, and to catechize these poor country folk and to incline them to make a good general confession of their whole past life, and without taking recompense in any manner what-ever, in order to distribute freely the gifts they have so lib-erally received from the hand of God?6 The expansion of Vincent's apostolic labor to include a con-gregation of collaborators reveals the development of the dynamic that had governed his earlier life. Responsiveness to God's will was still his focus as he carefully came to the decision to accede to Mme. de Gondi's request. But of special value at this point are the elements of the discernment process that led him to this deci-sion. First among these elements must stand his awareness of need, the need of the spiritually neglected people of the Gondi estates. Further, the concurrence of the Gondis' own sense of urgency and the negative responses of the other religious orders led Vincent to entertain the possibility that God wished him to respond to this need. But he was also cautious. Although he had strong desires to respond affirmatively, his conviction was that God would not be found in strong, ardent movements. He expressed that conviction sometime later (1642) in ~ letter to Bernard Codoing, a priest of the congregation: The spirit of God proceeds directly and always humbly. Remember that you and I are subject to a thousand outbursts of nature, and recall what I told you about finding myself, in the early stages of the project of the Mission, with it con-stantly on my mind. That made me wonder whether the affair sprang from nature or from the evil spirit, and I purposely made a retreat in Soisson so that God might be pleased to remove from my mind the pleasure and eagerness I was expe-riencing in this matter. God was pleased to answer my prayer in such a manner that, by his mercy, he took them both away September-October 1993 667 Luttenberger ¯ V~ncent de Paul~s Charism Today and allowed me to be in the opposite dispositions. I think that, if God is granting some blessing to the Mission and I am less a subject of scandal to it, I attribute it after God to this fact. I wish to remain in this practice of neither concluding nor undertaking anything while I am caught up in these ardent hopes at the prospect of great benefits?7 One of the criteria, therefore, which Vincent employed to dis-cern the will of God and to arrive at firm decisions in life and minist~ was the experience of a spirit of inner peace in the face of proposed undertakings. And prayer, even periods of lengthy prayer and retreat, became the avenue by which he arrived at (or was given) such dispositions (and, with them, knowledge of God's will). Finally, before making his commitment to the Mission, Vincent sought counsel, this time not from B~rulle (from whom he had separated himself)~ but from another priest and professor at the Sorbonne, Andr~ Duval. The counsel he received is reported sim-ply and directly by Duval's biographer: On hearing him speak of the spiritual necessities, in partic-ular of the need for religious instruction in the rural parishes, of the hunger for the word of God in the people, of the ben-efit produced by these instructions, and of the blessing which they would receive, the venerable Andr~ pronounced these words: "The servant knowing the will of God and doing nothing will be flogged greatly." These words were scarce.ly uttered than Vincent de Paul felt himself interiorly moved and drawn by grace, and con-sidered them as an order from the divine will, which, having made known to him the needs of the poor, called him to go throughout t.he country. It was necessary to announce the Word of God, to preach, to catechize, to hear confessions, to administer the sacrament of penance, to allay discords, and, in a general way, to offer to the people living in the coun-tryside all kinds of spiritual services, without being a burden to anyone, without inconveniencing either the people or the priests, but rather bringing them help, and that with their assent and with the permission and the mandate of the bish-ops. As a result, he decided to give himself effectually to this work . It was only with this last element, the approbation of another person whom he judged objective and wise, that Vincent felt assured that he had attained God's will through prayer and dis-cernment. The way was complex; the outcome was sure. Vincent's fidelity to this process produced two profound effects 668 Review for Religious upon his spirituality. First, his experience of ministry, and partic-ularly his ministry in behalf of the poor, became filled with the experience of God. He knew God's presence in his resolves and in his actions; he found God alive in the persons whom he served. His labor of discernment and his responsiveness in service constituted his way of coming into, and living in, union with the God who was drawing all into communion through Christ. For Vincent, ministry itself became the expression of what might well be called a "mysticism in action." Second, this process drew Vincent close to Christ. Though Vincent left us no explicit record from before 1625 of his move-ments toward and with the Lord, his words written shortly after this time indicate the prominence of the life and example of Christ in his discernment and ministry. It was through Christ that he learned total reliance upon God's will. And it was in Christ that he found himself alive to God and alive for others.19 In this latter vein he wrote to one of his first priest confreres, Antoine Portail, urging him to humility as.he gave a series of missions: Keep in mind that we live in Jesus Christ through the death of Jesus Christ and that we must die in Jesus Christ through the life of Jesus Christ, and that our life must be hidden in Jesus Christ and full of Jesus Christ, and in order to die as Jesus Christ we must live as Jesus Christ. Now, once these foundations have been laid, let us surrender to contempt, to shame, to ignominy, and let us disclaim the honors people pay to us, the good reputation and the applause they give us, and let us do nothing that has not that end in view.2° For Vincent it was in Christ that faithfulness to God and self-less love of others found their unity. Discernment of God's will and responsiveness in service were framed by devotion to Christ and the mysteries of his life. Vincent was drawn, not simply to mysticism in action, but rather to a Christian mysticism in action-- to an experience of God through and in Christ. in an active life of faithfulness and service. 2. Commitment to Ministering to the Clergy Active and programmatic labor for the spiritual well-being of the clergy soon followed as a focal concern of the saint. It had become clear to him that much of the spiritual impoverishment of the people of the country had its roots in the impoverishment of the clergy. He had discussed this much earlier (before going to Clichy) with people who had grouped together out of concern for September-October 1993 669 Luttenberger ¯ Vincent de Paul's Charism Today the spiritual renewal of France, among whom were B~rulle and Fathers Jacques Olier (founder of the Sulpicians) and Adrien Bourdoise (founder of a community, the priests of Saint-Nicolas-du- Chardonnet). Later Mme. de Gondi spoke with him about it. And finally he experienced its effects firsthand at Folleville and Ch~tillon.2t It was through the instrumentality of bishops that Vincent actually began ministering to the clergy. In July 162 8 Augustine Potiers, bishop of Beauvais, got the idea that a retreat for ordinands that would include instruction on the duties of their state in life might be helpful. He asked Vincent to draw up a program for the retreat and to conduct it for his candidates that very September in Beauvais. Vincent responded and the effort met with success. In February 1631, Jean Francois de Gondi, the same arch-bishop of Paris who in 1625 had sponsored Vincent's establishing a small community of priests to conduct missions for the poor people of the Gondi estates, decreed that all his ordinands would have to make a two-week retreat before their ordination. He asked Father Bourdoise to conduct the exercises, but the priest refused. He then asked Vincent to conduct them. He too objected, stat-ing that the goal of his community was to preach country mis-sions. The archbishop finally obtained the services of a doctor from the Sorbonne, but the next year, after uniting the Priory of Saint-Lazare with the congregation, he imposed upon Vincent's community the obligation of conducting these retreats. In 1639 he required all ordinands residing in Paris (not only those belong-ing to his diocese) to make these exercises. Soon, at the recom-mendation of Bishop Potiers, other dioceses adjacent to Paris began sending their candidates to these retreats, the success of which was quite pleasing to Vincent. One can notice some interesting modifications in Vincent's approach at this time to discerning God's will. He saw the needs of the clergy and connected them with the distress of the poor people. He also saw that others who might respond to these needs had refused, a fact that would raise the question whether God wished Vincent himself to meet these needs. Finally, he was being invited by ecclesiastical authority (which he respected in discern-ing God's will) to respond to these needs by a means which, early on in Beauvais, had proven effective. Yet he resisted. Why? It is possible to argue that he himself was not yet free enough from human and even selfish limits to hand himself over to God's 670 Review for Religious will in all things. It is possible that his love for the poor and the missions crowded out other possibilities for responding to God's will. But neither of these possibilities seems to have been the case. What seems to have been holding Vincent back was his fidelity to the contract he had made with Mme. de Gondi in 1625. By it the community was bound to conduct missions for the country people, a time-consuming task. Ministering to the clergy would usurp some of the time that Vincent had already pledged (by contract and therefore in justice) to these mis-sions. That had appeared to him then as God's will and he had bound himself and the community to that for life. The fact that he could care for the spiritual needs of the people even more effectively by securing for them good priests did not seem, at least in the first instance, to stir him. It took the command of the arch-bishop to move him and his community into ministry for the clergy. Only this command offered him suf-ficient certitude that he was standing before God's will in taking up this new endeavor. Later on, however, he viewed this ministry as clearly being given by God. Development in his thought and convictions fol-lowed upon the expansion of the ministry itself. After the success of the retreats, he recognized the need for offering ongoing sup-port to the newly ordained. Thus, in 1633 he developed the pro-gram known as the Tuesday Conferences, a weekly meeting of diocesan clergy with a member of the community for prayer and reflection. And in 1636 he opened the doors of the Coll~ge des Bons-Enfants to young men who felt called to the priesthood. (This first house was for children, a minor seminary; in 1642, however, Vincent focused more on older candidates, supplying a program for major seminarians, an approach to formation which he had come to judge would be in the long run more effective.)22 The change in Vincent's view seems to have come, in part at least, by the reflections he had with his friend Father Bourdoise in the early 1630s. The latter had stated, "To give a mission is like giving a poor starving man a meal, but to set up a seminary is to aim at feeding him all his life.''z3 Vincent himself saw work for 'To give a mission is like giving a poor starving man a meal, but to set up a seminary is to aim at feeding him all his life.' September-October 1993 671 Luttenberger ¯ Vincent de Paul's Charism Today the clergy and the establishment of seminaries as a necessary com-plement of the congregation's work on the missions. Later Vincent regarded work for the clergy as equal to the con-gregation's call to evangelize the poor;24 he counseled his priests never to refuse to minister to the clergy on the pretext of giving missions to the poor;2s and, in the Common Rules of the institute, he listed formation of the clergy as one of the three purposes of the community.26 His retrospective understanding of his and the con-gregation's involvement in this ministry led him to tell his confreres: So, in the beginning, the company focused its energies only on itself and on the poor. At certain times of the year, it with-drew into its own houses, and at others it went forth to instruct the poor country people. God permitted nothing else to happen among us. But in the fullness of time he called us to contribute toward the formation of good priests, to give good pastors to parishes, and to teach them what they should know and doff7 Vincent's taking on the formation of the clergy as a God-given calling to him and the congregation offers a further insight into his spirituality: his way to God and way of ministering, always wed-ded to one another, were marked by a readiness to expand as well as by a fidelity to original intuitions and callings. There always remained possibilities for further invitations from the Lord; there was always the need for ongoing discernment. Having appreci-ated God's saving love as absolutely inclusive, Vincent was also compelled to include all suitable and necessary means of fostering the advance of that love. For him this was the only way of allow-ing the richness of God's wisdom and love to reach deeply into him and to reach others adequately through him. Having earlier experienced God in ministering to the poor, he came to experience that same God in greater depth and in more far-reaching ways as he entered ministry to and formation of the clergy. 3. Collaboration with Women: The Daughters of Charity Vincent was not a foreigner to the gifts of women in ministry. Early on, in 1617, while at Ch~tillon-les-Dombes, he became con-cerned about a family whose children and servants had fallen ill. For some reason the family found itself without even basic needs. In a sermon Vincent recommended the family to his congrega-tion and found his people more than ready to respond. As a mat-ter of fact, he discovered that a number of well-to-do women were eager to extend their charity to the needy. He provided them with 672 Review for Religious some guidelines, and the group became known as the Confraternity of Charity and served as a model for many similar groups that he established in villages where he gave missions. Soon, however, he discovered that peasant girls assisted these needy persons, especially in menial tasks, better than the well-to-do women did. They nursed the sick poor, instructed youngsters, and cared for orphans, refugees, the aged--in a word, the most abandoned. They too needed guidance, however, so that they would persevere in their ministry. The question soon posed itself: Where would he find capable mentors and guides for these devoted women? Toward the end of 1624 or early in 1625, a woman named Louise de Marillac sought spiritual direction from Vincent. She was a woman qf tender conscience, deep faith, and generous spirit. She lived a disciplined life of prayer while providing care for her sickly husband and difficult son. Before her marriage she had entertained thoughts of entering the convent, but had been dis-suaded by her spiritual director, who judged that she could not withstand the rigor of religious life. Vincent's early impressions of Louise were of her as an earnest, but dependent and scrupulous, woman. She often found herself troubled if he were not available to her for guidance. Concerns about the state of her soul, worries about her family, and recurring desires to enter a religious community after her husband's death (21 December 1625) were making her anxious and fretful. In her Vincent saw a person in need of judicious spiritual care, but also one quite gifted by God. Vincent's relationship with Louise and his advice to her are marked with the same spiritual convictions that we have noted in his own approach to God and to ministry: He counseled that she wait for God and not anticipate God's designs. But, more signif-icantly, it is in his letters to her that we read, for the first time, of his manner of relating to Christ and of how he saw the spiritual dynamics he lived by exemplified in Christ's life. He guided her to seek to live in Christ, encouraging her to model her life by the example and attitudes of Christ, in all moments and turns of events. For example, when, on the day after her husband's death, she con-fided to Vincent that she wished to serve God more freely, he told her not to make plans for the future until she had spent much time in prayer and reflection. He held her from what he regarded as premature commitments with the following counsel: September-October 1993 673 Luttenberger ¯ Vincent de Paul's Charism Today Always ho~ior the inactivity and the unknown condition of the Son of God. That is your center and what he asks of you for the present and for the future, forever. If His Divine Majesty does not let you know, in a way that cafinot be mistaken, that he wants something else of you, do not think about or let your mind become engrossed in that other matter. Leave it to me; I shall think about it enough for both of us.28 Given the fact that Louise was persistent, Vincent often found himself reiterating such counsei. On another occasion he wrote: Oh! what great hidden treasures there are in holy providence and how marvelously our Lord is honored bythose who fol-low it and do not try to go ahead of it. I recently heard one of the great men of the kingdom say that he had learned this truth through his own experience. He had never undertaken anything on his own except four things. Instead of their work-ing out well for him, they had turned out to his detriment. Is it not true that you wish, as is quite reasonable, that your servant not undertake anything without you and your order? And if that is reasonable from one man to another, how much more so from the Creator to the creature!29 Nevertheless, Vincent saw the need of helpers, active women helpers, who would visit the Confraternities of Charity in various villages to sustain them spiritually in their efforts. And Louise felt herself strongly moved in prayer toward direct service of the poor. On 6 May 1629 Vincent sent her to the Confraternity of Charity serving in Montmirail, recognizing, among other things, that the contemplative life would be fraught with dangers for her, while a life of active service best responded to the gifts God was giving her. His conviction that this decision was of God shines through his let-ter to her before her departure: I am sending you the letters and the report that you need for your journey. Go, therefore, Mademoiselle, go in the name of our Lord. I pray that his divine goodness may acc9mpany you, be your consolation along the way,., your strength in your toil, and, finally, that he may bring you back in perfect health and filled with good works.3° The journey of Vincent and Louise, however, was still to be made, with remarkable benefit for the church. Vincent had real-ized much earlier that a community of women who would sup-port one another in common faith, common life, and common dedication to the service of the most neglected would have advan- 674 Review for Religious tages like those of a community of priests. Perseverance in full-time Christian ministry suffered many threats without such support. Louise, too, desired community, her initial desires for religious life never having died. But once again Vincent moved with great caution, even slowness, in counseling and pursuing this develop-ment. His delay came partly from his awareness that the only way for women to live community life in his day involved being cloistered. For women to live an active community life in service of the poor would be regarded (particularly by the Holy See) as a radical inno-vation. Vincent necessarily had some fear that cloister would be imposed upon the women who would seek approval for the reli-gious community which he and Louise desired. The greater reason for his delay, however, was his desire to be assured that the plan to live their aspirations in community orig-inated in God. Resisting the urgency which Louise felt, he coun-seled: You belong to our Lord and his holy mother. Cling to them and to the state in which they have placed you until they make it clear that they wish something else of you.3~ And later he wrote to her: I beg you once and for all not to give it a thought until our Lord makes it evident that he wishes it, and at present he is giving indications to the contrary. We want a number of good things with a desire that seems to be of God, and yet it is not always from him . You are trying to become the ser-vant of those poor young women, and God wants you to be his own, and perhaps of more people than you would be in that way. And even if you were only his, is it not enough for God that your heart is honoring the tranquillity of our Lord's? Then it will be fit and ready to serve him. The king-dom of God is peace in the Holy Spirit; he will reign in you if your heart is at peace. So, be at peace, Mademoiselle, and you will honor in a sovereign way the God of peace and love.32 After all the hesitation, the searching and prayer, Vincent finally became assured that the movement toward ~ommunity was of God. He wrote to Louise in August or September around the year 1633: I think your good angel did what you told me . Four or five days ago, he communicated with mine concerning the char-ity of your young women. It is true; he has prompted me to Septentber-October 1993 675 Luttenberger ¯ Vincent de Paul's Charism Today recall it often, and I gave that good work serious thought. We shall talk about it, God willing, on Friday or Saturday, if you do not write to me sooner.33 And shortly thereafter, on 29 November 1633, the company of the Daughters of Charity was established. These developments clearly underscore Vincent's consistency in the way he understood God, understood himself and others, and attempted to respond to God. Resting in, seeking light from, and moving with God's spirit--moving in harmony with the man-ifest will of God--remained the way of Vincent and provided him with the energy he so clearly reveals in his labor for the kingdom of God. And finding inspiration and support in Jesus and in his way of life not only guided Vincent's development, but also was a con-tinued theme in his counseling of others. These developments, moreover, reveal in Vincent a humility and truth by which he recognized that the designs of God are far greater than one person or even one congregation can fathom or implement. Hence, he was unafraid to take up a multiplicity of works and to collaborate with a variety of persons in order to bring his inspiration into reality.34 In his journey with Louise de Marillac, one sees particularly his recognition that the gifts of women are needed for the building of God's kingdom.3s Only by blending his work and that of the congregation with the work and talents of his feminine counterparts would God's overflowing love spread through the world.36 The fostering of God's active, saving will among all persons demands many works, many talents, and many persons of varied gifts. Sharing of the gifts and collaboration in the vision would be the rule. The movements of God and God's will, clearly and prayerfully discerned, would be the energy. And the life of the church, the inclusion of the poor within its company, fully alive in God's Spirit, and the spiritual vitality of the church's ministers and servants would be the fruit. Final Years: Mature Reflections and Legacy Though Vincent's life and ministry' continued for nearly two and a half decades beyond the establishment of the Congregation of the Mission, beyond the first involvements in ministry to the clergy, and beyond the early solidification of the women's com-munity, the Daughters of Charity, the basic lines of his spiritual-ity had, with these events, already been drawn. During his final 676 Review for Religious years, he was able to articulate his vision with precision and clar-ity, providing disciples living then and others yet to come with the lines of a way to God and a life in Jesus that had proven ben-eficial for himself. Prayerful discernment of and fidelity to the will of God remained in first place in Vincent's final years as they had been throughout his life. Speaking to his "little company," he reminded them: The. most perfect man will be the one whose will is most conformed to that of God. Perfection consists in so uniting our will to God's that his and ours are, strictly speaking, but one and the same will and nonwill; and he who most excels on this point will be the most perfect.37 And a short time later he told his congregation: We know that our works are worthless if they are not living and animated by God's will. This is the advice of the gospel, which causes us to do everything for the sake of pleasing him. We must greatly praise his Infinite Majesty for the grace he has given to the company of undertaking this all-holy and ever sanctifying practice [of the will of God]. Yes, from the beginning we have all desired to enter into this way of the perfect, which is to honor our Lord in all our works.3s Given this experience and these convictions, he summed up his mind and counsel for all future generations in the Common Rule of the Congregation of the Mission: A sure way for a Christian to grow rapidly in holiness is a conscientious effort to carry out God's will in all circum-stances and at all times . It is in this way that we can imi-tate Christ, the Lord . He tells us this himself: "I always do what pleases the Father.''39 Harmony with God's will wa~ still, in Vincent's mind, of pri-mary import. Holiness and fruitfulness in ministry depended upon it. Ministry, evangelization, and .service of the needy were of spe-cial significance to him precisely because they fostered that will. The teaching of Benedict of Canfield was, to the end, in evidence in his explicit spiritual understanding. Second, Vincent left all a legacy of action, particularly active and effective concern for the poor. In an oft-quoted counsel to his priests, he exhorted them and us: Love God, my brothers, let us love God, but let it be with the strength of our arms and the sweat of our brow. For very September-October 1993 677 Luttenberger ¯ I~ncent de Paul's Charism Today often such acts of love of God, of complaisance, of kindness, and other similar affections and interior experiences of a lov-ing heart, although very good and very desirable, are never-theless very suspect when a person is not led to the practice of effective love. "In that," says our Lord, "my Father is glo-rified because you give account of much fruit." And this is why we must be very careful, for there are very many who, having a well-composed exterior and an interior filled with great love of God, stop there; and when it comes to action and they find themselves in occasions of doing something, they stop short. They flatter themselves with their inflamed imaginations; they are contented with some pleasant con-ve'rsations which they have with God in prayer; they even speak like angels; but, apart from that, when it is a question of working for God, of suffering, of mortifying oneself, of instructing the poor, of searching out the wandering flock, of loving one who lacks something, of receiving kindly illness or some other misfortune, alas! there is no longer anyone there, courage deserts them. No, no, let us not delude ourselves: Our whole task consists in working.4° In this strong conviction, one sees the long-standing influ-ence of Francis de Sales. Responsiveness to God's will, for Vincent, did not mean abstract contemplation. It meant listening to God in order to serve God's designs for the good of humankind, espe-cially the most deprived. Finally, however, it was the life, words, and example of Jesus that formed the context of Vincent's action as well as his search for God's will. It was the way of Jesus, and living in Jesus' Spirit, that offered Vincent the ideal and the power to unify this responsive-ness to God and this outpouring of ministerial love in a life filled with God. Only toward the end of his life do we find developed reflection on the powerful way living in the Spirit of Jesus had fashioned the spirituality of the saint. In a conference he exhorted his confreres: We must put on the Spirit of Jesus Christ. O Savior! O Gentlemen! There you have a grand undertaking, to put on the spirit of Jesus Christ! This means that in order to become perfect and to assist people effectively, to be of good use to ecclesiastics, we must labor to imitate the perfection of Jesus Christ and strive to attain it. It also means that of ourselves we can do nothing. We must be filled and animated by this spirit of Jesus Christ!41 And that there be no doubt regarding his understanding of this undertaking, he continued: 678 Review for Religious What is this spirit of our Lord? It is a spirit of perfect char-ity, filled with a marvelous esteem for the Divinity and with an infinite desire to honor him worthily. It is a knowledge of the greatness of his Father, which admires and extols it unceasingly. He has so high an esteem of it that he paid him homage with everything that was within his sacred person and which came forth from it; he attributed everything to him; he was unwilling to say that his teaching was his own teaching, but referred it to his Father: "My teaching is not mine, but that of the Father who sent me.". And his love, what was it? . . . Could there be any greater witness of love than by dying out of love in the way that he died? . . . His humiliations were but love, his work but love, his sufferings but love, his prayers but love, and all his interior and exterior operations were but reiterated acts of love . There you have a description of our Lord's spirit, with which we must be clothed; it is, in a word, having always a great esteem and a great love for God.42 Hence, the mature Vincent placed the following of Jesus as the fundamental goal of the congregation and as the basic theme running through the Common Rule of the institute. Sacred Scripture tells us that our Lord Jesus Christ, sent into the world to save mankind, began to do and to teach. He did the first when he perfectly reduced to practice every kind of virtue; and the .second when he preached the gospel to the poor and gave his Apostles and disciples the knowledge nee-essary for guiding people . Therefore, the end of the con-gregations is: (1) to strive for one's own perfection by exerting every effort to practice the virtues which the sovereign Master has been pleased to teach us both by word and example . 43 The counsel of Pierre de BSrulle, the constant call to live one's life immersed in the mysteries, of Christ, was woven throughout Vincent's life and permeated his teachings and counsel. He left no ambiguity for his followers about the basic ways of under-standing God and living in God's presence. Christ was that way of understanding; Christ was the way of life. The rule of Benedict of Canfield, the spiritual insights of Francis de Sales, and the spiritual doctrine of B~rulle had been lived and distilled so as to provide a guide and a source of inspi-ration to Vincent and to all who would make the journey of seek-ing and responding to the divine will that Vincent knew to be actively pursuing and transforming all persons, especially the poor. This he believed was the revelation of God in Jesus, and it was September-October 1993 679 Luttenberger ¯ Vincent de Paul's Charism Today the privilege of the Christian to walk with Jesus in experiencing and mediating that same salvific love. As a res~ult, Vincent described himself and his mission as one with the Lucan Jesus: "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me; to proclaim good news to the poor, he has sent me.''44 His life's task, and the charism he has left us, was and is one of discerning that Spirit in prayer and community so as to mediate it effectively as servants of God's kingdom, especially among the poor. His prayer and discernment, his life and min-istry, were deeply characterized by patience and caution, on the one hand, and by selflessness and courage, on the other. Both sets of virtues were necessary to lead Vincent to be confident that he knew God and God's will in his decisions and in his labors. Both were needful for him to experience God--Christ--and God's unfolding salvific initiative in his own day. In being faithful to these gifts, he found himself faithful to God's will, to walking in Christ, and to mediating God's love, particularly to the poor. In being faithful to these gifts Vincent's own way of making the spiritual journey--he became a true mystic, living out what is rightly called a mysticism in action. And in showing us these gifts and this journey, Vincent de Paul also shows us a charism, a gift of the Spirit, which seeks expression in the church of today. Notes ~ Constitutions and Statutes of the Congregation of the Mission, 1984, article I. 2 Constitutions and Statutes of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul, 1983, article 2:1. 3 Conferences to the Daughters of Charity, 14 June 1643 and 11 November 1657; Extract of a Conference to the Congregation of the Mission, January 1657, St. Vincent de Paul. Correspondance. Entretiens. Documents (hereafter SVDP), ed. Pierre Coste (Paris: J. Gabalda, 1920- 1925), 9:119, 10:332, 11:393. The first three volumes of this compila-tion have been translated into English by a team of sisters and priests, members of the Daughters of Charity and of the Congregation of the Mission. This English translation (hereafter ET) bears the title Saint Vincent de Paul. Correspondence, Conferences, Documents (Brooklyn: New City Press, 1985-). 4 For a recent analysis of this spirituality, see the introduction by William M. Thompson to Bdrulle and the French Schook Selected Writings, ed. William M. Thompson, trans. Lowell M. Glendon SS (Mahwah: Paulist Press, 1989), pp. 32-76. See also Michael Buckley, "Seventeenth Century French Spirituality: Three Figures," in Christian Spirituality, III: 680 Review for Religious Post-Reformation and Modern, ed. Louis Dupr~ and Don E. Saliers (New York: Crossroad, 1989), pp. 28-32. s Buckley, pp. 28-32. 6 On this work and its influence, see Bucldey, pp. 29-30, and Luigi Mezzadri CM and Luigi Nuovo CM, "The Directors of St. Vincent," ed. and trans. John W. Carven CM, Vincentian Heritage 6 (1985): 173-175. 7 A Literary History of Religious Thought in France, trans. K.L. Montgomery (New York: Macmillan, 1930), 2:219. s Buckley, pp. 32-41. 9 For the influence of Pierre de Bdrulle upon Vincent de Paul, see Bremond, 3:193-222. ,0 Buckley, pp. 42-53; Mezzadri, pp. 177-178. ~ See below, note 40. ~2 The historical material is taken from Pierre Coste, The Life and Works of Saint Vincent de Paul (hereafter LW), 3 vols., trans. Joseph Leonard CM (Westminster, Maryland: Newman Press, 1952). ,3 Conference on the Practice of Asking Permission, 27 July 1653, SVDP, 9:646. 14 Mme. de Gondi told Vincent (whom she had enlisted as her spirio tual director), that when she was young she herself had had such a painful experience. ~s Conference on the Observance of the Rules, 17 May 1658, SVDP, 12:8; Extract of a Conference on the Mission Preached at Folleville in 1617, ibid, 11:4. _ ~6 Contract of the foundation of the Congregation of the Mission, 17 April 1625, SVDP, 13:198. 17 De Paul to Codoing, 1 April 1642, SVDP, 2:246-247 (ET, 2:278). ~s Cited in Mezzadri, p. 176. ~9 See the letters of Vincent written during the years 1626 to 1633 to Louise de Marillac, cited in section three below. 2o Letter dated 1 May 1635, SVDP, 1:295 (ET, 1:276). In a similar, but less lyrical, manner, he counseled Jean Barreau, a brother of the con-gregation who, for some reason.unknown to u~,.had been imprisoned: "It is with great sorrow that I learned of your present state, which is a sub-ject of affliction for the whole company, but of great merit for you before God, since you suffer even though innocent . Our Lord, having descended from heaven to earth for the redemption of men, was also imprisoned by them. How blessed are you, Monsieur, to be treated the same way! . . . The more our actions and our sufferings resemble those of Jesus in this life, the more they are pleasing to God." Letter to Jean Barreau, 16 September 1650, SVDP, 4:81. 2~ A parishioner of Chfitillon recounted that Vincent's predecessors in that parish had kept women of ill repute and had frequented bars and gambling houses (Report of Charles Demion on the Sojourn of Saint Vincent at Ch~tillon-les-Domb.es, SVDP, 13:50). September-October 1993 681 Luttenberger ¯ Vincent de Paul's Charism Today 22 Letter to Bernard Codoing, in Rome, 13 May 1644, SVDP, 2:459 (ET, 2:505-506). See also SVDP, 2:152-154, 188 (ET, 2:171-173,214). 23 Citation taken from Coste, LVV, 1:259. 24 Letter to Louis Rivet, priest of the congregation, missioned in Saintes, 19 December 1655, SVDP, 5:489. 2s In a letter to a priest of the Mission, Luc Plunket, missioned at Saint-Meen, Vincent cautioned: "Do you not know, Monsieur, that we are equally obliged to form good ecclesiastics as to instruct the country peo-ple? And that a priest of the Mission who will work at one but not the other is only half a missioner, because he is sent to do both?" 21 May 1659, SVDP, 7:561. See also the conference of 6 December 1658, SVDP, 12:85. 26 1:3. Vincent composed these written regulations for the congrega-tion only after some thirty years had passed since the company had been established. 27 Conference gi~)en on 6 December 1658, SVDP, 12:84. 28 SVDP, 1:62 (ET, 1:54). See also LV¢', 1:204. 29 SVDP, 1:68-69 (ET, 1:60). See also LW, 1:204. 3o SVDP, 1:73 (ET, 1:64-65). See also Lgr, 1:207. 31 SVDP 1:79 (ET, 1:71). See also L/4z, 1:227. 32 SVDP 1:113 (ET, 1:111). See also LI.V, 1:227-228. 33 SVDP, 1:218 (ET, 1:216). See also LW, 1:230. 34 Though the works detailed thus far are the most well known of Vincent's endeavors, his energy and docility to the invitations of God led him to undertake and sponsor many others. These included labor in for-eign missions, aid to provinces devastated by war and famine, retreats for the laity, care of orphans and of the aged, participation in the coun-cil charged with the appointment of bishops, and the defense of the church against Jansenism. 3s Toward the end of his life, Vincent continued to affirm the impor-tance of collaboration with women in ministry. In a conference con-cerning the goals of the congreg~ition, he counseled his priests and brothers: "Was not he [the Son of God] pleased that women should be among his companions? Yes. Did he not direct them to perfection and to the assistance of the poor? Yes. If then our Lord has done this, he who did so much for our instruction, are we not persuaded that we are doing well in imitating him in this? . . . You know that even then [in the Apostolic era] there were deaconesses who did wonders in the church of God, . . . and thus God was served equally by both sexes; and shall we think that it does not belong to the Congregation of the Mission to procure that our Lord be honored and served by both?" Conference, 6 December 1658, SVDP, 12:86-87. 36 Though Vincent's labor for the establishment of the Daughters of Charity has been the principal focus of this section, he also entered into collaboration with other groups of women in various works of ministry in 682 Review for Religious the church, including the Visitation nuns and the Ladies of Charity of the H6tel Dieu, to mention a few. 37 SVDP, 11:318. 38 Conference on Conformity to the Will of God, 7 March 1659, SVDP, 12:154. 39 Common Rule of the Congregation of the Mission, 2:3. 40 Extract of a conference concerning the love of God, undated, SVDP, 11:40-41. 41 Conference on the Members and the Works of the Congregation, 13 December 1658, SVDP, 12:107-108. 42 Ibid, 108-109. 43 Common Rule, 1:1. ~ Luke 4:18. See SV'DP, 12:3-5, 79-81, 84-87, which are among many places where St. Vincent cited this gospel text. The Next Day The next day he sought her out. How to comfort a criminal's mother? He sensed her pain. Why did the temple priests want him killed? Had he really raised that man to life? She saw him scratching at the splinters in his hands, took them tenderly in hers and worked them free. The silences between their words grew longer. Here was home, yet time to leave. She touched a budding leaf. Thank you, Simon--her voice a whisper in his ear. Please come again. You've questions in your eyes that need to know. Yes, come tomorrow. Louise Finn CND September-October 1993 683 JOAN MUELLER A Franciscan Discernment ExperiencemPart Two MdY assignment was to teach graduate courses in spiritual irection during the coming school year and also in the following summer. In these courses I wanted to offer students an opportunity to explore discernment within the context of various charisms. Hoping to find reading material that might guide the study of discernment in the Franciscan tradition, I searched through various periodicals.~ In the 1984 volume of Review for Religious, I found "A Model of Discernment: The Experience of a Franciscan.''2 In the article Margaret Halaska OSF describes the process of discernment she used in making the transition out of community leadership and into a new form of ministry. The process involved personal prayer along with discussion and pondering with thirty people who knew her well. From these thirty, ten came to an evening of reflection that helped her refine her understanding of call. The result was not an outline of future ministry goals, but rather the next step, a year's renewal that would give her space to reflect on the path the Lord was choosing for her. The haunting leitmotif in her article is "personal poverty": "One of the elements of Franciscan discernment is the recognition of one's personal poverty and the' awareness that individuals are Part One of this article, by Margaret Halaska OSF, appeared in Review for Religious in 1984. Joan Mueller OSF teaches in the Christian Spirituality Program at Creighton University and is assistant professor of systematic theology at St. Francis Seminary; 3257 South Lake Drive; St. Francis, Wisconsin 53235. 684 Review for Religious inserted into a total world--one that is larger than oneself.''3 And again, "Recognition of personal poverty is one Franciscan princi-ple necessary for discernment. For me, this was very acute''4 (empha-sis mine). I cannot remember reading anything previous to this that res-onated so deeply within me that I needed to meet the author. While reading the articles, I felt as though I were listening to my own heart. When I looked at the author's profile, I found that Margaret belonged to the community whose motherhouse was across the street from where I worked. It was a strange and won-derful coincidence. One of my friends belonging to this community came the fol-lowing Saturday for supper. I told her of my excitement at read-ing the work of one of her sisters and begged her to provide me with an introduction. My friend started to cry. She told me that Margaret had been in administration with her, that they had been best friends, and that not long after her year of discernment she was found to have a brain tumor. It was evident that my friend was still grieving deeply. I assumed Margaret was dead and felt terrible disappointment. I asked when she had died, only to learn that she was still alive. She was in a nursing home in the city. I found her on the psy-chiatric floor of the nursing home sitting on the side of her bed. Her neck seemed paralyzed, so I sat on the floor to enable her to see me. I immediately told her my excitement about her article. We had a wonderful conversation. I promised to come back---and kept going to see her three, four, five times a week for the next year. Our visits were in some sense mundane. I would come from work and help her eat supper. Then I would help her wash up, brush her teeth, and go to bed. The mundane took a lot of time. Meals were usually a two-hour project. Helping her to brush her own teeth could take over a half hour. After Margaret was in bed, we would pray together. She would struggle to formulate a few words of prayer and then would be content to rest in God. One evening as she was preparing for bed, a eucharistic minister came in with Communion for both Margaret and me. Margaret wanted some time to pray, so we postponed getting her into bed. After receiving Communion we sat next to each other for a half hour in silence. I then opened my eyes and said, "Margaret, are you sleeping?" She said, "No, are you?" I said, "No." After another half hour of silence, we had the same September-October 1993 685 Mueller ¯ A Franciscan Discernment Experience conversation. After another half hour I said, "Margaret, you need to go to bed." Margaret's prayer was so simple. She tried to pray for every-one by name, but found that the world was too big. God gave her a solution to this dilemma: Mary. Margaret understood that it was Mary's role to stand before Jesus and tell him everything that Margaret needed--for the world and for herself. Prayer for Margaret was simply watching Mary and Jesus in this exchange. As her illness progressed, her voice became weaker. We communi-cated more and more through our eyes and through everyday tasks. I learned that feeding and washing hands were ways of listening to her heart. Her heart became more and more transparent. Once, when coming home after an evening with friends, I was reflecting upon my day. In contemplating the evening's interac-tion, I recognized that my contribution to the conversation was pri-marily about Margaret. I saw myself mirrored in the newly converted Francis, who went about the town of Assisi claiming that he had fallen in love with a most beautiful lady, Lady Poverty.s I also realized that, as with Francis, my excitement about this strange Lady was a mystery to my friends. This did not daunt my enthusiasm. I began to contemplate what was drawing me to Margaret's bedside day after day. It Was her poverty. The next day I simply told her, "I feel as though I have found Lady Poverty." She smiled. My experience was confirmed. Margaret's brain did not measure time very well. At first I thought this was a deficiency. As I listened, however, and got more in touch with her world, I realized that this sense of eternity was part of her beauty. With Margaret there was no past, present, or future. Rather, everything was a relationship. If we parted with a disagreement, what needed to be pondered and prayed about after-wards was the still-present feeling that all was not well between us, not who said what yesterday. What was important was the sister-hood between us. St. Clare would have agreed with this way of using time.6 Margaret talked to her food. The doctor gave her psychiatric medication for this habit. As she let me listen more and more to her heart, however, I too learned how to talk to my food. Margaret had been interested in the relationship between Native American spirituality and Franciscan spirituality. She learned from Native Americans how to listen to the movement of the Spirit in all of cre-ation. She saw all creation as enspirited. I invited a sympathetic 686 Review for Religious . nurse to see the mystery. Eventually Margaret was taken off the medication. As her sickness progressed and I helped feed her, we both understood the Spirit of the food. Margaret taught me how to see. For her, colors portrayed the deepest mysteries of life. She often expressed her heart simply in terms of color. Most of her last days were either purple (symbol-izing sorrow tinged with joy) or orange (joy tinged with sorrow). There were also four black days. The black days started on Christmas day. Margaret did not respond. Her eyes were a blank stare. I thought she was dying. Four days later one of the nurses pulled me aside to tell me that Margaret's condition was probably caused by depression, not by something directly physical. The nurse wanted me to try something. I went back into the room, closed the door, took Margaret's arm--the only extremity that was still working--and started to exercise it. I started growling and talking about how unfair life was. Her eyes made immediate contact. Life did seem unfair. She was only sixty years old. She was talented and bril-liant. She was so full of energy for the mis-sion. She was dying. The next day Margaret was radiant. She told me that she understood what the black days were about. She whispered, "They were about the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit." She said this over and over as if she was contemplating the mystery. I understood that she had been purified in the darkness for Trinitarian communion. I rejoiced and I wept. During the last days Margaret loved to be with those of us who loved her. She did not want to go back to the hospital. God asked of her even this wish. She died in the emergency room. I remembered the story of how Clare and her sisters wept at the death of Francis. Now I understand their tears.7 After Margaret's death a sister in her community gave me a copy of the manuscripts of her poems and essays. In one she recounts that during her year of renewal she had a dream in which she came upon a farmhouse. At the door was Lady Poverty. She Most of her last days were either purple (symbolizing sorrow tinged with joy) or orange (joy tinged with sorrow). September-October 1993 687 Mueller ¯ A Franciscan Discernment Experience realized in her dream that she truly loved and desired this Lady. At the same time another image, a beggar woman with crippled feet, hounded her prayer. She knew that God was inviting her to become this beggar woman; she resisted, hoping the beggar woman would go away. Finally in faith she said yes to the mystery. 688 Margaret's Story and Franciscan Discernment The discernment process that Margaret recounted in her arti-cle began in dialogue with others, in prayer, and in truthful assess-ment of her own gifts and the call of her heart. The discernment ended with an invitation to "live in a wigwam." This meant that Margaret was to spend her sabbatical time as a pilgrim exploring her call to personal poverty, to Native American spirituality, and to her love of the Franciscan charism. Practically, this translated into "a month's experience in a Franciscan Life Institute; extended time in Assisi; and ~xtended time on an Indian reservation.''8 This year of renewal was only the first fruit of Margaret's dis-cernment process. Her call was to personal poverty. None of those she discerned with were to take her into the depths of this mystery. Rather, she was introduced to the beggar woman with crooked feet. During her sickness Margaret became this beggar woman, dependent upon the thoughtfulness or thoughtlessness of others. As her illness progressed, she became crippled like the beggar woman of her prayer. Her legs and feet contracted so badly that they could not be straightened even after she died. Margaret's yes, her responsive determination to continually discern the will of God in her life, did not lead as she expected to a new form of ministry. Though this was a deep disappointment for her, heryes led her to surrenderat deeper and deeper levels every-thing of her heart that was not purely love. As I write, I expect to return to Creighton University for the summer and to teach discernment again. My students and I will explore the richness.gf discernment in the Catholic spiritual tra-dition and then concentrate on St. Ignatius of Loyola's Rules for Discernment. Without these I would not have been able to enter into Margaret's mystery. I have, however, learned from her that, after following the rules and the processes, one must simply sur-render to the Mystery. And so the Franciscan will not be surprised to find poverty the guide here. As Ignatius suggests in his third way of humility, surrendering Review for Religious to the mystery of the will of God invites one to choose poverty.9 This choice implies powerlessness, disrespect, abuse, joy, and free-dom. I took Ignatius on faith before I met Margaret. Now I have seen with my own eyes. As Margaret embraced the mystery of becoming the beggar woman, she became more and more grate-ful. She saw everything as an undeserved gift of God. Two squirrels playing outside gave her great delight. For her, all creation was a means by which she could praise God with gratitude and simple joy. It was Lady Poverty who brought her this grace.~° The mystery of discernment, the mystery of surrendering to the will of God, is both frightening and awesome. It is indeed "a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God" (Heb 10:31). Yet, as I watched Margaret suffer day after day, I saw that the glory of her spirit far surpassed her suffering. I learned through her that God cannot be.outdone in generosity. Margaret radically said yes to the will of God in her life. She understood discernment. After her careful searching for the will of God both in prayer and in dialogue with others, God invited her to become the beggar woman. In this invitation into personal poverty, Margaret discovered the will of God. Perhaps our discernment theory has emphasized active dis-cernment and not adequately explored the mystery of passive dis-cernment, something that cannot be easily categorized. One can watch it happening in another with grateful awe--and then be unable to exp!ain it to those who do not have the experience. The Franciscan tradition teaches, not by theologizing the mystery, but by telling stories about people who lived the mystery of saying yes radically to the will of God. In this tradition I offer the witness of Margaret for edification and imitation. One afternoon I asked: "Margaret, what does poverty mean to you?" She replied, "Poverty is a celebration!" I said, "Margaret, get real. For you poverty means this brain tumor. It means that you are living in a psych ward. It means that many of your friends do not understand you and have abandoned you." She looked on me with love and responded, "No, Joan, you are wrong. All that is hurt, but poverty is a celebration." " Margaret became this beggar woman, dependent upon the thoughtfulness or thoughtlessness of others. September-October 1993 689 Mueller ¯ A Franciscan Discernment Experience Notes ~ See, for example, Anthony M. Carrozzo OFM, "Francis of Assisi at the Crossroads: Elements of a Franciscan Process of Discernment," Review for Religious (July-August 1982)~ 551-556, and Evaristo Acosta Maestre OFMCap, "El Discernimiento de Espfritus y su Aplicaci6n segfin San Francisco de Asfs," Laurentianum 25 (1984): 415-448. 2 Margaret Halaska, "A Model of Discernment: The Experience of a Franciscan," Review for Religious (March-April 1984): 259-263. 3 Ibid, 260. 4 Ibid, 261. s "Legend of the Three Companions [3:7]," in St. Francis of Assisi: Omnibus of Sources, ed. Marion Habig (Chicago: Franciscan Herald Press, 1973), pp. 869-897. St. Clare, too, speaks of how she and her sisters bound themselves to Lady Poverty. See "The Testament [37]," in Clare of Assisi: Early Documents, ed. Regis Armstrong, OFMCap (New York: Paulist Press, 1988), p. 57. 6 Clare advocated that her sisters understand themselves as exchang-ing the things of time for the things of eternity. See "The First Letter to Blessed Agnes [30]," in Clare of Assisi: Early Documents, p. 37. One's mind will be transformed in the mirror of eternity. See "The Third Letter to Blessed Agnes [12-13]" in Clare ofAssisi, p. 44. 7 See "I Celano [116-17]," in St. Francis of Assisi: Omnibus of Sources, pp. 330-332. 8 Margaret Halaska, "A Model of Discernment," p. 263. 9 Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola, § 167. 10 Gratitude, joy, and praise of God are fruits of poverty chosen or accepted. See "Sacrum Commercium [58]," in Francis of Assisi: Omnibus of Sources, p. 1590. 690 Review for Religious EDWARD FOLEY Ritual Leave-Taking Almost fifteen years ago the liturgical commission of my province developed a very effective--even moving--ritual for installing the new provincial leadership at our triennial assem-bly. With slight modifications this basic ritual is resurrected every three years as we hand over direction of the province to a recently elected provincial, vicar provincial, and three councilors. Like presidential inaugurations, such rituals of beginning often gener-ate a sense of optimism and trust among the participants and pro-vide strong affirmation for those assuming office. Our rituals for taking leave of elected representatives, be they civil or religious, are usually much less effective--if they exist at all.1 Outgoing United States presidents do stage various farewell events which allow the departing commander-in-chief to offer a valedictory address and mark his closing days in the White House. The real departure ceremony for retiring U.S. presidents, however, is the inau-guration of their successor. This poignant ritual requires the retiring president to be seen and not heard--ironically marking his own tran-sition to private citizenship by serving as the most honored of wit-nesses to his successor's elevation to constitutional powers. The understated poignancy of such presidential leave-taking almost appears rich when compared with the dearth of rituals to mark the transition of leadership in so many of our religious com-munities. In few other arenas of ecclesiastical life do we ritually cel-ebrate transitions in leadership so rarely as in religious life. Retiring pastors and bishops are usually feted with multiple cele- Edward Foley OFMCap is agsociate professor of liturgy and music at the Catholic Theological Union. His address is 5401 South Cornell Avenue; Chicago, Illinois 60615 o5698. S~ptember-October 1993 691 Foley ¯ Ritual Leave-Taking brations marking their contributions to a local church and artic-ulating the gratitude of at least some of the people of God. Those who die in office are afforded the even more elaborate ritual leave-taking provided by the Order of Christian Funerals. Religious lead-ers who leave office at the commencement of a chapter or with the election of their successors, however, are often simply suc-ceeded or replaced. Seldom are they ritually honored or, more importantly, reincorporated into the community. The absence of such ritual leave-taking is more than a lapse in ritual etiquette. It is a lamentable, even detrimental, omission. The discernment of new leadership is often a moment of hope and goodwill within a religious community. This is especially true if, as in my own province, this process occurs within a gathering of all the members, all of them direct constituents. The psycho-logical lift of a fresh beginning, the affirmation by a large portion of the electorate, and the guiding promise of the Holy Spirit all contribute to a sense of optimism or relief which ordinarily allows the newly elected to be installed with an authentic sense of festivity. Given the very real, sometimes devastating problems facing major superiors today, however, such goodwill is often difficult to maintain. The financial (rises, all-consuming personnel problems, and special pressures arising from the incidents of public scandal that increasingly plague many religious communities contribute to an almost inevitable estrangement between religious leaders and the communities that called them to office. The strain that arises from the realignment of ministry priorities, fulfilling per-sonnel requests, and addressing issues of personal discipline takes an enormous toll on our leaders. Ironically, leadership that can begin with an affirming elec-tion often devolves into a position of devaluation. Those who pre-viously epitomized the center of the community are often marginalized or even shunned. Affirmation is increasingly replaced by criticism. An ordinary consequence of this process is burnout and alienation. Thus, our leaders are frequently absolved of their office with extended sabbaticals or with attenuated processes of return that sometimes take years. It is lamentable that communities like my own do not possess an adequate ritual vocabulary for marking the transition from lead-ership. This ritual lacuna prevents us from corporately acknowl-edging both the joy and the pain, the gratitude and the regret, associated with the ministry of leadership in contemporary reli- 692 Review for Religious gious life. Furthermore, our inability to ritualize such moments might even be viewed as a corporate sin of omission: rather than seizing a critical moment to welcome retiring leaders back into the heart of the community, our lack of action may actually allow or even encourage them to assume a life at the margins. The stress here on corporate ritual rather than individual ges-ture is quite intentional. While the kindness and support of vari-ous individuals in a religious community is essential if retiring religious leaders are to be effectively reincorporated into their communities, personal gestures of support from even a large number of individuals are insufficient. A religious community is more than an aggregate of individuals, and the call to leadership, while voiced by individuals, is ultimately from the whole body. Our leaders are responsible to and for all the members. Just as the beginning of leadership requires corporate affirma-tion, so should leave-taking be marked with a corporate response. The power of ritual should not be underestimated in these transitions. It is an ancient teaching of the church--and a recent maxim in some social sciences-- that rituals both express and create reality, or belief. It is not simply the election but especially the inauguration that creates a president; and it is not so much the electoral defeat as much as the inauguration of a suc-cessor that creates an ex-president. Similarly, it is not only the discernment but also the installation, consecration, or other order-ing ritual that in a real sense establishes one as a leader in our religious communities. Our current lack of rituals de facto cre-ates ex-leaders. The development of appropriate rituals of transi-tion could instead reincorporate these retiring ministers and, in the process, affirm, forgive, and welcome them. Ritually choreographing such an event is difficult. Varieties of personalities, corporate fatigue or even hostility toward the retiring leadership, and a minefield of unexpressed feelings on both sides complicate matters. No two leaders and no two transi-tions in leadership, even within the same community, are identi-cal. Consequently, it is necessary to develop a ritual pattern that is Just as the beginning of leadership requires corporate affirmation, so should leave-taking be marked with a corporate response. Septe~nber-October 199~ 693 Foley ¯ Ritual Leave-Taking open to adaptation as the occasion demands. On the other hand, developing a ritual pattern is important. Such a pattern, evoked year after year, discernment after discernment, announces that rit-uals of reincorporation are not simply designed for leaders that we happen to like or feel sorry for. Rather, they are. designed for the welfare of the community and the health of the church. The following is proposed as a model for ritualizing the rein-corporation of retiring religious leaders into the community that called them to office. It presumes significant adaptation in the light of concrete circumstances and needs. The context for the outline and commentary that follow is the opening liturgy at the triennial gathering of my own province, during which a new provincial, vicar provincial, and council are to be elected. The Ritual Context The ritual context for this model is Vespers. While other prayer patterns of the church might also provide an appropriate context for the reincorporation of retiring superiors, Vespers is particularly suited to this end for many reasons. First of all, unlike Eucharist, Vespers does not require any ordained clergy. Consequently, it is one of the official liturgies of the church that can be enacted by any group of women or men, lay or ordained, without recourse to presbyters, who may or may not be present within thee community. Second, while Vespers has certain minis-terial requirements and presumptions, the leadership can easily be cast in a more communitarian and less hierarchical fashion--as befits the worship 6f a religious community. In my own province, for example, instead of relying upon a former provincial, senior friar, or ordained brother to preside, it could be possible to call upon the youngest professed member of the province to assume this ministry. Thus the ministry models the moment: recalling that leadership is not a presumption of power, but an act of service and minority. Apart from the ministerial structure of Vespers, the traditional images and themes of evening prayer recommend its usage for this ritual reincorporation. For example, Vespers traditionally occurs at dusk, with the setting of the sun. Thus it is an ending rit-ual and provides an appropriate context for acknowledging the end of one's service in leadership. On the other hand, Vespers does more than announce the end of the day; it also anticipates the 694 Review for Religious presence of Christ through the night, a presence ultimately revealed at dawn. The images of hope and expectation, as well as the metaphoric parallel of the dawning of new leadership in a community, are obvious. Evening Prayer has a strong sense of thanksgiving, well epit-omized in the opening thanksgiving for the light and in the Magnificat. This thematic could easily be exploited to give thanks to God for calling people to leadership and for expressing grati-t- ude to those who have heard the call and answered with a willing heart. Yet, while there is a natural inclination toward thanksgiving at Vespers, the thematic elas-ticity provided by the various psalms, prayers, and readings allows for more than unabashed gratitude. The call to forgive-ness, the promise of eternal life, sacrifi-cial images, words of rededication--these and many other prayer instincts have a natural resonance in Eve.ning Prayer. Finally, Vespers lends itself to the rit-ual reincorporation of the retiring lead-ers of our communities because--at least in the West--it has a relatively simple yet flexible structure. Thus Evening Player can ritually tolerate the inclusion of a modest amount of other ritual activity--like gestures of reincor-poration-- without overwhelming or being overwhelmed by them. More specifically, Vespers is capable of allowing the inclusion of rituals like the renewal of vows, the sign of peace, and other acts of reconciliation and blessing and yet still clearly be Vespers. The central adaptation that I would propose for this ritual in my own province would be the additio

Issue 15.6 of the Review for Religious, 1956. ; Review for Religious ~OVEMBER 15, 1956 Cloister of Congregations . Joseph F. Gallen Zeal for Souls ¯ " c.A. Herbst Sisters' RefreafsIVI . Thomas Dubay The Religious Life . Roman Congregations Book Reviews New Business Address index for 1956 VOLUME XV " No. (5 Ri::VI.I::W FOR RI::::LIGIOUS VOLUME XV NOVEMBER, 19 5 6 NUMBER 6 CONTENTS NEW BUSINESS ADDRESS . 281 CLOISTER OF CONGREGATIONS-~Joseph F. Gallen, 'S.,J 2.8.2. ZEAL FOR SOULS--C. A. Herbst, S.J . 295 SISTERS' RETREATS---VI --- Thomas Dubay, S.M: .3.0.1. GUIDANCE FOR RELIGIOUS . 308 ROMAN CONGREGATIONS AND THE RELIGIOUS LIFE"0 ". 3.09 B(~OK REVIEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS-- Editor: Bernard A. Hausmann, S.3. West Baden College West Baden Springs, Indiana . 3~8 INDEX FOR VOLUME XV . 334 REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS, November, 1956. Vol. XV, No. 6. 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The reason for this is purely an "act of God," as far as both the editors and the College Press are concerned. There has been no break in the harmony that has always characterized our collaboration. Fortunately for us, the publishing department of the Queen's Work has agreed to take over the publication of the REVIEW. Be-ginning with the next volume, the RE~rIEW will be printed and dis-tributed by the Queen's Work. Obviously, the new publishers can-~ not wait till the last deadline to begin making addresses and keeping records. For this reason, please note the announcement in the center of this page and follow it exactly. The editors are deeply grateful to the College Press for past col-laboration and to the Queen's Work for taking over the burden. 281 Cloist:er ot: Congrega!:ions ,Joseph F. Gallen, S.J. I. Introduction. All the canons on common cloister apply to all congregations, i. e., institutes of simple vows, whether of men or women, clerical or lay, pontifical or'' diocesan, with the exception of c. 607, which treats of religious women going out of the convent alone. To lessen the complications in this highly detailed matter and to avoid the constant repetition of awkward phrases such as, "those of the opposite sex," the article explains and applies common cloister with reference to congregations of religious women. II. r~tpes of cloister. Papal cloister exists in all orders of men and women. Formerly it existed in the case of women only in mon-asteries of nuns that actually had solemn vows, but this was changed by the apostolic constitution Sponsa Christi.1 Cloister of this type is called papal because it is prescribed by papal ,(canon) law and its violation is punished by papal penalties, i. e., penalties enacted in the Code of Canon Law. Common or episcopal cloister is that imposed by canon law on all religious congregations (institutes of simple vows) of men and women. The name common is due to the fact that this cloister is less strict than papal, especially the papal cloister of nuns. This type of cloister was termed episcopal before .the Code of Canon Law. The same expression is still used, aIthough less frequently, because in the law of the code the local ordinary ex-ercises supervision over the exact observance of common cloister and may enforce its observance with canonical penalties (c. 604, § 3). Statutor~t or disciplinary is cloister insofar as it is prescribed by ¯ the particular Rule and constitutions; active, insofar as it forbids leaving the house; passive, insofar as it forbids the entrance of ex-terns into the cloistered parts; material, the cloistered parts of the house; formal, the laws of the code by which the going out of the religious or the entrance of externs is forbidden and regulated. III. Definition, purpose, obligation. The meaning, of common cloister is that the religious do not leave the house without the per~ mission of the superior according to the constitutions nor regularly receive any person of the other sex in the part of the house reserved for the community. The primary purpose of cloister is the preser-vation of the virtue of chastity. Under this aspect cloister frees the 1. Bouscaren, Canon Law Digest, III, 221-52. 282 CLOISTER OF CONGREGATIONS' religious from many temptations, protects the good name of the institute and of the religious state, and prevents scandals, suspicion, and harmful gossip even among the inquisitorial and hostile. Cloister is also an element of the external or canonical contemplative life. Its purpose under this heading is to develop and intensify a truly prayerful, interior, and spiritual 1ire'by withdrawing the religious from an atmosphere of worldliness and distraction and surround-ing her with one of tranquillity, peace and recollection. Cloister is likewise a habitual exercise of mortification and penance, an aid to the preservation of religious discipline in general, and of conspicuous practical utility for persevering study and labor. The mere statement of these aims reveals the value of a cloister that is intelligently en-acted and faithfully observed both in external action and interior purpose. It must be admitted, however, that the modern apostolate demands that at least very many sisters go out of the cloister more frequently and remain out of it for much longer periods daily than in the past. This age, therefore, requires a rigorously cloistered heart rather than a mere cloistered convent, a soul immutably turned to God in love rather than a mere veiled face, sincere detachment rather than mere walls and locked doors, a true interior life rather than mere external protection, and the double barrier of habitual prayer and mortification rather than the double grille. It is an aged canonical maxim that as the fish is lifeless without water so the monk with-out his monastery. I am of the opinion that we must modernize this venerable figure and demand of the religious an amphibious spiritual life. Common cloister is obligatory from c. 604, § 1, on all congre-gations. The constitutions of some institutes of simple vows give the impression either of error or inaccuracy in stating that cloister is not of obligation. It is true that papal cloister is not of obligation for congregations and that it is stricter than common cloister, but the latter is obligatory on all congregations. Both papal and com-mon cloister exist only in canonically erected formal and non-formal religious houses.2 Cloister does not demand that the institute be the proprietor of the house. Neither papal nor common cloister exists in canonically filial houses, summer villas and vacation houses, houses that are not completely erected materially, a house in which the community is not yet residing, nor in a temporary residence, e. g., a house rented and used while the religious house is being renovated. 2. Cf. cc. 597, § 1; 604, § 1; Berutti, De Religiosis, 268; Vromant, De Personis, n. 429. 283 JOSEPH F. ~ALLEN Review for Religious Cloister begins as soon as the community has taken up residence in a canonically erected house, but the precise moment is determined by the higher superior when such residence is begun, gradually. From custom or the enactments of the general chapter or higher superiors, the regulations of common cloister will and should be observed also in filial houses, temporary residences, and even more strictly in vaca-tion houses. IV. Cloistered parts of the house. The parts of the house des-tined for the exclusive use of the religious are those that are to be placed within common cloister. In constitutions approved by the Holy See, these ordinarily are the cells or dormitories, the infirmary, and the refectory. The community room, kitchen, and pantry are sometimes placed within cloister. The cloistered parts of the house are usually determined in the constitutions of sisters. Added deter-minations, the settlement of doubtful cases, the determination of the parts to be cloistered when these are not designated in the con-stitutions, from analogy with c. 597, § 3, appertain to. higher su-periors and the general chapter. The same authorities have the right of changing the boundaries of cloister permanently, except those determined in the constitutions, and may change also these tempor-arily. A proportionate reason is required for either change. V. Doors and locks of cloister. The constitutions of some con-gregations of sisters contain the enactment that the convent doors are to be locked at night and the keys given to the superior. This en-actment undoubtedly has its origin in the norm for the papal cloister of nuns: "The keys of the cloister shall be in the hands of the su-perioress night and day; and she shall give them to certain desig-nated nuns when there is need.''3 Frequently enough the constitu-tions of nuns add to this norm by prescribing that the cloister doors are to have two distinct locks, and these may also be supplemented by bolts and bars. Some orders also command that at night the keys of the two distinct locks are to be put into a box, which it-self is secured by two distinct locks. The keys of the" latter are to be given to two nuns, so that the presence of both is required to open the box. The minimum requisite of such enactments is exit doors that can be opened from the inside only by a key. I believe that a com-petent and conscientious American fire inspector would be apt to object to such exit doors. Building and fire prevention codes and practices in the United States appertain especially to local civil or- 3. Bouscaren, Canon Law Digest, I, 319. 284 November, 1956 CLOISTER OF CONGREGATIONS dinance and authority, and it would be prudent to consult these in the present question. The National Fire Protection Ass6ciation states that its standards ". are widely used by law enforcing authOrities in addition to their general use as gu!des to fire safety.TM In its pamphl~t, Building Exits Code, this association states: "All doors used in connection with exits shall be so arranged as to be always readily opened from the side from which egress is made. Locks, if provided, shall not require a key to operate from the inside~ Latches or other releasing device~ to 6pen doors shall .be of simple types, the method of operation of which is obvious even in darkness.''6 This standard is not specifically hplSlied to such residences as convents or religious houses in general, but it is extended to very similar resi-dences, e. g., apartment houses, which are defined as ". residence buildings providin~ sleeping accommodations for 20 or more per-sons, such as cbnventiorial apartments, tenement houses, lodging houses, dormitories, multi-family, houses, etc.''6 VI. Admission only of the male sex forbidden (c. 604, § 1). By the code, only the entrance of those of the'opposite sex into the cloistered parts is forbidden. Insofar as the entrance of the same sex-is prohibited in any congregation, the obligation is merely of the constitutions. Both the purpose of cloister and ordinary charity demand that even the same sex should not be admitted in a way that would unreasonably disturb the work, recollection, and. espe-cially the privacy of the religious. VII. Exemptions from the prohibition of entrance (cc. 604, § 1; 600; 598, § 2). Can. 604, § 1, extends to common cloister the exemptions given for papal cloister in cc. 600 and 598, § 2, Since these exemptions were enacted for papal cloister, they are not. inl~er~ preted entirely in the same sense when applied to common cloister. Those exempted by cc. 600 and 598, § 2 are: 1. The local ordinary or his delegate for the canonical oisitation. It is sufficient for his examination of the cloister that he be accom-panied by sisters, either two or one, preferably the superior. 2. Priests to administer the sacraments or to assist the dying. For a just and reasonable cause, any man or.boy may be admitted into common.~ loister. The administration of any sacrament and the assistance of .the .dying are evidently just causes, and therefore any priest, may be. admitted into common .cloister for these reasons. "4. Building Exits ~6~ (Boston: National Fire'Protection Association, 12th ed., 1952, reprinted 1955), back of front cover. ." "- ¯ ~ 5. Ibid., n~ 50'3 .r.," ~.:", " : . . ; ~'~ ~, ~ '~ , 6. Ibid., nn. 2800, 2812. 28.5 JOSEPH F. GALLEN Review for Religious 3. Those who hold the supreme power in the state, with their wines and retinue, and cardinalL with their retinue. This exemption isnot too prattical, and. for that reas6n is omitted in many constitu-tionsi While actually in power, even if not Catholics, kings, em-perors, presidents.of republics, the governors of our states with their wives and retinue, and cardinals with their retinu~ may enter the cloister in ahy country, even outside their own country or state. This exerription does not apply to those Who have been elected to but have not a~ yet entered on the office of supreme power, nor to persons who held supreme power in the past but do not hold it now, nor to cabinet members, senators, and congressmen. The dignity of all of these, however, would be a sufficient reason for their admission into" Common"cloister. A wife in the sense of this canon is one who is commonly held as such,' even though the marriage is invalid, e. g., because of a previous marriage. She and her. retinue may be ad-mi_ tted into the common cloister of men (c. 598, § 2). The same is true of a woman who holds,the supreme power in the state, with her .retinue. The code does .not forbid the entrance of a woman into the common cloister of religious women. 4. The superior may, with proper precautions, admit doctors, surgeons,, and others whose services are neCessar~j. There is evidently a just and teasonable cause fbr the admission of all of these. 5. Others mdy be admitted for a just and reasonable cause in the judgment of the superior, the proper'l~recautions always being ob-served (c. 604, § 1). This legislation is directly on common cloister and gives the general norm for the admission of men and boys iiato the common cloister of women. It is a sufficient norm in itself; and it is very difficult'to.see the .utility of the code's extension of cc. 600 and" 598, § 2, as enumerated above, to common cloister. There is obviously a just and reasonable cause for the admission of all of those listed above from these two canons. The proper precautions may be determined in ~the constitutions. If not,- it "is sufficient thata sister, preferably the local superior or an official, accompany any man admitted to the cloister. This is also true of a priest hdmitted for the confessions of'the sick. It is sometimes specified that the door of 'the room is to be left open while the confession is being heard. This is not always possible because of the smallness bf the room and of the adjoining corridor. No one of the. opposite sex should be .permitted to remain in the cloister longer than is necessary. Men or boys may be admitted into the common clbister of wo- 286 November, CLOISTER Ol~ CONGRI~GATIbNS the house. sister m. ay Permission ticular, or the code. men for a just and reasonable cause, which is less than a serious or grave cause. Therefore, a father, brother, or close male relative may be permitted to enter the infirmary to see a sister who is ill. Greater rea-sons, such as the.preceding and the administration of the sacraments, should be required for admission into a section devoted to the dor-mitories or cells of the sisters than into other parts of the cloister. Lesser reasons are sufficient for the admission of women and girls into the cloister when their entrance is forbidden by~ the constitutions. Particular constitutions may licitly demand more serious reasons than those required by the code for the admission of men and those commonly demanded for the admission of women. All superiors are competent to permit entrance into the cloister. 6. Male professors. According to the modern practice of the Sacred Congregation of Religious, neither the constitutions nor the custom of the instit.ute is to permit the admission of lay male pro-fessors into the cloister for the instruction of the sisters in letters or arts. When judged really necessary and not opposed b~; the local ordinary, such instructors are to teach in places outside the cloister. The mother general is to determine the precautions .necessary to avoid all danger and suspicion.7 ¯ VIII. Going out of the conoent (c. 606, § 1). Canon law does not forbid sisters to leave the house withotit the permission of su-periors but presupposes that this prohibition is contained in the con-stitutions; and in c. 606, § 1 obliges superiors to take care that the constitutions are exactly, observed with regard to subjects leaving By the law of the constitutions and universal usage, no leave the convent without the permission of the superior. may be explicit, implicit, tacit, reasonably presumed,, par-general. A violation is only of the constitutions, nQt of In the law of common cloister as understood in the code and generally practiced, sisters are permitted to leave the convent for any reasonable cause, e. g., for anything that is necessary, useful, or con-ducive to the special purpose and works of the cgngregation, for medical and dental care, spiritual reasons such as going to con~fession, for shopping, for reasonable recreation such as a walk, for works of charity such as attendance at funerals and the visiting of bereaved families, of sick, sisters, women, and children, and for reasons de-manded .by ordinaiy courtesy and politeness. They should not be permitted to go.out for reasons that are idle, u.nbscomin~,, harmful to the religious spirit, or illicit . 7. Cf. Norraae of 190l, n. 173. JOSEPH F~ GA.iLEN Regigto ttor Religious Law is .a reasonable norm of conduct; and therefore the request to go out, even for such a spiritual purpose as confession, should be reasonable. Furthermore, in granting the right "of approaching an occasional confessor, canon law gives no exemption whatever from religious discipline. It is unreasonable to expect permission to leave ~he convent,, especially if this is frequent or habitual, to go to a con-fessor who lives at a notable distance, when appreciable exigense would be necessary, or when the sister would to any degree have to be ex-cused from her assigned work. ~. There is no doubt that a congregation, may have a stricter com-mon cloister than that demanded by the code and that cloister con-tributes to freedom from temptation, dangers of the world, and'dis-tractions, and tends to foster a real interior life. Cloister, however, should not be obstructive of the special purpose of the institute nor such as to induce an artificial, inconsistent, or formalistic observance. Everything in an institute should be in agreement with and subordin-ated to its purpose. Some congregations were founded in an age that could not conceive a religious woman without papal cloister. Others took papal cloister as a fairly close model for the norms of their own constitutions. In congregations cloister should be capable of:.!unstrained observance within the framework of the purpose, works, and ordinary daily lives of the rellgiou's. The local superior gives permission to leave' the 'conven(, except for the cases that in some institutes are reserved'to higher Superiors by the constitutions or custom. The constitutions frequently forbid Sisters to visit private homes, and especially to eat or drink in them Without special permission. In a few institutes, this permission is r~served to higher superiors. Some constitutions specify that the permission of the local superior is sufficient to visit hoUses of the congregation in the vicinity, but a few demand tpheerm ~ "s s"ton of the fi~'gher superior. Constitutions quite often prescribe that a sister must 15~iVe another sister as companion when going to a do~t0ro~ dentist fo~'treatment.'There is also a frequent piohibition aga.in~t visiting house~ of priests without necessity, permission, and a sister com-p'~ inion~ '-'," ' . ~" It'i~ould be advisable to consider the temper, ing. of" the prohi-l~ itiona~ainst eating and drinking in private homes With"~egard to the occasions when a light lunch or hot or cold dri~{I~ could not b'e ~efused without' appearing discourteous and impolitel There can be 'n(~

John Tanner, July 22, 2013 ; Business at the Crossroads - Ogden City is a project to collect oral histories related to changes in the Ogden business district since World War II. From the 1870s to World War II, Ogden was a major railroad town, with nine rail systems. With both east-west and north-south rail lines, business and commercial houses flourished as Ogden became a shipping and commerce hub. ; The following is an oral history interview with John Tanner. The interview was conducted on July 22, 2013, by Lorrie Rands. John discusses his experiences with 25th Street. ; 36p.; 29cm.; 2 bound transcripts; 4 file folders. 1 videodisc: digital; 4 3/4 in. ; Oral History Program John Tanner Interviewed by Lorrie Rands 22 July 2013 Oral History Program Weber State University Stewart Library Ogden, Utah John Tanner Interviewed by Lorrie Rands 22 July 2013 Copyright © 2014 by Weber State University, Stewart Library Mission Statement The Oral History Program of the Stewart Library was created to preserve the institutional history of Weber State University and the Davis, Ogden and Weber County communities. By conducting carefully researched, recorded, and transcribed interviews, the Oral History Program creates archival oral histories intended for the widest possible use. Interviews are conducted with the goal of eliciting from each participant a full and accurate account of events. 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It is recommended that this oral history be cited as follows: Tanner, John, an oral history by Lorrie Rands, 22 July 2013 , WSU Stewart Library Oral History Program, Special Collections, Stewart Library, Weber State University, Ogden, UT. iii John Tanner July 22, 2013 Abstract: The following is an oral history interview with John Tanner. The interview was conducted on July 22, 2013, by Lorrie Rands. John discusses his experiences with 25th Street. LR: Okay, it is July 22, 2013 and we are in the home of Mr. Tanner talking about 25th Street and his memories of it. I'm here with Avery Pince. Mr. Tanner, thank you so much for allowing us to come into your home and do this. Let's start off with where were you born and how you ended up in Ogden. JT: I was born at 29th and Kiesel, 2858 Kiesel Avenue and my mother and father built that home when they got married, so I lived there all my life and raised a few chickens and fed a few tramps and went through there until I went to college. LR: So, what are some of your childhood memories of 25th Street? JT: Well, 25th Street, when I was young, I would go over there to—we'd walk to the Paramount Theater all the time and we'd go to 25th Street and go up and down there. We used to like to go to the Utah Noodle Parlor there, halfway down the street. There was a family—he was a good old Chinese man that had a very fine restaurant. He's the one that planted that whole hill on the Junction of Harrison, there's now the Kobe restaurant, and for years he just guarded that ready to move his restaurant there, moved it there three or four years and died. But, we used to ride our bikes up and down 24th Street to go to the Depot and see the trains come in and up and down and watch the soldiers come through there and 1 watch them waving the goodbyes and the farewells, that was all an adventure to a kid. One of the men that worked down there that was in charge of the depot, I guess the superintendent, Raymond Wright, was in the stake presidency with my father, so we'd go down and carry information down to him and back and forth to the—for the family. I didn't really start going up and down 25th Street until I got the job in high school of going to what they call the yard office which was a building after the twelve track tunnel. We'd come out and there was a building there that was in the middle of the rail yard that the dispatcher's and all would work, so they took care of scheduling things in the ice house for the trains and box cars and they would dump a lot of the climbers and that out of the engines on the spot right next to it there. It was quite an interesting place because on the trains they'd unload the garbage and we'd collect the pop bottles two cents a bottle and I'd get the deposit on the bottle. That was my first exposure to the 25th Street drill heavy. I joined the—worked there as a callboy for the dispatchers there at night and I'd go there at eleven or twelve and work until eight in the morning. I would call on the telephone to get the porters and waiters and the engineers and the brake men for the various trains. It was my job to go over to 25th Street to the Porters and Waiters Club in the middle of the night from 2:00 to 4:00 to roust out the porters and waiters for the trains. I would also call engineers and brakemen to come there. As a side for that, I got so I could go home, ride my bike home in the middle of the night and sneak dad's car out of the garage and go out to the Washington Terrace and pick up the engineers or the brakemen. 2 Taxis were hard to get at that time of night and during the war and gas was rationed and so it was a good deal for me to go pick up those people and take them to work and I'd make 15, 20 dollars at a time, and then Dad didn't know about it until later on. I'd go over to the Porters and Waiters Club at two or three in the morning and it was, at that time, I guess the colored people could not stay in hotels and so forth, so a lot of the traffic, it was through that hotel lobby, which was in the front of the Porter's & Waiters Club. But, in the rooms, the rooms were built, as you notice on 25th Street, those buildings were stacked pretty tight on there and there wasn't any ventilation in that except through the roof on the third and fourth floor and so those halls were dark and narrow and I'd have to go in there with a flashlight and shine it in the face of the guy and wake him up and say, "Hey, are you George Washington Jones, who are you?" There'd be six to eight men in the room there and the three or four men that I had to call, may not all be in the same room, so I'd have to go to two or three rooms and, of course, the smell of the sweat and that in the summer was kind of strong down the halls and in those rooms. They also had a bar and dance floor where people like Nat King Cole, Count Basie, and Duke Ellington would come. But, if it was at all possible, at night, when they weren't busy, there's an old Mr. Coal that was the desk man at the hotel and he would go up there and take me in and wake up the guys for me because he could see I was scared. We had a lot of experiences there because there was a lot of big, scary, colored fellows that were there and then I learned later that the whole basement was kind 3 of a dance floor and recreation or bar area for the people and so that would draw the women in there that I could see some pretty fancy dressed women come in there in the middle of the night or leave in the middle of the night. But, my main job was going over there and getting the people out for their job on the passenger trains and by doing it, waiting in the lobby for Mr. Coal to go with me a time or two. I think I told you that there were a couple of big dark fellows sitting in there and these two women came in all fancied up, you just couldn't believe, dressed to the T. The big bucks went over to these women and said, "Hey babe, let's me and you go out in the field and…" I won't say the word, but that's what they wanted to do. The little gal would say, "Alright, but I got to go home and change my clothes first." That was kind of impressive to me because I had never seen that seedy side of life. So, that was fun. Another good memory for me because I was over there a lot. I would also ride my bicycle over to the California Free Market and pick up a salami and loaf of bread and cheese for the condiments for a couple of seedy people and the yard officer for their midnight lunch. That was kind of interesting to go up and down the street at night on a bicycle and see the drunks laying on the side of the road or the policemen rousting them up and putting them in the squad cars and so forth. There was always two policemen there, they'd never go in with one. They'd say, "Don't ever go in the 25th Street without two police officers." I saw a lot of the nightlife activity of the soldiers staggering up and down the street and the police would help them hustle back to the train so they wouldn't miss their train and they'd have let them. The first time I ever got 4 propositioned by a queer was there, riding my bike up one night. He kept on standing there and looking at me making funny faces and then he'd start rubbing his leg with his arm like that. I didn't really know what he was doing until my mother told me and said, "Stay away from him." I guess they liked pretty boys at that time. So, that was an adventure I had there. We'd go up to Ross and Jacks restaurant there opposite the Municipal Park. Their favorite meal was burgers and fries, or burger spuds, it was potatoes and gravy and a hamburger patty. My Uncle John was an awning maker and canvas man and he'd go there for lunch every day, so he'd take us to Ross and Jacks when he was around and I got used to going into Ross and Jacks. When I was selling papers, I guess that was the earliest experience I had on 25th Street was the paper routes that I had. I'd go along 25th Street and down to the Paramount Theater and in the basement of the Kiesel building next to it was where the—we folded the papers and got them in our bicycles. So, we would stop in at Ross and Jacks maybe and eat before or after we took our paper route. Then, as I told you, on VJ Day, the end of the war, why, the train whistles and the factory whistles all started tooting and, so that brought all the people out from the depot clear up to the 26th and Washington and during the day they all started dancing. But that Sunday afternoon when the war started, I guess it was the 7th of December, why, they called me in to sell extras and so I stood on the corner of Grant and 25th Street and shouted, "Extra, extra, read all about it," selling the papers and really made a lot of money that day and sold all my papers. People were very interested in what was going on and so I spent a lot of time there on 5 25th Street. Then the bus depot was there on the corner at that time—the Greyhound Bus. Then, I guess, I went in the Broom Hotel a lot because of selling papers and leaving papers at the desk. There was a seaman that came as a tramp or hobo you'd call them, I guess, or traveling guy that came to the back door of the house one time and mother fed him and found out that he was a carpenter and had him do some things. His name was Auto Presnitts, he was an old Dutchman sailor, but he was a great carpenter. Mother would make sure that he was alright and we'd go down to 25th Street. He lived in a room above the grocery store there, I think it was Nicholas, at the time I think two doors up on the north side of 25th Street from Wall Avenue—or no, from Lincoln, about halfway up the block. I'd sit there in the car and wait for mother to go and see if he's alright. Mother had a little concern for me there because she had a brother that had died and gone off the rail and was kind of a wayward individual and he had died in the room and they didn't find him for a few days there. She was always concerned about me being in that area with the type of people. I was warned by Mother and the police to be careful, but I had no problems there. I was too young and immature to worry about it and as long as I chaied up my bicycle, it didn't bother me. I did go up and down there at night in the middle of the night at all hours, so I saw a lot of nightlife that you just wouldn't normally see there. Then, also, you mentioned the prisoners of war, they had the Germans and Italian prisoners of war out at the 2nd Street depot and they'd come by bus into the depot at 25th Street and go up and down there and filter out into the 6 shopping areas. There was a men's clothing store called B&B's at that time just above Grant on 25th Street, and my father had a clothing store on 24th Street and so we would interchange with the clothing store and do some of their tailoring and that back and forth when our seamstress wasn't available. I'd have to take clothing over there—the pants or a suit coat or that to get tailored for our store. They'd send a lot of those prisoners that needed clothes over to our store from B&B's so we had a good relationship with them. I know mother used to have to go and get groceries at that grocery store for Auto Presnitts all the time and take them up to his room and that. I think there was some connection or relationship of a cousin or something that was connected with that that Mother knew. Of course, during the Depression, we didn't realize it, but she'd go and get cow's tongues or tripe and make a meal out of that for us and I got to where I liked sliced cow tongue sandwiches. They weren't bad, she'd boil them up and then all the taste buds would peel off like a skin, so you just had the muscle in the middle and it was very good. So, I enjoyed that part of 25th Street too that did feed me quite a bit. We'd sit in the terminal there at the depot and watch the people go by, the servicemen by the USO branch there, we could maybe sneak a donut or coca cola once in a while from them. They were nice ladies. That was mainly, basically what I did on 25th Street. I was there when the war started as a paperboy and after, or before the war ended. When it ended, I was there working at the Porter's and Waiters Club was very familiar with me and the Utah Noodle Parlor was very interesting to me. I don't know whether it was a Legion Hall or what—just down 7 the street on the south side from the bus station and there was a lot of people in there and I had some interaction with those people, but I don't remember just what it was. That was another spot that I spent some time at, so that was mainly the things. We—this isn't exactly 25th Street—but my dad did get me up in the middle of the night one time when I was a kid, and of course, the railroad tracks came out of the depot, or just past the depot and went down the middle of Wall Avenue. Well they took, the circus train came, and they pulled that train right down the middle of Wall Avenue and then all the cars were there and then the elephants—would unload all the different cars with the tents and the poles and animals and that—that was a real thrilling thing to go see the circus arrive in town in the middle of the night. But, it wasn't on 25th Street. They took those animals and went a parade up 25th Street and then it took them to, up by Harrison—just below Harrison where the golf course is—on the west side of Harrison. There was a big field there and they'd pitch the three big tents there and there's carnival rides in the circus and have it all there, right up there by Harrison. That was another adventure that we had, to see the circus train unload, probably not applicable to you, but it was interesting to me. The old fashioned three ring circus. AP: Elephants on 25th Street. LR: I know, that's crazy, and did they walk all the way up? JT: Yeah, they had a parade with elephants and then they'd doll up the elephants with the banners and that and ladies ride them in the morning. They'd parade up 25th Street and over to 20th and then up to there, all with the elephants and the 8 horses and the beasts, that was quite a site to see. Yeah, a real parade of just— well, it was Barnum & Bailey in their height of their circus season I guess. That was interesting. I thought it was kind of interesting for me as a childhood memory. I don't know what else I could tell you and that—remind me. LR: Well, I was going to ask, going back to the POW's, did you have any personal interaction with any of them? JT: With who? LR: The POW's. JT: Oh yeah. They'd come in my dad's store all the time and so I got to know them. Then we had one of them or two of them do some work for us and one of them was Gene Miconey, which he stayed in town after the war and they had a tile business on 7th and Wall. That was one of the prisoners of war that you'd see all the time around town and he came over to the store. The first thing we had him do was he replaced the tile entries in the store on 24th Street with paving tiles and it was kind of wrapped up to the front of the store, so all those brick tiles were there and he did that and replaced a couple of those reflective glass or glass blocks that were in the sidewalk because the underneath the sidewalk was a tunnel and storage and so forth for my dad's store, Watson Tanners. There was a lot of tunnels under 25th Street like that too that would get from one side of the street over to the other, or traveling, so you didn't see all the traffic that went by as far as the corruption that was in there because all the bars were on the other side of the street. That was a known circumstance that the 9 tunnels were used quite a bit there on the street. During the depression, the German war prisoners were a little hard to associate with, they were kind of on their own and they were kind of filthy. Not filthy in dirt, but filthy minded. I had the opportunity one time of seeing three or four of them arguing about how much sperm they could put in the cup. I didn't appreciate that, but I did witness it myself. One or two of them said they were quite proficient at producing sperm. But I, of course, I didn't know about life at that time, but you did see them sitting there and talking and of course, I was a mouse listening on the side more or less. They used to ride the Bamberger Railroad. It used to go through there and they'd get on that and ride out to Hill Field and work out there too. I did in high school too, the year before. We'd get out of school and catch the Bamberger down there on 24th or 25th or even as far as south of the 29th Street. But you'd get out of school and hurry down the Bamberger Station and ride the Bamberger out to Hill Field or the Arsenal and I worked at the Arsenal on rollerskates. They'd have these large bins of carts, well I'd skate around and pulling cards and putting them in different bins waiting for the IBM computers to run that. That was an interesting part of my life from a young experience and involved me with some of the prisoners they were putting to work out there too. So, that was part of it. LR: So, as far as 25th Street, would you ever just go down there for fun, or was it just work related? JT: Well, we would go there for fun on our way to the movies or after the movies. We, I shouldn't say this, but, we would go into the hotel room areas and pick up 10 the cigarette butts and unwrap them and make enough to get copy, roll a cigarette. So, I got experienced with smoking a little bit, when I was a young teenager until my mother got a hold of me. She marched me up to the corner up to California Free Market and she bought a pack of cigarettes and a great big cigar and she took me down in front of the house for the whole neighborhood to see and made me smoke all of those. I was just green as green. LR: I'll bet you were sicker than a dog. JT: And I never smoked again. That was enough for me. She treated me royally with that. But, we did a lot of things there as a group. I'd find money on the street there and one time I found, I think it was a dollar or five dollars, I can't remember, but you could buy the milk nickels from Brown's Ice Cream, they were five cent ice cream bars on a stick that the Brown's Ice Cream would make there just off of 25th Street. So, I took that money and my mother took it and bought a few boxes of those ice cream bars and the whole neighborhood had a party with ice cream bars and all the kids as little kids. We would go up and down 25th Street playing because you'd find a lot of dropped money from the drunks there and so forth. So, I'd always get to check out and see if you could find a nickel or a dime or a quarter going up and down the street. The prostitutes were there and they'd proposition us or offer to help us do things, or they'd ask for information of who was where and because they were kind of transient. Those dolls would stay mostly around the Lincoln and 25th Street, that seemed to be the prime place and there was a bar on the southeast corner there that had a lot of traffic and 11 fights and a lot of prostitutes in and out of there, so I don't remember just what the name of it was, but I kind of stayed away from that one. LR: So was it as scary during the day as it was in the evening? JT: No, no. There were lots of people, but it was mostly passengers off the trains and so forth, so you didn't see the seediness of 25th Street as much. We'd go there and park a lot because mother would stop and go to the grocery store and you'd see a lot of people walking up to the hotel Ben Lomond from the depot and back and forth that way. The only activity you saw in the morning was—and the late afternoon—the prostitutes would come out. A lot of the delivery trucks and that were there in the day time, so it was more commerce than other or people asking for directions. There was a lot of people asking for directions to find their way to get up to the main shopping area at Washington Boulevard between 23rd and 26th, I guess. I do remember the first time I heard about marijuana and that. Why, there was two or three drunks in the Ben Lomond Hotel that took marijuana and were up on the upper floors and thought they were flying and two of them went out the window and landed. I don't know whether they landed on that marquee of the Orpheum theater or what, but it was quite a tragic experience for people who were high on drugs. That was the first experience with drugs that I found out. As far as the marijuana goes, why, that used to be all over the county. The pioneers planted west of Ogden. Marijuana grew along all the irrigation ditches for ropes of hemp fibers. 12 My dad would take me driving. I was crazy about driving and as a twelve year old kid and so forth, why, I'd, he'd put me on a pillow and seat and we'd go out to the west ward and the duck blinds and the gun club there and drive along the canals and see the baby ducks and the baby coots and so forth that were swimming there and Dad had a good friend out there and the granddad also, old pioneer fellow that was named George East was there and had a farm there and he had been all over that area around the lake and out to—not Antelope Island, but the Fremont Island. He collected Indian artifacts all the way from Fremont into Salt Lake and he's show us these big boxes of arrowheads and spearheads that he'd picked up all around there. I think the state finally got a hold of most of those. Old George, he used to, he couldn't write and read, so every Saturday he'd come into the store and grandpa would witness his X and give him money or a check and he'd go across the street. It wasn't 25th Street, but it was a bar across the street there between the Eccles building and Kiesel Avenue that was a poker parlor and upstairs on the second floor he'd gamble all day with the poker, but every Saturday that was his past time. So, as a kid, walking to work with Dad and seeing the activities on 25th street, then seeing it at night, why, I was very familiar with 25th Street. LR: So, the business your family owned on 24th Street, how long were you there— did your family own that? JT: Well, it started out with Wright's Department Store on the corner of 24th and Washington and my grandfather was head of the men's department and when Wright closed, why granddad and Sherriff Watson took over the men's 13 department and named it Watson-Tanner Clothing Company. Then we moved another building west later there, and I know in the Depression they were having a struggle and Dad bought into the store and took over a $30,000 loan and started to pay that off, but he salvaged the business for Granddad I think. Then, the store continued on 24th Street there and eventually moved into the Eccles Building when they, just before they built the mall and so we had the men's clothing store in that area for 87 years. Then, Dad died and my brother got called on a mission. They just had the remodeling of the Eccles Building and all the dust and so forth had destroyed the stores stock we had in the basement and insurance had just cleared that off, so they got the minimum stock and then a payoff from the insurance and then Dad died and my brother, who was barely running the store then—why, it was just time to move the—it was ten days away from going into the mall. The mall had been operating for five or six years. They begged my brother to move over to the mall and they were within ten days of signing the contract to take a men's store in the mall and my Dad died and my brother got called on his president mission and it all changed. That's when the store went out of business at just an ideal time. None of the other boys or family wanted to go to work in the store at that time, I was in a family of seven children. My oldest was a sister, my youngest was a sister and then there was five boys in between, so we had good use of the men's clothing store. I used to—the store would get some Catalina sweaters in, in a large and medium and small. I'd always take the small and the sales clerks would take the mediums and Dad couldn't figure out why they wouldn't sell, 14 because all they had left were the larges. It took him a while to figure out that I had 22 sleeveless sweaters and 20 long sleeve Catalina sweaters, in high school. I was a clothes horse with the men's clothing, but even at that, as a child, my mother would make shirts for us and for the families in the neighborhood that were poor. Mother did a lot of sewing and there was a Riddle family that had a lot of children ten or eleven, I don't know, but they all had this weeping eye situation that was a genetic defect I guess. All these kids would have these dripping eyes and pouring and that, so mother would get busy and she'd make a bunch of dresses and boy's shirts and every Christmas, why, we'd take that over there, so that was something. My mother was quite an unusual woman, she was the last of 13 children and so, well, most all of her family died before they were age 50 with high blood pressure. So, she was the last of 13 children and by the time she got to 50, 60, 70, why, they had blood pressure pills. The doctor told us one time there he had the blood pressure and it was off scale 325 or 350, whatever, and he said, "I wouldn't dare bring it down to less than 230." They just had high blood pressure. LR: The name of the store was Watson-Tanner? JT: It was Watson-Tanners and then Tanner's for Men. When we moved into the Eccles Building it was Tanner's for Men. LR: Are there any other memories you can remember or would like to share about 25th Street? 15 JT: No—well, there was a tourist souvenir shop and so forth on the corner of Wall and 25th there that the people, the soldiers and that, would come and there were a lot of souvenirs—leather craft and silver thing there, so that was an attraction to us and a lot of others because we'd go down there and buy belts and buy souvenirs. They used to take wire and make a design out of it, like a little house and so forth out in the Salt Lake and leave it for a period of time and then they'd bring it in and it was all encrusted with salt, so there was a crystal house there that they'd sell. We'd buy those and then we'd suck the salt off of them. That was an interesting part of it that they had the souvenirs there all the time, so the parts of the—other than that, why, mostly I just went up and down 25th Street. There was no attraction to me. In high school, my one friend's dad owned the bars across the street from the Porter's and Waiter's Club, so we'd go there. He was kind of a spoiled kid. Pappus' dad bought him a car for high school, as soon as he turned sixteen. And then the other kid that got me down there, he had a connection there at Combey's. His dad and family bought into one of the places there and was running a business. I think it was more of a restaurant somewhere, but I can't remember just where that was, but that's pretty much what I know of 25th Street. AP: So you were friends with George Pappas' son. JT: Yeah, Tom Pappas. AP: Did you guys spend a lot of time at Pappas' store or did you kind of stay out of there? 16 JT: Well, it was a bar, so all we'd do is go in there to cash money that Tom. He'd take us down there when he wanted some money from his dad or something. They frowned on young kids going in the bars and that, so we didn't stay in there very long and his dad would get a little upset. But he bought Tom a brand new car off the floor. A green Oldsmobile or Pontiac I think. I was really envious of him because he got all the girls with that because he had a brand new car and was a good looking guy with dark hair and tall. In high school we had clubs, it wasn't fraternities, but we had clubs and he was in the club and I was in the club, but I was too small to do much because I—between my junior and senior year, I grew six inches. I graduated from high school at 5'6" and that summer I grew six inches and up to 6'2". That was another thing we did on 25th Street, we'd come in with a fellow named Dan Sylvester, who was a fellow that lost his arm and he was a foreman at Browning Ranch up there at Connor Springs. We'd come into 25th Street and go to the jail and bail out all the drunks in the drunk tank on Sunday night and then we'd take them out to the ranch there and they would tromp the hay stacks. They didn't bail the hay at that time, it was all grass hay and so they'd take the bull rig up and dump this hay that we'd rake up with the horse teams. They'd tromp in and pack it down and then Friday night, why, we'd take them into town and they'd get drunk and Sunday night we'd pick them up. Old whiskey Dave thought it was such a great deal that he got his two sons involved working there. There's a lot of characters I could tell you about, but most of them would take them into Tremonton rather than Ogden and we'd go to Ogden to get the dirt 17 tank. Once he got out the base, or out to Connor Springs, why, they'd go into a bar and restaurant in Tremonton and we'd go in and take a movie and we'd go down and pick them up after and they'd be fighting and brawling and drunk and they'd have to herd them like a bunch of cows into the trucks. AP: Last time we were here you mentioned that you had to go down into the basement of The Standard to get the papers. JT: Yes. AP: Where was The Standard? Was it on Washington? JT: No, it was in the basement of the Kiesel Building, it was the presses and there was an alley between the Kiesel Buidling and the Paramount Theater and that's where we'd go down there. All the paper boys would go down there and they had benches alongside and they'd bring the bundles of papers there and we'd sit there and fold them up and put them in our paper bags on the handle bars of the bikes. My uncle used to make canvas bags for us that would hang off the handle bars down each side and we'd take and deliver about 150 to 200 copies of The Standard and my route was up to between 28th and 31st—from Monroe up to Harrison. AP: And then occasionally selling papers on 25th Street? JT: Well, when they'd call in, the fellow that had the prime spot of 25th and Washington was I guess handicapped in some ways. They called him Popeye because he had a round face and big bustly arms and he got hired by the Paramount Theater to run the Popeye Club, so we called him Popeye and he 18 would sell papers on the corner and he was a little stupid, but he was handicapped. Then he married a girl that was a little cerebral palsy, I guess you'd call it, and almost blind. He's lead her around the town. So, those two characters were reminiscent of 25th Street because they were always right around 25th Street. They'd go into Ross and Jacks and they'd sell papers and all of that. So, that was a place where the presses were in the basement of the Kiesel building. AP: So he had the prime spot on 25th Street? JT: Oh yeah, 25th and Washington in front of the hotel. Was that the Broom Hotel or Ben Lomond? AP: Ben Lomond. JT: Across from Ben Lomond on the other side was where all the traffic was between there and the Egyptian Theater and Keely's Café and all that and Samuel's Store and that was a heavily populated part of the business district that was used more too because it was right around the corner from 25th Street. So, the main traffic flow of the people was from 24th and Washington, around 25th Street and down to Lincoln. Most of the people didn't go shopping below Grant on 25th Street and that's where the natives of Ogden, why, they just didn't populate the areas very much there. AP: So after the railroad left in the late sixties, early seventies, did you not live in the area? Did you go down to 25th Street at all after that when it started to not be so busy down there? 19 JT: Well, I, let's see, I went on my mission in 1949 and then I was working out at Rusty's Drive-In at that time on Riverdale Road where the Warren's restaurant is now. But, a lot of people from the ballpark, which used to be on 33rd and Wall, people would go to 25th Street from there in the evening after the ball games, so that drew quite a crowd from the Pioneer League Ballpark. I worked at the gas station on the corner of 27th and Grand, kitty-corner from Clix's and we'd have to go down to 25th Street to rescue people in cars or take gas to them when they'd run out of gas. So, that was a Quick Trip down there, but I guess I didn't see much of 25th Street after 1949 because when I came back from my mission, I went to college and was working at Hill Field. I worked at Hill Field from 11 until 7 and I'd drive like mad up to Logan for the college. You'd go up the Brigham City Canyon, they were constructing the freeway and you'd go up with the blasting on the road on the other side up one side of the road in the morning and by the time you came down there in the evening, why, they'd made a road down the other side of the canyon. So, I knew where every Highway Patrolman was and I went through that dry lake one time at a hundred miles an hour on three inches of glare ice. I don't know how I did it. LR: Well, we really appreciate your time and allowing us to come and interview you about 25th Street. JT: Yeah, it's a lot of memories for me, but I didn't frequent there a lot. We went past 25th Street and the hot dog stand is between 27th and 28th, Kramer's Hot Dogs, shouldn't miss that, they made the best hamburgers and hot dogs in the world. They were both big, fat people and they'd sit in that little teeny stand there, but 20 they'd bake their own rolls and they'd put up their own pickles. The hamburgers, they'd cook in a boiling sauce that was, I guess Worcestershire sauce and something, but it would come out with the juiciest hamburgers you'd ever get. That was another part of my life, a very important part, we'd save a dime or a quarter and after the show on Saturday night, we'd go over to Kramer's and have a sandwich on the way home. But, that wasn't involved with 25th Street. AP: How did the porters and waiters feel about you, would they say, "Oh, that's Tanner's kid." Were you friends with a lot of the— JT: Oh, Mr. Coal used to take care of me like I was his only son. He was the nicest man you could ever meet and he would escort me through the place to find the colored people that were going to the Porter's and Waiters and usually on the Streamliner, they'd come through about 4 or 4:30 and they had six to eight porters and waiters that would be ready to go on that train, so I'd get them up at 2 or 3 to—(Phone rings). AP: So you worked out at the yard office which was behind the station, right? And you would ride your bike? JT: Yeah, the yard office was, well there were twelve sets of tracks there at the Depot and they had a tunnel underneath those and they'd come up and the yard office right out in the middle of the rail yards there. There was a big chimney there and a pile of cinders that was right next to the yard office and all that's gone now, but that's where they had the dispatchers that called the engineers and the brakemen and the porters and waiters. I was pretty much the one that called them and did the running and the leg work for them. There was a big Jewish 21 fellow that liked salami and I'd buy that salami and mustard and pickles and a loaf of bread in the middle of the night to feed him and his other fellows there. You can see a big, balding, Jewish man with a big cigar that—he treated me royally and we'd have a treat with him all the time. I was young and I guess good looking, but for a kid my age, I was so small nobody worried about me very much. I wasn't big enough to threaten anybody. I started school when I was five years old, see, so I didn't really get my growth spurt until about the time I got out of high school. I used to go down to 25th Street to see the cowboys and so forth. I had a friend that we'd go to the auction and I'd buy mustangs or colts for the auction for 20 or 50 dollars and then I'd put them out in my grandmother's land on 24th and west of the flour mill there where the aircraft place was. He had 20 acres there and granddad would help the farmers out by taking a piece of ground for them if they were in trouble and giving them a suit and that, so he had 20 acres there and 20 acres out at Washington Terrace and around the foothills. So— AP: And the auctions happened on 25th Street? JT: No, the auctions were the exchange down in the lower area, but the reason I mentioned 25th Street is this Archie Anderson had a corral on 25th Street, but it was west of the rail yards and west of the river. So, I'd buy horses and he'd take them and get him to his corral there because I didn't have any saddles or anything. They were wild and I would take these rope harnesses and halters and I'd lead them from there over into the field there where granddad had this piece of ground and then they had a big sandy pit at the front of it and I could get on 22 the horses and break them there. But Archie Anderson used to buy the horses from me and take them and I'd make 20 or 25 dollars a horse by breaking them. I got in trouble for it because my dad was on the school board and we'd go down to the auction and buy these horses and so the last two periods of school they'd go down there. Well, the dean of men caught us and they had to go in and they called you in and they were going to expel us. They expelled the other friend that I had, but he said, "What am I going to do with you? I can't expel you, your dad's president of the school board." So, we came to a mutual agreement and the next, rest of the summer or the school year, why, he'd go to the auction and be with us there because he lived up in Huntsville and had a farm there. So, I'd sit there the last two periods of school and go with the dean of men to the auction. It worked out fine, but I didn't realize what influence that it had with my dad being president of the school board and on the school board for years until I later found out how influential he was. But, Dad would never say anything about it. AP: Do you remember spending any holidays on 25th Street? 24th of July or Pioneer Days? JT: Well, at that time, Harmon Peery was the mayor and yeah, everything was centered around there and the carnival had come there on 25th Street right behind where the municipal building was and where the park is now. They'd set up the carnival there every year the carnival would come there and I was there. An experience I had there was, a couple of friends I had lived up in Soldier's Hollow and they'd bought a couple of mustang horses and they would ride them 23 bareback. We didn't have saddles then. Anyway, they were a couple of wild kids and they had flippers, the sling-shots, or whatever you call it, that take a couple of pieces of inner tube and tie them to a fork. Well, they were deadly with those flippers, so we'd go to these carnivals that would set up the bottles of the caps, and they'd get a prize and they'd sit there with those flippers and pick off all those bottles and get prizes. The carnival guys didn't think they could do that, but if they'd let them use their own flippers instead of the guns or that that they had there, why, these two kids could hit all the things until they wouldn't let them play anymore. They went out to the Hooper's Days—Tomato Days in Hooper. We slept overnight near the little duck pond there by where they had the—(Phone rings). We woke up in the morning out there in Hooper and I was still in the sleeping bag and they got up and they went over by this duck pond and I actually saw them shoot a Mallard Duck with their flippers, on flight in the air and we had it for breakfast. Those were wild times. They were real wild kids and they'd ride those horses everywhere, they'd just Dred not around town. They fed those horses so well, they were just fat, round ponies and they could do anything with those horses. I had three horses when I was in high school and I didn't have any place to keep them except Grandad's land and I'd stake them along the road. Well, by the time fall was coming, I had three horses and my dad didn't know I owned a horse and when he found out, it was just before deer season and he said, "I'll get rid of those horses for you." I was riding bareback and then my pants would be so covered 24 with mud and sweat that they'd stand up at the back of the end of the bath tub when I'd take a shower or bath, why, I could stand my pants right there. Dad got a hold of those horses and got a hold of a couple of farmers out there in Kaysville and Hooper and sold all three horses just like that. Traded me up for the winter, I didn't know what I was going to do with them. He knew enough farmers there. But, we, our whole life centered around 25th Street and 24th Street. It was a big thing to go to the carnival every year between there and the fire station and Brown's Ice Cream, why, it was a real party every year in the summer. AP: Did you ever go see any of the restaurants that were down there with your family? Did you Dad take you down there? JT: Yeah, Utah Noodle Parlor, we'd go there and then there were three good Chinese restaurants—the Utah Noodle Parlor, and Kay's Noodle Parlor, which was by the Paramount Theater, and the Bamboo Parlor, which was on Grant between 24th and 25th. In high school, we always took our dates down to Kay's Noodle Parlor or Utah Noodle Parlor. They were the best. You'd get a big bowl of pork noodles there after the dance and that would be our ideal thing to go down to 25th Street to hang out in a car. You didn't really connect anything other than just high school activities with 25th Street at that time, but we did go down 25th Street a lot. I know Mother would go down there and buy kitchen utensils a lot from one of those stores down there. Then, there were two or three people that she was connected with. They lived in hotels along there and above Nicholas 25 Grocery Store and she was a very generous and amazing woman. I saw her one time, she read three books in the morning, and she could read like mad and gave three different book reviews to the women's clubs in the afternoon. Three different types of books, and they were big books with five hundred pages. She had a memory and was artistic and I expected that of other people, but my mother could do anything. She could sew up a storm and she had people come to her to—there was the Harrington family that the woman had a twisted back and was very hard to fit and she'd come there and mother would pin all around the bottom of her dress and sew a dress so it'd fit her. She'd sew clothes for widows and she'd make bread for the people and she was active in music, but that was my activities with 25th Street and it was mostly through my mother taking in all these tramps and so forth. They all knew where to go. Somebody would pass the word, so all the tramps would come to the back door and she'd put them to work and it didn't matter what, a little painting or what, but they'd have to work a little and she'd have a big bowl of soup for them and make homemade bread and take care of it. So, we went down to 25th Street a lot for that. They kind of made us stay away because of kids, why, the two cops would say, "You don't go down 25th Street at night with single." They're amazed that I went over to the Porter's and Waiter's Club and rode my bicycle up and down the street, but they wouldn't do it with the bars and the fights that went on there. They just kind of shied away from it. Mayor Peery supported the rough cowboys and that of the town and that, but the Pioneer Day Rodeo was—Mayor Peery was a big thing in the big parade 26 and it would bring Indians down from the Shoshoni or Black Foots right up in Pocatello. They'd all gather just on Washington just above my house waiting for the parade to start and we'd go visit with all those Indians in their fancy headdresses and so forth. The other family I knew from 25th Street, was the Lambert Family and the old man was kind of an Indian-lore individual and he had two sons that I was involved with a lot. One was named Walt, and the other one was named John. John was killed when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, he was there on one of the ships and died. Walt was an oddball, but he was an Indian artifacts collector and his Dad taught Indian artifacts all around the northern part of the state and that tied into the souvenir shop on the corner of 25th and Wall because he provided a lot of Indian-lore souvenirs there for them and feathers and beads and belts and so forth. But, 25th Street wasn't a playground. AP: Did the police keep an eye out for you when you were younger and you were riding your bike up and down, you said that the cops wouldn't even go by themselves, did they keep an eye on you? JT: Oh yeah, up by the police station, but below Grant they'd say, "You're on your own. We're not going down there with that." But, I had no problems with riding a bike down the middle of the street and when I'd go over to the Porters and Waiters Club I'd just chain it up to a post out front and Mr. Cole would take me when he could, and if not, why—but it was scary going into those rooms at night, I'll never forget it, but I thought those guys were giants. Big black men, I'd say, "Hey, are you George Washington Jones," "Hell no, I'm so and so, he's over 27 there." I'd wake them up in the middle of the night and they weren't very happy about it. AP: I bet. They were up all night partying down at the club and then go to sleep upstairs? JT: Well, that was kind of a secret at that time with prohibition, why, that was a little naughty to be having parties down there and having liquor that was prohibited and black marketed and so forth, but those people had a good time down there when they'd have parties. Mr. Cole kept me separated from that, he just wouldn't let me know what was going on. He'd have the people go when he'd open the door and let them go down the hall there, but all I was involved with was going upstairs down the hallways there to find the porters and waiters. That would smell in the summer, I never forgot it. That's probably my most favorite memories there was what I told you. AP: You went into the club there—into the hotel—that was your favorite? JT: Yeah, because I did that every night all summer long. It wasn't just a once in a while, it was every night that I'd have to go over there, that was part of my job, so they got to know me and I traveled up and down 25th Street I guess with people and then I was so small that they didn't pay much attention to me. It was fun and it was interesting to see all the people that would come off the trains and the G.I.'s and you'd get to see good ones and bad ones right away and that's where I saw what drinking could do to you. They'd have these G.I.'s that would fall down on the curb together and their faces were bleeding and their buddies were drunk 28 and they'd just leave him there. "You take care of yourself, we're going on down to the Depot." LR: Well, we really appreciate your time. AP: Yes, thank you. LR: Thank you very much for allowing us into your home. JT: You bet, I'm sorry, but I thought that little bit of information about the Porter's and Waiters Club was something you might not know about as far as 25th Street. AP: Well, you were there to see it all happen and it's something to hear about. JT: Yeah, I'm 84 and half years old. 29

Mike Schlosser, August 14, 2013; Mike Schlosser's grandfather outside his barbershop ca. 1930; Mike Schlosser's grandfather in his barbershop at the Healy Hotel ca. 1930 ; Business at the Crossroads - Ogden City is a project to collect oral histories related to changes in the Ogden business district since World War II. From the 1870s to World War II, Ogden was a major railroad town, with nine rail systems. With both east-west and north-south rail lines, business and commercial houses flourished as Ogden became a shipping and commerce hub. ; The following is an oral history interview with Mike Shlosser. The interview was conducted on August 14, 2013, by Woodrow Johnson. Mike discusses his experiences with 25th Street. ; 38p.; 29cm.; 2 bound transcripts; 4 file folders. 1 videodisc: digital; 4 3/4 in. ; Oral History Program Mike Schlosser Interviewed by Woodrow Johnson 14 August 2013 Oral History Program Weber State University Stewart Library Ogden, Utah Mike Schlosser Interviewed by Woodrow Johnson 14 August 2013 Copyright © 2014 by Weber State University, Stewart Library Mission Statement The Oral History Program of the Stewart Library was created to preserve the institutional history of Weber State University and the Davis, Ogden and Weber County communities. By conducting carefully researched, recorded, and transcribed interviews, the Oral History Program creates archival oral histories intended for the widest possible use. Interviews are conducted with the goal of eliciting from each participant a full and accurate account of events. 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It is recommended that this oral history be cited as follows: Schlosser, Mike, an oral history by Woodrow Johnson, 14 August 2013 , WSU Stewart Library Oral History Program, Special Collections, Stewart Library, Weber State University, Ogden, UT. iii Mike Schlosser August 14, 2013 Mike Schlosser's grandfather outside his barbershop ca. 1930 Mike Schlosser's grandfather in his barbershop at the Healy Hotel ca. 1930 Abstract: The following is an oral history interview with Mike Shlosser. The interview was conducted on August 14, 2013, by Woodrow Johnson. Mike discusses his experiences with 25th Street. WJ: My name is Woodrow Johnson and I'm here with Elliott McNaly who is running the audio-visual equipment. We are here with Mike Shlosser on August 14, 2013. Mike, this project is about historic 25th Street and the greater Ogden area, to which your grandfather had a pretty heavy role in, so let's talk about him. Can you tell us your grandfather's name? MS: George Earl Baldwin. WJ: Where is he from and how did he get to Ogden? MS: He was born in 1889 in Pahreah, Utah. It is now the most remote ghost town in the state of Utah. He was the first born of John Henry and Martha Magnum Baldwin. He was born in a one room, dirt floor, log cabin. His father was a rancher and his mother was a rancher's wife. He had one brother born three years later. After him a baby sister born five years later who died in infancy of diphtheria. He was raised in southern Utah in cattle ranching and mustanging. He was put on horseback at a very young age and put to work. To our knowledge, he had approximately a fifth grade education. We can't find too many records about that because it was basically done by the church sisters and brothers in the Cannonville area which is a smaller community about 21 miles southwest of Pahreah. His father homesteaded this area and it was considered open range for 1 raising cattle and mustanging of horses. He was put to work because another hand to work was another mouth to feed and another mouth to feed was someone to do more work. He became quite proficient at it. For the remainder of his life, he had an affinity for horses and had an ability with them that was quite remarkable to witness. He also became quite a storyteller in his later life. In his mid-twenties he married my grandmother, they referred to her as Maggie. My mother, Ila, was born in 1916. The next child was born a year and a half later, which would have been my Aunt Maxine. In my grandfather's early life, in his mid-twenties, because of what they did for a living they broke these mustang horses that they would catch in the canyons along the Arizona strip, he got hurt pretty badly and broke his back. It was just below the cervical collar, but just above his attachment for his spinal column to the base of his back just above the scapula. He always had a hump on his back from then on. They didn't have the technology to really work on people like they do now. I asked him about his hump when I was just a small boy and he told me that it was from a horse bucking him off and hurting him really bad. This is what brought him to the Ogden area because he could no longer continue to actively ranch. He brought my grandmother and mother and one daughter to Ogden with very little money. They had heard there was a need for barbers in Ogden because of the railroad station on 25th Street. He had heard that there was an opening at the Heely Hotel on the corner of 25th Street and Wall Avenue. It was quite an opulent building. I remember very vividly the marble floors and the marble 2 staircase that went upstairs to the mezzanine level. There were always people in and out. My grandfather went to barber school in Salt Lake and to my knowledge, it was 35 dollars to go to the school and it was a two week school. They taught them all the theory of barbering and shaving and those things. He did quite well in the school and when it came time to take their tests, they were going to do the shave in the morning session and the state legislature was in session at the time and the legislatures, being politicians, as we know them, took advantage of the free shave. They came down to the barber school for their free shave from the students. Pick of the draw, my grandfather wound up with the governor of the state of Utah as his shaving dummy more or less. He took the test and when the instructor came by to grade it, the governor spoke to the instructor and said, "This is the best shave I've ever had in my lifetime." He was awarded 100 percent on the shave just on the governor's say so. That afternoon they did their haircuts and he got another one of the fellows from the legislature. He had very curly hair and he had a hard time getting it cut the way the man liked it. When they graded him, they graded him at 79 points. Passing was 80. The instructor told him, "You're one point shy of graduating." The governor was sitting right across from them and he spoke up to the instructor and said, "He shaved me this morning and earned one hundred and one points." That's how he got graduated and got his license. This led to the fact that he applied for the job adjacent to the Heely Hotel and got the job. He later bought that particular business. It was a two chair 3 barbershop with a shoe shine stand. My uncle Priel would go down on Saturdays when it was really busy and help out over the years. He was also was a barber. During the 30's and early 40's it was quite a going tradition that people would go into the Heely Hotel and spend the night from the Union Railroad Station. In the morning, the men would get up and come downstairs and they would go next door through the alcove entryway into my grandfather's shop and he would shave them and if they needed a haircut he would do that also. It proved to be fairly lucrative for him. In those days a shave was 15 cents and a haircut was 25 cents. You have to shave a lot of faces and cut a lot of heads to make a living at it, so a volume business and you're only as good as your last haircut or shave, as they say in the trades. He was able to do it. He was able to make a living for his family and his family began to grow through more children. He had five daughters and one son. He was able to support their family. When the Second World War broke out, being quite an entrepreneur, because of the way he was raised where if you had an opportunity to make a dollar, you made a dollar. He found out through the grapevine that the troop trains were coming to Ogden and the word finally got out amongst the soldiers, which being in the military myself, information like this tends to have a life of their own. He made it available for the soldiers that would come up on their train layover. There were up to 22 trains a day that arrived in Ogden at the Union Station. There were as many as a thousand or more soldiers on these trains. They'd come up 25th Street when they had four hours to kill looking for something to do. 4 At this time, in the late 30's and early 40's, it was pretty wild down there. I actually know a fellow who was a beat cop for the Ogden Police Department named Vern Butcher. We used to get Vern to talk to us about these things and about the old stories. He said on any Friday or Saturday night, as a beat cop, you could walk out of any corner on 25th Street and look any direction and there was a felony going on. It was quite an exciting time for the Ogden area and 25th Street got quite the reputation because of this. Vern Butcher spent his entire working career for the Ogden Police Department down on 25th Street. He later went to work for the sheriff's department when he retired from the police department. That's how I met him, through the sheriff's department here in Ogden. My grandfather was an interesting man. He was quite a storyteller and very well known in the community on 25th Street. He was referred to as "Cowboy Baldwin" his entire life. I actually mentioned that to Vern Butcher and asked him if he knew Cowboy Baldwin and Vern looked at me funny for a moment and said, "That's your grandpa?" I said, "Yes, sir, he was." He said, "I know him very well. He was a very interesting man and cut my hair for years and would never take a dime from me for it even though I insisted. Your grandpa said that because I walked foot beat on 25th Street, if something happened to me, I deserve to be buried looking nice." Back to the original story, the soldiers would go up 25th Street looking for something to kill the time. There were numerous restaurants on 25th Street. My brother-in-law's father owned one of the restaurants on 25th Street, which I understand he is giving you a piece on this project. There were four theaters 5 downtown at that time. Now, the Egyptian is the only one left. The soldiers would go to the movies and go eat or go to a bar, or they might find some female companionship which was quite prevalent on the street. Anything you could look for, you could find. When it came time to get back on the train, because they didn't allow any alcohol on the trains, these are servicemen going to a war zone and rules didn't really apply too much to them. They learned through the grapevine that the thing to do was to go up to the liquor store on 25th and Grant Avenue and buy a half bottle of whatever particular alcohol they wanted to have and go across the street to Saco's Fruit Stand and buy a small watermelon or a large cantaloupe and take it down to the street into my grandfather's barbershop. He would charge them a quarter to go in his back room and hollow out that fruit and stick the bottle inside and get on the train. My grandmother told many stories of having to reinforce my grandfather's suit pants pockets because of the weight of all this change he brought home every day. My older sister remembers it very vividly of him coming home and putting his hand in his pocket throwing change out on the floor. As kids, we'd just dive into it. In those days, a quarter was a huge amount of money for a kid. My particular memories of the barbershop were as a young boy, we went to grandpa's barbershop every other week for a haircut. I really didn't particularly like having my hair cut, but I really did like going on 25th Street and watching the people because it was a very busy time. In the early 50's when the Korean war broke out, he did this again with the watermelon and the cantaloupe thing. From the Second World War, he was able to amass enough money that they were able 6 to put a very nice down payment on their home on 31st Street. When the Korean War broke out seven or eight years later, he was able to buy a brand new Buick Roadmaster car that they retired with. I remember as a little boy, sitting on my grandfather's lap driving that car. They used that until he passed away when I was 14. Quite an interesting life he led. He was quite a storyteller. My favorite parts of him were after they had retired, they would go up to Twin Lakes Idaho where they had a little sixteen foot Shasta travel trailer that they pulled with that old Buick. They had a 14 foot aluminum boat they would turn upside down and put it on top of the car. It was just not quite light enough that my grandfather could take it off alone. He always had to find someone to help him get it on or get it off the car. That's why one of us grandsons was sent with him to help out. My grandfather had to retire from barbering because he developed emphysema from the microscopic hair that he inhaled. The doctor accused him of being a heavy smoker, but he never smoked a day in his life. Although, he could roll a cigarette with one hand, I watched him do it. He did it for his father as a young boy. It was interesting to watch that happen with one hand. I remember that very vividly. My father asked him one time to show him how to do it and my dad couldn't do it. It was more or less a game to them. They would fish all summer long. Being of pioneer stock, my grandmother canned everything they had. You name it, if it could go in a bottle in a pressure cooker, she put it in there. She put fileted trout in a quart jar in that little 16 foot travel trailer. There was no bathroom in it and it had a heater in the floor that if it was on, you better not step on it 7 because it'd burn your foot. There was a little stove, a one basin sink with a water tank, and they had to go to town to get their drinking water. They pretty much roughed it up there. There weren't any approved camp grounds or anything, but they would go out fishing every morning and my grandmother would go with my grandfather and myself and other cousins and we would fish in the early morning hours, usually trolling. In the evening, my grandfather and I would go and grandma would stay back at camp, and that was when he told me cowboy stories which were very illuminating. He was quite good at describing the terrain and the time of the year and what he was doing and how it got to be out in that area. He told me the story of going out to check cattle one day at about 16 or 17 years of age, and as he was loping his horse across the prairie. His horse all of a sudden gathered himself and jumped. It caught him off guard and he nearly fell off. He reigned up the horse and turned him and brought him back to see what he was jumping over and there was an Indian lying there in the trail. It was an old man whose tribe had left him and moved on. This man was named Chief Wohose, he was very elderly and my grandfather gave him some water and tried to give him some food, but he refused the food. Through broken English and what little bit of Piute my grandfather knew, he ascertained that he wanted to be left alone as that was their custom to leave their elderly along the trail. Ashes to ashes dust to dust is how they looked at it. He had a lot of occasions dealing with Indians as a young boy. He was chased several times by Piute Indians down in the Bryce Canyon areas because that area was their sacred ground in the area at that time. The 8 white man was still quite a novelty to see and especially a man alone riding a horse out in that country. My grandmother was shot in the leg at 13 with an arrow by a Piute Indian who tried to catch her. She told me that her horse was too fast for him, he couldn't catch her pony. She outran him and got home with the arrows protruding out of her leg. Until the day she died she had an indentation on the side of her calf where the arrow struck her. I've asked her several times over the years about it and always got the same story that an Indian chased her as a young girl. It was a very interesting lifestyle. My grandfather, when he started his business, he really started it from scratch. He did have some business come in from the hotel next door and from the people down the street who found out there was a barber shop there and he became quite successful at it. As a young boy, I remember my grandfather had a fellow who had been a porter for the Union Pacific Railroad and in those days they referred to these black men as George Porter, because of the man who invented the Pullman car. They were the staff on the sleeper cars. They would make up the beds and clean in the mornings and assist people on and off. When the railroad did away with the sleeping cars, they were basically left high and dry wherever they were. He was originally from Mississippi and his name was Willie. I don't remember his last name and I wish I could find a record of him, but my grandfather gave him a job and he shined shoes. He had a high back wooden shoe shine stand and I believe it was a two-seater as I remember it, and it faced the window. I used to love to get up on there as a little boy and watch the people 9 going by as 25th Street was very busy in those days with foot traffic as was all of downtown Ogden. People dressed to go shopping in those days. On occasion, my grandfather would give me 25 cents, but he would make Willie go with me and we would go up 25th Street and I'd go to a movie, or buy something to eat, or find treasures in the little shops along the way. Willie always stayed with me, but he had to stay outside because of the racial barriers at the time. As soon as I came out of the store, he was right there with me. He was quite an older man and I do remember him very vividly in my mind. He was very black in color and his eyes were very bloodshot. He looked to me like he was almost bleeding from his eyes because they were extremely red. I don't know what really caused it, but I remember that he let me touch his hair. He was really the first black man I ever witnessed and I felt that his hair was very soft, but underneath it was very coarse because he used some type of a hair dressing on there. He was an interesting man. He always had some kind of hand lotion he was working with on his hands because his hands would get really dry shining the shoes. What else would you like to know? WJ: While we're touching on racism and segregation, I'd like to continue on that. Other than walking with Willie and him not being allowed in the stores that you were able to go in, did you ever see or experience any other form of racism or segregation on 25th Street? MS: I really didn't. Being young like that, I don't believe I really understood what was going on. I just knew that Willie would just tell me to go in and when I came out he'd be right there. I didn't find out until years later really what caused that, I just 10 thought he was being polite and was going to stay outside and for whatever reason he didn't want to go in there. It didn't really register with me. As a young kid, being the first black man I ever saw, he was my friend. He would have me hold his hand as we went up the street, especially if we crossed the street to the other side. I guess it was quite a sight to see a toe-headed kid being escorted up 25th Street by a black, older man, but I didn't think anything of it really. I didn't really have any more exposure until later on in school here in Ogden. We had a couple of black kids in our school and they were my friends. I really didn't experience any racism until I was probably in high school. Then I really noticed some of this stuff because they were just other kids. I played sports with them, I had gym class with them, I'd shop with them and have regular classes with them. We really didn't have what I considered to be a problem. I never heard anybody say anything bad to them because the one fellow I was in high school with was so well-liked that he was actually a member of the student council because he was a very good athlete and a nice guy. As a kid, I didn't witness any of that down on 25th street. I'm sure it happened. I do know that Willie lived in the old porters and waiters hotel and it was really the only place that black people were allowed to live in that particular part of town unless they were able to buy a home somewhere. I don't remember what happened to Willie. I'm sure he passed away or he might have moved somewhere, but I don't really know what happened to him. WJ: With your grandfather's barber shop being so close to the porters and waiters, do you recall very many African Americans coming in for haircuts or shaves. 11 MS: No, I don't recall that ever. I don't even know if they were allowed to go in the shops because of the segregation problems in the early fifties and late forties. I do remember that the people who would come into the shop to get a haircut, shave or have their shoes shined knew his name and would speak to him because he was right there in the beginning of the shop when they came through. They always seemed to be very polite to me. That was probably an overtone of the time I'm thinking, but he seemed to be able to make a living. My grandfather kept him there for a long time that I can remember. He was kind of like a fixture there at the barber shop. He would also do clean up things and sweep the floors and stuff like that to make himself useful and helpful. I don't remember any people on 25th Street that weren't white. I don't remember that at all. WJ: So, obviously it was very busy during WWII and we covered that. You would have seen more of the Korean War era, do you have any memories of being around the soldiers on 25th Street or in the barbershop. MS: I have a vague memory of it. I don't know if this memory is of an actual occurrence or if it was something that was told to me later on in life, but I do have a vague memory of some soldiers being in there. I don't really remember too much about it. WJ: Do you feel that with both WWII and Korea ending, Vietnam used a lot of different forms of transportation, do you feel that the railroad leaving hurt your grandfather's business. 12 MS: I think so. I remember as a kid, going down to the railroad station and going through the underground tunnels that took you out to the different tracks that were going through. I don't remember how many there were, but there were a number of tunnels that you would go downstairs under the tracks and come up on the other side. I remember that we used to hear the trains all the time and the whistles blowing and so forth. Later in the sixties, the train service started to change. Airplanes became more popular and people started to fly and it was faster and cheaper to fly. I did notice a decrease downtown of people coming through. It was a very busy hub railroad station. My grandfather retired in about 1963 or 1964 and I really didn't go back down to that area until my high school years. I do remember it and I remember my father saying things like he couldn't get certain parts anymore for some of the tractors because the trains weren't coming often enough to bring freight in and things of that nature. WJ: There are lots of rumors of tunnels and opium dens and those kinds of things on 25th Street. Do you have any experience with these tunnels at all? MS: There was a trap door in the back room of my grandfather's barbershop. In the photo you'll see the grape stakes of the back wall and it was behind there. You went through that doorway into the back room and it was a fairly small room, maybe 20 feet long and about 10 feet wide. In the one corner there was a trap door in the floor and I do remember going back there one time and that door was open. Prior to that, it was pretty heavy floor and I probably didn't pay too much attention, but I did see the trap door open and I went down the stairs and they were old, wooden, rickety 13 stairs and it smelled funny. It was kind of a musty smell. At the bottom of the staircase there was a big steel door that was set into the wood frame that was locked because I tried it and I couldn't get through it. Years later, I asked about it and that was one of the doorways that went into the tunnel system, which to my knowledge is under the gift house today. That's where the barber shop was, where the gift house is built now, which is owned and operated by Scott Vanleeuwen. There are some places still in downtown Ogden that have those. I do know that over on 24th Street, under the old paint company is where the pony express office was and underneath that are some of the adobe stalls they used for the horses and things of that nature. I have seen that, but as far as up and down 25th Street, I've never been in the tunnels, but there was always talk about them. WJ: Did your grandpa say anything to you about his tunnel entrance. MS: Yes, he told me to get up out of there and he was a little stern about it. That's really the only thing he ever said to me about it. I was so young then that probably if he did say anything about it. It was kind of a curiosity for me to see the open hatch and the staircase that went downstairs and it really did have a funny smell to it as I remember, but I don't have any real experience in the tunnels themselves. WJ: When we were here before, you did mention very briefly that your grandfather was friends with Harm Perry. Do you remember anything about Mr. Perry? 14 MS: I don't. I do remember that he went to my grandfather for his haircut for years. They were friends. I know that my grandfather contributed to his campaign a couple of times. They had a very close relationship, but of course, Mayor Perry knew everyone in town. To this day, people talk about how well he interacted with the businessmen downtown and how he brought the Pioneer Days Rodeo to town and installed all these traditions that we now celebrate here in the Ogden area. As far as meeting him, I don't remember meeting him. I may have, but I don't know. The gentleman in the photograph, we have no idea who he is in the barber chair. I initially thought it might be the mayor, but it's not. We compared a picture and it's not. WJ: Do you remember your grandfather sharing any Harm Perry stories? MS: I don't really unless it would be something that was related to me later in life. I don't remember him telling me too much about any of that. I do know they were friends, I know that much and they were business associates and that he cut his hair for many years. WJ: Behind every man is a better woman, as the saying goes, and you mentioned your grandmother, Maggie, before. I was wondering if you could tell us about her since she obviously is such a huge part of your grandfather's life and your life, so I'd like to hear a little bit about her as well. MS: Well, my grandmother, Maggie, was born in Cannonville, Utah. At fifteen years of age, she met my grandfather, and they began a relationship that lasted for well over 50 years. She was of pioneer stalk and her father was a polygamist who married two sisters a few years apart from each other. He had 17 children by 15 those two women, of which the first wife passed away after her seventh child and her mother would raise all of those children. Her half-sister, we refer to her as Aunt Maude, lived in South Ogden and I have very fond memories of Aunt Maude. She was the youngest of the children, my grandmother was the second youngest of the children from the second marriage. My grandfather was called to go on a mission for the LDS church. This would have been right around 1917. My mother was about 3 months old when he left, which left my grandmother and mother home to take care of themselves in a log cabin on what was left of the family ranch. My grandmother took a job cooking for the miners up the canyon which was 13 miles further up the canyon. She would have to get up at 4 in the morning and get the fire going in the stove because there was no heat in the building. She would get breakfast started and go out and feed the stock and get the horse hitched up to the buggy and when she finally had everything warmed up and ready to go and had my mother fed, she would heat rocks and she would wrap those rocks up in cloth and put them in with my mother to keep her warm, as she was a very tiny baby and she would drive the 13 miles up to the mine and cook breakfast and lunch for the miners. In the afternoon, she would start the dinner work and another woman would come up and feed the miners the evening meal. She would go home and take care of her garden, animals, and her way of life to keep herself alive and keep my mother alive. While my grandfather was on his mission, he was in Tennessee, and he told me the story that he and his companion were walking down side of the road 16 and it was extremely hot and humid. He was not used to this kind of weather being from the desert country of Utah. He said that he had a fan in the button hole in the lapel of his coat and in those days the missionaries weren't allowed to go around in just church sleeves, they had to have their jackets and a tie on all the time. He said that it got so hot and he sweat so badly that it melted his waxed collar to make the collar stand up. It actually melted to where it just kind of fell down around his neck. They were walking along a truck came by with some men in the back of the truck and they stopped alongside my grandfather and his companion and asked them what they were doing and explained to them that they were on a mission for the LDS church and the men in the truck milled around for a few minutes and asked them again, "What are you doing?" They said, "We're on a mission for the LDS church." "What is the LDS church?" "Well, we're Latter Day Saints, Mormons." They understood what that meant and the men wanted to know why they weren't in the military because the draft was being instigated for World War I at this time and they explained to them that they have a deferment because they were on a mission from their church. The men didn't buy that and they got out of the truck and surrounded my grandfather and his companion and beat them within an inch of their lives. The men threw them in the back of the truck and hauled them into Nashville and threw them in the county jail. It took three days before my grandfather was well enough to even walk because they beat him up so badly. He was finally allowed a phone call and the only phone that was in Cannonville, Utah was in the general 17 store. He called that number through the operator and they sent word up to the cabin that he had called and would be calling back later and my grandmother came into town and waited for the call. He explained to her what happened and she was quite concerned and he asked her to tell the bishop what was going on so they could get someone in the church authority to get him out of jail. She went to the local bishop and was told that he was too busy getting his winter crop in and he wouldn't have time to do it for at least a week. He wasn't sure of the timeline and this didn't sit well with my grandmother. So she drove the buck board out to where the stake president lived and spoke with him about it and pretty much got the same story. She went back home and stewed over this for not very long because she was a very determined person, and at this time weighed about 90 pounds and never stood more than five foot four in her life. My mother was four or five months old. My grandmother basically was not going to stand for being put off. She hitched up the buck board and put together enough provisions to last her a few days and bundled my mother up into every quilt and blanket that she had and headed out to Salt lake City from Cannonville. It took her three days camping on the prairie. This story was relayed to me by my grandmother on several occasions and other members of my family. This was in the dead of winter. I can't imagine being in an open buck board trying to drive this horse across the prairies of Utah on goat trails and cow trails. There were very little roadways to speak of all the way into Salt Lake. Once she got into Salt Lake, she said, "I really looked a fright. My hair was all out of place and I was very dirty, but I went straight to the 18 church's general authority's office building and went inside with your mother in my arms." There was a man secretary sitting up on this big desk on a small platform and when he recognized that she was standing there he asked if he could help her and she explained to him what was going on with my grandfather. The gentleman came back at her with, "Do you have an appointment?" She explained, "No, I don't have an appointment. I have just arrived here and I drove myself with my tiny baby all the way from Cannonville in the buck board." The gentleman said, "Well, you'll have to make an appointment and you're probably going to have about a two week wait." This infuriated my grandmother. She had just about all she was going to have about being put off and she went back out to the buck board and as her story went, she said to me, "I reached in above the blanket and the seat of the buck board and took out a 30/30 rifle and walked back inside the building right up to the man in front," and in her terminology, not mine, hers, she said, "I fanned a bullet into the chamber and slammed the butt of the gun down on his desk and said I will see the president of this son of a bitch, and I will see him today." She did. They took her back to Cannonville three days later in a stagecoach that the church paid for. One of the brothers from Salt Lake drove the buck board back. They put her up at the fort halfway for the night so she didn't have to sleep out on the prairie and they paid for that also. I think she made a fairly good impression on the fellows downtown in the church of general authorities and my grandfather was out of jail. Two weeks later they did it to him again. It was the same type of 19 scenario. My grandmother told the story as a continuation of this story. This time she said with a twinkle in her eye, "Mikey all I had to do was tell the bishop this time." As the saying goes, "Crap rolls downhill." I guess it came from Salt Lake down to the bishop that this was not good. There was some other legislation that took place somewhere and someone in authority got involved in this. As I understand it, reading some of the history, it was fairly common for the missionaries to be accosted like this because the church was not really well thought of in those days. Sometimes you just had to stand up for yourself. I know that my grandfather did not resist them because he told me himself. WJ: Earlier you mentioned Vern Butcher. Do you know of any of his stories of 25th Street? MS: He did tell us quite a bit of stories there in the break room and about a couple of shootings that he was involved in. He was actually shot as I remember. Don't quote me on that, but as I remember he did get shot in one of those. It was either shot or stabbed. Vern was a big man. He probably stood 6'5" and weighed well over 250 pounds. You didn't have a small man walking foot beat on 25th Street. He told me that just like in the big cities they carried a knight stick and he got quite proficient with twirling it on the leather thong that it had to hold on to it. He said that in those days there were no radios for the police. They had a red light on the city and county building and when a call would come in, they would turn that red light on and it would flash and they would know to go to a call box and call in to see what was going on. You always would walk out of whatever business you'd just been in and keep your eyes peeled up toward the city and 20 county building. This was in the days before there was a lot of trees downtown that had grown to full size. The city and county building only being 10 or 15 years old at the time. He talked about a number of ladies of the night that were prevalent on the street. He talked about the bars and the fights that went on and the soldiers that met trouble on the street in one form or another. There was quite a bit of that going on because they were taken advantage of by the flim flam artists as they called them in those days. I don't remember too much more about what Vern had to say, but it was very spell binding to listen to him. He was not a man to stretch the truth and if he said that he bopped somebody on the head with a knight stick, he thumped him. I do know that when you arrested someone when your afoot, you had to walk him to jail. If the friends were around, they didn't want you taking him to jail, they tried to take him away from you. You had to be very determined about what you were going to do. He also told us on one particular occasion that sometimes you couldn't do anything because you were all by yourself or you had your partner with you and there wasn't anything you could do to stop what was going on because you were out-numbered by the amount of people out there. It's the sign of the times of the 30's and early 40's. WJ: When we were here for the pre interview. You mentioned a man only known as "Airplane." Can you share some experiences there? MS: I don't remember his real name as we called him wino. He was an alcoholic and he lived on 25th Street. He would stay in the cheapest hotel or he would sleep in the back alleys or in cars. He had been a certified public accountant as a young 21 man and alcohol took over his life and he was quite a small man when I knew him. This was in the mid-70's that I knew him. The reason they called him "Airplane" is—because of his gin soaked brain I guess you could call it, he would mimic an airplane in flight. He'd put his arms out and make noises like an airplane and bank his arms when he went around a corner or made a turn. The particular night that I remember him the most for was I had just come out of the sheriff's office in my patrol car and was sitting at the red light at 25th and Grant Avenue and I was going to go straight through the intersection and out toward the county area when I saw some movement coming toward me, which would be going south on grant Avenue. I could see a person coming at me, but I couldn't tell what they were doing and it was about 11 at night and it was winter time and it was cold and I had my window rolled down about halfway and I could just faintly hear the noise he was making. He sounded like an airplane coming toward me and he banked really hard to make the turn to go west on 25th Street and he had his head down and when he made the turn he turned just a little bit too wide and went head first into a parking meter. I do remember hearing the parking meter make a twang sound that only a piece of steel can make when it's hit with something really hard and of course "Airplane" went to the ground into the gutter and I looked over and saw him and honestly, I laughed. It was pretty comical to see. I thought, "Well, he'll get up." I sat there for a moment more and he didn't move and I thought he hurt himself bad or possibly killed himself. He was moving pretty fast as he came around the corner. I pulled over there and he was semi-conscious and murmuring and blood was everywhere, he'd split his head open 22 from the back toward the front. He was bleeding pretty badly. I felt bad for him. He stunk really, really bad. I don't know how long he'd lived in those clothes. I do know that the Ogden officers used to go out and round these guys up when the weather would get really bad and they'd take them up and put them in jail just so they wouldn't freeze to death on the street. The judge in the Ogden Municipal Courts would fine them and they didn't have the money, do they'd take the jail time anywhere from a week to thirty days. They'd take them up to the jail and they'd change their clothes out and wash them down with a hose because most of these fellows lived in their clothes for a long time and they did every bodily function they could do in their clothes while they were under this alcoholic stupor. Some of these guys were pretty pitiful to look at. I watched several of them go through DT's in the jail. There really wasn't much we could do for them other than refer them to the nurse. "Airplane," as he was referred to, being in Ogden City on 25th Street, the Ogden police department really didn't like the sheriff's department to make arrests on 25th Street. Of course, this fellow was injured and was also intoxicated. I called our dispatcher and they said, "An Ogden officer down." He came down and he was in a brand new El Camino police car and he had his dog in the back in an insulated box that the dog rode in with a wire mesh gate on the front of it. As soon as he saw how bad Airplane was bleeding, even though I had given him a great big sterile pad to put on his head to help stem the flow of blood, the Ogden officer refused to put him in his patrol car because it was a brand new patrol car. As I said earlier, "Airplane" stunk really bad and it was the kind of stink 23 that you just don't want to be around. This Ogden office would not put him in the patrol car and he finally decided and he looked at me and I said, "I'm not taking him," I told him, "This is Ogden City." He went to the back of the patrol car and he dropped the tailgate and opened the door and took his dog out and walked him around and put him in the front seat. He went back and picked up Airplane, who was a very small man, and put him in the dog house and shut the door. A fellow came by from Ogden Police Department's crime lab and he took a photograph with "Airplane" with his fingers through the grate and looking out and blood on his face. That picture hung up in the downstairs evidence room of the Ogden Municipal Building for many years afterwards and I was witness to that happening. It was a pretty comical deal. I do know that several years later there was a fire at the Marion hotel and the Ogden officers got there first before the fire department even got there and they entered the building. That particular officer drug out a couple of those guys and saved their lives. He went back up inside to try and get some more of those fellows and he found "Airplane" and he had expired from smoke inhalation. He carried him out of the building and he sat on the curb on 25th Street and cried holding this little old man because he had nobody in the world and the officer knew who he was and dealt with him for years and he just felt really bad that he wasn't able to do more for him. I know that haunts him to this day, I know it does. He's still a police officer, but I won't give you his name. 24 WJ: You mentioned that the sheriff's office and the Ogden City Police Department shared some ground, but they preferred that you didn't touch 25th Street. Do you have any stories, other than dealing with Airplane, in or around 25th Street? MS: I have a number of them. Ogden city called us one night and they had a fight going on in a bar on 25th Street, El Borracho, I believe was the name of the bar as I remember. It was a large group of Hispanic men fighting and it boiled out into the street and it got pretty bad. The Ogden officers didn't have enough guys on duty that were clear, that weren't on calls, to handle it and they called us for help. We happened to be very close by, which was a rarity for the sheriff's department. I do know I was sent to a fatal accident and I was in Hooper when I got the call and the fatal accident was at mile marker 43 on Monte Cristo and I was the closest car. That's over 55 miles that I ran code 3, lights and siren. When I got to the accident scene I couldn't even hear because the siren was above your head on a light bar in those days. This particular night, I believe it was a Friday night, in the winter time again and we went down there and we didn't actually get inside. As I remember, we didn't even make it inside the building and the Ogden officers were grabbing people and pushing them out the door. They would say, "Take that one, let that one go." It was a pretty physical fight. There were a lot of guys that were bleeding and a lot of yelling and a lot of confusion going on. I remember we put four fellows handcuffed in the back seat of our patrol car and we kind of just piled them in there. We hauled them up to the jail and when you go to the ninth floor of the old city and county building, we had a holding room and it was basically a 25 steel room with a steel door and a little window and it had a couple of benches in there bolted to the wall and nothing else. There were no bathroom facilities and no water or anything. We would put prisoners in there until we could get them in individually to have them booked in at the screening desk which was an iron graded shield in front of the desk. The jail officer would stand behind that screen and ask them questions to get them booked into jail. We threw these guys in there to hold them and in the meantime, Ogden Police were bringing people in too. There were quite a number of fellows, I don't remember how many, but there was probably somewhere between 8 and 12 people that got arrested out of this. Some of the fellows were a little banged up and we stared taking guys out and we were just helping because being with the sheriff's department, the booking officer, there were two men on a midnight shift in the jail and it got a little hectic for them trying to get all these people taken care of and all the paperwork involved. I was helping to get this done and I more or less wound up being the guy that got the next guy out of the cell and brought him in. We'd put him up against the grading fence in front of the booking desk and we'd search them and take their property from them that had to be kept with a jailer like their belts and shoelaces and any money or anything in their pockets and things. Because it was winter time we were taking their coats also. We brought probably six or eight fellows in and got them booked, which probably took about a half hour to 45 minutes to get all of them booked. We finally grabbed one fellow and I brought him out and stood him up by the wall and I started to check his pockets. He was very verbal with me. He was 26 calling me every name you could think of and was extremely hostile and intoxicated. We started checking him and when I went and reached over to take his coat off I walked behind him and took it off his shoulders and brought it down over his arms. He had a knife sticking out of his chest. We got his ID out of him thinking he was an adult because he was in the bar. He was seventeen years old. We had to take him up to the hospital and that was the end of my night in the jail because they had to do surgery on him to have the knife removed. He didn't bleed very much and it didn't kill him. I remember the expression on the jailer's face when he saw that knife sticking out of his chest. He had a couple of choice words to say to us about searching him. I said, "I didn't search anybody, they came out of that bar handcuffed and we grabbed them and threw them in the car." This fellow probably went 45 minutes to maybe an hour with a knife sticking out of his chest inside his coat. WJ: Wow. I imagine you've seen a lot then. Is there anything else you'd like to share with us? MS: My grandfather was an interesting man, he really was. In his local ward, he was a high 70's and I do know that when somebody would not show up for their talk on Sunday in the sacrament meeting, they would call on my grandfather to fill in at a moment's notice. He was always able to come up with some interesting story to talk about with his relationship with the LDS church and his ideas of religion. He was very highly thought of in his local neighborhood and ward. In later years, after he passed away the neighborhood changed very much. Minorities started moving into the neighborhood and I do remember as a teenage boy mowing my 27 grandmother's lawn and I spent a lot of time down there taking care of her yard. Because of her age, she wasn't really able to do that kind of work. She had a very good relationship with two different black families there on the block and I remember one fellow walked by one day just as I got there on my motorcycle and he came walking over to me and I'd never seen him before other than maybe once or twice around the neighborhood. He walked over to me and said, "Who are you?" I said, "Well, I'm Mike." He said, "What are you doing here at Miss Baldwin's?" I said, "She's my grandmother I'm going to mow her lawn." He said, "Okay, just wanted to know what you were doing here." They watched out for her because she was a little old grandma and looked like a grandma and acted like a grandma and she was very sweet to anybody, it didn't matter what color you were or what religion you were, she was a grandma and that's how everyone referred to her. My grandfather and my grandmother are buried in South Ogden. We were just there not too long ago with another aunt and one of their children. It was interesting to walk over to my grandmother and grandfather's headstone and talk to them for a moment. I hadn't been up there since I was a kid. It was kind of interesting to see how the area had changed. When we buried my grandfather there was a very small pine tree just in front of his grave and that pine tree is huge now. He's been gone probably 47 or 48 years now so a lot of history has gone on. 25th Street had changed a lot in those years. Now it's very much a tourist attraction and eclectic place to go for dinner or the shops that are down there. That's really all I have about that part of their lives. 28 WJ: Thank you so much for sharing with us. MS: You're welcome. It was my pleasure. 29

DIE UNSTERBLICHE LANDSCHAFT. ZWEITER BAND: FLANDERN. ARRAS-SOMME-ST. QUENTIN. DIE AISNE-CHAMPAGNE-FRONT. DER KAMPFRAUM VERDUN. VOGESENKRIEG. DER KRIEG IN DEN KOLONIEN. DER SEEKRIEG. Die unsterbliche Landschaft (-) Die unsterbliche Landschaft. Zweiter Band: Flandern. Arras-Somme-St. Quentin. Die Aisne-Champagne-Front. Der Kampfraum Verdun. Vogesenkrieg. Der Krieg in den Kolonien. Der Seekrieg. (II. / 1935) ( - ) Einband ( - ) Titelseite ( - ) Impressum ( - ) Flandern ( - ) Vorwort ([1]) Die Eroberung von Lüttich (1) [2 Abb.]: (1)Der große Augenblick des Einmarsches in Feindesland! (2)Die Regimenter liegen am Abend des 5. August in weitem Halbkreis um die Fortlinie. In dem Ernst der Gesichter prägt sich die Spannung des bevorstehenden Gefechts aus. (1) [2 Abb.]: (1)Der nächtliche Kampf in brennenden Dörfern entschleiert dem Soldaten hier zum ersten Male das grausige Gesicht des Krieges. (2)Einer einzigen Kolonne glückt der Einbruch in die Festung. In fieberhafter Eile wird schwerstes Geschütz gegen die Forts in Stellung gebracht, um den Eingeschlossenen Hilfe zu bringen. (2) [3 Abb.]: (1)Fort Liers. In einem gewaltigen Betonklotz sind vier Panzerkuppeln eingebettet; eine Anlage, die unverwundbar schien. (2)Fort Loncin. Teile des Forts sind durch die deutsche Beschießung in ein Trümmerfeld verwandelt; andere, dicht daneben liegende Teile sind von der Geschoßwirkung fast unberührt geblieben, ein Zeichen für die Treffgenauigkeit der schweren Geschütze. (3)Das Geschütz war stärker als Panzer und Beton! Die Forts mußten Kapitulieren. - Wall und Graben eines gestürmten Werkes. Voll Staunen betrachten die deutschen Soldaten die zerschmetternde Wirkung der 42-cm-Granate. (3) [2 Abb.]: (1)Der Justizpalast, im 16. Jahrhundert als Residenzschloß des Fürstbischofs erbaut, im 18. Jahrhundert erneuert, würde für kurze Zeit Hauptsitz der militärischen Verwaltungsbehörde. (2)Hof des Justizpalastes in Brüssel nach der Besetzung. Er gehört zu den bedeutendsten Baudenkmälern Brüssels. (4) Der Durchmarsch durch Belgien im August 1914 (5) [2 Abb.]: (1)Durch die bei Lüttich geschlagene Bresche strömten um die Mitte des August die 1. und 2. deutsche Armee nach Belgien hinein. (2)Marschieren! - Marschieren! (5) [3 Abb.]: (1)Nicht selten kam es zu erbitterten Ortskämpfen mit der aufständischen Bevölkerung, deren völkerrechtswidriges Verhalten strenge Strafmaßnahmen notwendig machte. - Im Franktireurkrieg in Brand geratenes Dorf. (2)Unsere vorrückenden Truppen begegneten überall flüchtender Zivilbevölkerung. (3)Auf Schubkarren führen die heimatlos Gewordenen ihre ärmliche Habe mit sich. - Ein trauriges Bild des erbarmungslosen Krieges. (6) [2 Abb.]: Am 20. August wurde Brüssel besetzt, das Sitz des Generalgouverneurs von Belgien wurde. Hier liefen während des ganzen Krieges die Fäden der Verwaltung zusammen. (1)Auf dem Marktplatz vor dem Rathaus. (2)Die deutsche Wache vor dem Brüsseler Rathaus. (7) [2 Abb.]: (1)Namur. Blick von der Zitadelle auf das tief eingeschnittene Maastal mit seinen bewaldeten Hängen. Teile der Stadt sind durch die Belagerung zerstört worden. (2)Maubeuge, Fort Boussoir. Wirkung eines 42 cm-Treffers auf eine Panzerkuppel, deren Deckel abgehoben und fortgeschleudert ist. (8) [2 Abb.]: Rastlos weiter geht der Marsch, nach Frankreich hinein. Immer länger werden die rückwärtigen Verbindungen zu den Proviant- und Munitionsdepots der Heimat. Die Kolonnen haben schwere Arbeit. (2)Am härtesten sind die Anforderungen an die Infanterie. Die ungeheure Spannung der Lage erlaubt keine Ruhe und Schonung. Todmüde sinken die Soldaten bei jeder Rast zu Boden. (9) Die Eroberung Antwerpens im Oktober 1914 (10) [2 Abb.]: (1)Einschlag einer 42-cm-Granate im Fort de Wavre St. Catherine. Man erkennt die klare Linie der Wallböschung rechts und links vom Einschlag und die Panzerkuppeln. (2)Vor dem Sturm auf Fort de Wavre. Die Sturmkolonne hat in einem riesigen, anscheinend von einem 42-cm-Geschoß herrührenden Granattrichter Deckung genommen und erwartet das Signal zum Vorbrechen. Einige Leute sind mit Brandröhren zum Ausräuchern der Grabenwehren ausgerüstet. Der offizier trägt noch den langen Degen. Haltung und Gesichtsausdruck der Mannschaften ist für die Lage sehr bezeichnend. (10) [2 Abb.]: (1)Sturm auf das Fort de Wavre. Über den Wassergraben des Forts sind von den Pionieren tragbare Schnellbrücken geschoben für den Übergang der Infanterie. In der Mitte der Wallböschung sammelt sich der Sturmtrupp, um geschlossen in das Innere des Forts einzubrechen. Links daneben eine außer Gefecht gesetzte Panzerkuppel. (2)Zertrümmerter Panzerbeobachtungsturm. Ein einziger Volltreffer hat genügt. (11) [2 Abb.]: (1)In den Straßen, die zum Hafen hinabführen, einst von Seeleuten aus aller Welt belebt, ist es still geworden. Der herrliche Turm der Kathedrale ist das stolze Wahrzeichen der reichen alten Handelsstadt. (2)Teil des Hafens an der Schelde mit Blick auf die Kathedrale. (12) Der Vormarsch der neuen Reservekorps nach Flandern (13) [Abb.]: Marschrast. Die jungen Soldaten wußten noch nichts von dem furchtbaren Ernst des Krieges, der sie an der Yser und vor Ypern erwartet. (13) [2 Abb.]: (1)Gent. Blick von der St.-Michaels-Brücke auf die St.-Nikolaus-Kirche und den Belfried, (2)Marktplatz in Courtrai. (14) [2 Abb.]: Das prachtvolle gotische Rathaus in Oudenaarde legt Zeugnis ab von dem einstigen Reichtum selbst der kleineren flandrischen Städte. (2)Belgische Flüchtlinge kehren zurück. Charakteristisch ist die Art, wie das schwere belgische Pferd ohne Deichsel an losen Ketten vor den Wagen gespannt ist. (15) [2 Abb.]: (1)Brügge, in früheren Jahrhunderten Mittelpunkt des Welthandels im nördlichen Europa, heute eine stille verträumte Stadt, der die altertümlichen Bauten und zahllose Kanäle einen einzigartigen Zauber verleihen. - Der Marktplatz mit den vom Belfried überragten "Hallen". (16) An der belgischen Küste (17) [2 Abb.]: (1)Schützengräben in den Dünen bei Zebrügge nahe der holländischen Grenze. Der Strand ist durch Buhnen gegen die Gewalt der Fluten geschützt. Ins Meer hinaus geführte Dämme sichern den Kanal gegen Versandung. Hinter den Dünen breitet sich eine fruchtbare Landschaft. - Die Aufnahme stammt von 1917. (2)Ein Seekanal verbindet Brügge mit dem Seehafen Zeebrügge. (17) [3 Abb.]: (1)Am Meer. - Badende Soldaten. (2)Das Weltbad Ostende wurde ohne Widerstand besetzt. Auf den Terrassen der Luxushotels vergessen die Soldaten für kurze Stunden den Ernst des Krieges. (3)Aber bald ändert sich auch hier das Bild. Die Ostender Strandpromenade, einst Treffpunkt der eleganten Welt, wird ein Teil der Küstenkampffront. (18) [2 Abb.]: (1)Küstenverteidigung bei Ostende. Von Marinesoldaten besetzte Stellungen in den Dünen. (2)Matrosenartillerie. - Vier Jahre lang hielten die deutschen schweren Geschütze die englische Flotte von der belgischen Küste fern. (19) [2 Abb.]: Küstenbatterie Kaiser Wilhelm II. bei Knocke. (1)Eine gewaltige Anlage mit Betonunterständen und Panzerschutz und mit Gleisanschlüssen für den Munitionstransport. Vor der Batterie ein Drahthindernisstreifen. Weiter vorwärts, hier nicht mehr sichtbar, Infanterieanlagen, durch Annäherungswege mit der Batterie verbunden. (2)Aufbau einer Küstenbatterie, aus der Nähe gesehen. Die unter Panzerlafette stehenden Geschütze sind im Halbkreis drehbar und durch mächtige gemauerte und betonierte Schulterwehren gegen Schrägfeuer geschützt. Hinter den Geschützen läuft das Förderbahngleis für den Munitionstransport. Die Geschützstände stehen auf Kasematten für die Unterbringung der Mannschaften und der Munition. (20) [2 Abb.]: Deutsche Torpedoboote und U-Boote vor Zebrügge. (21) [2 Abb.]: (1)Rundbild vom Lombardzyde. (2)Rundbildaufnahme des Geländes zwischen Nieuport und Nieuport Bad. Im Vordergrund der Groot Noord Nieuwland Polder mit der durch den Durchstich des Yserdammes hervorgerufenen Überschwemmung. Die deutschen Stellungen laufen durch die Zuckerfabrik, die französischen liegen an der Baumlinie hinter der Polder Ferme. (22 -23) Der Kampfraum an der Yser (24) [2 Abb.]: (1)Große Yserschleuse bei Nieuport. Infolge der Zerstörung der Schleusen strömte das Meerwasser ungehindert in das teilweise unter dem Meeresspiegel liegende Land ein. Der aus dem Schleusenbecken in der Mitte des Bildes nach oben rechts führende Wasserlauf stellt die Verbindung zum Meer her; die nach unten und nach links führenden Wasserläufe sind Kanäle und schiffbar gemachte Flußläufe, die in das Innere des Landes gehen. Das Bild ist 1915 aufgenommen. Die Zerstörungen um Nieuport sind bereits sehr beträchtlich. (2)Immer mehr füllte sich die Yserniederung mit Meerwasser. Nur die auf Dämmen führenden Straßen boten noch Verkehrsmöglichkeiten. Neben dem Fahrdamm läuft, ein in der Flandrischen Landschaft häufiges Bild, eine Kleinbahn. Charakteristisch für Flandern sind die schiefgeneigten Baumreihen. (24) [2 Abb.]: Die steigende Wasserflut machte die Fortsetzung des Angriffs schließlich unmöglich. In kurzer Zeit war ein weitausgedehntes Sumpfgebiet entstanden. (25) [2 Abb.]: (1)Selbst die Kanalböschungen mußten, um Schutz zu gewinnen, erhöht werden. Im Vordergrund eine behelfsmäßige Kanalbrücke, hinten ein langer über die Wasserfläche führender Laufsteg. (2)Schräge Ballonaufnahme aus dem Überschwemmungsgebiet. Die dunklen Flächen sind trockengebliebenes Land. (26) [2 Abb.]: (1)Senkrechte Fliegeraufnahme vom Überschwemmungsgebiet. Die Verteilung von Wasser und Land ist deutlich zu erkennen. - Der helle Strich von links oben nach rechts unten ist eine Chaussee. Die dünnen Linien sind Laufstege, die zu den Stützpunkten (Werften) führen. In der rechten unteren Ecke ein zur Verteidigung eingerichtetes Dorf mit vielen Geschoßeinschlägen; in der linken ein Fluß, an dessen Ufern befestigte Häusergruppen stehen. (2)Englisches Arbeitskommando im Überschwemmungsgebiet. (27) [2 Abb.]: (1)Das zerstörte Rathaus in Dixmuiden, 1917 aufgenommen. Die edlen architektonischen Formen sind selbst aus den Trümmern noch deutlich erkennbar. (2)Straße am Kanal in Dixmuiden. - Aufnahme von 1916. (28) Der Kampfraum um Ypern (29) [2 Abb.]: (1)Vorkriegsaufnahme der Tuchhalle und der Kathedrale St. Martin in Ypern. Diese beiden Meisterwerke der gotischen Baukunst Flanderns hat der Weltkrieg bis auf spärliche Reste vernichtet. Heute ist die Kathedrale nach den alten Plänen wieder vollständig aufgebaut. (2)Blick aus dem Fesselballon auf das brennende Ypern. (29) [3 Abb.]: (1)Rundbild von Ypern vom Juni 1915. Die Aufnahme ist von Höhe 60, nördlich Hollebeck, gemacht. Am unteren Rand des Bildes ist die Brustwehr des deutschen Schützengrabens sichtbar, links in der Mitte das feindliche Drahthindernis; dahinter maskierte Schützengräben. Die Raumverhältnisse sind durch die Fernaufnahme stark verschoben. Die Entfernung bis Ypern beträgt etwa 7 km. (2)Fliegeraufnahme von Ypern aus dem Jahre 1915. In der Mitte die Tuchhalle mit dem Belfried, dahinter die Kathedrale. Die ganze Stadt ist schon fast ausgebrannt. Nur die Umfassungsmauern stehen noch. (3)Ypern im Jahre 1917. Oben in der Mitte ein Teil der Tuchhalle, links daneben die Kathedrale (Turmseite). Die Umfassungsmauern der Gebäude sind durch die ständige Beschießung größenteils eingestürzt. In der linken und rechten Ecke mächtige Erdtrichter, wahrscheinlich von schweren Fliegerbomben herrührend. (30 - 31) [2 Abb.]: (1)Unterstände im Damm des Yserkanals (Innenseite). Die Kanalwand ist durch Faschinen befestigt. Ein Bohlenweg stellt die Verbindung her. (2)Flandrischer Kanal. Die Schleuse (unten) ist zerstört. Vier Brücken stellen auf der kurzen Strecke schnellen Übergang sicher. (32) [Abb.]: Die zerstörte Kirche von Langemarck. (33) [2 Abb.]: (1)Deutsche Betonunterstände bei Langemarck, die alle Stürme der Materialschlachten überdauert haben, dienten nach dem Kriege den Bauern als Geräteschuppen. (2)Ehrenhof in der Gedächtnishalle auf dem deutschen Gefallenenfriedhof bei Langemarck, den die deutsche Studentenschaft im Jahre 1932 unter Verwendung der alten Betonunterstände errichten ließ. (34) [2 Abb.]: Das stark zerschossene "Polygonwäldchen" südöstlich Ypern, einer der Brennpunkte des Kampfes. (35) [2 Abb.]: Englische und deutsche Schützengräben bei Zonnenbeke im Jahre 1915. (36) [2 Abb.]: (1)Paschendaele vor Beginn der Flandernschlacht 1917. Um diese Zeit standen noch Trümmer des Dorfes. Die Straßenzüge sind deutlich erkennbar. (2)Becelaire. Man erkennt die ganz flache Bodenwelle, wie sie für diese Landschaft charakteristisch ist. Nach dem oberen und linken Rand des Bildes zu fällt das Gelände ab und bildet dort eine flache Mulde. Die Schützengräben und Annäherungswege um Kirche und Dorf zeichnen sich deutlich ab. (37) [Abb.]: Gutausgebauter Schützengraben im Park des Schlosses Hooge, östlich Zillebeke. (38) [2 Abb.]: (1)Im Houthulsterwald Anfang 1917. Trotz der Verwüstungen sind noch Schützengräben und Annäherungswege vorhanden, die eine geregelte Gefechtstätigkeit ermöglichen. (2)Betonunterstand in Gegend Hollebeke. Da die Anlage von Unterständen in dem versumpften flandrischen Boden je länger je mehr unmöglich wurde, war man gezwungen, auf dem gewachsenen Boden mächtige Betonflötze (Bunker) zu errichten. (39) [2 Abb.]: (1)Meilenlange Bohlenstraßen wurden gebaut, um der Kampffront Verpflegung und Kampfgerät zuführen zu können. So entstand ein ganz neues Wegenetz, eine Glanzleistung deutscher Pioniere. (2)Außerhalb der Bohlenwege war in dem Trichterfeld ein Verkehr von Fahrzeugen vielfach gar nicht mehr möglich. (40) [2 Abb.]: (1)Im Wytschaetebogen. - In dem Höhengelände südlich Ypern wurden die riesigen bei den englischen Sprengungen entstandenen Trichter zu Stützpunkten ausgebaut. (2)Auf der anderen Seite des Stacheldrahts (41) Die Schlacht in Flandern 1917 (42) [2 Abb.]: (1)Trommelfeuer auf den deutschen Stellungen bei Zillebeke. Dieser Geschoßhagel hielt ohne Unterbrechung Tage und Wochen an, bis endlich der Infanterieangriff begann. - Der schwarz-Weiße Strich ist ein Teil des Flugzeugs. (2)Stellung im Trichtergelände vor dem Trommelfeuer. Es besteht noch eine Art durchlaufender Graben. Zahlreiche Trampelwege führen nach vorwärts und rückwärts. Links oben ein Förderbahngleis. Der Platz in der Mitte ist anscheinend Stapelplatz für Pioniergerät; auf seiner rechten Seite ein gut getarnter Bunker. (42) [2 Abb.]: (1)Flandrisches Trichterfeld. Der Soldat muß sich zwischen den Trichtern mühsam seinen Weg suchen, bis zu den Knien im Morast watend, stets in Gefahr, in einem Trichter zu versinken. In dunkler Nacht und unter schwerem Feuer steigert sich das Grausen einer solchen Wanderung ins unvorstellbare. (2)Trichterstellung während der Flandernschlacht. Es gibt keine zusammenhängenden und durchlaufenden Gräben mehr, sondern nur noch einzelne Maschinengewehrnester und Postenlöcher (auf dem Bild an der dunkleren Färbung erkennbar). In ihnen lagen die Mannschaften halb im Wasser und Schlamm, wochenlang der Wirkung der Artillerie und der Infanterieflieger schutzlos preisgegeben. - Die drei von rechts oben nach links unten führenden dunklen Striche deuten noch die ursprüngliche Grabenanlage an, die jedoch völlig aufgegeben ist. (43) Die Erstürmung des Kemmel im April 1918 (44 - 45) [3 Abb.]: (1)Blick aus der Gegend nordöstlich Armentières auf den Kemmel. (2)Die Artillerievorbereitungen für den Sturm auf den Kemmel: Vergasung der feindlichen Artilleriestellungen und Beobachtungsstellen. Die in der Bildmitte schwarz erkennbaren feindlichen Infanteriestellungen weisen vorläufig nur wenig Beschuß auf. (3)Rundbild vom Kemmelgebiet, aufgenommen vom Straßenkreuz östlich Nieuwekerke. Man erkennt, daß es sich um einen ziemlich flachen, mit schütterem Wald bedeckten Höhenzug handelt, der indessen einen umfassenden Überblick über das Gelände südlich Ypern gewährt. Links im Walde zahlreiche Wellblechbaracken. Auf dem rechten Teil des Bildes sind Stellungen sichtbar. (44 - 45) [2 Abb.]: (1)Die ganze Feuervorbereitung dauerte nur wenige Stunden, war dafür aber von ungeheurer Stärke. - Das Bild zeigt die höchste Feuersteigerung. Der ganze Berg liegt unter einem Orkan, bei dem die einzelnen Einschläge nicht mehr erkennbar sind. (2)An der Vormarschstraße. (46) [2 Abb.]: (1)Schnell ausgehobene Gräben boten geringen Schutz. - Meldegänger am Hang des Kemmel. (2)Der Kemmel nach dem Sturm. - Ein riesiges Trichterfeld, in dem die Stellungen kaum noch erkennbar sind. (47) [Abb.]: Am Ortseingang des wiedererstandenen Langemarck. (48) [3 Karten]: (1)Westflandern (2)Belgien (3)Sprachgebiete von Belgien ( - ) Arras - Somme - St. Quentin ( - ) Vorwort ([1]) [Abb.]: Das Industriegebiet von Lille bildete die Grenze zwischen den Kampfräumen Flandern und Lens - Arras. - Die Stadt Lille, die seit Herbst 1914 nahe hinter den deutschen Linien lag, erlitt verhaltensmäßig nur geringe Zerstörungen. (1) [2 Abb.]: (1)Amiens, die alte Hauptstadt der Pikardie, sah nur beim Vormarsch 1914 deutsche Truppen in ihren Mauern. Während des späteren Stellungskrieges lag es weit vor der deutschen Front. - Die herrliche Kathedrale blieb unbeschädigt. (2)Marktplatz von Cambrai. - Die Stadt geriet nur 1917 in der Tankschlacht von Cambrai in den Brennpunkt der Kämpfe. (2) [2 Abb.]: (1)In der Schlacht von St. Quentin warf die deutsche 2. Armee in den letzten Augusttagen 1914 den bereits bei Charleroi geschlagenen Feind erneut zurück. Im späteren Stellungskrieg hatte die Stadt zeitweise schwer unter dem Krieg zu leiden. (2)Péronne war während der Sommeschlacht einer der Hauptpfeiler der deutschen Front. Die Stadt wurde beim Rückzug in die Siegfriedstellung dem Feind überlassen, in der Großen Schlacht in Frankreich im Frühjahr 1918 aber zurückerobert. (3) [2 Abb.]: (1)Sommelandschaft bei Cléry nordwestlich von Péronne. Die Somme verläuft hier in einer breiten sumpfigen Niederung zwischen flachen Hügeln. (2)Landschaft bei Arras. Das Bild ist von den Stellungen bei Beaurains aus mit der Blickrichtung von Süden nach Norden aufgenommen. (4 - 5) Die Schlacht bei Arras (6 - 7) [2 Abb.]: Das Hügelland des Artois fällt zwischen Arras und Lens mit einer deutlichen Stufe nach Westen zur flandrischen Ebene ab. Um die Abhänge bei Farbus, Vimy, Souchez, die im Herbst 1914 von den Deutschen besetzt worden waren, wurde jahrelang unter ungeheurem Einsatz von Menschen und Material gekämpft. Erst im Jahre 1917 wurden die Deutschen endgültig von den Hängen heruntergedrängt. - Blick von Liévin auf Schloß und Wald von Noulette. (2)Die Kämpfe bei Lens-Souchez, spielten sich vielfach mitten zwischen den Schachtanlagen und Geröllhalden und im Straßengewirr der Arbeiterkolonien ab. Sie erhielten dadurch ein ganz besondereres Gepräge. - Der Schacht 6, südlich von Angres. (6 - 7) [Abb.]: Marktplatz und Kirche in Lens vor dem Beginn der großen englischen Offensive beiderseits von Arras im April 1917. (8) [2 Abb.]: (1)Der gleiche Platz nach der Schlacht, in deren Verlauf die feindlichen Linien bis unmittelbar an Lens heranrückten. (2)Die Ruinen der Schlachtanlagen mit gespenstisch in die Luft ragenden Maschinen gaben der Landschaft ihre besondere Note. (9) [2 Abb.]: (1)Rundblick auf die Lorettohöhe, einen schmalen von Südost nach Nordwest sich hinziehenden Bergrücken westlich Lens mit einer Notre Dame de Loretto genannten Wallfahrtskapelle, die vom Herbst 1914 bis zum Herbst 1915 im Brennpunkt der Kämpfe bei Arras stand. - Das Bild ist von der östlich der Lorettohöhe gelegenen Gießlerhöhe aufgenommen worden. (2)Kampfgelände vor der Siegfriedstellung, nordwestlich St. Quentin. Blick vom Standpunkt 500 m östlich St. Emilie nach Südwesten auf Villers-Faucon und Roisel. - Das Bild wurde im Mai 1918, nach der Großen Schlacht in Frankreich, aufgenommen. (10 -11) [2 Abb.]: (1)Um Schußfeld für die Stellungen zu schaffen, die seit dem Frühjahr 1917, nach der Arrasschlacht, durch den Westteil von Lens führten, wurde durch ausgedehnte Sprengungen eine breite Lücke mitten durch das Häusergewirr geschlagen. (2)Die neben den Schächten auftragenden Schlackenpyramiden wurden zu Hauptstützpunkten der Verteidigung ausgebaut. (12) [2 Abb.]: (1)Das Rathaus von Arras, mit seinem hochragenden Belfried, eine der schönsten Bauten Frankreichs, vor der Zerstörung. (2)Die Ruinen des Rathauses, nachdem Arras durch jahrelange Beschießung zum großen Teil in Trümmer gesunken war. (13) [2 Abb.]: (1)Das zerstörte Souchez. Im Hintergrund der Hang der Lorettohöhe. (2)Sehr schwere Kämpfe spielten sich auch weiter nördlich am La-Bassée-Kanal ab. - Fliegerbild vom Kampfgelände am Kanal. (14) Die Sommeschlacht (15) [2 Abb.]: (1)Schwere englische Artillerie in Feuerstellung auf dem Sommeschlachtfeld. (2)Englische Munitionskolonne. Bei dem gewaltigen Munitionsverbrauch hatten die Kolonnen große Arbeit zu leisten. (15) [2 Abb.]: (1)Im Kampfgebiet an der Somme. Das Gelände ist durch das Trommelfeuer vollkommen zerstampft. Die Bodenbewachsung und - bedeckung ist ganz verschwunden. Die deutschen Gräben sind nur noch in schwachen Umrissen zu erkennen. (2)Zum Durchbruch kam es trotzdem nicht. Die deutschen Reserven setzten sich in dem Trichtergelände immer wieder fest. (16) [2 Abb.]: (1)Eingreifdivisionen standen hinter den Kampflinien bereit, um sich dem Feind im Gegenangriff entgegenzuwerfen. (2)Kampfgelände bei Maurepas. (17) [2 Abb.]: (1)Der Wald von Thiepval, nordöstlich Albert. (2)Kampfgelände zwischen Combles und Morval. (18) [2 Abb.]: (1)Kampfgelände bei Cléry. (2)Truppenverbandplatz hinter der Front. (19) [2 Abb.]: (1)Der Weg nach "vorn" führte an zusammengeschossenen Munitionswagen und an Toten vorbei, die das Feuer gefaßt hatte. (2)Straße in Bapaume. Die Kampflinie rückte im Laufe der Kämpfe bis dicht an die zusammengeschossene Stadt heran. (20) [2 Abb.]: (1)Ebenso wie Baupame wurde auch Péronne während der Schlacht zerstört. Die Kathedrale fiel der Beschießung zum Opfer. (2)Englische Reserven auf dem Vormarsch zur Front. (21) [2 Abb.]: (1)Die Trümmer von Chaulnes, des südlichen Eckpunktes der deutschen Stellungen in der Sommeschlacht. (2)Platz vor der Kathedrale von Péronne. (22) [2 Abb.]: (1)Je tiefer die angreifenden Engländer und Franzosen in das völlig zerstörte Gelände eindrangen, um so schwieriger gestalteten sich die rückwärtigen Verbindungen. - Wegeausbesserungen hinter den englischen Stellungen bei Guillemont. (2)Als die Schlacht im November 1916 zu Ende ging, hatten die Angreifer nur einen schmalen Streifen von wenigen Kilometer Tiefe gewonnen. Dieser Raum war mit dem Blut von mehr als einer Million Toter und Verwundeter getränkt. (23) Die Siegfriedstellung (24 - 25) [3 Abb.]: (1)Noyon. Im Hintergrund die Türme der Kathedrale. Der weit nach Südwesten auspringende Bogen von Noyon wurde beim Rückzug in die Siegfriedstellung aufgegeben. (2)Bei La Fère die Stellungen auf das Westufer der Oise vorgeschoben und bildeten dort einen Brückenkopf. (3)Oiselandschaft nördlich von La Fère. Das durch Flußanstauungen weithin überschwemmte Gelände gewährte den deutschen Stellungen wirksamen Schutz. (24 - 25) [2 Abb.]: (1)Brand und Sprengungen in dem wenige Kilometer vor der Siegfriedstellung, westlich von La Fère, gelegenen Chauny. (2)Besonderen Wert legte man auf die Zerstörung der Bahnanlagen. - Sprengung an der Bahnstrecke Chauny - Noyon. (26) [2 Abb.]: (1)Um dem Feind jede Unterkunftsmöglichkeit zu nehmen, mußte eine größere Anzahl an Dörfern niedergelegt werden. (2)Alles Gerät und alle Vorräte, die für die Kriegführung irgendwie von Nutzen sein konnten, werden zurückgeschafft. (27) [3 Abb.]: (1)St. Quentin im Januar 1917, also noch vor dem Rückzug in die Siegfriedstellung. Die Stadt befand sich um diese Zeit in völlig unversehrtem Zustande. (2)Durch den Rückzug in die Siegfriedstellung geriet St. Quentin in die vorderste Kampflinie und wurde durch die französische Beschießung allmählich zerstört. Blick auf die ausgebrannte Kathedrale. Rechts auf dem Bilde ein Einschlag. (3)Im sterbenden St. Quentin: Die Straßen verwandeln sich durch Beschießung und Brände allmählich in Schutthaufen. Im Hintergrunde des Bildes ist, von der Seite gesehen, das durch seine reiche Architektur berühmte Rathaus sichtbar. (28 - 29) Die Tankschlacht bei Cambrai. (30) [Abb.]: Feindlicher Tankhafen hinter der Front. Die mit Lagerräumen und Reparaturwerkstätten ausgestatteten Sammelstellen dienten auch als Exerzierplätze. Die Tankspuren lassen die Beweglichkeit und Wendigkeit der Tanks erkennen. (30) [2 Abb.]: (1)Der Marktplatz von Cambrai. Die Stadt wurde durch die Tankschlacht aus ihrer bisherigen Ruhe heftig aufgeschreckt. (2)Englische Tanks im Abwehrfeuer deutscher Geschütze und Minenwerfer. Ein großer Teil wurde kampfunfähig gemacht. (31) [2 Abb.]: (1)Durch das deutsche Abwehrfeuer kampfunfähig gemachte und liegengebliebene Tanks. - Auf der linken Bildseite ist ein in den Graben seitlich abgerutschter Tank erkennbar. Ein anderer liegt im Trichtergelände (Bildmitte). Die kreisrunde Spur auf der rechten Bildseite läßt darauf schließen, daß sich hier ein Tank völlig um seine eigene Achse gedreht hat. (2)Die schwersten Kämpfe spielten sich im Bourlonwald westlich von Cambrai ab. - Ein durch Volltreffer vernichteter Tank. (32) [2 Abb.]: (1)Auf der großen Straße Bapaume - Cambrai drangen die englischen Tanks bis Fontaine, hart westlich Cambrai, vor. (2)Tankabwehrgeschütz in Feuerstellung. - Das leichte Geschütz erwies sich bis zum Kriegsende als bestes Tankabwehrmittel. (33) Die Große Schlacht in Frankreich und die Armentières-Offensive im Frühjahr 1918 (34) [2 Abb.]: (1)Eine gewaltige Artillerie wurde bereitgestellt, um die Verteidigung zu lähmen. - Mörserbatterie geht in Stellung. (2)Die Geheimhaltung des Angriffsplanes war von entscheidender Wichtigkeit. - Gut getarntes deutsches Langrohrgeschütz. (34) [2 Abb.]: Oben und unten: Die Wirkung des straff zusammengefaßten deutschen Artillerie- und Minenwerferfeuers war außerordentlich stark; sie reichte meist aus, um der Infanterie den Durchbruch durch die feindlichen Stellungen zu ermöglichen. (35) [2 Abb.]: Oben und unten: Dicht hinter der Infanterie überschritt ein Teil der Artillerie die feindlichen Stellungen. Es bedurfte des Einsatzes alle Kräfte, um die Geschütze über das Gewirr der Gräben und Hindernisse hinwegzubringen. (36) [2 Abb.]: (1)Zum ersten Mal seit Herbst 1914 wurden auch die höheren Stäbe wieder beweglich. Divisionsstab auf dem Gefechtsfeld. (2)Das Kampffeld war bedeckt mit Schützenlinien und Kolonnen, die hinter dem weichenden Feind zur Verfolgung antraten. (37) [2 Abb.]: (1)Deutsche Marschkolonne in St. Quentin. (2)In Templeux. (38) [2 Abb.]: (1)Vor Ham. (2)Im alten Kampfgebiet der Somme. (39) [2 Abb.]: (1)Auch die hohen Stäbe mußten schließlich ihre Quartiere nach vorn verlegen. Quartierwechsel eines Armeekommandos. (2)Tausende von Geschützen und Minenwerfer fielen in die Hand der Deutschen. Sie säumten überall die Straßenränder. (40) [Abb.]: Unendliche Massen von Muntion und Kriegsgerät, die nicht geborgen werden konnten, bedeckten das weite Schlachtfeld. (41) [2 Abb.]: (1)In den eroberten englischen Magazinen fanden die ausgehungerten deutschen Soldaten reiche, hochwillkommenen Beute. (2)Auf dem Marktplatz in Ham. (42) [2 Abb.]: (1)Die englischen Gefangenen leisteten beim Rücktransport von Verwundeten aus der Kampflinie sehr erwünschte Hilfe. (2)Rast deutscher Truppen in Bethencourt. (43) [2 Abb.]: (1)Im eroberten Montdidier. Die Stadt, die bisher wenig gelitten hatte, geriet jetzt mitten in die Hauptkampfzone. (2In rastloser Verfolgung wurde das Sommeschlachtfeld des Jahres 1916 durchschritten. Schon gelangte der Angriff in ein Gebiet, das bisher vom Kampf noch kaum berührt war. - Kampfgelände bei Moreuil an der Avre, südöstlich Amiens. (44) [2 Abb.]: (1)Au & Noyon kam wieder in den Bereich der Kämpfe. Die herrliche Kathedrale geriet durch das Artilleriefeuer in Brand. (2)Endlich erlahmte die Kraft des deutschen Vormarsches an dem wachsenden Widerstand der in der letzten Minute unter den einheitlichen Oberbefehl Generals Foch gestellten feindlichen Armeen. - Der blutige Weg, der von St. Quentin bis dicht an Amiens herangeführt hatte, endete schließlich doch wieder in der hoffnungslosen Öde des Stellungskrieges. (45) [2 Abb.]: (1)Die Bereitstellung der Truppen und das erste Vorgehen litten unter der Ungunst des tiefliegenden Angriffsgeländes. (2)Das während des Angriffs vergaste Armentières wurde am 11. April besetzt. - Deutsche Truppen auf dem Marktpatz. (46) [2 Abb.]: (1)Mitten zwischen den Häuserreihen der Stadt hatten die Engländer ihre sehr geschickt getarnten Batterien aufgestellt. (2)Estaires und Bailleut konnten noch genommen werden. Dann erlahmte die Offensive. - Fliegeraufnahme von Estaires. (47) [2 Abb.]: (1)Neue Dörfer sind emporgewachsen. Freundlich, als wüßten sie nichts mehr vom Krieg, grüßen sie aus der Landschaft. (2)Das Kriegsgerät findet heute vielfach Verwendung: Bunker dienen als Keller, Wellblechbaracken als Ställe. (48) [2 Abb.]: (1)Der eine deutsche Kriegerfriedhof auf der Vimyhöhe trägt schlichte schwarze Holzkreuze für 41 000 Gefallene. (2)Gegnüber leuchten in unendlichen Reihen die weißen Grabsteine der in fremder Erde ruhenden Söhne Großbritanniens. (49) [Abb.]: Das Ehrenmal, das deutsche Soldaten im Kriege ihren toten Kameraden in St. Quentin errichteten, steht nicht mehr. Aber die Dankbarkeit des Vaterlandes ist den an der Somme und Arras gebliebenen Söhnen gewiß. (50) [3 Karten]: (1)Somme-Aisne (2)Die Kämpfe bei Arras (3)Der französ.-engl. Angriff an der Somme 1916 ( - ) Die Aisne - Champagne - Front ( - ) Vorwort ([1]) [Abb.]: Die Kathedrale von Reims, eine der schönsten gotischen Kirchen Frankreichs, seit dem 12. Jahrhundert Krönungsstätte der französischen Könige, wurde im Weltkrieg durch Beschießung und Brand schwer beschädigt. Sie wird in ihrer alten Gestalt wieder hergestellt. (1) [2 Abb.]: (1)Dinant. Auf steilem Felsen über dem Fluß liegt die veraltete Zitadelle, an ihrem Fuß erhebt sich die Kathedrale. (2)Givet. Die auf dem Westufer der Maas gelegenen Befestigungen ergaben sich rasch nach Einsatz schwerer Geschütze. (2) [2 Abb.]: (1)Sedan. Die Maashöhen beiderseits der Stadt konnten am 25. August 1914 erst nach hartem Gefecht genommen werden. (2)Charleville. Die Doppelstadt Charleville-Mézières war später jahrelang Sitz der deutschen Obersten Heeresleitung. (3) [2 Abb.]: (1)Der Marsch der 3. Armee führte über Rethel. Die Stadt wurde teilweise zerstört. Die Kathedrale blieb unversehrt. (2)Die Festung Reims bereitete keinerlei Aufenthalt. - Rastende deutsche Truppen auf dem Platz vor der Kathedrale. (4) [2 Abb.]: (1)Die 4. Armee marschierte westlich der Argonnen über Vouziers. - Die Stadt wurde im letzten Kriegsjahr halb zerstört. (2)Am Schicksalsfluß, der Marne, wandte sich das Kriegsglück. Marnelandschaft zwischen Château Thierry und Epernay. (5) [3 Abb.]: (1)Rundbildaufnahme vom Ostrand des Argonner Waldes. Blickrichtung von Norden nach Süden. Am unteren Bildrand sind die durch die Kämpfe hervorgerufenen, quer durch den Wald sich hinziehenden Verwüstungen deutlich zu erkennen. (2)Um den steil über das umliegende Gelände emporragenden Vauquois, am Ostrand der Argonnen, wurde besonders heftig gekämpft. - Das Bild ist vom Westrand des Cheppywaldes aus aufgenommen. (3)Der Minenkrieg spielte in den Kämpfen um den Vauquois eine besondere Rolle. Der Gipfel des Berges war durch eine Kette der Minensprengungen vollkommen zerrissen. (6 -7) [2 Abb.]: (1)Varennes. - In dem wenige Kilometer hinter der Front gelegenen Städtchen liefen die Hauptverbindungen östlich der Argonnen zusammen. Es war auch Ausgangspunkt der wichtigsten Querstraße durch die Argonnen. (2)Ein gewaltiges Denkmal erinnert heute in Varennes an den amerikanischen Angriff zwischen den Argonnen und Verdun, der im Rahmen der allgemeinen Offensive der Entente hier im Herbst 1918 begann. (8) [2 Abb.]: (1)Außerhalb der wenigen Dörfer finden sich in dem Waldgebiet der Argonnen kaum irgendwelche menschlichen Ansiedlungen. Um einige in der Kampffront liegende Jagdhütten, "Pavillons" genannt, wurde besonders heftig gekämpft. (2)Französische Stellung am Bagatelle-Pavillon. Das ungemein dichte Unterholz in den Argonnen verlangte schärfste Aufmerksamkeit gegen überraschende Angriffe. (9) [2 Abb.]: (1)Deutsche Laufgräben im Minen- und Sprengtrichtergelände des Argonner Waldes. (2)Deutsche Reserven hinter der Front in Gegend Binarville. Unmittelbar neben dem Lager war ein Kriegerfriedhof. (10) [2 Abb.]: (1)Besondere Sorgfalt mußte in dem stets feuchten Waldgelände auf den Bau guter Wege verwendet werden. - Die "Halberstädter Straße". (2)Der Weiler Le Four de Paris, eine wichtige Straßenkreuzung im Biesmetal, war Hauptziel der deutschen Angriffe. (11) [2 Abb.]: (1)Oben: Aufgemauerte Stellung. - Die Aufnahme zeigt, mit welcher Sorgfalt die Gräben im Argonnerwald im Laufe der Jahre ausgebaut wurden. - (2)Unten: Hinter den französischen Linien: Quartierleben in einem halbzerstörten Dorf. (12) [2 Abb.]: (1)Heute deckt frisches Grün das Kampfgelände in den Argonnen. Der breite Streifen der Kampfzone ist an den jungen Baumbeständen noch deutlich sichtbar. Jahrzehnte werden vergeben, bis die Narben verheilt sind und der Wald wieder ein gleichmäßiges Bild zeigt. Einzelne abgestorbene Bäume erinnern noch an das Grauen des Krieges. (2)Geht man wenige Schritte vom Weg ab, dann birgt sich unter dem üppigen Wuchs der Pflanzen und Sträucher ein fast undurchdringliches Gewirr von Gräben, Draht, Betondrümmer und Esienstangen. Es scheint bisweilen, als hätten die Truppen dieses Gelände erst vor wenigen Monaten verlassen. (13) [2 Abb.]: (1)Oben: Kampfgelände zwischen Moronvilliers und St. Souplet. - (2)Unten: Französische Reservestellungen bei Perthes. (14) [2 Abb.]: (1)Champagnelandschaft. Das Bild zeigt die Umgebung des aus den Heeresberichten bekannten Ortes Somme Py. (2)Der Stützpunkt "Ulm" bei Souain, wo den Franzosen in der Herbstschlacht in der Champagne ein Einbruch gelang. (15) [2 Abb.]: (1)Champagnerkämpfe: Luftbild vom Vorgehen französischer Reserven durch die Annäherungswege in den vordersten Linien. (2)Französisches Artilleriefeuer im Kampfgelände bei Souain. Die Sturmtruppen warten auf den Befehl zum Angriff. (16) [2 Abb.]: (1)Betonblockhaus am Mont Cornillet, der die Hügelkette Pöhlberg-Keilberg-Hochberg nach Westen zu abschließt. (2)Die gleiche Gegend im Jahr 1935. Die Landschaft zeigt auch heute, nach zwanzig Jahren, noch ein Bild der Verwüstung. (17) [2 Abb.]: (1)Rundbild aus Gegend nordwestlich Moronvilliers (etwa 15 km östlich Reims) nach Süden auf das Höhengelände des Poehlberges, Keilbergs und Hochbergs. Diese beherrschenden Höhen gingen in den Kämpfen im Frühjahr 1917 zum Teil an die Franzosen verloren. (2)Eine wichtige Rolle, besonders für die Artillerie, spielte weiter östlich bei Rouvroy-Massiges der Kanonenberg. - Das Bild ist vom Ballon nördlich Rouvroy mit dem Blick nach Süden aufgenommen und umfaßt den Raum von Minaucourt bis Ville sur Tourbe. (18 - 19) [3 Abb.]: (1)Blick aus Gegend Berru, östlich Reims, auf die Stadt. Im Vordergrund vor dem Wald ist ein Teil der Stellungen sichtbar. Hinter der Stadt steigen die Höhen des Reimser Bergwaldes empor, die ein nicht erreichtes Ziel der deutschen Offensive im Juli 1918 bildeten. (2)Das brennende Reims. - Der größte Teil der Stadt sowie die Kathedrale wurden durch die Kampfereignisse zerstört. (3)Fort Brimont nordöstlich Reims. Von hier aus verliefen die Stellungen hinter dem Aisne-Marnekanal auf Berry-au-Bac. (20 - 21) [2 Abb.]: (1)Blick von den Höhen bei Crouy auf Soissons. Die Stadt lag ebenso wie Reims dicht vor den deutschen Linien und wurde stark zerstört. Im März 1917, bei dem Rückzug in die Siegfriedstellung, wurden die deutschen Linien hier bis Lauffaux zurückverlegt. (2)Rundbild von Höhe 109 nördlich Vailly auf das Aisnetal und die gegenüberliegenden Höhen. Dieser Teil des Kampffeldes ging bei der großen Nivelleoffensive im Frühjahr verloren. (22 - 23) [2 Abb.]: (1)Bis zum Frühjahr 1915 wies das hochgelegene Craonne, wie das Bild zeigt, nur ziemlich geringe Beschädigungen auf. (2)Zwei Jahre später, in der französischen Offensive im Frühjahr 1917, mußte es von den Deutschen preisgegeben werden. (24) [2 Abb.]: (1)Das berühmte Schloß Coucy le Château, nördlich Soissons, galt als eine der schönsten Burgruinen Frankreichs. Es mußte im Frühjahr 1917 gelegentlich des Rückzugs in die Siegfriedstellung aus taktischen Gründen niedergelegt werden. (2)Als im Sommer des Jahres 1918, während der Schlacht bei Soissons und Reims, der Chemin des Dames von den Deutschen zurückerobert wurde, kündeten nur noch schwache Mauerreste von den Dörfern Craonne und La Ville-aux-Bois. (25) [2 Abb.]: (1)Filain, am Nordhang des Chemin des Dames, das im Verlauf der Kämpfe des Jahres 1917/18 völlig zerstört wurde. (2)Blick auf die im Mai 1918 von den Deutschen gestürmten englischen Stellungen am Aisne-Kanal und bei Berry-au-Bac. (26) [2 Abb.]: (1)Blick vom nordöstlichen Ufer der Ailette nach Süden auf den von den Deutschen Ende 1917 geräumten Chemin des Dames. (2)An den Abhängen des Chemin des Dames führen Steinbrüche tief in das Innere des Berges hinein. Die Höhlen, in denen ganze Bataillone und Regimenter Platz fanden, bildeten bombensichere Unterkunftsräume für die Kampfreserven. (27) [2 Abb.]: (1)Fernaufnahme vom Chemin des Dames aus nach Norden auf das hochgelegene Laon mit seiner mächtigen Kathedrale. (2)Blick von den Höhen bei Chermizy, nördlich der Ailette, aus auf den Chemin des Dames zwischen Cerny und La Creute. (28 - 29) [2 Abb.]: (1)Die Sturmtruppen überschreiten auf Schnellbrücken den Ailettebach und stellen sich am Südufer zum Angriff bereit. (2)Offiziere beobachten von der Höhe nördlich Berry-au-Bac das Vorgehen der vordersten Angriffslinien gegen die Aisne. (30) [2 Abb.]: (1)Vor dem Befehl zum Antreten. (2)Der Sturmangriff: Die ersten Gefangenen. - Eines jener nicht häufigen Bilder, die in der vordersten Linie während des Sturmes aufgenommen sind, an die daher in technischer Hinsicht keine großen Ansprüche gestellt werden können. (31) [2 Abb.]: (1)Vorgehen deutscher Infanterie über den Chemin des Dames. - Ohne Aufenthalt erreichte die Strumgruppe das Aisnetal. (2)Ein Maschinengewehrtrupp eilt im Laufschritt zum jenseitigen Rand eines eben eroberten Dorfes. (32) [2 Abb.]: (1)Angriff unter dem Schutz von Nebelbomben auf ein vorher von der eigenen Artillerie sturmreif geschossenes Dorf. (2)Auf dem Weg zur Marne. - Vormarsch durch zerstörtes Gelände. (33) [2 Abb.]: (1)Aus dem Angriffsgelände bei Berry-au-Bac: deutsche Minenwerfer überschreiten die vordersten englischen Stellungen. (2)DerWinterberg bei Craonne nach dem Sturm. (34) [2 Abb.]: (1)Deutsche Reserven marschieren durch Craonelle (südlich Craonne), einen Hauptkampfpunkt auf dem Chemin des Dames. (2)Am Winterberg. (35) [2 Abb.]: (1)Die Verluste des Feindes waren schwer. Lange Züge Gefangener wurden zurückgebracht. (2)Zusammengeschossene französische Artillerie. (36) [2 Abb.]: (1)Deutsches Feldlazarett im Schloß Pinon nördlich von Laffaux. (2)Ein Teil der Einwohner der Kampfzone war in den halbzerstörten Häusern geblieben. (37) [2 Abb.]: (1)Die Stimmung der Truppe war glänzend. Sie glaubte, diesmal sei die Entscheidung errungen. (2)Die Schnelligkeit des deutschen Vormarsches hatte die gründliche zerstörung der Brücken verhindert. (38) [2 Abb.]: (1)Im eroberten Soissons. Schwere Brände wüteten in den Ruinen der Stadt. (2)Auf dem Kirchplatz in Cormicy, südwestlich von Berry-au-Bac. (39) [Abb.]: Immer größer wurde die Beute an Gefangenen und Kriegsmaterial. Gefangenentransport in der Zitadelle von Laon. (40) [2 Abb.]: (1)Am Abend des ersten Angriffstages standen die deutschen Truppen in Fismes an der Vesle. (2)Kurze Rast. - Die Anstrengungen der Truppen, die teilweise über 25 km zurückgelegt hatten, war außerordentlich. (41) [2 Abb.]: (1)Auch an der Vesle vermochten die Franzosen sich nicht zu halten. Die Verfolgung ging südlich des Flusses weiter. (2)Divisionsstab auf dem Gefechtsstand. (42) [2 Abb]: (1)Hinter der Kampffront: Der Verwundetentransport nach der Verwundetensammelstelle erfolgte oft durch Gefangene. (2)Schwere Batterie auf dem Vormarsch. (43) [3 Abb.]: (1)Blick von den Höhen bei Troissy am Südufer der Marne auf das Nordufer. An dieser Stelle erzwangen deutsche Truppen im Verlauf der mit einem Mißerfolg endenden letzten deutschen Offensive beiderseits Reims im Juli 1918 den Übergang über den Fluß. (2)Vincelles an der Marne im feindlichen Artilleriefeuer. Hinter dem Dorf ist die Marne sichtbar. (3)Auf der Straße nach Château Thierry. (44 - 45) [Abb.]: Auf dem Chemin des Dames erinnern heute nur noch wenige Trümmer an den Krieg. - Betonklotz im Fort de Malmaison. (46) [2 Karten]: Aisne und Champagne. (1)Aisne: (2)Champagne: ( - ) [Karte]: Nordfrankreich ( - ) Der Kampfraum Verdun ( - ) Vorwort ([1]) Die lothringische Landschaft (1) [Abb.]: Umgebung von Dieuze. In dieser Landschaft spielte sich im August 1914 die Lothringer Schlacht ab. - Hinter der Stadt (Mitte) ist der Linderweiher erkennbar. Am Horizont die Vogesen. - Dieuze war vor dem Kriege Grenzgarnison. (1) [2 Abb.]: (1)Mörchingen, an der Bahn Salzburg - Metz. Auch dieses Gelände zeigt die charakteristischen Merkmale der lothringischen Landschaft: Flache, weitgestreckte Hügel, Waldparzellen zwischen den Feldern und Wiesen, spärliche Besiedlung. (2)Der Gedanke, Frankreich durch einen Gürtel von Befestigungen abzuschließen, ist alt. Marsal ist eine der vielen unter Ludwig XIV. erbauten Grenzfestungen, die schon längst vor dem Weltkrieg ihren militärischen Wert völlig verloren hatten. (2) [2 Abb.]: (1)An der elsaß-lothringischen Grenze stießen die Grenzkorps frühzeitig aufeinander. Bei dem am Rhein - Marne-Kanal liegenden Lagarde erfochten preußische und bayerische Truppen am 11. August 1914 einen der ersten deutschen Siege. (2)Im südlichen Teil der lothringischen Front zogen sich die Stellungen in den Nordausläufern der französischen Vogesen von Blâmont über Badonviller nach Moyenmoutier. - Vorgeschobener deutscher Posten in den französischen Nordvogesen. (3) [2 Abb.]: (1)Lothringen war ein römisches Siedlungsland. - Reste der nach Metz führenden alten Wasserleitung in Jouy aux Arches. (2)Das Moseltal zwischen Ars und Metz. Das Bild läßt die Lage von Metz zwischen den zu beiden Seiten des Flusses ansteigenden Höhen erkennen, die die alten Befestigungen trugen. Die modernen Werke lagen in weiter Entfernung der Stadt. (4) Der Mihielbogen (5) [2 Abb.]: (1)Landschaft bei Pont à Mousson. Das Bild vom heiß umkämpften Priesterwald nordwestlich der Stadt aufgenommen. (2)Über Pont à Mousson erhebt sich steil und beherrschend die Moussonhöhe, ein Wahrzeichen der dortigen Landschaft. (5) [3 Abb.]: (1)Kampfgelände im Priesterwald. Im Hintergrund zwischen den Bäumen ist das Moseltal bei Pont à Mousson erkennbar. Auf der linken Bildseite der Moussonberg. (2)Am Wald von Apremont. Das Gelände zeigt hier bereits die für die Côtes Lorraines eigentümlichen Bergvorsprünge. (3)Mörserstellung bei St. Mihiel. Das den felsigen Boden bedeckende Gestrüpp erleichterte die Maskierung der Geschütze. (6 - 7) [2 Abb.]: (1)St. Mihiel. Die deutschen Stellungen reichten nur in einer ganz schmalen Ausbuchtung auf das westliche Maasufer hinüber. (2)Das auf dem Ostufer der Maas über St. Mihiel gelegene Sperrfort Camp des Romains wurde nach kurzer Beschießung aus schwerem Geschütz von den Bayern im Handstreich genommen, eine der glänzendsten Waffentaten des Weltkrieges. (8) [2 Abb.]: (1)Die auf das westliche Maasufer vorgeschobene Stellung konnte bis zum Herbst 1918 behauptet werden - Auf den Höhen im Hintergrunde liegt das Nachbarsperrfort Les Paroches, vor dem der Vorstoß im Herbst 1914 zum Stehen kam. (2)Die Festung Toul, 20 Kilometer südlich der Südfront des Mihielbogens gelegen, geriet nie in den unmittelbaren Bereich der Kämpfe. - Die Fliegeraufnahme zeigt das Stadtbild im Rahmen der alten Vaubanschen Stadtbefestigungen. (9) [2 Abb.]: (1)Auf einem der zahlreichen Bergvorsprünge der Côte liegt Hattonchâtel. Das Bild gibt den Blick nach Süden. Im Vordergrund Vigneulles. Der einzelne Berg im Hintergrund ist der in den Kämpfen um den Mihielbogen oft genannte Mont Sec. (2)Das die Ebene weithin beherrschende Hattonchâtel fiel den Bayern im September 1914 ohne ernste Kämpfe in die Hände. Die Baulichkeiten weisen weit in die Vergangenheit zurück. (10) [2 Abb.]: (1)Thiaucourt, halbwegs zwischen St. Mihiel und Metz in der Ebene gelegen, war der Hauptverkehrspunkt des Mihielbogens. (2)Pannes bei Flirey. Typ eines französisch-lothringischen Bauernhofs romanischer Bauart: Breite Straßen, eng aneinandergebaute Häuser, flache Dächer. (11) [3 Abb.]: (1)Die Combreshöhe vom Westausgang des Dorfes Saulx, also aus genau östlicher Richtung gesehen. Die deutschen Stellungen lagen auf dem Kamm und führten von "Combres Ost" in die Ebene hinab. Der Montgirmont war in französischem Besitz. - Jeder Fußbreit Boden war hier von größter Bedeutung. (2)Senkrechte Fliegeraufnahme der Höhe Combres Ost und des Dorfes Combres. Die Kämpfe um den Berg fanden auf den Nordwesthängen statt. Hier liegen auch die von den deutschen und französischen Sprengungen herrührenden Minentrichter. (3)Schräge Fliegeraufnahme der Combreshöhe im Augenblick einer Minensprengung. Die Eingänge der Sprengstellen führenden Minenstollen liegen, wie auf dem Bild erkennbar ist, auf dem diesseitigen Hange der Höhe. (12 - 13) Die Woëvre-Ebene. (14 - 15) [2 Abb.]: (1)Rundbildaufnahme der Côte von Broville, 5 km westlich Etain aus gesehen. Der Ausschnitt umfaßt den Höhenrand zwischen der waldigen Kuppe des Hardaumont und der Straße Etain - Verdun. Die Aufnahme ist nach Abschluß der großen Verdunkämpfe im Mai 1917 gemacht. - Man blickt in das teifeingeschnittene, zwischen den Forts Douaumont und Vaux gelegene Vauxtal, um dessen Besitz im Jahr 1916 monatelang mit unvorstellbarer Erbitterung gekämpft wurde. (2)Dieser ganz der Woëvre-Ebene zugeordnete Abschnitt lag außerhalb der entscheidenden Kämpfe. Die beherrschende Lage der Côtes wird hier deutlich erkennbar. (14 - 15) [2 Abb.]: (1)Etain bildet den Mittelpunkt des nordöstlichen Woëvre-Gebiets. Es wurde im Laufe des Krieges fast völlig zerstört. (2)In den Dörfern wenige Kilometer hinter der Kampffront atmete die Landschaft eine fast unwahrscheinliche Ruhe. (16) [2 Abb.]: (1)Constans, ein Etappenort zwischen Etain und Metz. - Der Posten übt, wie das neben dem Schilderhaus erkennbare Schild "Hat" zeigt, die den rückwärtigen Gebieten oft sehr notwendige Kontrolle über den Kraftwagenverkehr aus. (2)Briey. Seine Besetzung durch die Deutschen bedeutete einen schweren Verlust für die französische Kriegswirtschaft. (17) Die Nordostfront von Verdun (18) [2 Abb.]: (1)Die kleine Festung Longwy bildete neben Briey den Mittelpunkt des französisch-lothringischen Erzgebietes. Hier erfocht die 5. Armee ihren ersten Sieg. Die veralteten Befestigungen fielen nach kurzer Beschießung in deutsche Hand. (2)Montmédy, einer der wichtigsten Etappenorte an der Nordfront, war angefüllt mit Einrichtungen der Heeresverwaltung. Das auf die Straße verlegte Eisenbahngleis diente zur Umgehung des von den Franzosen gesprengten Eisenbahntunnels. (18) [2 Abb.]: (1)Dun, malerisch am rechten Ufer der Maas nördlich von Verdun gelegen, war ein wichtiger Übergangspunkt für den Verkehr der Truppen und Kolonnen zwischen den beiden Maasufern. (2)Das nahe hinter der Front gelegene Städtchen Marville bedeutete für zahlreiche Verdunkämpfer eine Erinnerung. (19) [2 Abb.]: (1)Moirey, südlich Damvillers, lag in der Kampfzone vor Beginn der großen Kämpfe des Jahres 1916. Im Hintergrund der Gündelberg, der als günstiger Beobachtungsposten eine Rolle spielte. (2)Straße in dem ebenfalls am Fuße des Gündelberges gelegenen Dorfe Chaumont. (20) [2 Abb.]: (1)Die unzähligen Verdunkämpfer bekannte Straßenkreuzung in Ville; von hier zweigten mehrere Wege nach vorn ab. (2)Deutsche Truppenlager am Berge Morimont unweit des am Rande der Woëvreebene gelgene Romagne sous les Côtes. (21) [2 Abb.]: (1)Brabant an der Maas. Hier ging im Februar 1916 der rechte Flügel des deutschen Angriffs vor. (2)Französische Gefangene aus den Verdun-Kämpfen. (22) [2 Abb.]: (1)Flabas, ein etwa in der Mitte der Angriffsfront liegender Ort. (2)Auf der anderen Seite: Rastende französische Truppe im Kampfgelände von Verdun. (23) [Abb.]: Verdun war die erste der großen Materialschlachten des Weltkrieges, bei denen durch Masseneinsatz von Artillerie die Entscheidung erzwungen werden sollte. Alle Geschützarten, von der Schützengrabenkolonne bis zum großkalibrigen, weittragenden Eisenbahngeschütz, gelangten hier zum Einsatz. - 21-cm-Mörser unmittelbar nach dem Abfeuern. (24) [2 Abb.]: (1)Am 21. Februar 1916 drangen die deutschen Sturmtruppen in glänzendem Anlauf tief in die feindlichen Stellungen ein. (2)Gegen die Durchschlagskraft der schweren Kaliber schützten die stärksten Eindeckungen nichts: Ein Volltreffer in einen mit dicken Stämmen eingedeckten Unterstand. (25) [2 Abb.]: (1)Die Wälder in der Kampfzone wurden fast völlig vernichtet. Nur einzelne Baumstümpfe blieben übrig. - Der Chaumewald am Südrand der Ornesschlucht. (2)Die im nördlichen Teil des Angriffsgebietes liegenden Ortschaften wurden im ersten Angriff rasch durchschritten. Hier blieben wenigstens noch Trümmer stehen. - Kirche in Ornes, die in ihrem damaligen Zustand bis heute belassen ist. (26) [2 Abb.]: (1)Das weit ins Hinterland reichende Feuer der Fernkampfgeschütze erfaßte mehrfach Munitionszüge. Die Munitionsvorräte wurden hierbei meist vernichtet. (2)In der Wüste des Schlachtfeldes blieben mitunter durch merkwürdigen Zufall einzelne Heiligenbilder unversehrt. Da die Soldaten stets eifrig bemüht waren, sie zu erhalten, standen manche von ihnen noch am Ende des Krieges. (27) [2 Abb.]: (1)Oben und unten: Von Ornes aus zieht sich die Ornesschlucht in das Kampfgelände nach Westen. Auf dem von Granaten zerwühlten Talgrund entstand ein Schlammboden, der stellenweise nur noch auf Brückenstegen überschritten werden konnte. (28) [2 Abb.]: (1)Die Vauxkreuzschlucht führt von Ornes nach Südwesten zu einer auf der Landkarte als "Vauxkreuz" bezeichneten Höhe. (2)Grémilly, am Rande der Côtes gelegen. Von hier aus etwa ging der linke Flügel des Angriffs im Februar 1916 vor. (29) Douaumont und Vaux. (30 - 31) [3 Abb.]: (1)Französische Aufnahme des Douaumont von Südwesten her. Das Fort ist durch das Feuer schon fast unkenntlich geworden. (2)Trümmer des in der Mitte des Angriffsfeldes gelegenen Ortes Louvemont, der längere Zeit heiß umkämpft war. (3)Blick vom Douaumont in südwestlicher Richtung nach Thiaumont und Froide Terre. Das Bild ist während der Beschießung unter erschwerten Umständen aufgenommen. Es gibt trotz technischer Mängel einen unmittelbaren Eindruck des Kampfgeländes. (30 - 31) [2 Abb.]: (1)Das Fort Douaumont, wie es der Flieger Anfang 1916 sah, zu einer Zeit, als die Schlacht noch nicht begonnen hatte. (2)Eine spätere Aufnahme des Forts Douaumont, nachdem bereits monatelang das schwerste Feuer auf ihm gelegen hatte. (32) [2 Abb.]: (1)Französische Aufnahme des Forts Douaumont vom Beginn des Jahres 1916. Man sieht die noch gut erhaltene Kehlkaserne. Links im Schatten der innere Graben. Auf dessen Grunde liegt die durch einen Tunnel in das Fort führende Einfahrt. (2)Blick vom östlichen (rechten) Schulterpunkt des Forts Douaumont in den auf der rechten Flanke entlang führenden Graben. (33) [2 Abb.]: (1)Rundbild von der Höhe 378 östlich Louvemont auf einen Teil der Forts der Nordostfront. Man sieht von rechts nach links das erst später eroberte Zwischenwerk Thiaumont auf der Côte de Froide Terre; dann das mehrere Kilometer südlich liegende Fort zweiter Linie Souville, schließlich das Dorf und Fort Douaumont. Das Bild ist nach der Schlacht von Verdun im Frühjahr 1917 aufgenommen. (2)Anfang März griffen die Kämpfe auch auf das westliche Maasufer über. Das von Höhe 165 am Westufer der Maas, östlich des Cumieres Waldes, aufgenommene Rundbild gibt einen Überblick über das Hauptkampfgelände auf dem Westufer: Cumières-Wald- (rechts) - Toter Mann - Wälder zwischen Avaucourt und Béthelainville (Hessenwald). Im Vordergrunde das Maastal. (34 - 35) [2 Abb.]: (1)Oben: Deutsche Soldaten im Hauptgang des Untergeschosses des Fort Douaumont. Das Bild gibt eine Vorstellung davon, unter welchen Umständen die Fortbesetzung zu Ruhe und Schlaf gelangte. (2)Unten: Französisches Geschütz zur Bestreichung des Grabens der linken Flanke im Fort Douaumont. Die Mauer nach dem Graben zu ist teilweise zerstört. Im Dunkel des Hintergrundes liegt der Eingang zu einem anschließenden Hohlraum. (36) [2 Abb.]: (1)Deutscher M. G.-Schütze an einem französischen Maschinengewehr in einer der Grabenstreichen des Forts Douaumont. Der Mann hat es sich auf seinem gefährlichen Sitz, auf dem er in schärfster Anspannung stundenlang hocken muß, so bequem wie möglich gemacht; Munition und Verpflegung sind in ausreichenden Mengen rings um ihn aufgebaut. (2)Unten: Als die Franzosen im Herbst 1916 bei Verdun zur Gegenoffensive schritten, gelang es ihnen, das Fort Douaumont zurückzuerobern. - Das aus dem Januar 1917 stammende französische Bild zeigt, daß die Kämpfe um das Fort um diese Zeit endgültig abgeschlossen waren und daß bereits wieder ein regelrechter Kantinenbetrieb in ihm stattfand. (37) [2 Abb.]: (1)Ein Kasemattenraum im Fort Douaumont (heutiger Zustand), in dem durch eine gewaltige Handgranatenexplosion am 8. Mai 1916 hunderte von deutschen Soldaten ums Leben kamen. Das es unmöglich war, die Toten im Fort regelrecht zu begraben, beließ man sie im Hohlraum und mauerte dessen Zugänge zu (2)Das Fort Douaumont im Jahre 1917 nach Abschluß der Kämpfe. Die Umrisse des Forts sind nur noch schwach zu erkennen. (38) [2 Abb.]: (1)Nicht weniger heiß umstritten als der Douaumont war das Fort Vaux, das durch seine Lage als Eckpunkt der Nordfront und der Ostfront von Verdun besondere Bedeutung besaß. Das Bild gibt das Gelände am Rande der Côtes vom Fort Vaux (links oben) über die "Hohe Batterie" (Mitte) bis zum Zwischenwerk Lauffée (rechts unten) (2)Die Rückseite des Forts Vaux im März 1917, nach seiner Wiedereinnahme durch die Franzosen. Die auf dem Bild erkennbare gewaltige Stärke der Betondecke macht es erklärlich, daß die Wirkung der schwersten Geschosse hier versagte. (39) [Abb.]: In dem Fort Vaux war eine Art Kapelle eingerichtet, die man in ihrem damaligen Zustande bis heute erhalten hat. (40) [2 Abb.]: (1)Fliegeraufnahme der Vaux-Schlucht (vergl. auch die Bilder auf S. 26/27), die sich zwischen den Douaumont und dem Fort Vaux hinzieht. Sie gehört zu den blutigsten Kampffeldern des Weltkrieges. - Von dem verschwundenen Dorf Vaux (rechte untere Ecke) führt die Schlucht zum Vaux-Teich und gabelt sich hier in mehrere Seitentäler, an deren Hängen Waldstücke lagen: der Caillette-Wald (oben rechts), der Chapitre-Wald oben links), das Fumin-Wäldchen (unten links). (2)Die Vaux-Schlucht in ihrem heutigen Zustand. Im Vordergrund der Vaux-Teich. Die Trichter sind völlig zugewachsen. (41) [2 Abb.]: (1)Das Dorf Fleury (Bildmitte), das nach schweren Kämpfen erst Ende Juni erobert wurde, bildete ungefähr den äußersten von den Deutschen in der Verdunoffensive 1916 erreichten Punkt. - Die auf der rechten Bildseite nach rechts oben zusammenlaufenden Mulden umschließen den Chapitre-Wald und endigen in ihrem weiteren Verlauf in der Vaux-Schlucht. (2)Das Fort Tavannes, südlich von Fort Vaux, lag bereits an der äußersten Grenze der Hauptkampfzone. Sein Zustand zu Beginn des Jahres 1917 läßt erkennen, daß es nicht so im Brennpunkt der Kämpfe stand, wie Douaumont und Vaux. (42) [2 Abb.]: (1)Fliegeraufnahme von Verdun. Die Stadt war halb zerstört. Die alten Vaubanschen Befestigungsanlagen treten deutlich hervor. - Verdun und seine Umgebung gilt seit den Kämpfen des Jahres 1916 den Franzosen als heiliger Bezirk. (2)Kronprinz Wilhelm, der als Oberbefehlshaber der 5. Armee die Verdunkämpfe befehligte, im Gespräch mit Verwundeten. (43) Das westliche Maasufer (44) [2 Abb.]: (1)Oberes Bild: Im Rabenwald östlich vom Toten Mann. (2)Unten: Das Dorf Malancourt auf dem westlichen Maasufer, das im März 1916 gegen zäheste französische Verteidigung genommen wurde. (44) [2 Abb.]: (1)Der Montfaucon bot einen glänzenden Überblick über die Nordwestfront von Verdun zwischen den Argonnen und der Maas. Es war hier der wichtigste Beobachtungspunkt der deutschen Artillerie. - Kirche von Montfaucon im Oktober 1915. (2)Der Ort Montfaucon nach seiner Eroberung durch amerikanische Truppen während der Herbstoffensive der Entente 1918. (45) [2 Abb.]: (1)Inmitten grüner Wiesen starren dem Wanderer die dunklen Schießscharten mächtiger Maschinengewehrstände entgegen. (2)Die Combreshöhen, wie man sie heute sieht. Die Gipfel sind noch immer zerrissen durch die riesigen Minentrichter. (46) [2 Abb.]: (1)Die Lage der einstigen blühenden Ortschaft Fleury ist heute nur noch durch ein einfaches Denkmal zu erkennen. (2)Gedenkhalle über dem "Graben der Bajonette" bei Fort Douaumont, in dem eine ganze französische Kompanie verschüttet wurde, deren Bajonette aus der Erde ragen. - Dieser Graben gilt als heiliges Symbol der Verdunkämpfe. (47) [Abb.]: Wie friedliche Teiche und Tümpel wirken heute die Granattrichter auf den Höhen rings um Verdun, ganz überwuchert von Gebüsch, Gras und Schilf. Aber noch viele Jahrzehnte werden sie ein Mahnzeichen sein für die Toten von Verdun. (48) [2 Karten]: (1Chamapagne-Woëvre (2)Verdun ( - ) Vogesenkrieg ( - ) Vogesenkrieg ( - ) Vorwort ([1]) [Abb.]: Das Staßburger Münster, ein Meisterwerk deutscher Gotik. - Straßburg, nach Metz die stärkste Festung an der Westgrenze, blieb im Weltkrieg von den Kriegsvorgängen fast unberührt. Die mehrfachen Einfälle der Franzosen in das Oberelsaß gelangten nicht bis zum Bereich der Festungsgeschütze. - Als Landeshauptstadt und Hauptetappenort war die Stadt fast allen deutschen Soldaten, die im Elsaß gekämpft haben, wohlbekannt. (15) [3 Abb.]: (1)Blick von der Ebene aus gegen die Hohkönigsburg. Im Vordergrund der Flugplatz. - Die Hohkönigsburg, eine der schönsten Burgen des Elsaß, mit mächtigem Bergfried, liegt westlich von Schlettstadt auf einem steil emporragenden Bergkegel. Einst Hohenstaufenburg, wurde die Hohkönigsburg im Dreißigjährigen Krieg von den Schweden zerstört. 1901 wurde im Auftrag Kaiser Wilhelms mit ihrem Wiederaufbau begonnen. Zu Beginn des Weltkrieges war sie in ihrem ursprünglichen Zustand völlig wieder hergestellt. (2)Deutsche Vogesenlandschaft in Gegend Markirch. Die Vogesen verlaufen in einer nur durch wenige Einsenkungen und Paßübergänge unterbrochenen Kette langgestreckter Kämme aus verwittertem Granit, die sich von Süden nach Norden hinziehen. Von ihnen abzweigende Seitenkämme bilden nach der Rheinebene zu tief eingeschnittene Täler. (3)Blick vom Hartmannsweilerkopf in die Rheinebene. - Die Vogesen fallen nach dem Rheintal ziemlich steil ab. Der untere Teil der Berghänge ist bedeckt mit Weinbergen; dahinter liegt eine fruchtbare Landschaft mit Ackerbau und Laubwäldern, durchströmt vom Rhein (im oberen Bilddrittel als seine Linie erkennbar). Jenseits die Schwarzwaldberge. (16 - 17) [2 Abb.]: (1)Elsässisches Bauerndorf alemannischer Bauart: Dorfstraße in dem durch das Jugenderlebnis Goethes berühmt gewordenen Sesenheim, unweit Straßburg. Einzelstehende Gehöfte, von Gärten umgeben; Fachwerkbau und herabgezogene Dächer (2)Zum Vergleich ein lothringisches Bauerndorf (Autrepierre) typisch romanischer Bauart: Breite Straße mit geschlossenen Häuserfronten; reiner Steinbau. Wohn- und Wirtschaftsräume unter einem einzigen, flach geneigten Dach. Fehlen von Vorgärten, statt dessen häufig vor den Häusern die Dungablagerung. Rundgewölbte Torbögen führen zum Stall und zum Hof. (18) [2 Abb.]: (1)Elsässische Landstadt deutscher Bauart: Marktplatz in Oberehnheim (Unterelsaß. - Ein mittelalterliches Stadtbild mit Erkern und Türmchen, mit spitzgiebeligen steilen Dächern und schönem Brunnen. Die staatlichen Häuser lassen auf den ehemaligen Reichtum Oberehnheims schließen, das, wie viele andere dieser elsässischen Landstädtchen, schon zur Stauferzeit freie Reichsstadt war. (2)Zum Unterschied eine lothringische Landschaft in charakteristisch romanischer Bauart: Blaâmont in den französischen Vogesen. (19) [2 Abb.]: (1)Auf Patrouillenritt. (2)Unten: Infanteriepatrouille im Vormarsch an den Berghängen des Münstertals bei Drei-Ahren, westlich Colmar. (20) [2 Abb.]: (1)Deutsche Infanterie verfolgt den in die Vogesen zurückgeworfenen Feind. (2)Unten: Artillerie im Vormarsch auf einer Vogesenstraße. (21) [2 Abb.]: (1)Längs der deutsch-schweizerischen Grenze führte ein elektrisch geladener Drahtzaun von der Gegend von Nieder- und Obersept zum Rhein nördlich Basel. (2)Unten Eroberte französische Gräben bei Niedersept. (22) [2 Abb.]: (1)Altkirch, südwestlich Mühlhausen. Das altertümliche Städtchen lag nur wenige Kilometer hinter den deutschen Stellungen. (2)Unten: Kirche von Nieder-Aspach. (23) [3 Abb.]: (1)Oben: Der Übergang von der Burgundischen Pforte zu den Südvogesen. Charakteristisch auch hier das unvermittelte Ansteigen des Gebirges aus der Ebene. (2)Unten: Auf den Berghängen hinter Altthann überhöhten die rückwärtigen Stellungen der Franzosen die deutschen Gräben. (3)Unten: Die Stadt Thann, Hauptort des Thurtales, mit gotischem Münster lag bereits hinter den französischen Stellungen. (24 - 25) [Abb.]: Rundbild Hartmannsweilerkopf - Molkenrain. Der Hartmannsweilerkopf steigt aus der Rheinebene fast ohne Übergang zu einer Höhe von 950 m auf. Er wird vom Molkenrain noch um fast 200 m überragt. Die deutschen und französischen Stellungen führten von Süden an den Hängen empor zum Gipfel und zogen sich dann in die Vogesen hinein. Die ersten Kämpfe um den Hartmannsweilerkopf spielten im Januar 1915 ab. Sie brachten die Deutschen in den Besitz zuerst des vorgelagerten Hirzsteins und dann des Berggipfels selbst. - Im März ging der Sattel zwischen Wolkenrain und Hartmannsweilerkopf und dann dieser selbst wieder verloren. Im April wurde der Rehfelsen und Aussichtsfelsen zurückgewonnen. Die Spitze des Berges lag unbesetzt zwischen den beiderseitigen Stellungen. - Noch einmal entbrannten um die Jahreswende 1915/16 um den Besitz des Berges überaus schwere und sehr wechselvolle Kämpfe, bei deren Abschluß die deutschen Truppen im Besitz des Hirzsteins und des Rehfelsens blieben. (26 - 27) [Abb.]: Blick vom Hartmannsweilerkopf auf die von den Franzosen besetzten Höhen des Sudelkopfes und des Großen Belchen. (28) [2 Abb.]: (1)Die Stadt Sennheim, südlich vom Hartmannsweilerkopf am Eingang zum Thurtal, lag unmittelbar hinter der vordersten deutschen Linie. Bei den Kämpfen um den "H. R." hatte sie besonders schwer zu leiden. (2)Unten: Der Hartmannsweilerkopf. (29) [2 Abb.]: (1)Der Hirzstein, ein Felsgipfel am Hang des Hartmannsweilerkopfes, um den in den Jahren 1915 und 1916 heftig gekämpft wurde und der mehrfach den Besitzer wechselte. Erst nach sehr blutigem Ringen kam er endgültig in deutsche Hand. - Die Stellungen verliefen am Hange hart jenseits des Felsgipfels zum Hartmannsweilerkopf hinauf. (2)Fliegeraufnahme der französischen Stellungen im Sattel zwischen Molkenrain und dem Hartmannsweilerkopf. Dieser Sattel befand sich im Frühjahr 1915 nur vorübergehend im deutschen Besitz, konnte aber nicht gehalten werden. - Die feinen schrägen Striche sind Schatten der Baumstümpfe. Die oberen Bergränder (oben rechts und links) sind fast völlig kahl geschossen; die abwärts ins Tal führenden Hänge (Mitte unten) zeigen geringere Spuren der Zerstörung. (30) [2 Abb.]: (1)Oben: Die "Serpentinenstraße", die in vielen Windungen aus der Ebene bis fast zum Gipfel des Hartmannsweilerkopfes hinaufführte, wurde während der schweren Kämpfe des Jahres 1915 gebaut. - (2)Unten: Stollen im Rehfelsen auf dem Hartmannsweilerkopf. Das Bild gibt die Stimmung der Mannschaften sehr eindrucksvoll wieder. (31) [2 Abb.]: (1)Geschützfeuer auf die Kampfgräben des Hartmannsweilerkopfes. Im Hintergrund der Sudelkopf und der Große Belchen. (2)Unten: Am Hange des Hartmannsweilerkopfes. Vom hochstämmigen Walde ragen nur noch nackte Stümpfe empor. (32) [Abb.]: Die "Felsenkaserne" auf dem Hartmannsweilerkopf. Die meterdicke Stein- und Betondecke und die Lage des Unterstandes am stark geneigten Hange gewährten sicheren Schutz selbst gegen schwerstes Steilfeuer. (33) [2 Abb.]: (1)Der "Aussichtsfelsen", eine Felskuppe am oberen Hange des Hartmannsweilerkopfes. Man hatte von diesem beherrschenden Punkt aus einen umfassenden Überblick über das südliche Elsaß von der Schweizer Grenze bis hinauf nach Colmar. (2)Unten: Das berühmte Jägerdenkmal auf dem Hartmannsweilerkopf mit seinen bronzenen Erinnerungstafeln und den Trophäen aus vielen Kämpfen. Es lag so geschützt, daß das feindliche Geschütz- und Minenfeuer ihm nichts anhaben konnte. (34) [2 Abb.]: (1)Auf einer Zwischenstation der am Hange des Hartmannsweilerkopfes in dem Jahre 1915 gebauten Drahtseilbahn. Sie spielte bei der Beförderung der gewaltigen Mengen von Munition und Proviant eine wichtige Rolle. (2)Unten: Am Rehfelsen. Der Besitz der Felsengruppe entschied über die Behauptung des Hartmannsweilerkopfes. Um sie wurde am erbittersten gekämpft. Wiederholt ging sie verloren. Erst seit dem Januar 1916 war sie fest in deutscher Hand. - Von größter Wichtigkeit war die "Serpentinenstraße", die hier endete, da sie einen gedeckten Anmarsch für die Mannschaften und seine sichere Zufürhung des Kampfgeräts ermöglichte. (35) [3 Abb.]: (1)Ballonaufnahme der Stellungen aus dem Kampfraum beiderseits des Hilfenfirst zwischen Sondernach und Linthal. (2)Unten: Blick von den deutschen Stellungen auf den Hilfenfirst in die Vogesen. (3)Unten: Unterstände am Hange des Hilfenfirst. (36 - 37) [Abb.]: Ruhiger Stellungskrieg im Gebirgswald; ein sehr friedlich anmutendes Bild, das für sich selbst spricht. - Ganz schwieg der Kampf freilich auch in den ruhigsten Vogesenstellungen nie. Immer stand der Beobachtungsposten schußbereit am Grabenrand und beobachtete durch das Zielfernrohrgewehr jede Bewegung in den feindlichen Gräben. (38) [2 Abb.]: (1)Im Reservegraben. Die Stellungen in den Vogesen waren meist so vorzüglich ausgebaut, daß sie den Mannschaften in den Zeiten der Ruhe einen ganz behaglichen Aufenthalt boten. (2)Unten: Hinter der Front. Pferdetränken auf dem Marktplatz einer kleinen Vogesenstadt. (39) [2 Abb.]: (1)Eine "chinesische Mauer". - Ein eigenartiges Beispiel dafür, zu welchen Formen des Stellungsbaues man in den Hochvogesen gelangte. Meterdicke Betonwände sicherten gegen feindliches Flankenfeuer, das von irgend einer fernliegenden Höhe her den rückwärtigen Verkehr an dieser einzusehenden Stelle belästigte. - Die geköpften Bäume lassen erkennen, daß hier eine Drahtseilbahn zu Tal geführt hat. (2)Die Minenwerfer spielten im Gebirgskrieg eine besonders wichtige Rolle. - Mit Wurfminen konnte man, infolge der starken Krümmung ihrer Flugbahn, auch hinter steile Deckungen fassen und Ziele erreichen, die für Geschütze im "toten Winkel" lagen. (40) [2 Abb.]: (1)Oben: Essenempfang im winterlichen Hochwalde. (2)Unten: Kompanieschuster und -schneider konnten ihre "Handwerksstube" an schönen Sommertagen dicht hinter der Stellung mitten im Walde aufschlagen. (41) [2 Abb.]: (1)Oben: Stellungen zwischen Mühlbach - Reichsackerkopf - Stoßweier. (2)Unten: Blick auf den Grenzkamm, nördlich Stoßweier, bis zum Weißen See. (42 - 43) [2 Abb.]: (1)Oben: Münster, der Hauptort des Fechttals, das sich von Colmar aus in die Vogesen hinaufzieht. Die Stadt liegt hart östlich des Reichsackerkopfes. - (2)Unten: Deutsche Stellungen im Kampfgebiet des Reichsackerkopfes. (44) [Abb.]: Stoßweier, am Nordfuß des Reichsackerkopfes. Das Dorf lag mitten zwischen den beiden Stellungen. Deutsche wie französische Gräben liefen durch den Ort, ohne daß es einer der beiden Parteien gelang, sich völlig in seinen Besitz zu setzen. - Die Aufnahme stammt noch aus dem Jahre 1915. Das Dorf wurde später ganz zusammengeschossen. (45) [3 Abb.]: (1)Blick von der Bludenberghöhe (Bressoir) gegen den Grenzgebirgskamm zwischen Markirch und Diedolshausen. Die Stellungen liefen hier genau längs der Grenze. Die französischen Gräben sind auf den kahlgeschossenen Hängen jenseits des Tals zu erkennen. (2)Blick vom Hansfelsen über den Weißen See. - Ein einsamer, in großartiger Landschaft zwischen schroffen Felsenwänden eingebetteter Hochgebirgssee zwischen Diedolshausen und Münster. Unweit daneben der Schwarze Seer. (3)Felslandschaft in der Nähe des über 1300 m hohen Hohneck (westlich Münster, südlich des Schluchtpasses). Der alpine Charakter der Südvogesen mit seinen vielfach kahlen, waldlosen Gipfeln und Bergmatten tritt hier bereits in Erscheinung. (46 - 47) [2 Abb.]: (1)Stadttor in Türkheim, einem der berühmtesten Weinorte des Elsaß ("Türkenblut"). Das Tor ist ein gutes Beispiel mittelalterlicher Elsässer Bauart, deren deutscher Charakter klar zu Tage tritt. (2)Unten: Kaysersberg. Das Städtchen liegt, von alten Türmen und Mauern umgeben, malerisch am Eingang zu dem nach Schnierlach und Diedolshausen führenden Weißbachtal. (48) [2 Abb.]: (1)Die Kaysersberger Burg, eine der schönsten Ruinen des Elsaß. (2)Unten: Im Weißbachtal. (49) [3 Abb.]: (1)Colmar, am Eingang zum Münstertal gelegen, gehört zu den schönsten Städten des Rheintales. Blick gegen die Vogesen. (2)Schlettstadt mit dem Münster St. Georg. Die Stadt, einst eine blühende Reichsstadt, war stets eine der Mittelpunkte echt deutscher Kultur im Elsaß. (3)Rufach, elsässische Landstadt zwischen Colmar und Schlettstadt. Die stattlichen Häuser lassen den ehemaligen Reichtum und die Bedeutung dieser kleinen elsässischen Städte erkennen. (50) [Abb.]: Die Hohkönigsburg. Blick in die Rheinebene. (51) [2 Abb.]: (1)Das Schratzmännle, benannt nach einem bösen Berggeist, der nach der Volkssage hier sein Unwesen treibt. Der über 1000 Meter hohe Berg gewährt einen weiten Überblick vom großen Belchen über den Hohneck bis zu dem Reichsackerkopf. (2)Unten: Blick vom Schratzmännle gegen den Barrenkopf. (52) [2 Abb.]: (1)Oben: Fliegeraufnahme vom Buchenkopf. Der Verlauf der in schmalem Keil zum Gipfel führenden Stellung läßt erkennen, wie schwer es für die Deutschen war, sich auf diesem Berge zu behaupten. Die Kämpfe um den Buchenkopf standen denen um den Hartmannsweiler- und Reichsackerkopf an Schwere nicht nach. - (2)Unten: Der Buchenkopf, von Süden her gesehen. (53) [2 Abb.]: (1)Oben: Geschützstand im Hochgebirge. (2)Unten: Stellung im Bergwald. (54) [2 Abb.]: (1)Oben: Hart am Feind. Der Franzose liegt auf Handgranatenwurfweite vom Sappenkopf entfernt. - (2)Unten: Unterstände für Kampfreserven. Starke Betondecken und gedeckte Lage im Walde geben ihnen ein hohes Maß von Sicherheit. (55) [2 Abb.]: (1)Der Schneeschuh gewährt im Winter die einzige Möglichkeit, sich über die Schneemassen fortzubewegen. (2)Unten: Artilleriebeobachtungsstand am Waldrand. (56) [2 Abb.]: (1)Vogesenlandschaft zur Zeit der Schneeschmelze. (2)Unten: Zwischen meterhohen Schneewänden führt der Weg in die Stellung. (57) [2 Abb.]: (1)Schnierlach im Weißbachtal. Der Bezirk Schnierlach - Diedolshausen war eine der wenigen elsässischen Gegenden mit überwiegend französisch sprechender Bevölkerung. (2)Unten: Diedolshausen. (58) [2 Abb.]: (1)Blick von der Grenzhöhe der Bressoir nach Norden in das Markircher Tal. (2)Unten: Markirch, ein industrierreicher Ort im Oberlauf des Lebertals, ringsum eingeengt durch steil ansteigende Höhen. (59) [2 Abb.]: (1)Oben: Die rückwärtigen deutschen Verbindungen auf diesem Frontabschnitt führten durch das Breuschtal auf Straßburg. - Saales, deutscher Grenzort am Beginn des Breuschtals. (2)Unten: Molsheim am Austritt des Breuschtals in die Rheinebene westlich von Straßburg. (60) [2 Abb.]: (1)Oben: Auf französischer Seite: Stellungen östlich St. Dié. - (2)Unten: Provenschères, am Fuße der Montagne d'Ormont. (61) [3 Abb.]: (1)La Montagne d'Ormont, ein das Hügelgelände der mittleren Vogesen beherrschender, weithin sichtbarer Berg in Form einer abgeschnittenen Pyramide. Die Aufnahme gibt eine gute Vorstellung der französischen Vogesenlandschaft zwischen St. Dié und Raon L'Etape: Weite Täler, flache, langgestreckte Hügelketten. Ein von der deutschen Vogesenlandschaft völlig verschiedenes Bild (2)Von Laufgräben durchzogene Gebirgslandschaft zwischen dem deutschen Grenzort Saales und dem auf der französischen Seite der Vogesen liegenden Colroy la Grande. Der Wechsel im Charakter der Landschaft tritt deutlich in die Erscheinung. (3)Unten: Le Beuley östlich St. Dié. Charakteristisch die romanische Bauart der Gehöfte. Im Hintergrund La Montagna d'Ormont. Auch dieses Bild veranschaulicht die Bedeutung der Vogesen als Grenzscheibe zweier wesensverschiedener Kulturlandschaften. (62 - 63) [Abb.]: Deutscher Kriegerfriedhof am Hartmannsweilerkopf. (64) [Karte]: Elsass-Lothringen ( - ) Der Krieg in den Kolonien ( - ) Vorwort ([1]) Deutsch-Ostafrika (3) Deutsch-Südwestafrika (13) Kamerun (23) Togo (32) Die deutschen Südsee-Inseln (33) Tsingtau (34) Deutsch-Ostafrika (1) [Abb.]: Die Bucht von Daressalam. - Die herrliche Hafenstadt, die Hauptstadt der Kolonie und der Sitz des Gouvernements und Kommandos der Schutztruppe, war unter deutscher Herrschaft zu einer der schönsten und saubersten Städte der gesamten afrikanischen Ostküste geworden. (1) [2 Abb.]: (1)Straße in der Europäerstadt von Daressalam. (2)Im Inderviertel. - Die Inder, deren Zahl etwa 9000 betrug, saßen in der Kolonie als Händler und Handwerker. (2) Abb.]: Dorfstraße im Nergerviertel. - Die Eingeborenen wohnten in geschlossenen Siedlungen außerhalb der Europäerstadt. (3) [Abb.]: Der über 6000 m hohe, schneebedeckte Gipfel des Kibo, ein erloschener Vulkan, ist die höchste Erhebung des Kilimandscharo und der höchste Berg Afrikas. Im Vordergrund eine Europäer-Farm. - Auf diesem Hochland, das zu den fruchtbarsten Gebieten der ganzen Kolonie gehört, hatten sich besonders deutsche und burische Farmer angesiedelt. (4) [2 Abb.]: (1)Auf den Höhen des Usambara-Gebirges. In der Tiefe die weite, endlose Steppe, das Kampfgebiet der Patrouillen. (2)Im Bergurwald des Kilimandscharo. Im Vordergrund ein von der Truppe durch das Dickicht geschlagener Etappenweg. (5) [2 Abb.]: (1)Westlich des Kilimandscharo erhebt sich der 4730 m hohe Kegel des Meru, ebenfalls vulkanischen Ursprungs. Am Fuße des Berges liegt Aruscha. Das weiße Gebäude am Ende der Hauptstraße ist die Boma, die Festung des Ortes. (2)Eine Askarikompanie im Standlager. - Die 14 Kompanien der Schutztruppe waren im Frieden über die Kolonie verteilt. (6) [2 Abb.]: (1)Mitte August besetzten die Deutschen die dicht an der Grenze gelegene englische Station Taveta, eine äußerst wertvolle Wasserstelle und ein wichtiger Ausgangspunkt für Patrouillenunternehmungen in die Steppe und zur Ugandabahn. (2)Eine Patrouille von 8-10 Askari unter Führung von 2-3 Europäern auf dem Marsch durch die wasserlose Steppe. (7) [2 Abb.]: (1)Zu Beginn des Krieges hatte die Truppe noch Zelte. Links im Hintergrund ein Europäerzelt. - Abendstimmung. (2)Askari und Träger am Lagerfeuer. Später traten Grashütten an Stelle der Zelte. - In der Mitte ein Soldatenweib. (8) [2 Abb.]: (1)Trägerkolonne auf dem Marsch. Die Träger bildeten das wichtigste Beförderungsmittel in Deutsch-Ostafrika. (2)Auf der Rast. Müde von des Tages Last und Arbeit kauern die braven Träger im Busch. Waffenlos mußten sie die MG.- und Munitionslasten bis in die Schützenlinie und ins feindliche Feuer schleppen. Sie hatten oft schwere Verluste. (9) [2 Abb.]: (1)Das englisch-indische Expeditionskorps läuft im Hafen von Tanga ein, ein Augenblick höchster Gefahr. Rechts, ganz im Hintergrund, der englische Kreuzer "Fox" am Kap Ras Kazone, an dem die Landung der englischen Truppen erfolgte. (2)Der Sturm der deutschen Askaria. - In Front und Flanke angegriffen, geriet die englische Linie in Völlige Auflösung. (10) [2 Abb.]: (1)Das Schlachtfeld von Tanga. Der verwüstete Palmenwald gibt ein deutliches Bild von der Schwere des Kampfes. (2)"Hier ruhen 13 deutsche Helden an der Stelle, wo sie am 4. November 1914 für die Größe des Vaterlandes fielen." (11) [3 Abb.]: (1)Nordwestlich vom Kilimandscharo erhebt sich aus der freien Steppe der langgestreckte Bergrücken des Longido, der von Deutschen besetzt wurde. Der Steinhügel im Vordergrund ist ein Europäergrab. (2)Askari in Schützenlöchern am Longido. Die Schwarzen passen sich dem steinigen Steppengelände ausgezeichnet an. (3)Askari und Träger an einer Wasserstelle. Die Wasserversorgung bereitete in der Steppe oft größte Schwierigkeiten. (12 - 13) [2 Abb.]: (1)Endlos schlängelt sich die Marschkolonne durch die weite, fast baumlose Massaisteppe im Westen des Kilimandscharo. (2)Marschkolonne am Natronsee. Tausende von Trägern befördern Wasser, Proviant und Munition für die Schutztruppe. (14) [2 Abb.]: (1)Verteidigungsstellung mit zwei übereinanderliegenden Schützengräben, die mühsam in die Lava eingebrochen sind. (2)Maschinengewehrstellung am Engare Nairobi am Nordwestabhang des Kilimandscharo. Blick in die Serengetisteppe. Der lange, dünne Strich in der Ebene (Mitte des Bildes) kennzeichnet einen von der Truppe angelegten Dornverhau. (15) [3 Abb.]: (1)Eine Askarikompanie am Ufer des Viktoriasees. - Gleich nach Kriegsbeginn hatt sich an der ganzen Westgrenze der Kolonie kleinere Abteilungen gebildet, die unabhängig von der Hauptmacht der Schutztruppe den dort vordringenden Engländern und Belgiern anderthalb Jahre lang in zahlreichen Einzelgefechten erfolgreich Widerstand leistete. (2)Landschaft im Nordosten der Kolonie. Das Bergland von Ruanda am Ostufer des insel- und buchtenreichen Kiwusees. (3)Blick auf Stadt und Hafen Muansa am Südufer des Victoriasees. (16 - 17) [2 Abb.]: (1)Blick auf Tabora, den Sammelpunkt der nach dem Süden zum Mahenge-Hochland zurückweichenden Westtruppen. (2)Südlich von Morongoro erhebt sich das mächtige Uluguru-Gebirge, das Rückzugsgebiet der Hauptmacht unter Lettow-Vorbeck. Zu beiden Seiten des Gebirges und im Süden bei Kissaki spielten sich im September 1916 furchtbare Kämpfe ab. (18) [2 Abb.]: (1)Oben: Askari-Unteroffizier. - (2)Unten: Am Baumverbau im Kampfgebiet des Mahenge-Hochlandes. (19) [2 Abb.]: (1)Das Wrack der "Königsberg" in der Rufiji-Mündung. Der kleine Kreuzer hatte in den ersten Monaten des Krieges zunächst erfolgreich Handelskrieg im Indischen Ozean geführt. Nach Verbrauch der Kohlenvorräte zog er sich in das unübersichtliche Delta des Rufiji zurück. Dort wurde er nach zehnmonatiger Blockade durch englische Kriegsschiffe und nach heftiger Beschießung im Juli 1915 von der eigenen Besatzung gesprengt. Die Besatzung trat zur Schutztruppe über. (2)Das Wrack des Dampfleichters "Hedwig", der den kleinen Kreuzer "Königsberg" mit Kohlen versorgt hat, in einem der zahlreichen Flußarme der weitverzweigten Rufijimündung. Dieses Wrack wurde erst im Jahre 1921 entdeckt. (20) [2 Abb.]: (1)Aus Marinetruppengebildeter Delta-Schutz an der Rufiji-Mündung, der dem Feind die Einfahrt in den Fluß versperrt. (2)!0,5-cm-Geschütz der "Königsberg", auf eine fahrbare Lafette montiert, auf der Lukigurabrücke. - Hunderte von Eingeborenen zogen die geretteten Geschütze der "Königsberg" ins Innere, zum Teil bis in den Norden der Kolonie. (21) Deutsch-Südwestafrika (22) [2 Abb.]: (1)Windhuk, die Hauptstadt der Kolonie, liegt im Inneren des Hochlandes in einem Talkessel. - Noch heute trägt die fast 5000 Einwohner zählende Europäerstadt rein deutschen Charakter. Auf der Höhe im Hintergrund das Regierungsgebäude. (2)Die letzte Parade vor dem Gouverneur. Dr. Seitz anläßlich der fünfundzwanzigjahrfeier der Kolonie im Juni 1914. (22) [3 Abb.]: (1)Oben: Auf der Fahrt zur Front. (2)Artillerie, mit Maultierbespannung, rollt nach dem Süden. (3)Eine Munitionskolonne verläßt Windhuk, den Sammelpunkt der Truppenteile des Nordbezirks. (23) [2 Abb.]: (1)Sonnenübergossen liegt Ramansdrift im breiten Tal des Oranje, auf beiden Seiten von hohen Bergen eingeschlossen. (2)Maschinengewehrzug in den Oranjebergen. Der Süden gehört zu den regenärmsten Siedlungsgebieten der Kolonie. (24) [2 Abb.]: (1)Lüderitzbucht. Die inmitten der Wüste an zwei Buchten gelegene Stadt hatte einen guten Hafen, war aber wasserlos. (2)Wanderdünen an der Küste bei Lüderitzbucht, das Patrouillengelände der schwachen deutschen Küstenschutzabteilung. (25) [2 Abb.]: (1)Die Namib-Wüste bei Tschaukaib, 70 km östlich von Lüderitzbucht, wo sich lange Zeit ein feindliches Lager befand. (2)Deutscher Flieger bewirft das Zeltlager der Buren bei Tschaukaib mit Bomben. - Auf dem Bild links die Bahnlinie. (26) [2 Abb.]: (1)Um dem Gegner das Vordringen durch wasserlose Wüste nach Möglichkeit zu erschweren, wurde die Eisenbahnlinie von Lüderitzbucht ab von den Deutschen auf ihrem Rückzuge an zahlreichen Stellen gesprengt. (27) [2 Abb.]: (1)Das Bild zeigt eine typische Landschaft aus der Gegend von Keettmanshoop. Im Vordergrund Kandelaber-Euphorbien. (2)Auf Patrouille. - Die Kamelreiter wurden an der Südostgrenze und in der Namib zu Patrouillendiensten verwandt. (28) [2 Abb.]: (1)Mole von Swakopmund. Da die schwere Brandung die Landung auf der offenen Reede sehr erschwerte, baute die Schutztruppe 1905 eine 300 m lange hölzerne Brücke in das Meer hinaus, die es ermöglichte, bei jedem Seegang zu landen. (2)Swakopmund, der Hafenplatz für die Mitte und den Norden und der Ausgangspunkt der Otawi-Bahn. (29) [2 Abb.]: (1)In der Namib bei Swakopmund. - Ähnlich wie im Süden liegt auch hier an der Küste eine Zone von Wanderdünen. (2)An der Otawi-Bahn. - Mit großer Schnelligkeit stellte der Feind bei seinem Vormarsch durch die Namib die von der Schutztruppe zerstörten Bahnen wieder her. Im Hintergrund ein zum Schutz der Bahn errichtetes englisches Blickhaus. (30) [2 Abb.]: (1)Swakoptal bei Goanikontes. Etwa 30 Kilometer oberhalb der Mündung durchbricht der Fluß ein wildzerklüftetes, ödes Bergland. Wasserreichtum und fruchtbares Schwemmland ermöglichen im Tal den Anbau von Obst, Gemüse und Luzerne; eine Oase in der Steinwüste. - Der Platz war bis Ende Februar 1915 ein wertvoller Stützpunkt für die Schutztruppe. (2)Patrouille am Swakop-Rivier. - In Deutsch-Südwest waren Maultier- und Ochsenwagen das Haupttransportmittel. (31) [2 Abb.]: (1)Bahnstation Khan im Khan-Gebirge. - Auch im Norden erheben sich am Ostrande der Namib schroffe Gebirgszüge. (2)Karibib, die erste größere Stadt auf der Hochebene der Kolonie. Sie wurde am 5. Mai 1915 vom Feinde besetzt. (32) [2 Abb.]: (1)Artillerieabteilung auf der Rast. Die Giraffenakazie bietet den Mannschaften nur spärlichen Schutz vor der Sonne. (2)Feldhaubitz-Batterie auf dem Marsch. Für den Transport der Geschütze wurden in den meisten Fällen Ochsen verwandt. (33) [3 Abb.]: (1)Keetmanshoop. Weitläufig gebaut, wie alle südwestafrikanischen Städte und Ortschaften, liegt dieser wichtige Eisenbahnknotenpunkt auf der flachen, fast baumlosen Hochebene. - Hier sammelten sich die deutschen Truppen auf ihrem Marsche nach Norden. Die Stadt wurde am 19. April 1915 geräumt. (2)Rietfontein. Auch von Osten stieß gleichzeitig eine englische Abteilung durch die Kalahari auf Rietfontein vor und bedrohte die Südtruppen im Rücken. - Eine typische Trockenlandschaft. Die Steppe ist fast ohne Vegetation. (3)Die gleiche Landschaft zur Regenzeit. Aus dem trockenen, gelben Sande sprießt plötzlich üppiges Gras, das ganze Land überzieht sich mit einem hellen Grün. - Die gute Regenzeit 1914/15 erleichterte dem Feinde den Vormarsch sehr. (34 - 35) [2 Abb.]: (1)Typische südwestafrikanische Buschsteppe mit Giraffenakazien. - Die freie, offene Steppe war überall passierbar. In diesem Gelände drang der Feind auf Pferden, Kamelen und Kraftwagen mit außerordentlicher Schnelligkeit vor. (2)Auf dem Komas-Hochland südlich des oberen Swakop. - Wilde Felsen, tiefe Schluchten, bewaldete Täler, kahle Berge, in der Ferne wellige, blau verdämmernde Höhenzüge, das ist das charakteristische Bild dieser romantischen Landschaft. (36) [2 Abb.]: (1)Kamelreiterpatrouille an der Ostgrenze der Kolonie am Steilabhang eines Riviers lagernd. (2)Reiterkolonne auf dem Marsch durch Karibib. - In Deutsch-Südwest war die fechtende Truppe durchweg beritten. (37) [2 Abb.]: (1)Der Waterberg, berühmt durch die Kämpfe im Hererokrieg, liegt im landschaftlich schönsten Teil des Nordostgebietes. (2)Truppenstation Otawifontein. Hier leistete die Schutztruppe dem nachdrängenden Gegner den letzten Widerstand. (38) [2 Abb.]: (1)Im Otawibergland. Im Gegensatz zu den lichten Steppen der Mitte und des Südens ist im Nordosten das Land weit und breit mit dichtem Busch bewachsen. - In dieser Gegend vollendete sich das Schicksal von Deutsch-Südwestafrika. (2)Soldatenfriedhof bei Aus. Hier ruhen 60 deutsche und 64 englische Soldaten, an Grippe gestorben im Gefangenenlager. (39) Kamerun (40) [Abb.]: An der Küste von Kamerun. - Im Inneren der malerischen Bucht liegt die Hafen- und Plantagenstadt Viktoria. (40) [2 Abb.]: (1)Der kleine Kamerunberg. In mehreren Terrassen erhebt sich an der Küste das über 4000 m hohe Vulkanmassiv des Kamerunberges, das Wahrzeichen der Kolonie. - Im Vordergrund des Bildes liegt eine Bananenpflanzung. (2)Die Küste bei Bota am Westabhang des Kamerunberges. Jahrzehntelange deutsche Kolonialarbeit hat hier aus dem tropischen Urwald ein fruchtbares Kulturland mit ausgedehnten, modernen Pflanzungsanlagen geschaffen. (41) [2 Abb.]: (1)Längs der Küste von Kamerun erstreckt sich ein dichter Urwaldgürtel, das Kampfgebiet der Küstentruppen. (2)Bei Johann-Albrechtshöhe liegt inmitten immergrünen Urwalds der märchenhafte Elefantensee, ein erloschener Krater. (42) [2 Abb.]: (1)Lianenbrücke. Im Küstengebiet dienten diese an Bäumen befestigten und geflochtenen Brücken als Flußübergang. (2)Küstenfluß in der Urwaldzone. Bis zu den Stromschnellen drang der Feind auf Flußdampfern in den Urwald vor. (43) [2 Abb.]: (1)Typische Kulturlandschaft auf dem Hochplateau Mittelkameruns, wo die Urwaldzone in Gras- und Parklandschaft übergeht. In diesem offenen Gelände war der Feind auf die Dauer den Deutschen mit seiner Artillerie überlegen. (2)Tal des Mao-Deo-Flusses bei Kontscha. - Unendlich dehnen sich die Grasflächen im Norden aus. Das Land ist gesund, fruchtbar und viehreich, es bietet für die europäische Ansiedlung noch unabsehbare Möglichkeiten. (44) [2 Abb.]: (1)Die Besatzung von Garua hatte die Verteidigung auf eine Hügelkette gelegt, die sich nördlich der Stadt aus der Benuë-Ebene erhob. - Blick auf die Schanze III von Süden. In der Mitte der Kanonenstand. (2)Berittene Abteilung in Garua vor dem Kanonenhügel. Im Gegensatz zu den dicht bewachsenen Niederungen der Küste und des Südens konnten auf den offenen Steppen des Hochlandes auch berittene Kompanien verwendet werden. (45) [2 Abb.]: (1)Blick von der Schanze IV auf den Ring der Schanzen III, II, I. In monatelanger, mühsamer Arbeit wurden auf der Hügelkette aus Erde, Sand und Steinen Befestigungsanlagen geschaffen, die für Infanterieangriffe uneinnehmbar waren. (2)Die Besatzung der sogenannten Kuhstallschanze in Alarmstellung. Rechts auf dem Bilde ein Maschinengewehr-Stand. (46) [2 Abb.]: (1)Die durch einen dicken Wall aus Gras und Erde verstärkte Backsteinmauer des Reduits, von Norden her gesehen. (2)Das Innere des Reduits mit dem Residentenhaus. - In diesem unbeschreiblichen Durcheinander hausten eng zusammengepfercht die Soldaten. - Im Süden jenseits des Benuë die Bogle-Berge, wo sich die Stellung der Engländer befand. (47) [2 Abb.]: (1)Kolonialtruppen und Träger in Marschkolonne beim Übergang über den Mao Ntelo auf dem Ngaundere-Hochland. (2)Jaunde, seit Mitte November 1914 der Sitz des Huptquartiers und das Zentrum der deutschen Verteidigung. (48) Togo (49) [2 Abb.]: (1)Lome, die Hauptstadt der Kolonie, war zu einer der schönsten Hafenstädte der afrikanischen Westküste geworden. (2)Marktplatz in Lome mit typischen Europäerhäusern. Eingeborene Händler bieten in Verkaufsständen ihre Waren an. (49) Die deutschen Südsee-Inseln (50) [2 Abb.]: (1)Blick auf Markhamebene in Kaiser-Wilhelm-Land auf Neu-Guinea. Der Markhamfluß mündet in den Huon-Golf. (2)Straße in Rabaul auf Neu-Pommern, Sitz des Gouverneurs von Neu-Guinea. (50) [2 Abb.]: (1)Missionsdorf bei Rabaul. - Auf Neu-Guinea und Neu-Pommern waren nur die Küstengebiete von Europäern besiedelt. (2)Blick auf Apia, die Hauptstadt von Samoa und Sitz des Gouverneurs. (51) Tsingtau (52) [2 Abb.]: (1)Tsingtau. Der Eingang zur Bucht und zum Hafen war nur auf der Stadtseite durch Befestigungsanlagen geschützt. (2)Bismarckstraße in Tsingtau. Im Hintergrund die 3-4 km breite Einfahrt in die Kiautschou-Bucht mit Kap Jäschke. (52) [2 Abb.]: (1)Landung japanischer Truppen in der außerhalb des Schutzgebietes gelegenen Lauschanbucht bei Wangkotschwang. (2)Deutsches Genesungsheim "Mecklenburghaus" im Lauschangebirge, wo die ersten Kämpfe mit den Japanern stattfanden. (53) [2 Abb.]: (1)Batterie reitender Feldartillerie auf dem Marsch im Vorgelände von Tsingtau. (2)Deutsche Infanterie in Schützenlinie in Erwartung des feindlichen Angriffs. (54) [2 Abb.]: (1)Stacheldrahtverhau in versumpfter Niederung im Vorfeld der Festung. (2)Vormarsch der Japaner. Antransport von Belagerungsgerät auf einer von Kulis betriebenen Feldbahn. (55) [Abb.]: Unvergessenes Land. (56) [9 Karten]: (1)Koloniale Kriegsschauplätze (2)Lagekärtchen der deutschen Kolonien (3)Schutzgebiet Kiautschou (4)Samoa-Inseln (5)Togo u. Kamerun (6)Deutsch-Südwestafrika (7)Deutsch-Ostafrika (8)Deutsche Südseekolonien (9)Kaiser Wilhelms-Land und Bismarck-Archipel ( - ) Der Seekrieg ( - ) Vorwort ([1]) Vom Frieden in den Krieg (1) [Abb.]: Der Kaiser ist eingetroffen, englische und deutsche Kriegsschiffe begrüßen ihn mit Salut. Der weiße Pulverdampf zieht über den Hafen. Im Flaggenschmuck liegen die Segel- und Dampfjachten. Eine festliche Menschenmenge säumt das Ufer. (1) [2 Abb.]: (1)Deutsche U-Boote neben ihren Mutterschiffen an der Kieler Hafenbrücke. Ihre Gesamtzahl betrug zu Kriegsbeginn 20. (2)In Langer Reihe liegen die mächtigen Schiffe der Hochseeflotte an den Bojen. In wenigen Stunden sind sie gefechtsbereit. (2) [2 Abb.]: (1)Der Mobilmachungsbefehl trifft ein, Es ergeht der Befehl: "Alle Mann an Board!" Die Angehörigen geben das Geleit. (2)Zur gleichen Zeit liegen große Teile der englischen Hochseeflotte in dem schottischen Hafen Firth of Forth versammelt. (3) [Abb.]: Blick auf die großen Werftanlagen von Wilhelmshaven. Am 17. Juni 1869 eingeweiht, hat der Kriegshafen an der Nordsee eine stürmische Aufwärtsentwicklung erlebt. Riesige Hafenbecken und Schleusenanlagen, Docks und Magazine, Werkstätten und Hellinge die Instandhaltung und Versorgung der gesamten Hochseeflotte. Zahlreiche gelungene Neubauten gingen aus der Bauwerft hervor. Drei Einfahrten führten auf die Jade hinaus, eine vierte war geplant. (4 - 5) [2 Abb.]: (1)Die Insel Helgoland, seit 1890 deutscher Besitz, war ein wichtiger Vorposten der deutschen Marineverteidigung. Ihre schwere Bewaffnung und starke Besatzung machten sie zur uneinnehmbaren Festung. Ansicht vor Beginn des Hafenbaues. (2)Stürmischer Südwest fegt die See über die Brandungsmauer der im Bau begriffenen gewaltigen Hafenanlagen. (6) [2 Abb.]: (1)Eine Salve der Helgoländer schweren Geschütze (Südgruppe, vier 30,5 cm). Leider hatten sie im Kriege keine Gelegenheit einzugreifen. Nur einmal, am 24. November 1914, schossen sie, jedoch war die Entfernung zum Feinde zu weit. (2)Der fertige Hafen bot Liegeplätze für 18 Unterseeboote und 90 Torpedoboote und Versorgung mit Wasser, Brennstoff und Vorräten aller Art. Ein technisches Wunderwerk, bei Freidensschluß auf Befehl der Entente sinnlos zerstört. (7) Das Meer (8) [2 Abb.]: (1)Ein Unterseeboot bei grober See in Überwasserfahrt. Im Hintergrunde Helgoland. (2)Der Wind erreichte Stärke 7. Der Seegang wächst, starke Wellen wandern, Berge und Täler bildend, an dem Schiff entlang. (8) [2 Abb.]: (1)Kleinere Fahrzeuge, wie Minensuchboote, verschwinden hinter den sich türmenden Wogen. (2)Ein Brecher fegt über die Back (Vorschiff) eines Linienschiffes, das in ruhiger Bewegung gegen die See andampft. (9) Die Flotte in See (10) [2 Abb.]: (1)Das II. Geschwader, im Vordergrund Linienschiff "Westfalen" (1908 vom Stapel gelaufen, 18900 Tonnen, 20 Knoten) (2)Linienschiff "Baden" das letzte deutsche Flottenflaggschiff (1915 vom Stapel gelaufen, 28600 Tonnen, 21 Knoten) (10) [2 Abb.]: (1)Die Flotte übt Schwenkungen im Kielwasser. Auf größte Genauigkeit in den Bewegungen wurde besonderer Wert gelegt. (2)Torpedoboote haben angegriffen und kehren, die eigene Linie durchbrechend, zurück. Links im Hintergrund der Gegner. (11) Minen und Minensucher (12) [2 Abb.]: (1)Oben: Eine Minensuch-Halbflottille in See. (2)Unten: Torpedo-Minensuchboot "A 88" dampft auf. (12) [2 Abb.]: (1)Eine Ladung Minen. Man sieht die "Bleikappen" mit den Zündungen. Darunter liegt der Sprengkörper (150 - 200 kg). (2)Eine Seemine explodiert. Die mächtige Rauch- und Wassersäule kennzeichnet die ungeheure Wirkung der Detonation. (13) In fernen Meeren (14) [2 Abb.]: (1)Kreuzer "Emden" kämpfte im Indischen Ozean; seine Beute betrug 17 Dampfer, einen Kreuzer und ein Torpedoboot. (2)Landungskorps der "Emden" hat die Funkstation auf den Kokos-Keeling-Inseln zerstört. - Aber der Feind war nahe. (14) [2 Abb.]: (1)Der starke englische Kreuzer "Sydney" vernichtete die "Emden" am 9. November 1914. Ihr Wrack liegt auf den Felsen. (2)Das Landungskorps der "Emden" unter Kapitänleutnant v. Mücke kaperte den Schoner "Ayesha", ging mit ihm in See und erreichte über Sumatra und Arabien im abenteuerlichen Wechsel von Kampf, Seefahrt und Marsch Konstantinopel. (15) [2 Abb.]: (1)Graf Spee hat den Feind bei Coronel am 17. November 1914 geschlagen. "Die "Scharnhorst" bei Kohlenübernahme. (2)Das Kreuzergeschwader im Hafen von Valparaiso. Es bestand aus den Panzerkreuzern "Scharnhorst" und "Gneisenau" (4 Schornsteine) und den Kreuzern "Nürnberg", "Leipzig", "Dresden". Neben den deutschen ankern chilenische Schiffe. (16) [2 Abb.]: (1)Admiral Graf Spee geht mit dem deutschen Konsul zu Besuchen bei den chilenischen Behörden in Valparaiso an Land. (2)Englisches Geschwader, das die weit unterlegenen deutschen Schiffe am 8. Dez. 1914 bei den Falklandinseln vernichtete. (17) [2 Abb.]: (1)Befestigungsanlagen von Anadoli-Kavak, darüber der Schatten eines Zeppelins. Die türkischen Festungen stammen meist aus älterer, zum Teil mittelalterlicher Zeit. Sie wurden mit deutscher Hilfe zeitgemäß verstärkt und ausgebaut. (2)Unten: Schlachtkreuzer "Goeben" im Bosporus in Ruhestellung. Das mächtige Schiff bildete seit seinem Übergang in türkische Dienste den Kern der osmanischen Seemacht. Es gelang den feindlichen Anstrengungen nicht, es zu vernichten. Noch heute ist es als "Javus Selim" in Dienst. (18) [2 Abb.]: (1)Schlachtkreuzer "Goeben" und der kleine Kreuzer "Breslau" in der Stenia-Bucht am Bosporus. Aus Sicherheitsgründen mußte der Liegeplatz öfters gewechselt werden. (2)Unten: Die beiden Schiffe auf hoher See im Schwarzen Meer. In zahlreichen Gefechten behauptete das stolze Paar die Seeherrschaft gegenüber einer starken russischen Übermacht. (19) [2 Abb.]: (1)Deutsches Unterseeboot "UC 25" mit türkischer Flagge im Bosporus. (2)Der Dardanellenangriff mit 20 Linienschiffen der Alliierten ist abgeschlagen. Englisches Linienschiff "Irresistibele" sinkt am 18. März 1915, dazu zwei andere; drei sind schwer beschädigt, drei weitere werden etwas später versenkt. (20) [2 Abb.]: (1)LZ 81 verläßt die Luftschiffhalle in Temesvar zu einer Aufklärungsfahrt über das Schwarze Meer. (2)LZ 87 landet auf dem Luftschiffhafen in Tondern (Schleswig) nach einer Aufklärungsfahrt über die Nordsee. Die Hülle des Luftschiffes ist durch Wolkenschattenbemalung getarnt. (21) Krieg in der Nordsee (22) [2 Abb.]: (1)Ausfahrt zum Vorstoß: Panzerkreuzer "Blücher" und Kreuzer "Rostock", begleitet von 19 Torpedobooten auf dem Marsch. (2)Die deutschen Schlachtkreuzer im Gefecht. Rechts die mächtigen Wassersäulen eingeschlagener schwerer englischer Granaten. (22) [2 Abb.]: (1)"Blücher" ist überwältigt und sinkt. Er kämpfte bis zum letzten Augenblick. Nur 260 Mann konnten gerettet werden. (2)Eine Torpedobootsflottille in hoher Fahrt. (23) Skagerrakschlacht, 31. Mai 1916 (24) [2 Abb.]: (1)Ausfahrt der Flotte zur Schlacht. (2)Höchste Fahrt, dem Feind entgegen. Die Sicht ist durch Rauch und Dunst verhüllt. (24) [2 Abb.]: (1)Eine schwere Salve. (2)Ein Gefechtsbild vom II. Geschwader, Schiffe der "Deutschland"-Klasse im Vordergrund. (25) [3 Abb.]: (1)Gefechtsbild mit durchbrechenden Torpedobooten. Links im Hintergrund der Gegner. - Manöverbild zur Erläuterung taktischer Lagen. (2)Vernichtung des Schlachtkreuzers "Queen Mary" (27400 t, 28,5 Knoten, acht 34,3-cm-, zwölf 15,2-cm-Geschütze, 5 Torpedorohre) und "Indefatigable". In Sekunden sind die Schiffe verschwunden, eine Rauchwolke bezeichnet ihr Grab. (3)Den englischen Schlachtkreuzer "Invincible" (20300 t, 27 Knoten, acht 30,5-cm-, sechzehn 10,2-cm-Geschütze, 5 Torpedorohre) trifft in der Skagerrakschlacht das gleiche Schicksal. (26 - 27) Nach der Schlacht (28) [2 Abb.]: (1)Schwerer Treffer gegen ein Geschützrohr. (2)Schlachtkreuzer "Seydlitz" blieb trotz vieler schwerer Treffer schwimmfähig und war bald wieder verwendungsbereit. (28) [Abb.]: Auf "Derfflinger" war ein Volltreffer auf ein Geschützrohr aufgeschlagen und hatte es glatt abgerissen. (29) Hilfe für Finnland (30) [2 Abb.]: (1)Treibeis im Hafen von Pernau. Links von den Russen als Hafensperre versenkte Schiffe. (2)In Helfingfors, Nordhafen und Werft. (30) [2 Abb.]: (1)Im Treibeis des finnischen Meerbusens versinkender russischer Frachtdampfer. (2)Deutsche Eisbrecher bei der Arbeit. (31) U-Bootskrieg (32) [2 Abb.]: (1)Das Boot des Kapitänleutnants Weddigen, "U 9", mit dem er am 22. September 1914 in einem mit höchstem Schneid durchgeführten Angriff die englischen Panzerkreuzer "Aboukir", "Cressy" und "Hogue" kurz hintereinander versenkte. (2)Der Panzerkreuzer "Aboukir" (12200 t, 22 Knoten, zwei 23,4-cm-, zwölf 15-cm-Geschütze, 2 Torpedorohre, gebaut 1900). (32) [2 Abb.]: (1)Ein kleines U-Boot auf See bei einem größeren längsseits, um von ihm Vorräte und Mitteilungen zu empfangen. (2)Blick auf zwei Torpedorohre im Bootsinneren. Das linke Rohr ist geöffnet, die Propeller des Torpedos sind sichtbar. (33) [2 Abb.]: (1)"U 66" in See (50 t, 13 Knoten, ein 10,5-cm-Geschütz, 5 Rohre). Der weiße Kreis ist Erkennungszeichen für Flieger. (2)Ein Handelsschiff wird angehalten. (34) [2 Abb.]: (1)Die Besatzung längsseits, wird versorgt und erhält Anweisungen über Schiffsort und Kurs zum nächsten Hafen. (2)Das von der Besatzung verlassene Schiff wird versenkt. (35) [2 Abb.]: (1)Oben: Ein Dampfer ist torpediert und bricht entzwei. - (2)Unten: Ein Dampfer mit Fässern kentert bei der Versenkung. (36) [2 Abb.]: (1)"U 35" kehrt von der Fahrt heim, durch zahlreiche Flaggen zeigt es nach Art siegreicher Jachten die Ziffer seiner Erfolge an: so viele Siegesflaggen, so viele versenkte Schiffe. (2)Unten: Die Schiffsraumnot zwang den Feindbund, alle irgendwie seetüchtigen Schiffe zur Kriegsversorgung heranzuziehen. Für die Unterseeboote waren Segelschiffe leichte Beute. In Eile wurde stets das Schiff verlassen, mit vollen Segeln mußte es zur Tiefe fahren, für Freund und Feind ein bewegender Anblick. (37) [2 Abb.]: (1)Deutsches Seeflugzeug tauscht Mitteilungen mit einem U-Boot aus. (2)Das englische Unterseeboot "C 25" inmitten von Bombentreffern deutscher Flieger. Abwehrgeschütze gab es noch nicht. (38) [2 Abb.]: (1)Ein feindlicher Dampfer seitlich gegen Torpedierung gedeckt. (2)Auf hoher See geschieht die wichtige Ortsbestimmung durch nautische Messungen. Es ist heiß in der Mittagssonne! (39) Im Mittelmeer (40) [2 Abb.]: (1)Ein Sonnenaufgang an der afrikanischen Küste, vom U-Boot gesehen. (2)U-Bootfahrt längs der marokkanischen Küste. Am Ufer erheben sich die mächtigen Höhenzüge des Atlasgebirges. (40) [2 Abb.]: (1)An der Einfahrt zur inneren Bucht von Cattaro. (2)Vor der dalmatinischen Hafenstadt Trau, von deren einstiger Größe herrliche Baudenkmäler noch Zeugnis ablegen. (41) An der Küste von Flandern (42) [2 Abb.]: (1)Bei einem englischen Sperrversuch am 22./23. April 1918 wurden alte Kreuzer in der Einfahrt von Seebrügge versenkt. (2)Die Ausfahrt war nahezu versperrt, wurde aber bald wieder freigemacht. (42) [2 Abb.]: (1)Der Kreuzer "Vindictive" ist bei einem zweiten Sperrversuch am 10. Mai 1918 an der Ostmole von Ostende gestrandet. (2)Deutsche Torpedoboote laufen aus. (43) [2 Abb.]: (1)Eine eingebaute Marine-Batterie nahe der holländischen Grenze. (2)Ein Marine-Unterstand am Strande. (44) [2 Abb.]: (1)Deutsche Torpedoboote im Hafen von Ostende. (2)Ein abgeschossenes Luftschiff wird nach Seebrügge eingeschleppt. (45) Das Ende des Seekrieges (46) [2 Abb.]: (1)Die U-Boote vom Mittelmehr sind nach Kiel heimgekehrt, trotzig und unbezwungen. Auch ihr Krieg ist jetzt zu Ende. (2)Die Hochseeflotte in Scapa Flow, vom Feinde eng bewacht. (46) [2 Abb.]: (1)Das Linienschiff "Bayern" im Sinken. Die Besatzung hat das Schiff unmittelbar vorher in den Booten verlassen. (2)Das Ende der Torpedoboote. (47) [Abb.]: Am Eingang der Kieler Förde, auf dem hohen Ufer bei Laboe, erhebt sich das Ehrenzeichen des Seekriegs und der kaiserlichen Marine. Einem ragenden Schiffssteven gleich blickt es in die Ferne, ein Sinnbild stolzer Trauer über versunkene Größe und zugleich der festen Hoffnung auf eine neue rumvolle Zukunft. (48) [7 Karten]: (1)Europa Gesamtfront (2)Kriegsschauplatz der Nordsee (3)Seeschlacht an der Doggerbank 24. I. 1915 (4) Kampf um die Dardanellen (5)Seeschlacht bei Coronel 1. XI. 1914 (6)Seeschlacht bei den Falkland-Inseln 8. XII. 1914 (7)Kreuzfahrt d. deutschen Kl. Kreuzers "Emden" Sept-Nov 1914 ( - ) Einband ( - ) Einband ( - )

ILLUSTRIERTE GESCHICHTE DES WELTKRIEGES 1914/15. NEUNTER BAND. Illustrierte Geschichte des Weltkrieges (-) Illustrierte Geschichte des Weltkrieges 1914/15. Neunter Band. (Neunter Band) ( - ) Einband ( - ) [Abb.]: Zurück zur Arbeit! ( - ) Titelseite ([I]) Inhaltsverzeichnis. ([III]) Kunstbeilagen. (IV) Karten. (IV) Kriegskalender zur Original-Einbanddecke der Illustrierten Geschichte des Weltkrieges 1914/19. Neunter Band enthaltend die Ereignisse vom 1. Juli 1918 bis 28. Juni 1919. ( - ) Juli. ( - ) August. ( - ) September. ( - ) Oktober. ( - ) November. Dezember. Januar 1919. ( - ) Februar. März. April. Mai. Juni. ( - ) Die Geschichte des Weltkrieges 1914/18. Heft 201 (Heft 201) ([1]) [Abb.]: Deutsche Truppen durchschreiten im Vorgehen die eigenen Artillerielinien. ([1]) [Abb.]: Gefangener englischer Beobachtungsoffizier mit Tarnkappenmaske. (2) [Abb.]: Chateau-Thierry, von einem deutschen Flieger einen Tag vor der Besetzung durch die Deutschen aufgenommen. Man sieht, daß das Städtchen vollkommen unzerstört ist. (3) [Abb.]: Türkische Kavallerie bei der Verfolgung der auf dem östlichen Jordanufer geschlagenen Engländer. (4 - 5) [Abb.]: Prinz Wahid Eddin Efendi, jüngerer Bruder des verstorbenen türkischen Sultans Mohammed V., erhielt als dessen Nachfolger den Namen Mohammed VI. (6) Illustrierte Kriegsberichte. (6) Das deutsch-österreichisch-ungarische Wirtschaftsbündnis. (6) [5 Abb.]: (1)Kampfflieger Oberleutn. Göhring, Ritter des Ordens Pour le Mérite. (2)Leutnant Veltjens, erfolgreicher deutscher Kampfflieger. (3)Leutnant Jacobs, erfolgreicher deutscher Kampfflieger. (4)Kampfflieger Leutnant Pütter, Ritter des Ordens Pour le Mérite. (5)Der Marktplatz von Brügge, von einem deutschen Flugzeuge aus aufgenommen. Anläßlich des Markttages ist auf dem Platz ein reger Verkehr bemerkbar. (7) [Abb.]: Ein italienischer Flieger wird von einem eroberten italienischen Abwehrturm aus mittels eines österreichisch-ungarischen Maschinengewehrs beschossen. (8) Die deutschen Luftstreitkräfte in der Aisne-Schlacht. (8) [Abb.]: Nächtlicher französischer Angriff auf deutsche Stellungen. ( - ) [Abb.]: Die Schwierigkeiten des österreichisch-ungarischen Vormarsches im Piavedelta. Geschütztransport durch eine überschwemmte Ortschaft. Im Vordergrunde italienische Gefangene. ([9]) [Abb.]: Deutsche Luftschifferabteilung im Vormarsch auf Ham. (10) [3 Abb.]: Bei einer deutschen Feldluftschifferabteilung. (1)Oberes Bild: Landung des Ballonbeobachters nach dem Absprung mit dem Fallschirm. Die Fallschirmleinen haben sich in einem Baum verfangen. (2)Mittleres Bild: Maschinengewehr zur Abwehr feindlicher Flieger bei einem verankerten Fesselballon. (3)Unteres Bild: Der Beobachter fertig zum Aufstieg im Korbe. Er hat über dem Kopf an Bügeln die Telephonhörer, um den Leib den Gurt für den Fallschirmabsprung, rechts außen am Korbe ist der Fallschirm sichtbar, links das Kartenbrett. (11) Fliegerfunker. (11) [Abb.]: Deutsche Feldfunkerstation. ([12- 13]) [Abb.]: Englische Lügen. Deutsche Fliegeraufnahme des umfangreichen englischen Truppenlagers von Etaples vom 21. Mai 1918, zwei Tage nach einem Angriff deutscher Bombengeschwader. (14) Englische Lügen. (15) [Abb.]: Englische Lügen. Deutsche Fliegeraufnahme desselben Lagers vom 27. Mai 1918, nachdem es inzwischen Rote-Kreuz-Abzeichen erhalten hat. (15) K. u. k. Hundespitäler. (16) [3 Abb.]: (1)Oberes Bild: Ankunft eines Hundekrankentransports. (2)Mittleres Bild: In einem österreichisch-ungarischen Kriegshundespital in Pflege befindlicher Hund mit umgehängtem Lederkragen zur Verhinderung des Kratzens und Leckens der Wunde. (3)Unteres Bild: Aufnahmebehandlung nach der Ankunft in einem österreichisch-ungarischen Kriegshundespital. (16) [Abb.]: Deutscher Sturmwagen säubert eine französische Ortschaft. ( - ) Die Geschichte des Weltkrieges 1914/18. Heft 202 (Heft 202) ([17]) [Abb.]: Aus den Verfolgungskämpfen an der Aisne. ([17]) [Abb.]: Von den Deutschen erbeutete Batterie von 28-cm-Mörsern bei dem Dorfe Mareuil. (18) [Abb.]: Straße im zerstörten Lassigny zwischen Montdidier und Noyon. (19) [Abb.]: Rückzug der Franzosen über den Ricquebourgrücken im deutschen Feuer. ([20 - 21]) [Abb.]: Italienische Kulturtaten im eigenen Lande: Von den Italienern zerstörtes Schloß in Sonegliano. (22) [Abb.]: Der Piavefluß - ein reißender Strom. (23) Illustrierte Kriegsberichte. (23) Die Tschechoslowaken in Rußland. (23) [Abb.]: Der Piavefluß - ein seichtes Gewässer. (23) [3 Abb.]: (1)Österreichisch-ungarische Küstenbatterie an der Adria. (2)Gepanzertes österreichisch-ungarisches Küstengeschütz an der Adria.(3)Österreichisch-ungarische Wacht an der Adria. (24) [Abb.]: Die Plünderung des Palazzo Cassarelli, des deutschen Botschafterpalastes in Rom, durch den aufgehetzten römischen Pöbel, der nach Sprengung des großen Gartentores unter den Augen der Polizei in das Gebäude eindrang und in den prunkvollen Gemächern, besonders dem mit den Bildern von Hermann Prell geschmückten Festsaal, grauenvolle Verwüstungen anrichtete. ( - ) [Abb.]: Das Brentatal bei Carpane-Valstagna unter dem schweren Geschützfeuer der österreichisch-ungarischen Batterien. (25) [Karte]: Kartenskizze zu der Tätigkeit der Tschechoslowaken an der sibirischen Bahn und zu der Besetzung der Murmanküste durch die Engländer. (26) [2 Abb.]: (1)Russische Revolutionsfahne, deren Vorderseite Kerenski zeigt, wie er die Zarenkrone zertrümmert. (2)Der frühere Zar Nikolaus II. als Gefangener in Zarskoje-Selo vor seiner Überführung nach Tobolsk. (27) Die Schlacht zwischen Soissons und Reims. (27) [Abb.]: Der von russischen Sozialrevolutionären in Moskau ermordete deutsche Gesandte Graf v. Mirbach-Harff. (28) [Abb.]: Unterdrückung der Moskauer Verschwörung Anfang Juli 1918. ([29]) Wer strebt nach der Weltherrschaft? (30) [8 Abb.]: Deutsche Ernte im Feindesland. (1)An der Dreschmaschine. (2)Füllen der Säcke mit ausgedroschenem Getreide. (3)Mähen des Hafers mittels Selbstbinders. (4)Aufladen der Garben. (5)Einbringen des ausgedroschenen Getreides. (6)Französische Zivilarbeiter werden zur Arbeit geführt. (7)Anfertigen von Harken. (8)Reparaturwerkstätte für landwirtschaftliche Maschinen. ([31]) Ein deutscher Motorminensucher. (32) [Abb.]: ein Minenräumer, wie er nach der Ansicht der Engländer bei der deutschen Flotte im Gebrauch ist. (32) Die Geschichte des Weltkrieges 1914/18. Heft 203 (Heft 203) ([33]) [3 Abb.]: (1)Konteradmiral Paul v. Hintze, der neue deutsche Staatssekretär des Äußeren. (2)Alexander Malinow, der neue bulgarische Ministerpräsident und Minister des Äußeren. (3)Erfrischungspause während einer Sitzung des Versailler Kriegsrates. ([33]) [Abb.]: Belgischer Grabenposten mit einem Visierhelm. (34) [Abb.]: Feldlager bei Hannonville. (35) [Abb.]: Deutscher Blinkerposten. (36) [Abb.]: Gefechtstand eines Infanterieregiments. ([37]) Illustrierte Kriegsberichte. (38) Gegen Compiègne. (38) [2 Abb.]: (1)Sanitätsabteilung eines bayrischen Alpenregiments auf dem Wege zur mazedonischen Front. (2)Straßenleben in Veles am Wardar. (39) [3 Abb.]: (1)Österreichisch-ungarischer Kampfflieger k.u.k. Oberleutnant Linke-Crawford. (2)Leutnant z.S.d.Res. Theodor Osterkamp. (3)Kampfflieger Hauptmann Schleich (vorn) mit den Fliegern der von ihm geführten Jagdfliegerformation. (40) [Abb.]: Erfolgreicher Angriff deutscher Seeflugzeuge auf ein englisches U-Boot vor der Themsemündung am 6. Juli 1918. ([41]) Die Schiffahrt auf dem Schwarzen Meer und seinen Zuflüssen. (42) [Abb.]: Internationale nautisch-technische Kommission für das Schwarze Meer in Sebastopol. (42) [2 Abb.]: (1)Generalmajor Vogel, der Kommandant der deutschen Truppen in Odessa, auf der Mole des Hafens. (2)Der Hafen von Sebastopol mit russischen Kriegschiffen. (43) Essenfassen auf dem Kirchplatz von Grandpré. (43) [Abb.]: Essenfassen auf dem Kirchplatz in Grandpré in den Argonnen. ([44 - 45]) [Abb.]: Gefechtsübung einer Landwehr-Maschinengewehrkompanie der schweizerischen Armee. (46) Die schweizerische Armee. (47) [2 Abb.]: (1)Übungsmarsch einer Landwehr-Maschinengewehrkompanie der schweizerischen Armee über die Kleine Scheidegg. (2)Übungsmarsch einer Landwehr-Maschinengewehrkompanie der schweizerischen Armee über die Kleine Scheidegg. (47) [Abb.]: Die neuen endgültigen Grad- und Waffengattungsabzeichen der schweizerischen Armee. (48) [Abb.]: Übergang des Vortrupps der Armee des Generalobersten v. Boehn über die Marne am Morgen des 16. Juli 1918. ( - ) Die Geschichte des Weltkrieges 1914/18. Heft 204 (Heft 204) ([49]) [Abb.]: Vordringen von Maschinengewehren durch die Sperrzone. ([49]) [Abb.]: Bei Thierry erbeutetes französisches 28,5-cm-Eisenbahngeschütz. (50) [3 Abb.]: Zu den siegreichen deutschen Kämpfen in der Champagne. (1)Deutsche Minenwerfer gehen zur Eroberung des Keilberges im feindlichen Feuer in Stellung. (2)Deutscher Minenwerfer wird in Stellung gebracht, um einen feindlichen Stützpunkt niederzukämpfen. (3)Deutscher Minenwerfer beim Sturmreifschießen eines feindlichen Stützpunktes am Keil- und Poehlberg. (51) [Abb.]: Feuerüberfall auf Reims. ([52 - 53]) [Abb.]: Die wirtschaftliche Aushilfe aus Rumänien: Kerzengießmaschinen in einer unter Militärverwaltung stehenden rumänischen Seifen- und Kerzenfabrik. (54) [2 Abb.]: (1)Die wirtschaftliche Aushilfe aus Rumänien: Füll- und Packraum in einer unter Militärverwaltung stehenden Seifen- und Kerzenfabrik. (2)Die wirtschaftliche Aushilfe aus Rumänien: Eiertrocknungsanlage in einer unter Militärverwaltung stehenden rumänischen Nährmittelfabrik. (55) [Abb.]: Korvettenkapitän v. Nostiz und Jänckendorf, erfolgriecher deutscher U-Kreuzer-Kommandant. (56) Illustrierte Kriegsberichte. (56) Deutsche Kriegswirtschaft in Rumänien. (56) [Abb.]: Versenkung des durch eine große Zahl von Torpedo- und Patrouillenbooten gesicherten englischen Hilfskreuzers "Justicia" der White-Star-Linie an der Nordküste von Irland. ([57]) [Abb.]: Grusinischer General bei Verhandlungen auf einer kleinen Bahnstation bei Tiflis im Kaukasus. (58) [3 Abb.]: Deutsche Truppen bei Tiflis im Kaukasus. (1)Deutsche Kriegsgepäckkolonnen beim Vormarsch im Kaukasus. (2)Verhör gefangener tatarische Bandenführer durch deutsche Offiziere vermittels Dolmetschern. (3)Tatarischer Parlamentär mit weißer Fahne. An der Seite vorgehende deutsche Infanterie. (59) [Abb.]: Bürgerkrieg in Rußland: Aufrührerische Bauern werden bei der Plünderung eines reichen Gutshofes östlich von Moskau von einer anderen russischen Abteilung überfallen. (60 - 61) Der Kriegsphotograph. (62) [Abb.]: Amerikanische Kriegsphotographen an der englischen Front mit eigenartigen Stahlhelmen zum Schutz gegen Bombensplitter. (62) [3 Abb.]: (1)Oberes Bild: Deutscher Kriegsphotograph mit einem Kinematographenapparat beim Aufnehmen einer Fliegerabteilung im Gebirge. (2)Mittleres Bild: Einrichten des Kinematographenapparates zur Aufnahme eines Flugplatzes. (3)Unteres Bild: Deutscher Kriegsphotograph mit Gasmaske und Stahlhelm bei einem Maschinengewehrposten in der vorderen Stellung. (63) Der Gefangenenaustausch zwischen Deutschland und Frankreich. (64) [Abb.]: Begrüßung der ersten auf Grund des Austauschabkommens zwischen Deutschland und Frankreich heimgekehrten deutschen Mannschaften durch den Großherzog von Baden am 20. Juli 1918 in Konstanz. (64) [Abb.]: Vorbrechende feindliche Sturmwagengeschwader werden von der deutschen Artillerie gefaßt, während deutsche Schlachtflieger die unter dem Schutze der Wagen mit Sturmfahnen vorgehende feindliche Infanterie aus niedriger Höhe unter Maschinengewehrfeuer nehmen. ( - ) Die Geschichte des Weltkrieges 1914/18. Heft 205 (Heft 205) ([65]) [Abb.]: Von der deutschen Artillerie zerschossener französischer Beobachtungstand am Hochberg in der Champagne. ([65]) [Abb.]: Deutsche Kolonnen auf dem Marktplatz in Nesle zwischen St. Quentin und Montdidier. (66) [Abb.]: Ein deutscher Zeltverbandplatz im Westen. (67) [Abb.]: Deutsche Truppen säubern das Waldgelände westlich von Vrigny vom Feinde. (68 - 69) [3 Abb.]: "Erfolge" feindlicher Fliegerangriffe auf militärisch bedeutungslose Ziele in Westdeutschland. (1)Oberes Bild: Feindlicher Fliegerangriff auf Mannheim: Zerstörtes Wohnhaus. (2)Mittleres Bild: Feindlicher Fliegerangriff auf Kaiserslautern: Der Hof eines schwer beschädigten Arbeiterwohnhauses. (3)Unteres Bild: Feindlicher Fliegerangriff auf Ludwigshafen: Zertrümmertes Wohnhaus. (70) Illustrierte Kriegsberichte. (70) Die Pioniere der Hochseeflotte. (70) [2 Abb.]: "Erfolge" feindlicher Fliegerangriffe auf militärisch bedeutungslose Ziele in Westdeutschland. (1)Feindlicher Fliegerangriff auf Trier: Blick in einen Raum des zerstörten Provinzialmuseums mit vernichteten wertvollen Sammlungsgegenständen. (2)Feindlicher Fliegerangriff auf Trier: Hof und Gebäude des zerstörten Provinzialmuseums. (71) [Abb.]: Zugang zum Artilleriebeobachter und zu den Unterkünften einer österreichisch-ungarischen Gebirgstellung im Adamellogebiet in einer Höhe von 3200 Metern. (72) [Abb.]: Ein gefährlicher Auftrag. Ein Unteroffizier der Kaiserschützen vernichtet eine italienische Feldwache. ([73]) Die Fragen der Übergangswirtschaft. (74) [4 Abb.]: (1)Generalleutnant Loeb, Ritter des Ordens Pour le Mérite. (2)Flugzeugbeobachter Leutnant d. Res. Nielebock, Ritter des Ordens Pour le Mérite. (3)Kampfflieger Leutnant Bolle, Führer der Jagdstaffel Bölcke. (4)Großadmiral v. Holtzendorff, trat von seinem Amt als Chef des Admiralstabes zurück. (74) [Abb.]: Im Hafen von Cattaro. (75) Ein Luftangriff auf Paris. (76) [Abb.]: Der osmanische Prinz Osman Fuad, der nach Vollendung seiner militärischen Ausbildung in Deutschland in Tripolis landete. (76) [Karte]: General v. Lettow-Vorbecks Kriegszug durch Mozambique. (77) [Abb.]: Deutsche Feldgraue als Gäste eines Arabermucktars (Dorfschulzen) bei einer feierlichen Mahlzeit. (77) In einer Armeekonservenfabrik. (78) [3 Abb.]: In einer deutschen Armeekonservenfabrik. (1)Im Entbeinungsraum: Die Rinder werden zerteilt und das Fleisch wird von den Knochen gelöst. (2)Konservierung von Rinderzungen. (3)Im Büchsenstopfraum: Füllen der Konservenbüchsen mit Fleischstücken. (78) [3 Abb.]: In einer deutschen Armeekonservenfabrik. (1)Gemüsemischraum. Herstellung von Bohnen-, Linsen- und Erbsmehlgemüse. Im Vordergrunde Kessel mit flüssigem Fett, das dem Gemüsemehl beigemengt wird. (2)Gemüsemehl wird auf Blechen ausgebreitet und zum Kühlraum geschafft. (3)An der Maschine zur Herstellung von Gemüsemehlwürfeln: Das Gemüsemehl wird in die Maschine geschüttet und kommt als Würfel wieder heraus. (79) Gefecht zwischen österreichisch-ungarischen und italienischen Torpedoeinheiten in der Nordadria am 2. Juli 1918. (80) [Abb.]: Nachtgefecht in der Nordadria zwischen österreichisch-ungarischen und italienischen Torpedoeinheiten. (80) Was kostet ein Kanonenschuß? (80) [Abb.]: Deutsche Haubitzkolonne in Staub und Nebel in Stellung gehend. ( - ) Die Geschichte des Weltkrieges 1914/18. Heft 206 (Heft 206) ([81]) [Abb.]: Deutsche Pioniere in Fontenoy. ([81]) [Karte]: Statistische Darstellung der Bombenabwürfe deutscher Bombenflugzeuggeschwader im Westen in der Woche vom Sonntag, dem 14. Juli, bis zum Sonnabend, dem 20. Juli 1918, in welcher Zeit über 250 000 Kilogramm Sprengstoff auf kriegswichtige Plätze abgeworfen wurden. (82) [2 Abb.]: (1)Das Ehrenzeichen für Heimatverdienst, das vom Herzog von Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha gestiftet wurde. (2)Kleine französische Sturmwagen, die, in Formationen zusammengefaßt, in der Schlacht zwischen Aisne und Marne in großer Menge verwendet wurden. (83) [Abb.]: Völkerrechtswidrige Beschießung eines deutschen Lazaretts im Westen. ([84 - 85]) [2 Abb.]: (1)Zur Bluttat in Kiew. Eine der letzten Aufnahmen des Generalfeldmarschalls v. Eichhorn und seines persönlichen Adjutanten Hauptmann v. Dreßler. (2)Generaloberst Graf Günther v. Kirchbach, wurde an Stelle des Generalfeldmarschalls v. Eichhorn Oberbefehlshaber der deutschen Truppen in der Ukraine. (86) [3 Abb.]: (1)Blick vom Gleise der transsibirischen Eisenbahn auf ein Dorf bei Irkutsk. (2)Eine Strecke der transsibirischen Eisenbahn im Uralgebirge. (3)Japanisches Infanterieregiment auf dem Marsch. (87) Illustrierte Kriegsberichte. (87) Madame Bunk. Eine Begegnung. (87) [Abb.]: Erstürmung eines englischen Maschinengewehrnestes. (88) [Abb.]: Angriff eines deutschen Jagd- und Schlachtfliegergeschwaders auf eine französische Kavallerieabteilung. ([89]) Die Seidenspinnerei im besetzten Gebiete Veneziens unter österreichisch-ungarischer Militärverwaltung. (90) [Abb.]: Ofen zur Abtötung der Puppen in den Kokons mittels heißer Luft. (90) [4 Abb.]: Venezianische Seidenspinnerei in österreichisch-ungarischem Militärbetrieb. (1)Ausscheiden der vollkommenen Kokons von den fehlerhaften. (2)In der Spinnerei. (3)Zusammenwinden und Eindrehen der losen Seidensträhne, wie sie vom Haspel abgenommen werden, zu versandfähigen Bündeln. Vorne Fächer für die Seidenproben zur Bestimmung der Dicke der Rohseide, die eine jede Arbeiterin täglich gewinnt. (4)Verpackung der Rohseide für den Versand. (91) Granaten auf Bassano! (92 - 93) [Abb.]: Beschießung der Stadt Bassano am Ausgange des Brentatales in der venezianischen Ebene. (92 - 93) Auf dem Kriegspfad in der Luft. (94) [Abb.]: Rumpf eines abgeschossenen feindlichen Flugzeuges, das mit einem großen Auge als Geschwaderabzeichen bemalt ist. (94) [3 Abb.]: (1)Eigenartiges Geschwaderabzeichen eines abgeschossenen feindlichen Flugzeuges. Im Hintergrund ein deutsches Flugzeug mit dem deutschen Hoheitsabzeichen des Eisernen Kreuzes in seiner neuen Form. (2)Der bayrische Löwe, den gallischen Hahn jagend, als Abzeichen eines zu einer bayrischen Schutzstaffel gehörenden Flugzeuges. (3)"Pik-Aß" als Abzeichen eines abgeschossenen feindlichen Flugzeuges. (95) Minenwerfer in der Durchbruchschlacht. (95) Die englischen Dum-Dum-Geschosse. (96) [2 Abb]: (1)(2) Englische Dum-Dum-Geschosse. (96) "Die deutschen Schandtaten im Luftkrieg." (96) Die Geschichte des Weltkrieges 1914/18. Heft 207 (Heft 207) ([97]) [Abb.]: Übergang einer deutschen Sturmabteilung über die Somme. Ein englisches Maschinengewehrnest wird gestürmt. ([97]) [Abb.]: Ein amerikanisches Bombenflugzeuggeschwader fliegt gegen die deutschen Stellungen in Frankreich. (98) [2 Abb.]: (1)Erbeutete englische und französische Sturmwagen auf einer der Zufahrtstraßen zwischen Amiens und Montdidier. (2)Der Marktplatz mit den zerstörten Häusern des zerschossenen Ortes Château-Thierry am Nordufer der Marne. (99) [2 Abb.]: (1)Von österreichisch-ungarischen Truppen gesprengtes italienisches Panzerwerk Beano in Venetien. (2)Geschützstand des von österreichisch-ungarischen Truppen eroberten italienischen Werkes Sedegliano in Venetien. (100) [Abb.]: Österreichisch-ungarische Artilleriebeobachter am Piavedelta. (101) [Karte]: Karte zum österreichisch-ungarischen Vormarsch in Albanien. (102) Illustrierte Kriegsberichte. (102) Die Muches. (102) [Abb.]: Das Westtor von Cattaro mit der alten Zugbrücke. (103) [Abb.]: Gebirgslandschaft in Nordmazedonien. (104) [Abb.]: Von der Jordanfront in Palästina: Die Trümmer der im Audschatal vernichteten englischen Kavalleriebrigaden. ( - ) [Abb.]: Österreichisch-ungarische Bataillone nehmen, unterstützt durch Gebirgsartillerie, im Sturm die Höhen am oberen Devoli. ([105]) Flammenwerfer vor! (106) [Abb.]: Von den Kämpfen an der Westfront: Das Reservelager eines deutschen Jägerregiments in den Riesenhöhlen nördlich der Maß. (106) [2 Abb.]: (1)Deutsche Flammenwerfer bei der Arbeit. (2)Deutsche Flammenwerfer werden durch die zerstörten Drahthindernisse vorgebracht. (107) Schwimmende Lazarette. (107) [Abb.]: Ausräucherung einer von den Franzosen besetzten Höhle im Mont Lenilly durch deutsche Flammenwerfer. Oben das im Jahre 1914 zerstörte Gut Lenilly. ([108 - 109]) Kriegstädtebilder. 1. St. Quentin. (110) [6 Abb.]: Schwimmende Lazarette. (1)Das Hospitalschiff des Norddeutschen Lloyd "Sierra Ventana", in 8500-Tonnen-Schiff. (2)Ein Krankenzimmer an Bord des Hospitalschiffes "Sierra Ventana" mit mehreren Betten. (3)Rettungsapparat an Bord eines Lazarettschiffes des Norddeutschen Lloyd. (4)Beförderung von Verwundeten auf ein Lazarettschiff des Norddeutchen Lloyd. (5)Die Apotheke auf einem Lazarettschiff des Norddeutschen Lloyd. (6)Der Verbandraum auf dem Hospitalschiff "Sierra Ventana". ([111]) [Abb.]: Hindenburg (X) und Ludendorff (XX) auf dem historischen Marktplatz in Brüssel. (112) [Abb.]: Englischer Transportdampfer wird trotz starker Sicherung im Kanal von deutschen U-Booten angegriffen. ( - ) Die Geschichte des Weltkrieges 1914/18. Heft 208 (Heft 208) ([113]) [Abb.]: Zerstörte Ölmühle im Avretal. ([113]) [Karte]: Stand der Schlacht im Westen zwischen Arras und Reims am 15. August 1918. Das zwischen Marne und Aisne und zwischen Ancre und Oise von den Deutschen aufgegebene Gebiet. (114) [Abb.]: Hinter den deutschen Linien zusammengeschossener kleiner französischer Sturmwagen. (114) [Abb.]: Das heiß umstrittene Schloß Tilloloy, ein ehemaliger Herzogsitz, zuletzt angeblich im Besitz des französischen Ministerpräsidenten Clemenceau. (115) Illustrierte Kriegsberichte. (116 - 117) "Hier Maulwurf - -" (116 - 117) [Abb.]: Zur Strecke gebracht! (116 - 117) [Abb.]: Ein Kampffeld bei Chaulnes. (118) [2 Abb.]: (1)Durch deutschen Fliegerangriff zerstörtes feindliches Munitionslager bei Ornes. (2)Durch eine schwere deutsche Fliegerbombe verursachter Riesentrichter in einer eroberten französischen Ortschaft. (119) Die Wohnungsfrage nach dem Kriege. (119) [3 Abb.]: (1)Kapitänleutnant v. Schrader. (2)Leutnant z.S. Freudenberg. (3)Deutsche Linienschiffe und Torpedoboote auf der Fahrt. (120) [Abb.]: Deutsche Luftstreitkräfte im Kampfe mit englischen Flotteneinheiten vor der Deutschen Bucht am 11. August 1918. Volltreffer auf einem englischen Schnellboot. ([121]) [Abb.]: Blick auf Wladiwostok. (122) Der Kampf um die Grappahöhen. (122) [7 Abb.]: Typen der chinesischen Armee, die von den Engländern als künftige Verbündete angesehen wird. (1)Artillerie der Südarmee. (2)Zeltaufschlagen. (3)Hornisten der Nordarmee. (4)Die Verpflegungsabteilung der chinesischen Nordarmee. (5)Transport von leichten Geschützen. (6)Artillerie auf dem Marsche. (7)Feuernde Batterie. ([123]) [Abb.]: Die Eroberung einer Höhe im Grappa-Gebiet durch die k.u.k. Truppen des 1. Korps am 15. Juni 1918. ([124 - 125]) Die Bedeutung Ägyptens. (126) [Abb.]: Enthüllung eines Denkmals für gefallene deutsche Flieger an der Palästinafront. Hauptmann Schaumburg hält die Weiherede. (126) [2 Abb.]: (1)Englische Kavalleriepatrouille an der Grenze von Südpalästina, nach Wasser grabend. (2)Kamelgespann einer englischen Feld-Telegraphen- und Fernsprechabteilung in der Wüste von Südpalästina. (127) Englische Fliegerabwehrkanone. (128) [Abb.]: Eine englische Fliegerabwehrkanone mit Offizier und Bedienungsmann. (128) [Abb.]: Der Deutsche Kaiser auf einem Gefechtstande bei der Trigny-Mühle vor Reims. ( - ) Die Geschichte des Weltkrieges 1914/18. Heft 209 (Heft 209) ([129]) [Abb.]: Deutsche Sturmtruppen überschreiten während des feindlichen Sperrfeuers im Morgengrauen die Ailette. ([129]) [Abb.]: Deutsche Brücke über die Aisne. (130) [2 Abb.]: (1)Von den Deutschen gebaute Kanalbrücke bei St. Mard. (2)Blick in das Aisnetal. Im Hintergrunde der Chemin des Dames. (131) [2 Abb.]: (1)Deutscher Sturmtrupp grieft unter dem Schutze des durch Nebelbomben hervorgewrufenen Rauches eine sturmreif geschossene Ortschaft zwischen Aisne und Marne an. (2)Französische Überläufer in den Kämpfen zwischen Aisne und Marne. (132) [Abb.]: Deutsche Grabenbesatzung bei der Abwehr englischer Sturmwagen. ([133]) [3 Abb.]: (1)St. Mard; im Hintergrund der Chemin des Dames. (2)Rechts St. Mard, links Le Rhu, im Hintergrund der Chemin des Dames. (3)Blick auf den Marktplatz von Roye. (134) [Abb.]: Anmarsch deutscher Reserven zum Kemmel. (135) [Abb.]: Der Tonale-Paß, der Schauplatz der für die österreichisch-ungarischen Truppen erfolgreichen Kämpfe. (136) Illustrierte Kriegsberichte. (136) Aussetzen eines Wasserflugzeuges. (136) [Abb.]: Bau einer Alpenstraße an der italienischen Front durch österreichisch-ungarische Soldaten. (136) [Abb.]: Österreichisch-ungarische Tragtierkolonne in den Bergen an der Südwestfront. (137) Wüstenmarsch. (138) [3 Abb.]: Bei einer deutschen Seefliegerabteilung. (1)Oberes Bild: Maschinenanlage zum Aussetzen der Flugzeuge an Bord eines Flugzeugmutterschiffes. (2)Mittleres Bild: Aussetzen eines Wasserflugzeuges von einem Flugzeugmutterschiff. Rechts die an Bord des Schiffes befindliche Flugzeughalle. (3)Unteres Bild: Loslösen eines von einem Flugzeugmutterschiff ausgesetzten Wasserflugzeuges. Im Hintergrunde ein deutsches U-Boot. (139) Der Weltkrieg und die Zukunft des Kaukasus. (139) [Abb.]: Schlachtviehankauf in der Wüste. Es werden immer zwei bis drei Hämmel zusammen an der Wiegevorrichtung, die in einer Hebelwage mit Schiebegewicht besteht, lebend abgewogen. ([140 - 141]) [Abb.]: Hauptmann v. Egon Krieger, der Chef der deutschen Militärmission in Tiflis. (142) [8 Abb.]: Bilder aus Tiflis im Kaukasus. (1)Die engste Stelle der Kura mit den auf den Felsen errichteten Gebäuden. (2)Blick von den umliegenden Höhen auf die Stadt. (3)Ein Markttag in Tiflis. (4)Straßenverkäufer. (5)Ladenmagazine im neuen russischen Viertel. (6)Volkstypen auf einer Bahnstation bei Tiflis. (7)Straßenbild. (8)Tuchhändler. ([143]) [Abb.]: Die Kartoffelerzeugung der Welt. (144) [Abb.]: Straßenkampf mit Engländern in Cormicy. ( - ) Die Geschichte des Weltkrieges 1914/18. Heft 210 (Heft 210) ([145]) [Abb.]: Stimmungsbild aus einer Vogesenortschaft: Deutsche Munitionskolonne in einer Kleinstadt. ([145]) [Abb.]: Deutscher Verwundeter erhält nach erfolgreichem Kampf den ersten Verband. (146) [Abb.]: Deutsche Fliegeraufnahmen von der Vogesenfront. Im Vordergrund die deutschen, auf den gegenüberliegenden Anhöhen (unterhalb des Waldes) die französischen Stellungen. (147) [Abb.]: Deutsche Feuerstellung. ([148 - 149]) [Karte]: Karte zu den englischen Offensive zwischen Arras und Chaulnes. (150) [Abb.]: Erstürmung der Ruinen eines zerstörten französischen Dorfes durch deutsche Sturmabteilungen. (151) Illustrierte Kriegsberichte. (152) Die Nacht des Schreckens. Ein Kriegsbild aus Italien. (152) [2 Abb.]: (1)Blick auf Berat. (2)Straßenbild aus dem wiedereroberten Berat. (152) [Abb.]: K.u.k. Sturmtruppen und Maschinengewehrabteilungen dringen in Fieri ein. ([153]) [Abb.]: Dr. Solf, der deutsche Staatssekretär des Kolonialamtes. (154) Fliegerangriff auf Otranto. (154) [5 Abb.]: (1)Kirche in Kola im Murmangebiet. (2)Ansicht von Tomsk. (3)Fahne der Russischen Sozialistischen Föderativen Sowjetrepublik. (Goldene Schrift auf rotem Tuch.) (4)Renntierschlitten im Murmangebiet. (5)Posthaus in Kola. (155) [3 Abb.]: (1)Kampfflieger k.u.k. Leutnant Otto Stella, starb auf dem italienischen Kriegschauplatz den Heldentod. (2)K.u.k. Oberleutnant v. Fiala, einer der erfolgreichsten österreichisch-ungarischen Kampfflieger. (3)Österreichisch-ungarischer Kampfflieger mit seinem Flugzeuge in der Flughalle. (156) Unterrichtsoffiziere. (156) Angriff österreichisch-ungarischer Seeflugzeuge auf die englischen Flughallen bei Otranto im südlichen Italien in der Nacht zum 25. Juli 1918. ([157]) [2 Abb.]: (1)Eingang zum deutschen Soldatenheim in Namur. (2)Im deutschen Soldatenheim in Namur. (158) Takt und Taktlosigkeiten in der Kriegszeit. (158) [2 Abb.]: (1)Andacht im deutschen Soldatenheim in Brüssel. (2)Im deutschen Soldatenheim in Beverloo. (159) Ein grausamer Lagerkommandant. (159) Doppelkolbengewehr. (160) [Abb.]: Französisches Doppelkolbengewehr, das ein genaues Zielen aus guter Deckung ermöglicht. (160) Die Besetzungsmarken der Mittelmächte in Rumänien. (160) [Abb.]: Ein Offizier und vier Mann bedienen bis zum letzten Augenblick das einzige noch brauchbare Geschütz einer Feldbatterie, die einem nordöstlich von Courcelles gegen große englische Übermacht kämpfenden sächsischen Infanteriebataillon zugeteilt ist. ( - ) Die Geschichte des Weltkrieges 1914/18. Heft 211 (Heft 211) ([161]) [2 Abb.]: (1)Ein englisches Bomben-Flugzeug neuester Bauart, das nordwestlich von Metz durch deutsches Maschinengewehrfeuer zum Landen gezwungen wurde. Die Flügelspannung beträgt 30 Meter; es ist mit fünf Maschinengewehren ausgerüstet und hat eine Besatzung von sechs Mann. (2)Amerikanische Abteilung in der Gefahrzone auf dem Wege zur Stellung. ([161]) [Karte]: Skizze der Westfront Anfang September 1918. (162) [2 Abb.]: (1)Räumung des im August 1918 von den Deutschen freiwillig aufgegebenen Geländes im Westen: Rückkehr eines Feldlazaretts. (2)Räumung des im August 1918 von den Deutschen freiwillig aufgegebenen Geländes im Westen: Abfahren der Preßstrohlager. (163) [Abb.]: Deutsche Begleitbatterie geht mit Infanterie vor. (164 - 165) [Abb.]: Ein Lager englischer Fliegerbomben. (166) [3 Abb.]: "Militärische" Erfolge feindlicher Bombenangriffe auf das deutsche Heimatgebiet. (1)Oberes Bild: Bombentreffer in einem Wohnhaus in Darmstadt. (2)Mittleres Bild: Zerstörtes Haus in Ludwigshafen. (3)Unteres Bild: Durch Bombenwurf verwüstete Wohnung in einem Hause in Frankfurt a.M. (167) [Abb.]: Mittagsruhe bei einer deutschen Batterie am Rossignalhügel Ploegsteert südlich von Ypern. (168) Illustrierte Kriegsberichte. (168) Im Raume der drei "M" (Meteren-Merris-Merville). (168) [Abb.]: Nach abgeschlagenem Angriff werden feindliche Truppen durch deutschen Gegenangriff zurückgeworfen. ([169]) [Abb.]: Anlegen des Fliegerfallschirmgürtels. Der Fallschirm selbst liegt auf dem Flugzeug hinter dem Sitz. (170) [2 Abb.]: (1)Die Rue St. Jacques in Douai. (2)Blick auf Douai mit dem Rathaus. (171) Der Fliegerfallschirm. (171) Kriegstädtebilder. 2. Douai. (172 - 173) [Abb.]: Munitionsübernahme an Bord eines deutschen Tauchbootes. (172 - 173) Munitionsübernahme an Bord eines deutschen Tauchbootes. (174) An den Gestaden der Krim. (174) [Abb.]: Markt der Tataren in Jalta in der Krim. (174) [3 Abb.]: (1)Die Hauptstraße am Meer in Jalta in der Krim. (2)Auf der Strandpromenade von Jalta an der Krim. (3)An der Meeresbucht von Balaklawa in der Krim. (175) [2 Abb.]: (1)Kaiser Wilhelm im Gespräch mit dem zum Besuch bei ihm weilenden Hetman der Ukraine, General Skoropadski. (2)Der Warenaustausch Österreich-Ungarns mit der Ukraine: Löschen eines Handelsdampfers im Hafen von Odessa. (176) Die Geschichte des Weltkrieges 1914/18. Heft 212 (Heft 212) ([177]) [4 Abb.]: (1)Deutscher Kampfflieger Leutnant Fritz Rumey, Ritter des Ordens Pour le Mérite, im bürgerlichen Beruf Dachdecker. Erfolgreiche deutsche Flieger. (2)Links: Jagdflieger Leutnant Neckel. (3)Rechts: Jagdflieger Leutnant Klimke. (4)In der Mitte: Schlachtflieger Vizefeldwebel Ehmann (am Maschinengewehr) mit seinem Flugzeugführer. ([177]) [Abb.]: Auf den Schlachtfeldern im Westen: Französische, in lockerer Linie vorgehende Infanterie gräbt sich auf offenem Sumpfgelände ein. (178) [3 Abb.]: Räumung des von den Deutschen freiwillig aufgegebenen Geländes im Westen. (1)Erbeutete englische Straßenwalze auf dem Rückzug. (2)Deutsche Kolonnen überschreiten den Bahnübergang bei Gouzeaucourt. (3)Räumung des Priviantamtes in Fins. (179) [Abb.]: Österreichisch-ungarische Truppen bei St. Mihiel (an der Combreshöhe). ([180 - 181]) [Karte]: Skizze des alban. u. macedon. Kriegsschauplatzes. (182) [2 Abb.]: (1)Österreichisch-ungarische Streifenpatrouille und albanische Freiwillige während einer Rast in Albanien. (2)Deutscher, österreichisch-ungarischer und bulgarischer Posten am Bahnhof in Üsküb. (183) [Abb.]: Englischer Küstenschoner wird von deutschen Luftstreitkräften an der englischen Küste angehalten und versenkt. (184) [Abb.]: Ansprache des Deutchen Kaisers an die Arbeiter der Kruppschen Werke im Saalbau "Friedrichshalle" am 10. September 1918. ( - ) [Abb.]: Der französische Panzerkreuzer "Dupetit Thouars", das Führerschiff eines stark beschützten, von Amerika nach Frankreich fahrenden Geleitzuges, wird im Atlantischen Ozean durch ein deutsches U-Boot torpediert. ([185]) [Karte]: Grossrussland nach dem deutsch-russischen Ergänzungs-Vertrag. (186) [Abb.]: Die nach dem deutsch-russischen Finanzabkommen in Berlin eingetroffene erste Goldsendung. Der Güterzug von fünf Wagen enthielt ein und eine halbe Milliarde russisches Gold. Unser Bild zeigt einen mit zehn Millionen russischem Gold beladenen Rollwagen fertig zur Abfahrt nach der Reichsbank. (186) [6 Abb.]: Mit deutschen Jägern quer durch Finnland. (1)Tanz im Freien. (2)Begeisterte Begrüßung in Mukos. (3)Für deutsche Truppen am Waldrand gedeckte Milchtafel. (4)Einzug in Mukos. (5)An einem finnischen See. (6)Im Teerboot vor der Abfahrt durch die Stromschnellen. ([187]) Illustrierte Kriegsberichte. (188 - 189) Mit deutschen Jägern quer durch Finnland. (188 - 189) [Abb.]: Deutscher U-Kreuzer rüstet auf hoher See den amerikanischen Dampfer "Triumph" als Hilfskreuzer aus. (188 - 189) Abzeichen der österreichisch-ungarischen Armee. (190) [2 Abb.]: (1)(2)Abzeichen der österreichisch-ungarischen Armee. (190) [2 Abb.]: (1)(2)Abzeichen der österreichisch-ungarischen Armee. (191) Die französische Taktik während der Schlacht in der Champagne im Juli 1918. (191) [Abb.]: Militärisches Leben und Treiben auf einer Ausladerampe in der Bukowina. (192) Die Geschichte des Weltkrieges 1914/18. Heft 213 (Heft 213) ([193]) [2 Abb.]: (1)Artur James Balfour, englischer Außenminister. (2)Blick von den Ausläufern der Cote Lorraine. In der Mitte die Combreshöhe, rechts die Moevre-Ebene. ([193]) [Abb.]: Deutsche Stellung zwischen den Trümmern eines Eisenbahnzuges. (194) [2 Abb.]: (1)Mit Gasmaske und leichtem Maschinengewehr ausgerüsteter deutscher Motorradfahrer auf der Fahrt im Westen. (2)Eine deutsche Motorradfahrer-Maschinengewehrabteilung in Kampfstellung im Westen. (195) [Abb.]: Deutsche Maschinengewehrabteilungen halten im Trichtergelände feindliche Angriffe auf. (196 - 197) [Abb.]: Deutsche Sturmtruppen durchschreiten eine Schlucht am Chemin des Dames. (198) Illustrierte Kriegsberichte. (198) Bemalen englischer Geschütze gegen Fliegersicht. (198) [3 Abb.]: In einem Lager für gefangene Amerikaner. (1)Gefangene beim Brotholen. (2)Anmarsch neuer Gefangener. (3)Deutscher Offizier im Gespräch mit Gefangenen. (199) "Hier ruht ein tapferer Franzose." (199) [Abb.]: Österreichisch-ungarische Geschützstellung an der Front gegen Italien. (200) [Abb.]: Bemalen englischer schwerer Geschütze gegen Fliegersicht. ( - ) [Abb.]: Gefangennahme von Engländern an der italienischen Bergfront. ([201]) [3 Abb.]: Bilder aus Mazedonien. (1)Lebensmittelbeförderung durch Esel. (2)Deutscher Soldatenfriedhof in Cericani in Mazedonien. (3)Ankunft eines Lebensmitteltransportes. (202) [3 Abb.]: Bilder aus Mazedonien. (1)Die Höhe 1050 bei Cericani in Mazedonien. (2)Auf einer Kleinbahnstation in Mazedonien. (3)Paßstraße bei Gradiska. (203) Weltkrieg und Geldkrieg. Ein Ausschnitt aus dem Zahlenbild des Krieges. (203) [Karte]: Vogelschaukarte von der Bagdadfront bis zum Kaspischen Meer. (204) [Abb.]: Vertreibung der Engländer aus Baku durch tatarische Freischärler in der Nacht zum 16. September 1918. ([205]) [Abb.]: Gesamtkosten des Weltkrieges. (206) Die Ereignisse zur See im achten Kriegshalbjahr. (206) [Abb.]: Frachtkostensteigerung und U-Bootkrieg. (207) Kriegstädtebilder. 3. Cambrai. (207) [Abb.]: Das Fénelontor in Cambrai. (208) Mordgelüste eines amerikanischen Offiziers. (208) [Abb.]: Deutsche Schlachtflieger greifen englische Panzerwagen erfolgreich an. ( - ) Die Geschichte des Weltkrieges 1914/18. Heft 214 (Heft 214) ([209]) [Abb.]: Das Kriegerstandbild in Riga nach der Enthüllung am 3. September 1918, dem Jahrestage der Befreiung der Stadt. ([209]) [2 Karten]: (1)Die neue französische Offensive zwischen Reims und Maas. (2)Die neue Front zwischen Maas und Mosel. (210) [Abb.]: Die malerisch gelegene Kirche des französischen Dörfchens Savonnières an der Maas bei St. Mihiel. (211) [5 Abb.]: (1)Generalmajor v. Renner, württembergischer General, der für hervorragende Verdienste bei den Rückzugskämpfen im Westen den Orden Pour le Mérite erhielt. (2)Generalleutnant v. Fritsch, Führer der 26. (württembergischen) Reserve-Division, die sich am 29. September 1918 in den Kämpfen um Cambrai auszeichnete. (3)Oberleutnant Martin Boelcke vom mecklenburgischen Grenadier-Regiment Nr. 89, dank dessen tatkräftigem Eingreifen ein Vorstoß der Amerikaner gegen Bazoches am 28. August 1918 zum Scheitern gebracht wurde. (4)Vizewachtmeister Bauermeister von der 2. Batterie des Reserve-Feldartillerie-Regiments Nr. 21 vernichtete mit einem Geschütz allein 6 feindliche Panzerwagen bei Miraumont.(5)Vizefeldwebel Paul Höhne, der erste Vizefeldwebel, der den Orden Pour le Mérite erhielt. (212) [Abb.]: Vernichtung feindlicher Sturmpanzerwagen durch deutsches Maschinengewehrfeuer. ([213]) [2 Abb.]: (1)General Sawos, der gewesene Oberbefehlshaber der bulgarischen Armee. (2)General Lukow, einer der bulgarischen Unterhändler, die in Saloniki über die Preisgabe ihres Vaterlandes an den Verband verhandelten. (214) [Karte]: Kartenskizze zu den Kämpfen in Mazedonien im September 1918. (214) Illustrierte Kriegsberichte. (215) Der Tag von Riga. (215) [2 Abb.]: (1)Gemüsemarkt in Üsküb. (2)Topfmarkt in Üsküb. (215) Überraschungen einer U-Bootfahrt. (216) [Abb.]: Stellungswechsel einer österreichisch-ungarischen Batterie. (216) [Abb.]: Vereitelter Übergangsversuch der Italiener über die Piave bei Noventa. ([217]) [Karte]: Kartenskizze zu den Kämpfen in Palästina im Sept. 1918. (218) [2 Abb.]: (1)Oberst Ali Fuad Bey, Führer des VIII türkischen Armeekorps an der Front östlich vom Jordan. (2)Abtransport Verwundeter auf Kamel-Kakulehs an der Palästinafront. (219) [Abb.]: Deutsche Infanterieflieger führen einer eingeschlossenen Kompanie Munition, Fleisch und Zwieback zu. (220 - 221) [Abb.]: Die Wirkung des U-Bootkrieges. (222) Die Rettungsengel. (222) [Abb.]: Die Kriegschiffverluste der Verbandsmächte. (223) Die Ereignisse zur See im achten Kriegshalbjahr. II. Der Kampf gegen die U-Boote. (223) [Abb.]: Die Wirtschaftshilfe der Vereinigten Staaten 1917-1918. (224) Die Geschichte des Weltkrieges 1914/18. Heft 215 (Heft 215) ([225]) [Abb.]: Die historische Reichstagsitzung am 5. Oktober 1918, in der der neue Reichskanzler Prinz Max von Baden Mitteilung von dem erfolgten neuen deutschen Friedensangebot machte. ([225]) [16 Abb.]: Der Reichskanzler Prinz Max von Baden und die Mitglieder der von ihm neu gebildeten parlamentarischen Regierung. (1)Prinz Max von Baden, Reichskanzler und preußischer Minister des Äußern. (2)Dr. v. Payer, Vizekanzler, früher fortschrittlicher Reichstagsabgeordneter. (3)Dr. Eduard David, sozialdemokratischer Reichstagsabgeordneter, Unterstaatssekretär des Auswärtigen Amtes. (4)Karl Trimborn, Zentrum-Reichstagsabgeordneter, Staatssekretär des Innern. (5)Generalmajor Ulrich Hoffmann, Chef des Kriegsamtes. (6)General Scheüch, preußischer Kriegsminister. (7)Vizeadmiral Ernst Ritter v. Mann, Staatssekretär d. Reichsmarineamtes. (8)Kapitän z.S. Löhlein, Chef des U-Bootamtes. (9)Matthias Erzberger, Zentrum-Reichstagsabgeordneter, Staatssekretär ohne Portefeuille. 10)Adolf Gröber, Zentrum-Reichstagsabgeordneter, Staatssekretär ohne Portefeuille. 11)Konrad Haußmann, fortschrittlicher Reichstagsabgeordneter, Staatssekretär ohne Portefeuille. 12)Philipp Scheidemann, sozialdemokratischer Reichstagsabgeordneter, Staatssekretär ohne Portefeuille. (13)Graf Rödern, Staatssekretär des Reichsschatzamtes. (14)Gustav Bauer, sozaildemokratischer Reichstagsabgeordneter, Staatssekretär des Reichsarbeitsamtes. (15)Giesberts, Zentrum-Reichstagsabgeordneter, Unterstaatssekretär im Reichsarbeitsamt. (16)Otto Fischbeck, fortschrittlicher Reichstagsabgeordneter, preußischer Handelsminister. ([227]) [Abb.]: General v.d.Chevallerie, unter dessen Führung ostpreußische und posensche Bataillone beiderseits von Sequehart v.i. Cambrai am 1. Oktober 1918 den Feind zurückwarfen. (228) [Karte]: Die Front im Westen am 11. Oktober 1918. (228) [Abb.]: Von der französischen Bedienungsmannschaft verlassenes Eisenbahngeschütz bei St. Thierry wird von Engländern verteidigt. ([229]) [Abb.]: Ein neuer deutscher Flugzeugtyp: Fokker-Kampfeinseitzer. (230) Illustrierte Kriegsberichte. (231) Überraschungen einer U-Bootfahrt. (231) [Abb.]: Der "militärische Erfolg" des englischen Luftangriffs auf Stuttgart am 15. September 1918, von dem die Engländer behaupteten: "Die Daimler-Werke in Stuttgart wurden mit gutem Erfolg angegriffen." Getroffen wurde ein Wohnhaus inmitten der Stadt, in dem die durch alle Stockwerke schlagende Bombe 10 Zivilpersonen und 1 Soldaten tötete. (231) [3 Abb.]: (1)Vertreter des kaukasischen Bergvolkes der Chewsuren, die nach Tiflis gekommen sind, um der georgischen Regierung ihre Sympathien zu bekunden. (2)Beerdigung des höchsten Geistlichen im Kaukasus, des georgischen Katholikos Kirion II. in Tiflis, der Hauptstadt des neu gebildeten Staates Georgien: Geistliche im Trauerzuge. (3)Fechter der Chewsuren in ihrer Fechterkleidung. (232) [Abb.]: Die Bulgaren am Wardar. ( - ) [Abb.]: Zusammenziehung deutscher Streitkräfte in der Darialschlucht auf der grusinischen Heerstraße im Kaukasus. ([233]) Die Murmanküste und der Aufmarsch der Engländer gegen die Sowjetrepublik. (234) [2 Abb.]: (1)Die Kaserne in Omsk. (2)Blick auf den Hafen von Alexandrowsk. (234) [Karte]: Die Lage in Rußland Mitte September 1918. (235) [5 Abb.]: (1)Typische Bockbrücke der Murmanbahn. (2)Blick auf Tobolsk. (3)Das St. Innozent-Kloster in Irkutsk. (4)Der höchste Punkt der sibirischen Bahn im Ural. (5)Die Vorhut der Kalmücken des Sasker Kreises, die sich gegen die Tschecho-Slowaken erhoben haben, besetzt die Bahnlinie Pensa-Simbirsk. (236 - 237) [3 Abb.]: Bei den deutschen Nachrichtentruppen. (1)(2)Oberes und unteres Bild: Soldaten beim Legen einer Leitung in einer kleinen russischen Stadt. (3)Mittleres Bild: Leitungsturm einer deutschen Fernsprechabteilung. (238) Das Fernsprechwesen im Kriege. (239) [3 Abb.]: (1)Oberes Bild: Soldaten bei der Bedienung von Fernsprechapparaten auf einer Station im Westen. (2)Mittleres Bild: Fernsprech- und Telegraphenvermittlung an der Aisne. (3)Unteres Bild: Soldaten beim Legen einer Leitung in einem russischen Städtchen. (239) [Abb.]: "Wir Barbaren!" Wo die wahre Kultur zu finden ist, zeigt ein Vergleich der Leistungen Deutschlands, Englands und Frankreichs an Hand der obigen bildlichen Darstellung. (240) Die Geschichte des Weltkrieges 1914/18. Heft 216 (Heft 216) ([241]) [2 Abb.]: (1)Oberleutnant v. Brandenstein, Kommandeut des Infanterieregiments Alt-Württemberg Nr. 121, erhielt den Orden Pour le Mérite. (2)Planmäßige Räumung im Westen: Verbringung französischer Gefangener aus Laon in rückwärts gelegene Lager. ([241]) [Abb.]: Planmäßige Räumung im Westen: Rückverlegung einer deutschen Artilleriewerkstatt. (242) [Abb.]: Eine interessante Tankabwehrübung. Der Tank wird von der Infanterie eingenebelt und von Flammenwerfern und Schlachtfliegern angegriffen. (243) [Abb.]: Von der großen Abwehrschlacht im Westen. Abteilung 1 des Gefechtstandes des Alpenkorps. (244) [Abb.]: Am Sommekanal bei Epenancourt. (245) [Abb.]: Großwesir Izzet Pascha, zugleich türkischer Kriegsminister. (246) Illustrierte Kriegsberichte. (246) Überraschungen einer U-Bootfahrt. (246) [3 Abb.]: Bilder von der Palästinafront. (1)Oberes Bild: Beisetzung eines gefallenen englischen Fliegeroffiziers durch deutsche Truppen. (2)Mittleres Bild: ein Divisionskommandeut besichtigt eine türkische Stellung. (3)Unteres Bild: Deutsche Sanitätskolonne auf dem Wege zur Front. (247) [Abb.]: Versenkung eines französischen U-Bootes durch ein österreichisch-ungarisches Tauchboot am 20. September 1918 nördlich von Durazzo. (248) [Abb.]: Douai unter dem Feuer schwerer englischer Geschütze. ( - ) [Abb.]: Fliegerabwehr an Bord eines österreichisch-ungarischen Großkampfschiffes im Hafen von Pola. (249) Unsere Ostafrikaner. (250) [Karte]: Übersichtskarte über die von den Truppen des Generals v. Lettow-Vorbeck zurückgelegten Wegstrecken. (251) Eine deutsche Feldpostsammelstelle. (251) [Abb.]: Deutsche Schutztruppenabteilungen aus Ostafrika durchqueren einen Flußlauf im portugiesischen Kolonialgebiet. . In langer Reihe die Trägerkolonnen. ([252 - 253]) [2 Abb.]: Die Feldpostsammelstelle in Frankfurt a.M. (1)Aussortieren der Heeresdienstpakete in der unterirdischen Durchgangspackkammer. (2)Verladen der fertigen Feldposten auf dem nördlichen Postverladebahnsteig im Hauptbahnhof. (254) [4 Abb.]: Die Feldpostsammelstelle in Frankfurt a.M. (1)Grobsortierstelle für Kolonnenformationen bei der Abteilung B im Oberpostdirektionsgebäude. (2)Päckchen-Feinsortierstelle "Aktive Regimenter". (3)Elektrisches Hebewerk für Päckchenposten. (4)Feldpostensortierstelle in der Pakethalle auf dem Hauptbahnhof. (255) [Abb.]: Die deutsche Sozialversicherung steht in der ganzen Welt vorbildlich und unerreicht da. (256) Die Geschichte des Weltkrieges 1914/18. Heft 217 (Heft 217) ([257]) [Abb.]: Von der großen Rückzugschlacht im Westen: Vor Nesle. ([257]) [2 Abb.]: (1)Räumung des von den Deutschen freiwillig aufgegebenen Geländes im Westen: Anbringen der Sprengladung an einer Brücke. (2)Räumung des von den Deutschen freiwillig aufgegebenen Geländes im Westen: Sprengladungen werden an eine Brücke gelegt. (258) [Abb.]: Ein besonders konstruiertes Gewehr zur Bekämpfung der Sturmpanzerwagen. (259) [Abb.]: Die Räumung von Lille: Die Bewohner verlassen die Stadt. (260 - 261) [Karte]: Völker-Karte von Österreich-Ungarn. (262) [3 Abb.]: (1)Reichstagsabgeordneter Hauß (Zentrum), Staatssekretär von Elsaß-Lothringen. (2)Der ehemalige ungarische Ministerpräsident Graf Stephan Tisza (am 31. Oktober 1918 ermordet). (3)Der österreichische Ministerpräsident Freiherr Hussarek v. Heinlein. (263) Illustrierte Kriegsberichte. (264) U-Boottätigkeit im Sperrgebiet. "Bringen Sie die Papiere an Bord!" (264) [Abb.]: Aufgefischte englische Stahldrahtnetzsperre in der Halle des Seebahnhofes von Ostende. (264) Kriegstädtebilder. 4. Brügge. (264) [Abb.]: Auf den Festungswällen von La Fère. ( - ) [Abb.]: "Bringen Sie die Papiere an Bord!" ([265]) Die Bosniaken am Monte Solarolo. (266) Notgeldscheine und -münzen deutscher Städte. Mit Berücksichtigung der Kleingeldscheine in den von den deutschen Truppen besetzten Gebieten. (266) [Abb.]: Deutsche Matrosen auf einem Kanal in Brügge. (267) [Abb.]: In den Kämpfen im August 1918 von den k.u.k. Truppen gefangene Italiener warten im Brentatal auf ihre Abführung. (268) [Abb.]: Ein am 15. Juli 1918 von den Italienern unternommener Hauptstoß gegen die östereichisch-ungarischen Stellungen am Monte Solarolo wird von Bosniaken des 4. Regiments abgewiesen. Die Ausrüstung der Bosniaken ist die sogenannte "erleichterte", d.h. ohne Rucksack oder Tornister. Die Soldaten tragen nur den Patronentornister und darüber den gerollten Mantel. ([269]) [4 Abb.]: (1)Vier russische Kleingeldmarken. Kriegsnotgeld des Auslandes. Vier ukrainische Kleingeldmarken. (2)Kriegsmünze der Stadt Neuburg a.D. Vorder- und Rückseite. (3)1-Mark-Schein des Königreichs Polen. (4)Französischer Geldschein aus dem besetzten Gebiet. (270) Überraschungen einer U-Bootfahrt. (270) [10 Abb.]: (1)50-Pfennig-Schein der Stadt Lindenberg i. Allgäu. (2)50-Pfennig-Schein der Stadt Hammelburg. (3)50-Pfennig-Schein der Stadt Würzburg. (4)50-Pfennig-Schein der Stadt Lindau i. Bodensee. (5)50-Pfennig-Schein der Stadt Bielefeld. (6)Kriegsmünze der Stadt Greilsheim i. Württ. (Vorderseite.) (7)25-Pfennig-Schein der Stadt Bielefeld. (8)10-Pfennig-Schein der Stadt Bielefeld. (9)Kriegsmünze der Stadt Greilsheim i. Württ. (Rückseite.) 10)Gutschein für die Kriegsgefangenenlager des XVIII. Armeekorps. (271) [Abb.]: Die Beute der U-Bootfahrt. (272) [Abb-]: Die rauchenden Trümmer der französichen Festung La Fère werden von deutschen Truppen verteidigt. ( - ) Die Geschichte des Weltkrieges 1914/18. Heft 218 (Heft 218) ([273]) [Abb.]: Schweres deutsches Maschinengewehr im Vorfeld. ([273]) [2 Karten]: (1)Deutsche und polnische Sprachgebiete in den Provinzen Ostpreußen, Westpreußen, Posen und Schlesien. (2)Die Verbreitung der deutschen und französischen Sprache in Elsaß-Lothringen. (274) [2 Abb.]: (1)Deutsche Artillerie auf dem Marsche. (2)Deutsche Geschütze werden durch Mannschaften in die Stellungen gezogen. (275) [Abb.]: Das 1. bayrische Infanterieregiment hält unter Führung seines Kommandeurs, Major Schmidtler, in zäher Verteidigung die Höhen östlich von Chestres gegen den heftigen Ansturm eines überlegenen Gegners. ([276 - 277]) [Abb.]: Die Abwehrkämpfe im Westen: Auf einer Marschstraße zwischen Maas und Mosel. (278) [3 Abb.]: (1)Blick von den Maashöhen bei Braux. (2)Nouzon an der Maas. (3)Charleville an der Maas. (279) Illustrierte Kriegsberichte. (279) Die Wohnungsfrage nach dem Kriege. (279) [Abb.]: Deutsche Vorfeldbesatzung wehrt einen Tankangriff ab. (280) [Abb.]: Verbellen von deutschen Maschinengewehr-Stützpunkten. ([281]) Riesen-Flugzeuge. (282) [3 Abb.]: Bei einer deutschen Jagdstaffel. (1)Mitte: Abflugbereite Staffel von Kampfeinsitzern, genau in einer Reihe aufgestellt und ausgerichtet. (2)(3)Seitenbilder: Signalrakete, die als Zeichen zum Abflug auf dem Flugplatz abgefeuert wird, da Kommandoworte und Schüsse infolge des Motorenlärmes nicht hörbar sind. Links die unter starker Rauchentwicklung aufsteigende Rakete. Rechts: Richten des Abschußgestelles. (282) [Abb.]: Ein neues deutsches Riesen-Flugzeug nach einer englischen Darstellung. ([283]) Der Fliegerüberfall auf das österreichisch-ungarische Hospitalschiff "Baron Gall". (284) Finnlands wirtschaftspolitische Verhältnisse. (284) [Abb.]: Fliegerüberfall auf das österreichisch-ungarische Hospitalschiff "Baron Gall". (285) [Abb.]: Finnische Hochseefischer im Hafen von Helsingfors. (286) Unsere Unterwasserschneid-Abteilungen. (286) [6 Abb.]: Bilder aus Finnland. (1)Eine der größten Papierfabriken in Finnland. (2)Die Imatra Stromschnellen. (3)Rückkehr der abgelösten finnischen Wache in Helsingfors. (4)Markt in Helsingfors. (5)Der Nordhafen von Wyborg. (6)Oboßkische Brücke in Wyborg. ([287]) [Abb.]: Dräger-Taucher arbeitet mit Unterwasser-Schneidbrenner. (288) Ehrentafel. Bezwingung eines englischen Tanks. (288) Die Geschichte des Weltkrieges 1914/18. Heft 219 (Heft 219) ([289]) [Abb.]: Deutsche Kavallerieschützen mit Maschinengewehr. ([289]) [2 Abb.]: (1)Deutsche schwere Mörserbatterie im Rückzugsgefecht bei den Abwehrkämpfen im Westen. (2)Feuernde deutsche 15-cm-Haubitzenbatterie bei den Abwehrkämpfen im Westen. Vor den Geschützen angreifende Infanterie. (290) [Abb.]: Die Abwehrkämpfe im Westen: Deutsche Reserven werden in vorderster Stellung ausgeladen. (291) [Abb.]: Eine Stadt in Flandern im englischen Artilleriefeuer. (292 - 293) [Abb.]: Pierrepont. (294) [5 Abb.]: (1)Eine Straße in Douai am 2. Oktober 1918 nach erneuter Beschießung durch englische Artillerie. (2)Der Bahnhof von Douai am 2. Oktober 1918 nach erneuer Beschießung durch die Engländer. (3)Volltreffer in einem Hause von Douai nach erneuter Beschießung durch die Engländer am 2. Oktober 1918. (4)Volltreffer in der Ecole Chrétienne in Douai, durch den acht Personen getötet wurden. Deutsche Soldaten bergen die Verunglückten. (5)Die französische Bevölkerung von Vouziers flüchtet vor dem Artilleriefeuer ihrer eigenen Landsleute. ([295]) [Abb.]: Straßenleben in einer mazedonischen Ortschaft. (296) Illustrierte Kriegsberichte. (296) Der deutsche Arbeitsmarkt nach dem Kriege. (296) [Abb.]: Kampf mit serbischen Banden auf dem Rückzug der österreichisch-ungarischen Armee aus Serbien. ([297]) [5 Abb.]: (1)Hofrat Professor Dr. Heinrich Lammasch, der österreichischer Ministerpräsident wurde. (2)Graf Julius Andrassy, der als österreich.-ungar. Minister des Äußern von nur mehrtägiger Amtszeit das Angebot eines bedingungslosen Waffenstillstandes an Amerika richtete. (3)Graf Michael Karolyi, ungarischer Ministerpräsident, Führer der Radikalen Ungarns und Gegner des Bündnisses mit Deutschland. (4)Graf Janos Hadik, der, zum ungarischen Ministerpräsidenten ernannt, sein Amt sofort an Graf Karolyi abgeben mußte. (5)Dr. Viktor Adler, Führer der österreichischen Sozialdemokraten, wurde in der auf das Ministerium Lammasch-Andrassy folgenden Nationalregierung deutschösterreichischer Staatssekretär des Äußern. Er starb am 11. November 1918. (298) [2 Abb.]: (1)Der österreichische Kriegshafen Pola, der mit der gesamten Kriegsflotte den Kroaten ausgeliefert wurde. (2)Fiume. (299) Die Begleitbatterien der Infanterie. (300 - 301) [Abb.]: Überschiffung Verwundeter über die Piave während der Montelloschlacht. (300 - 301) Das Taubenhaus. (302) [Abb.]: Großer französischer Taubenturm, der in deutsche Hände gefallen ist. (302) [Abb.]: Das Innere des französischen Taubenturmes, in dem etwa 1500 Tauben nisten können. Eine drehbare Leiter ermöglicht es, an jedes Nest zu gelangen. (303) Der Bauch des Heeres. (304) [Abb.]: Die Nahrung der Kämpfer. (304) [Abb.]: Vizewachtmeister Halbreiter vom 1. Garde-Reserve-Feldartillerieregiment empfängt heranstürmende Abteilungen der Engländer aus nächster Nähe mit vernichtendem Schnellfeuer. ( - ) Die Geschichte des Weltkrieges 1914/18. Heft 220 (Heft 220) ([305]) [Abb.]: Franzensfeste in Tirol. ([305]) [3 Abb.]: (1)Professor Thomas Masaryk, Präsident der tschechoslowakischen Republik. (2)Dr. Kramarsch, der tschechoslowakische Ministerpräsident. (3)Benzin- und Öllager in Dalmatien. (306) [Abb.]: Der deutsche Volkstag in Troppau (Österreichisch-Schlesien) am 15. Oktober 1918. ([307]) [Abb.]: Gewaltiger deutscher Minenwerferangriff mit nachfolgendem Sturm auf eine französische Stellung, die durch die gleichzeitig einsetzende Beschießung aus tausend Feuerschlünden vollständig vernichtet wurde. (308 - 309) [3 Abb.]: Der deutsche Rückzug an der Westfront im Herbst 1918. (1)Abtransport eines deutschen Geschützes. (2)Deutsche Gepäckwagen fahren über die Kanalbrücke bei Bellenglise. (3)Der geordnete deutsche Rückzug, der ohne Hast vonstatten ging. (310) [Abb.]: Französische Landeseinwohner flüchten vor der französischen und englischen Beschießung. (311) [7 Abb.]: Bei den deutschen Fliegern im Westen. (1)Kampfflieger Vizefeldwebel Hennrich. (2)Vollkommen aus Metall gebautes deutsches Infanterieflugzeug mit gepanzertem Motor, fertig zum Abflug. (3)Kampfflieger Oberleutnant Greim. (4)Infanterieflieger, die einer vom Feind umfaßten Truppe Wasser in Kannen, ferner Konserven und Brot zuführen sollen, unterrichten sich auf der Karte über die Infanteriestellung. (5)Kampfflieger Leutnant Mai. (6)Maschinengewehre zur Fliegerabwehr auf dem Flugplatz eines deutschen Geschwaders. (7)Kampfflieger Oberleutnant Schmidt. (312) [Abb.]: Bayrische Grenzschutzwache an der Tiroler Grenze bei Kufstein. ( - ) [Abb.]: Feindliche Batterien werden von deutschen Fliegern zum Schweigen gebracht. ([313]) [5 Abb.]: (1)General v. Winterfeldt, Mitglied der deutschen Waffenstillstandsabordnung, früher deutscher Militärattaché in Paris. (2)Graf v. Oberndorf, Mitglied der deutschen Waffenstillstandsabordnung, vorher deutscher Gesandter in Bulgarien. (3)Kapitän z.S. Vanselow, Mitlied der deutschen Waffenstillstandsabordnung. (4)Geheimrat Frisch, als Vertreter der deutschen Zentral-Einkaufs-Gesellschaft zur Unterhandlung mit Foch ausersehen. (5)Der amerikanische Oberst House, von dem Präsidenten Wilson zu seiner Vertretung nach Europa gesandt. (314) Illustrierte Kriegsberichte. (315) Die Evakuierung von Valenciennes. (315) [Karte]: Die im Waffenstillstandsvertrag vereinbarte neutrale Zone. (315) Die politischen Ziele der Verbandsmächte in Syrien, Arabien und Mesopotamien. (315) [8 Abb.]: (1)Friedrich Ebert, mit Hugo Haase Vorsitzender des Rats der Volksbeauftragten (Sozialdemokrat). (2)Hugo Haase, neben Friedrich Ebert Vorsitzender des Rats der Volksbeauftragten (unabhängiger Sozialdemokrat). (3)Schiffer, Staatssekretär des Reichsschatzamtes (nationalliberal). (4)Eduard Bernstein, Beigeordneter im Reichsschatzamt (unabhängiger Sozialdemokrat). (5)Paul Göhre, Beigeordneter im Kriegsministerium (Sozialdemokrat). (6)Karl Kautsky, Beigeordneter im Auswärtigen Amt (unabhängiger Sozialdemokrat). (7)Robert Schmidt, Leiter des Kriegsernährungsamtes (Sozialdemokrat). (8)Kurt Eisner, Ministerpräsident der bayrischen Republik (unabhängiger Sozialdemokrat). (316) [Abb.]: Am Abend des 7. Novembers 1918 vor der Theatinerkirche in München (links die Feldherrnhalle). ([317]) [3 Abb.]: Bilder von der deutschen Revolution. (1)Das Landtagsgebäude in München, der Sitz des Arbeiter- und Soldatenrats. (2)Von Mitgliedern des Arbeiter- und Soldatenrats besetzte Kraftwägen mit roten Fahnen in den Straßen Berlins. (3)Ein von bewaffneten Soldaten besetzter Lastkraftwagen des Arbeiter- und Soldatenrates, der die Straßen Berlins durchstreift, am Brandenburger Tor. (318) [Abb.]: Ein Soldat mit weißer Armbinde, der im Auftrag des Arbeiter- und Soldatenrates am Sicherheitsdienst in Berlin teilnimmt. (319) Kriegstädtebilder. 5. Gent. (319) [Abb.]: Straßenbild aus Gent. (320) Die deutschen, die britischen und die amerikanischen Verluste. (320) [Abb.]: Räumung der deutschen Stellung am Knie im Argonnenwald. Im Hintergrund zeichnen sich gegen die Luft die aufgeworfenen Erdhügel der deutschen Schützengräben ab. ( - ) Die Geschichte des Weltkrieges 1914/18. Heft 221 (Heft 221) ([321]) [Abb.]: Stenay. Im Vordergrund das Gebäude, in dem sich das Oberkommando der deutschen V. Armee befand. ([321]) [Abb.]: Die Revolution in Deutschland: Der kaiserliche Marstall in Berlin mit den Spuren von Maschinengewehrschüssen. Aus diesem dem Schloß gegenüberliegenden Gebäude wurde lebhaft auf die Revolutionäre geschossen. (322) [Abb.]: Die neue württembergische Regierung. Von links: Baumann, Dr. Lindemann, Blos, Kiene, Heymann, Liesching, Crispien. (323) [2 Abb.]: (1)Die erste Sitzung des Soldatenrats im Reichstagsgebäude am 11. November 1918. (2)Eine Sitzung des Rates der Volksbeauftragten. Von links: Barth, Landsberg, Ebert, Haase, Dittmann, Scheidemann. (324) [Abb.]: Die Umwälzung in Berlin. Ein Soldat mit roter Fahne hält von einem mit bewaffneten Matrosen und Soldaten besetzten Automobil am Brandenburger Tor eine Ansprache an die Menge. Links entfernt ein Soldat die Kokarde von seiner Mütze. ([325]) [Abb.]: Im Luftkampf abgeschossenes englisches Flugzeug, das vor der Kirche von Latour en Woevre niederstürzte. (326) Illustrierte Kriegsberichte. (326) "Wir machen eine Trichtersprengung." (326) [Abb.]: Deutsche Nachhut hält die Trümmer einer französischen Ortschaft gegen feindlichen Infanteriesturm. ([327]) [Abb.]: Von der Westfront heimkehrende deutsche Truppen in einer Stadt des besetzten Gebiets, die zum Empfang der nachrückenden Verbandstruppen festlich beflaggt ist. (328) [Abb.]: Kavallerie auf dem Marsche. ([329]) Der Eisenbetonschiffbau in Amerika. (330) [Abb.]: Das amerikanische Eisenbetonschiff "Faith" im Bau. (330) [5 Abb.]: (1)Das dänische Betonboot "Beton I" verläßt kieloben die Bauhalle. (2)Das Betonboot "Beton I" nach seiner Umkehrung. (3)Stapellauf des amerikanischen Eisenbetonschiffes "Faith". (4)Die Eisenspanten des "Faith". (5)Das amerikanische Eisenbetonschiff "Faith" auf der Fahrt. (331) Abwehr eines See- und Luftangriffes auf Durazzo. (332) [Abb.]: Der erste Friedensbrunnen in Deutschland, der in Mittweida in Sachsen auf Kosten der Stadt errichtet wurde. (332) [Abb.]: Ein See- und Luftangriff auf Durazzo wird erfolgreich abgeschlagen. ([333]) Die politischen Ziele der Verbandsmächte in Syrien, Arabien und Mesopotamien. (334) [Abb.]: Ansicht von Damaskus. (334) [3 Abb.]: (1)Blick in eine Straße der schöngepflegten Anlagen von Beirut in Syrien. (2)Blick auf einen Teil der französischen Gebirgsbahn bei Beirut. Im Hintergrund rechts eine vierhundertjährige Brücke. (3)Gesamtansicht von Beirut am Fuße des schneebedeckten Libanongebirges. (335) [Abb.]: Englische Kamelkolonne im Jordantal in Palästina, durch das Jahrhunderte vorher die Kamelreiter und Transportzüge der Assyrer und Babylonier in Palästina eindrangen. (336) Ein Engländer über seine Behandlung in Deutschland. (336) Die Weltkriegskosten. (336) [Abb.]: Von der Westfront heimkehrende deutsche Truppen marschieren durch Köln am Rhein. Rechts die mächtigen Mauern des Kölner Domes. ( - ) Die Geschichte des Weltkrieges 1914/18. Heft 222 (Heft 222) ([337]) [Abb.]: Ansicht des belgischen Badeortes Spaa in der Provinz Lüttich, in dem die Verhandlungen der Waffenstillstandskommission geführt wurden. ([337]) [Abb.]: Rückkehr deutscher Truppen aus dem Westen. Die Züge sind so überfüllt, daß die Soldaten sogar auf den Dächern Platz genommen haben. (338) [8 Abb.]: Durchmarsch der heimkehrenden deutschen Truppen durch Köln a.Rh. (1)Die flaggengeschmückte Hohe Straße in Köln. (2)Truppen ziehen durch die Springergasse in Köln. (3)Rast vor dem Kölner Dom. (4)Ein Jäger-Radfahrerbataillon in den Straßen Kölns. (5)Kölner Jungen auf einem heimkehrenden Automobil. (6)Die Jugend begleitet die Truppen durch die Stadt. (7)Automobil-Transportzug in den Straßen Kölns. (8)Ein ungewohnter Anblick in den Straßen Kölns. ([339]) [Abb.]: Kameraden. (340) [Abb.]: Deutsche Truppen räumen Grandpré. ([341]) [3 Abb.]: (1)Admiral Sir David Beatty, der als Bevollmächtigter der englischen Admiralität die abzuliefernde deutsche Kriegsflotte entgegennahm. (2)Konteradmiral Meurer, der im Auftrage des deutschen Flottenrates die Verhandlungen zur Übergabe der deutschen Kriegsflotte leitete. (3)Lord Robert Cecil, der zurückgetretene englische Blockademinister. (342) [Abb.]: Ansicht von Kiel mit dem Kriegshafen. (343) [2 Abb.]: (1)Deutscher Posten an der Stützmauer von Helgoland. (2)Deutsche Torpedoflotte im Hafen von Helgoland. (344) Illustrierte Kriegsberichte. (344) Die Ursachen des Zusammenbruchs des deutschen Heeres. (344) [Abb.]: Deutsche Luft- und Seestreitkräfte verlassen den Hafen von Helgoland. ([345]) [3 Abb.]: (1)Dr. Karl Renner, der deutschösterreichische Staatskanzler, ein Führer der österreichischen Sozialdemokratie. (2)Dr. Ludo M. Hartmann, der neuernannte Vertreter der Deutschösterreichischen Republik in Berlin. (3)Professor Dr. Preuß, deutscher Staatssekretär des Innern. (346) [Abb.]: Die erste Nationalversammlung der Abgeordneten von Deutsch Österreich im Sitzungsaal des Wiener Landhauses. (347) Aus der Praxis des russischen Bolschewismus. (347) [Abb.]: Verkündigung der Deutschösterreichischen Republik und ihres Anschlusses an den deutschen Freistaat am 12. November 1918 vor dem Parlament in Wien. (348 - 349) [Abb.]: Russische Bolschewisten überfallen mit umherstreifenden Soldatenbanden einsame Bauernhöfe, in denen sie Anhänger des Zarismus vermuten. (350) [3 Abb.]: (1)Schnelle Aburteilung durch bolschewistische Rote Garde an der finnischen Grenze. (2)Bolschewistische Soldateska legt nach Plünderung Feuer an ein Amtsgebäude. (3)Bolschewistische Rechtsprechung in Petersburg. ([351]) [Abb.]: Daheim - und Friede! (352) Die Geschichte des Weltkrieges 1914/18. Heft 223 (Heft 223) ([353]) [Abb.]: Die Reichskonferenz der bundesstaatlichen Volksregierungen am 25. November 1918 im Sitzungsaal des Reichskanzlerhauses in Berlin. Im Hintergrund am mittleren Fenster, stehend, Friedrich Ebert. ([353]) [Abb.]: Die Urkunde über die Abdankung Wilhelms II. (354) [3 Abb.]: (1)Kaiser Wilhelm überschreitet nach seiner Abdankung die holländische Grenze am Bahnhof Eysden. (2)Der frühere Deutsche Kaiser mit seinem Gastgeber bei einem Spaziergang im Schloßpark von Amerongen. (3)Das Schloß Het Huis te Amerongen, in dem sich der frühere Deutsche Kaiser mit Erlaubnis der holländischen Regierung nach seinem Thronverzicht aufhält. Das Schloß gehört dem Grafen Godard Aldenburg Bentinck. (355) [Abb.]: Die deutschen Truppen verlassen in Erfüllung der Waffenstillstandsbedingungen Metz. (356 - 357) [11 Abb.]: Vertreter der bundesstaatlichen Volksregierungen bei der Reichskonferenz in Berlin. (1)Heinrich Ströbel, preußischer Ministerpräsident. (2)Dr. Kurt Rosenfeld, preußischer Justizminister. (3)Paul Hirsch, preußischer Minister des Innern. (4)Dr. Friedrich Muckle, bayrischer Gesandter in Berlin. (5)Dr. Georg Gradnauer, sächsicher Justizminister. (6)Karl Hildenbrand, württ. Gesandter in Berlin. (7)Geiß, badischer Ministerpräsident. (8)Dr. Ludwig Haas, badischer Minister des Innern. (9)Ulrich, hessischer Ministerpräsident. (10)Sivkovich, Vertreter von Mecklenburg-Schwerin. (11)Professor Dr. Neumann-Hofer, Vertreter von Lippe-Detmold. (358) [3 Abb.]: (1)General v. Eberhardt, der den Arbeiter- und Soldatenrat in Koblenz absetzen ließ, leitet den Rheinübergang bei Neuwied. (2)Deutsche Kolonnen überschreiten die von Pionieren erbaute Notbrücke über den Rhein bei Neuwied. (3)Übergang von Kolonnen heimkehrender deutscher Truppen über die Rheinbrücke bei Bonn. (359) [Abb.]: Empfang des heimkehrenden württembergischen Dragonerregiments Nr. 26 unter Führung des Majors Jobst vor dem Stuttgarter Rathaus am 30. November 1918 durch den Oberbürgermeister Lautenschlager, den Minister des Innern Crispien und namens des Stellvertretenden Generalkommandos durch den Obersten v. Hügel. (360) Illustrierte Kriegsberichte. (360) Fremde Fahnen . Ein Stimmungsbild aus den letzten Tagen des Großen Hauptquartiers. (360) [Abb.]: Am Münchener Hauptbahnhof zur Zeit der Demobilmachung. ( - ) [Abb.]: Rast durchziehender österreichisch-ungarischer Truppen in der Pfalz. (361) [Abb.]: Joseph Pilsudski, das polnische Staatsoberhaupt. (362) Die Brennstofffrage. (362) [2 Abb.]: (1)Englischer Soldat in seiner für Nordrußland bestimmten Ausrüstung. (2)Englischer Soldat auf Schneeschuhen befördert seine auf Schlitten verladene Ausrüstung im Norden Rußlands. (363) [Abb.]: Österreichisch-ungarische Artilleriekolonne auf dem Marsche. (364 - 365) Die Ostseeprovinzen. (364 - 365) [Abb.]: Esten von der Insel Kühno. (366) Die Szene des Waffenstillstands. (366) [2 Abb.]: (1)Alter Settukese. (2)Settukisches Mädchen. (367) [2 Abb.]: (1)Ankunft der deutschen Bevollmächtigten zum Abschluß eines Waffenstillstandes in den ersten französischen Linien bei Haudroy auf der Straße von La Capelle nach Rocquigny am 7. November 1918. (2)Die zweite Vollsitzung des Obersten Kriegsrats der Verbandsmächte zur endgültigen Festsetzung der Waffenstillstandsbedingungen in Versailles am 4. November 1918. ([368]) [Abb.]: Der Vorsitzende des Rats der Volksbeauftragten Friedrich Ebert spricht vor dem Reichskanzlerpalais in Berlin zu einer Ansammlung von Soldaten, die ihn zum Präsidenten der Deutschen Republik ausrufen wollten. ( - ) Die Geschichte des Weltkrieges 1914/18. Heft 224 (Heft 224) ([369]) [Abb.]: Belgischer Panzerwagen vor dem Rathause in Aachen nach der Besetzung der Stadt. ([369]) [Abb.]: Landung eines deutschen Riesenflugzeuges in Kassel, dem Sitz des deutschen Hauptquartiers. Zum Vergleich daneben ein Flugzeug gewöhnlicher Größe. (370) [4 Abb.]: Bilder von der deutschen Westgrenze. (1)Oben: Der Marktplatz von Eupen an der belgischen Grenze mit zurückgelassenem deutschen Militärgerät. (2)Mitte links: Verlassenes deutsches Geschütz vor einem Denkmal in Köln. (3)rechts: Zurückgelassenes modernes deutsches Fliegerabwehrgeschütz in einer Straße von Eupen. (4)Unten: Gefangene und Internierte erwarten in Herbesthal den Zug, der sie ihre Heimat nach Belgien zurückbefördern soll. (371) [Abb.]: Aus Brunstadt bei Mülhausen. (372) [Abb.]: Durchzug heimkehrender deutscher Krieger durch eine Stadt im Oberelsaß. (373) [2 Abb.]: (1)Vogesenlandschaft an der elsaß-lothringischen Grenze. (2)Das idyllisch gelegene Städtchen Markirch im Winter. (374) [Abb.]: Verschneites Vogesental bei Markirch. (375) Illustrierte Kriegsberichte. (375) Leermaterial und Sammelgut. (375) [Abb.]: Der Große Donon, der höchste Berg Elsaß-Lothringens. (375) Wie wir davon erfuhren. (376) [Abb.]: Rundgang der Waffenstillstandskommission der Verbandsmächte in Wilhelmshaven. (376) [Abb.]: Einlaufen des englischen Geschwaders mit der Waffenstillstandskommission der Verbandsmächte in Wilhelmshaven am 5. Dezember 1918. ([377]) Die Ereignisse im Großen Hauptquartier vor der Abdankung Kaiser Wilhelms. (378) [Abb.]: Die Abdankungsurkunde des früheren deutschen Kronprinzen. (378) Eisen, Kohle und Kali als Werkzeuge für den Wiederaufbau der deutschen Volkswirtschaft. (379) [3 Abb.]: (1)Der Führer der Spartakusgruppe und frühere Reichstagsabgeordnete Karl Liebknecht spricht zu seinen Anhängern von einem Denkmal der Berliner Siegesallee aus. (2)Der Demonstrationsumzug, der von Berliner Rüstungsarbeitern infolge der vom Spartakusbund veranlaßten Verkündigung des Generalstreiks unternommen wurde, auf der Straße Unter den Linden. (3)Zwei von den Anhängern der Spartakusgruppe unter dem "historischen Eckfenster" an der Straße Unter den Linden in Berlin eroberte Maschinengewehre werden auf einem Lastautomobil in Stellung gebracht. (379) [Abb.]: Feldmarschalleutnant v. Boog, Oberbefehlshaber der bewaffneten Macht Deutsch-Österreichs. (380) [2 Tab.]: (1)Roheisenerzeugung. (2)Kohlenproduktion. (380) [Abb.]: Die Judenmetzeleien in Lemberg. Im Hintergrund die Synagoge. ([381]) Unschädlichmachen angeschwemmter Minen auf Helgoland. (382) [Abb.]: Transport einer angeschwemmten englischen Mine über den Strand von Helgoland. (382) Vergesellschaftung der Produktionsmittel. (382) [2 Abb.]: Angeschwemmte englische Minen auf Helgoland. (1)Entfernen der Schießbaumwolle aus einer angeschwemmten englischen Mine. (2)Der Zünder einer auf Helgoland angeschwemmten englischen Mine wird unschädlich gemacht. (383) [Abb.]: Deutsche Torpedoboote als Minensuchschiffe mit der deutschen Handelsflagge, bereit zur Abfahrt, um die Nord- und Ostsee von Minen zu säubern. (384) [Abb.]: Die heimkehrenden Gardetruppen ziehen durch die Siegesallee in Berlin ein und werden von der Bevölkerung mit Jubel begrüßt. ( - ) Die Geschichte des Weltkrieges 1914/19. Heft 225 (Heft 225) ([385]) [Abb.]: Begrüßungsplakat der Stadt München für die heimkehrenden Truppen. ([385]) [2 Abb.]: (1)Begrüßung der einziehenden Gardetruppen am Brandenburger Tor in Berlin am 10. Dezember 1918. (2)Die Menschenmassen am Brandenburger Tor in Berlin beim Einzug der heimkehrenden Gardetruppen am 10. Dezember 1918. (386) [2 Abb.]: (1)Die Fahnen des 2. Grenadier- und des Füsilier-Bataillons des 4. Garde-Grenadier-Regiments "Königin Elisabeth" beim Einzug der "Elisabether" in Berlin am 13. Dezember 1918. (2)Feierlicher Empfang der von der Front heimkehrenden Leipziger Garnisontruppen am 15. Dezember 1918. (387) [3 Abb.]: (1)Das Hauptquartier der Verbandsmächte in Trier, in dem die Vertreter der internationalen Waffenstillstandskommission ihren Wohnsitz aufschlugen. (2)Das Hotel zur Post in Trier, in dem die Verhandlungen über die Verlängerung des Waffenstillstandes stattfanden. (3)Trier, von Westen gesehen. (388) [Abb.]: Die feierliche Vereidigung der heimkehrenden deutschen Jägerdivision und der Gardekavallerieschützendivision unter Generalleutnant v. Lequis vor den Volksbeauftragten Ebert, Haase, Scheidemann und Dittmann im Steglitzer Rathaus am 9. Dezember 1918. ([389]) [Abb.]: Bodenbach an der böhmisch-sächsischen Grenze. (390) [Abb.]: Blick auf die deutsche Industriestadt Warnsdorf in Böhmen. (391) Illustrierte Kriegsberichte. (391) Das Ende der deutschen Flotte. (391) [2 Abb.]: (1)Das Rathaus von Reichenberg, der bisherigen Hauptstadt von Deutsch-Böhmen. (2)Blick auf Karlsbad in Böhmen. (391) [Abb.]: Deutsche U-Boote werden nach Harwich gebracht. (392) Der Rückzug der Armee Mackensens. (392) [Abb.]: Die hauptsächlichen Typen der infolge des Waffenstillstands zur See abgelieferten deutschen Kriegschiffe. ([393]) [2 Abb.]: (1)Karl Liebknecht(X), der Führer der Spartakusleute, bringt am 16. Dezember 1918 von der Balustrade des preußischen Abgeordnetenhauses in Berlin, in dem die Reichskonferenz der Arbeiter- und Soldatenräte tagte, ein Hoch auf die Spartakustruppe aus. (2)Demonstrierende Menge vor dem preußischen Abgeordnetenhause in Berlin während der Tagung der Reichskonferenz der Arbeiter- und Soldatenräte. (394) [2 Abb.]: (1)Ein Agitator spricht zu jugendlichen Arbeitern und Arbeiterinnen, die vor dem preußischen Abgeordnetenhause in Berlin eine Demonstration veranstalteten. (2)Die Reichskonferenz der Arbeiter- und Soldatenräte Deutschlands am 16. Dezember 1918 im preußischen Abgeordnetenhause in Berlin. (395) [Abb.]: Rückmarsch der Armee Mackensens durch Südungarn. (396 - 397) Wie entsteht ein Flugzeug? (396 - 397) [Abb.]: August Euler, der frühere erfolgreiche Flugzeugbauer, wurde als Unterstaatssekretär mit der Leitung des neugeschaffenen Reichsluftamtes betraut. (398) Ein Heimkehrender an die Kriegskameraden. (398) [6 Abb.]: (1)In einer Flugzeugfabrik: Verspannungsarbeiten an Gerippen von Tragflächen. (2)In einer Flugzeugfabrik: Prüfung des Höhensteuers auf seine Tragfähigkeit durch Belastung mit Sand. (3)In einer Propellerfabrik: Letztes Prüfen der fertigen Propeller vor dem Versand. (4)In einer Motorenfabrik: Prüfstand für Flugzeugmotoren, auf dem die Motoren vor dem Einbauen in die Flugzeuge einer tagelangen Prüfung unterzogen werden. Der Prüfstand ist mit einem Gitter umgeben, das absplitternde Propellerteile auffangen soll. (5)In einer Propellerfabrik: Anfertigung des Propellers aus einzelnen Holzblättern. (6)In einer Montagehalle einer Flugzeugfabrik: Einbau der Motoren in die Flugzeugrümpfe. ([399]) [2 Abb.]: (1)Der Eingang zu einem Soldatenheim in Berlin. (2)Das Innere des Soldatenheims in dem früheren Konzertkaffee "Eins A" in der Potsdamer Straße in Berlin. (400) Die Geschichte des Weltkrieges 1914/19. Heft 226 (Heft 226) ([401]) [Abb.]: Ansprache des Reichstagsabgeordneten Ledebour von der Unabhängigen Sozialdemokratischen Partei an die Menschenmenge während der Waffenruhe beim Weihnachtsputsch in Berlin am 24. Dezember 1918. ([401]) [Abb.]: Beerdigung der bei den Weihnachtskämpfen um Schloß und Marstall in Berlin gefallenen Matrosen. (402) [4 Abb.]: Bilder vom Weihnachtsputsch in Berlin. (1)Der Haupteingang des Königlichen Schlosses in Berlin nach der Beschießung. (2)Marineposten vor dem Königlichen Schloßin Berlin nach den beendeten Kämpfen. (3)Der zerschossene Eingang des Königlichen Schlosses mit Blick in den Hof, in dem Maschinengewehre und ein Geschütz stehen. (4)Zerschossenes Zimmer im Südflügel des Königlichen Schlosses in Berlin mit einem Maschinengewehrstand am Fenster. ([403]) [5 Abb.]: (1)Wels, Stadtkommandant von Berlin, der bei dem Weihnachtsputsch in Berlin von den Matrosen gefangen gehalten wurde. (2)Volksbeauftragter Noske. (3)Volksbeauftragter Wissel. (4)Graf v. Brockdorff-Rantzau, Gesandter in Kopenhagen, wurde zum Staatssekretär des Äußern ernannt. (5)Die Riesendemonstration der Mehrheitssozialisten am 29. Dezember 1918 vor dem Reichstagsgebäude und dem Bismarckdenkmal in Berlin. (404) [Abb.]: Regierungstreue Sturmtruppen erstürmen am 24. Dezember 1918 unter Zuhilfenahme von Handgranaten den Eingang des von Matrosen und Spartakusleuten besetzten Königlichen Schlosses in Berlin ([405]) [3 Abb.]: (1)Dr. Franz Klein, früherer österreichischer Justizminister, wurde als Vorbereiter und Leiter der Friedensverhandlungen in den deutsch-österreichischen Staatsrat gewählt. (2)Professor Richard v. Moellendorf, Unterstaatssekretär im Reichswirtschaftsamt. (3)Dr. Georg Graf Arco, einer der Miterfinder der drahtlosen Telegraphie, wurde als unabhängiger Sozialdemokrat in das preußische Handelsministerium berufen. (406) [3 Abb.]: (1)Die Opfer der Unruhen in Posen werden in feierlichem Zuge zu Grabe getragen. (2)Die Kommandanten der polnischen Bürgerwehr von Posen mit dem Stadtkommandanten Maciaszek (X) bei einem Umzug durch die Stadt. (3)Maschinengewehr auf dem Balkon eines Privathauses in Posen. (407) Illustrierte Kriegsberichte. (407) Soldatenräte. (407) [Abb.]: Deutsche Kraftfahrerkolonne in Finnland. (408) [Abb.]: Abschiedsparade der letzten deutschen Truppen vor dem General Graf v. der Goltz auf dem Domplatz in Helsingfors. ([uncounted]) [Abb.]: Abzug deutscher Truppen aus Kurland. ([409]) Die Politik der Ukraine. (410) [Abb.]: Am Sonntagmorgen beim Tee in Linianka, einem Kosakendorf in der Nähe von Rostow. (410) [6 Abb.]: Bilder aus Charkow in der Ukraine. (1)Armenier und Kosak in einer Droschke. (2)Typisches russisches Gespann. (3)Russische Volkstypen. (4)Ein Landmädchen näht einem deutschen Soldaten einen Knopf an. (5)Die Kaiserlich Deutsche Kommandantur. (6)Blick auf die Stadt. ([411]) [Abb.]: Straßenkampf in Kiew: Bewaffnete Panzerautomobile säubern die Straße von Plünderern. (412 - 413) Die Franzosen in Elsaß-Lothringen. (414) [Abb.]: Französische Truppen des Marschalls Pétain ziehen am 25. November 1918 in Straßburg ein. (414) [2 Abb.]: (1)Französische Tirailleur-Soldaten bemalen deutsche Schilderhäuser in Mannheim mit den französischen Farben. (2)Lothringische Mädchen in Nationaltracht schließen sich den im Parademarsch vorbeiziehenden französischen Truppen beim Einzug in Metz an. (415) Die ersten Franzosentage im besetzten Rheingebiet. (416) [3 Abb.]: (1)Aufziehen einer französischen Wache in Trier vor dem Wahrzeichen der Moselstadt, der berühmten Porta nigra. (2)Französische Kavallerie-Patrouille in den Straßen von Mainz. (3)Französische militärische Kontrolle auf der Mannheimer Rheinbrücke. (416) Die Geschichte des Weltkrieges 1914/19. Heft 227 (Heft 227) ([417]) [Abb.]: Demonstration der Kommunisten vor dem Ministerium des Äußern in München. ([417]) [2 Abb.]: (1)Poincaré, der Präsident Frankreichs, fährt mit seinem Gast, dem amerikanischen Präsidenten Wilson, durch die Straßen von Paris. (2)Die Ankunft Wilsons im Hafen von Brest. (418) [Abb.]: Von den Franzosen aus dem Elsaß ausgewiesene Deutsche überschreiten auf ihrer Flucht mit ihrer Habe die Rheinbrücke von Straßburg nach Kehl. (419) [Abb.]: Abzug der deutschen Truppen aus der Ukraine: Abmarsch aus Odessa. ([420 - 421]) [4 Abb.]: Die Engländer im Baltikum gegen die Bolschewisten. (1)Englische Matrosen mit Madsen-Maschinengewehren an der Spitze estnischer Truppen. (2)Estnische Truppen in Reval erwarten Instruktionen für den Gebrauch von Madsen-Maschinengewehren. (3)Im Unwetter an Bord des englischen Kriegschiffes "Caradoc": Vor der Beschießung der baltischen Küste. (4)Ein Geschütz des englischen Kriegschiffes "Caradoc" in Tätigkeit gegen die Bolschewisten in Estland. (423) Illustrierte Kriegsberichte. (424) Deutsche und englische Kommando verteidigen Riga gegen anrückende russische Bolschewiki. (424) [4 Abb.]: (1)Der Berliner Polizeipräsident Emil Eichhorn, der mit Gewalt seines Postens enthoben werden mußte. Nach seiner Flucht aus Berlin wurde er steckbrieflich verfolgt. (2)Der württembergische Oberst Walter Reinhardt, der neue Kriegsminister, zuletzt Leiter der Demobilmachungs-Abteilung im Preußischen Kriegsministerium. (3)Preußischer Minister Eugen Ernst, der neben seinen bisherigen Funktionen an Stelle des abgesetzten Spartakisten Eichhorn noch die Leitung des Berliner Polizeipräsidiums übernommen hat. (4)Artillerie in den Straßen Berlins. Die Mannschaften tragen ein Schild mit der Aufschrift "Halt! Wer weitergeht, wird erschossen!" und halten jeden Fußgänger und jedes Gefährt an, um die Waffenabgabe zu erzwingen. (424) [Abb.]: Aus den Berliner Revolutionstagen. Zusammenstoß von Demonstrationszügen vor dem Warenhaus Wertheim am Leipziger Platz in Berlin. ( - ) [Abb.]: Sturm der Regierungstruppen auf den von Spartakisten besetzten Schlesischen Bahnhof in Berlin am 13. Januar 1919. ([425]) [Abb.]: (1)Die Straßenpassanten in der Nähe des Mosseschen Hauses in Berlin bringen sich in Sicherheit, als von den Spartakisten Schüsse abgegeben werden. (2)Patrouille von Regierungstruppen mit Gewehr und Handgranaten in der Leipziger Straße in Berlin. (426) Neues Leben blüht aus den Ruinen! (426) [6 Abb.]: Von den Spartakusunruhen in Berlin. (1)Die von den Spartakisten errichteten Barrikaden aus Zeitungspapierrollen vor dem Mossehaus in der Schützenstraße. (2)Ein Maschinengewehr der Regierungstruppen bestreicht von dem erstürmten Vorwärtsgebäude aus die umliegenden Häuser. (3)Die Schießspuren am Mossehaus nach der Vertreibung der Spartakisten. (4)Die Vorderfront des Vorwärtsgebäudes in den Lindenstraße nach der Vertreibung der Spartakisten. (5)Wie es im Innern des Polizeipräsidiums nach der Vertreibung der Spartakisten aussah. (6)Wie die Spartakisten im Innern des Wolffschen Telegraphen-Büros hausten. ([427]) Die Einwirkung des Krieges auf die Erdoberfläche. (428 - 429) [Abb.]: Wiederaufbau im zerstörten Gebiet am Isonzo, wozu das Material aus dem Stellungskrieg ausgiebig mit benutzt wird. (428 - 429) Feldluftschiffer. (428 - 429) [3 Abb.]: Bei den deutschen Feldluftschiffern. (1)Oben: Fahrbare Telephonstation, die mit dem Beobachter im Ballon verbunden ist und die Meldungen nach rückwärts weitergibt. (2)Mitte: Prüfen des Ballonventils. (3)Unten: Besprechung mit dem Ballonbeobachter vor dem Aufstieg. Am Ballonkorb ist die Karte des Geländeabschnittes angebracht. (430) [3 Abb.]: Bei den deutschen Feldluftschiffern. (1)Oben: Der Beobachter im Ballonkorb schießt mit der Leuchtpistole ein Leuchtsignal nach der Erde zu ab. (2)Mitte: Flicken der verletzten Ballonhülle. (3)Unten: Der Ballon mit geöffnetem Entleerungsloch. (431) Enver Pascha. (431) [Abb.]: Enver Pascha spricht an der Bahre des Feldmarschalls v. der Goltz. (432) Sind Blindgänger dem Ackerbau gefährlich? (432) Die Geschichte des Weltkrieges 1914/19. Heft 228 (Heft 228) ([433]) [Abb.]: Die Verhandlungen zwischen Staatssekretär Erzberger und Marschall Foch wegen Verlängerung des Waffenstillstandes im Salonwagen Fochs auf dem Bahnhof in Trier: Erzberger während seiner Rede. ([433]) [2 Abb.]: (1)Generalmajor Frhr. v. Hammerstein, der Nachfolger des Generalmajors v. Winterfeldt im Vorsitz der deutschen Waffenstillstandskommission. (2)Die Eröffnung der Friedenskonferenz im Ministerium des Auswärtigen am Quai d'Orsay in Paris. (434) [9 Abb.]: (1)Der schwedische Sozialistenführer Branting, dem in der Sozialistenzusammenkunft, die in Bern tagte, der Vorsitz übertragen wurde. (2)Dr. Karl Liebknecht, der Führer der Spartakisten, wurde nach seiner Verhaftung in Berlin erschossen, als er sich seiner Verurteilung durch die Flucht entziehen konnte. (3)Frau Rosa Luxemburg, die mit Liebknecht die "Rote Fahne" in Berlin herausgab, wurde nach ihrer Verhaftung von der wütenden Menge auf der Straße getötet. (4)Ledebour, unabhängiger Sozialdemokrat, wurde wegen seiner Verbindung mit dem Spartakusbunde in Schutzhaft genommen. (5)Thomas, der frühere französische Munitionsminister. (6)Seitz, einer der Präsidenten der prov. österr. Nationalversammlung. (7)Karl Radek, der in Berlin verhaftete russische Bolschewist. (8)Gompers, der amerikanische Gewerkschaftsführer. (9)Henderson, der frühere Arbeitervertreter in der englischen Regierung. (435) [7 Abb.]: Bilder von der Wahl zur deutschen Nationalversammlung. (1)Wahlplakat für die soziale Republik. (2)Plakate gegen den Bolschewismus. (3)Die Flut der Flugblätter am Wahltag in Berlin. (4)Wahlplakat an einem Berliner Straßenbahnwagen. (5)Mönche vor dem Wahllokal in München. (6)Barmherzige Schwestern vor dem Wahllokal in München. (7)Starke Wahlbeteiligung, auch der Frauen, in Berlin: das Anstehen vor dem Wahllokal. ([436]) [Abb.]: Verbrennung von Regierungsflugblättern und Wahlzetteln durch demonstrierende Spartakisten auf dem Augustusplatz in Leipzig. ([437]) [Abb.]: Nichtuniformierte Wachtposten in Wien. (438) [Abb.]: Vereidigung der Berliner Garde auf die Republik am 15. Januar 1919 durch den Kommandeur der Franzer (des Kaiser-Franz-Garde-Grenadierregiments), Spiro, der die Soldatenräte durch Handschlag verpflichtete, die ihrerseits die Vereidigung der ihnen unterstellten Mannschaften vornahmen. (439) Illustrierte Kriegsberichte. (439) Das Vordringen der Polen in Posen, Westpreußen und Schlesien. (439) [2 Abb.]: (1)Panzerkraftwagen in den Straßen Berlins zur Sicherung der Wahlen zur Nationalversammlung. (2)Die Wiederherstellung der Ruhe in Berlin. Einzug von Regierungstruppen. (439) [4 Abb.]: (1)Die Prinzeninseln Halki und Antigone im Marmarameer, wo die Verhandlungen zwischen Vertretern der Verbandsmächte und der russischen Bolschewisten stattfinen sollten. (2)Ignaz Padererwski, der bekannte Klavierspieler, wurde zum Präsidenten von Polen ausgerufen. (3)Truppen des deutschen Granzschutzes im Osten überschreiten die Netze auf einer Notbrücke, die an Stelle der von den Polen zerstörten Brücke gebaut wurde. (4)Ankunft einer Infanterieabteilung des deutschen Grenzschutzes im Osten zur Vertreibung der Polen aus der im Netzetal gelgenen Stadt Samotschin. (440) [Abb.]: In einem Wahllokal in Berlin während der Wahlen zur Nationalversammlung. ( - ) [Abb.]: Straßenkampf deutscher Grenzschutztruppen mit polnischen Aufrührern in Bentschen in der Provinz Polen. (441) Ein letzter Eindruck deutscher Macht. (442) [Abb.]: Schweizerisches Militär in Wien zum Schutze eines von der Schweiz kommenen Lebensmitteltransportes für die hungernde Bevölkerung Wiens. In der Mitte: der Kommandant Oberst Frey. Links: sein Unterkommandant Oberleutnant Schmeder. (442) [2 Abb.]: (1)Engländer in Wien. Gruppenbild der Offiziere. Von links nach rechts: 1. Hauptmann Rugman, 2. Leutnant Keeler, 3. ?, 4. Leutnant Parker, 5. Major Dibben, 6. Leutnant Iwench, 7. Leutnant Harwood, 8. Hauptmann Stevenson, 9. Leutnant Dowelen, 10. Hauptmann Williams. (2)Engländer vor dem Wiener Rathaus. (443) Pferdeversteigerung. (443) [Abb.]: Pferdeversteigerung zur Zeit der Demobilmachung in Deutschland. (444 - 445) Von der Ausrüstung der schweizerischen Armee. (444 - 445) [Abb.]: Die Demobilisierung der englischen Soldaten im Kristallpalast in London. Die Soldaten begeben sich in die Sammelhalle (1 und 2), entledigen sich ihrer Waffen (3), die geprüft werden (4), erhalten eine Friedensausstattung und eine Geldsumme (5 bis 9) und sind nach verschiedenen Eintragungen und Abstempelungen demobilisiert. (446) Bolschewismus und Preisgestaltung. (446) [6 Abb.]: Die Herstellung von Stahlhelmen für die schweizerische Armee. (1)Bearbeitung der Stahlhelme an der Ziehpresse. (2)Die fertig geformten Stahlhelme werden einzeln gehämmert. (3)Die erste Formgabe des Blechstückes in der Ziehpresse. (4)Weitere Stufen der Formbildung in der Ziehpresse. (5)Das Glühen und Härten der fertigen Stahlhelme im Ölbade unter Kontrolle eines Beamten. (6)Die Innenpolsterung der Stahlhelme mit Ledergarnituren. ([447]) Beschießung von Paris durch deutsche Ferngeschütze. (448) [Karte]: Plan von Paris mit Bezeichnung der Punkte, an denen die Geschosse der deutschen Langrohrgeschütze eingeschlagen haben. (448) Die Geschichte des Weltkrieges 1914/19. Heft 229 (Heft 229) ([449]) [Abb.]: Eine Sitzung des Zentralrates der A.- und S.-Räte in Berlin, der als bisheriger Inhaber und Repräsentant der Souveränität im Reiche seine Befugnisse an die Nationalversammlung übergeben hat. Von links: Grzesinski, Struve, Faaß, Pfaff, Horter, Maier, Knoblauch, Heller, Herbert, Zwosta, Cohen (Vorsitzender), Lampl, Leinert (Vorsitzender), Waeger (Schriftführer), Schäfer (Kassierer), Kohl, König. ([449]) [Abb.]: Die nach Weimar bestimmten Zeitungspakete werden in ein Flugzeug der Deutschen Luftreedereigesellschaft befördert, das täglich zwischen Berlin und Weimar verkehrte. (450) [8 Abb.]: Die Eröffnung der Nationalversammlung in Weimar. (1)Berliner Schutzleute üben die Legitimationskontrolle der Abgeordneten aus. (2)Abgeordnete auf dem Wege zur Eröffnungssitzung. (3)Die Volksbeauftragten Scheidemann und Landsberg begeben sich zur Nationalversammlung. (4)Der Fraktionsvorstand der Deutschnationalen Volkspartei (sitzend von links nach rechts): Schulz, Graf Posadowsky, Margarete Behm, Dühringer; (stehend von links nach rechts): Schiele, Biener, Behrens, Vizepräsident Dietrich, Dr. Rösicke, Pfarrer Traub; (5)Vizepräsident Fehrenbach (links), begibt sich zur Eröffnungssitzung. (6)Die weiblichen Zentrumsmitglieder (vordere Reihe von links nach rechts): Helene Weber, Hedwig Drausfeld, Agnes Neuhaus, Maria Zettler; (hintere Reihe): Christine Teusch, Maria Schmitz. (7)Die weiblichen Abgeordneten der Mehrheitssozialisten (sitzend von links nach rechts): Anna Simon, Elfriede Ryneck, Frieda Hauke, Gertrud Lodahl, Else Höfs, Fraktionsvorstandsmitglied Marie Juchacz, Antonie Pfülf, Minna Bollmann; (stehend von links nach rechts): Johanna Reitze, Luise Schröder, Minna Eichler, Ernestine Lutze, Johanna Tesch, Elisabeth Röhl, Wilhelmine Kähler, Frieda Lührs, Anna Blos, Klara Bohm-Schuch, Minna Schilling. (8)Die vor dem Nationaltheater aufgestellte Ehrenkompanie. ([451]) [Abb.]: Eröffnung der Nationalversammlung im Nationaltheater in Weimar am 6. Februar 1919, nachmittags 3 1/4 Uhr. Friedrich Ebert hält als Volksbeauftragter die Eröffnungsrede. ([452 - 453]) [2 Abb.]: (1)Strandschloß in Kolberg, der Sitz des von Kassel nach Kolberg verlegten Großen Hauptquartiers. (2)Die deutsche Oberste Heeresleitung. (454) [Karte]: Karte zu den polnischen Ansprüchen auf deutsches Gebiet mit der im Waffenstillstandsvertrag vereinbarten Demarkationslinie zwischen Deutschen und Polen. (455) [2 Abb.]: (1)Im Werbebüro des ersten Landesschützenkorps. Freiwillige lassen sich anwerben. (2)Vor einem Berliner Werbebüro für den Ostmarkenschutz. (455) [Abb.]: Zu den Vorgängen in Bremen. Oberst v. Gerstenberg, Führer der Division Gerstenberg. (456) Illustrierte Kriegsberichte. (456) Ein letzter Eindruck deutscher Macht. (456) [Abb.]: Ein Werbeoffizier fordert auf den Straßen Berlins zum Eintritt in die Grenzwehr gegen den Feind im Osten auf. ( - ) [Abb.]: Einzug der Division Gerstenberg in Bremen. ([457]) [Abb.]: Flur in der Tausendmann-Kaserne in Wilhelmshaven nach dem Kampf mit Spartakusleuten in der Nacht zum 28. Januar 1919. (458) [3 Abb.]: (1)Freiwillige für Bremen ziehen vor das Rathaus in Hamburg. (2)Zur Besetzung der Kaserne des 20. Fußartillerieregiments in Bahrenfeld-Hamburg. Der Eingang zur Kaserne. (3)Zur Bewaffnung der Zivilbevölkerung in Hamburg. (459) Eröffnung der Nationalversammlung in Weimar. (460 - 461) Englischer Verwundeten- und Gefangenentransport verläßt Swinemünde. (460 - 461) [Abb.]: Der englische 9000-Tonnen-Dampfer "Formosa" verläßt mit einem größeren Transport englischer Verwundeter den Hafen von Swinemünde. (460 - 461) Männer des Tages. (462) [3 Abb.]: (1)Konteradmiral Adolf v. Trotha, Chef des Admiralstabs im Reichsmarineamt. (2)Legationsrat Dr. Töpfer, ein Stettiner Kaufmann, wurde als kaufmännischer Helfer aus dem Wirtschaftsleben für die Durchführung der Reform des deutschen Auslanddienstes zum Unterstaatssekretär im Auswärtigen Amt ernannt. (3)Tost, der neue Vorsitzende des Marineausschusses in Berlin. (462) Die Frau in der Nationalversammlung. (462) [8 Abb.]: (1)Anna Blos, Sozialdemokratische Partei. (2)Klara Bohm-Schuch, Sozialdemokratische Partei. (3)Marie Juchacz, Sozialdemokratische Partei. (4)Frau Elfriede Ryneck. (5)Fräulein Dr. Gertrud Bäumer, Deutsche Demokratische Partei. (6)Margarete Behm, Deutschnationale Volkspartei. (7)Fräulein v. Gierke, Deutschnationale Volkspartei. (8)Frau Luise Zietz, Unabhängige Sozialdemokratische Partei. (463) Wiesbaden zur Franzosenzeit. (463) [2 Abb.]: (1)Die Franzosen in Wiesbaden. Aufziehen der Wache vor dem früheren Kgl. Schloß, dem Sitz des französischen Kommandanten von Wiesbaden. (2)Die Franzosen in Wiesbaden. Antreten vor dem Rathaus. (464) Die Geschichte des Weltkrieges 1914/19. Heft 230 (Heft 230) ([465]) [Abb.]: Die erste Sitzung des neuen deutschen Kabinetts unter dem Vorsitz des Ministerpräsidenten Scheidemann im Schloß zu Weimar. ([465]) [Abb.]: Sklavenarbeit der von Frankreich gegen Recht und Menschlichkeit zurückgehaltenen kriegsgefangenen Deutschen bei der Straßenwiederherstellung unter englischer Aufsicht im zerstörten französischen Gebiet. (466) [2 Abb.]: (1)Barnes, der Vertreter Englands, spricht in der Vollsitzung der Friedenskonferenz in Paris am 14. Februar 1919. (2)Der französische Minister Léon Bourgeois spricht in der Vollführung der Friedenskonferenz in Paris am 14. Februar 1919 über Völkerbundsfragen. (467) [Abb.]: Abtransport kriegsgefangener Russen, Rumänen und Südslawen auf der Donau bei Regensburg. (468 - 469) [Karte]: Karte des Saargebiets. (470) [Abb.]: Verhaftung des Attentäters Emilie Cottin, der auf den französischen Ministerpräsidenten Clemenceau einen Schuß abgab. (470) [4 Abb.]: Der Streik in Glasgow. (1)Transportwagen mit bewaffneter Begleitmannschaft in Glasgow. (2)Militärische Bewachung einer eisenbahnbrücke über den Clyde. (3)Der Prügel in Tätigkeit: Der Streikführer Galagher wird verhaftet. (4)Barrikade in einer Straße von Glasgow. (471) Illustrierte Kriegsberichte. (471) Die Blockade der Ostsee durch die Verbandsmächte. (471) Friedrich Ebert. (472) [2 Abb.]: Die Streik- und Spartakusbewegung im Ruhrgebiet. (1)Biwak der Regierungstruppen vor dem beschädigten Rathaus in Bottrop nach der Vertreibung der Spartakisten. (2)Verhaftung des Spartakistenführers Fuldzennek in Bottroß, der später im Handgemenge erschossen wurde. (472) [Abb.]: Die englische Blockade in der Ostsee: Das zwischen Saßnitz und Trelleborg verkehrende Fährschiff wird von einem englischen Zerstörer untersucht. ( - ) [Abb.]: Deutsche Sicherheitswehr verhindert die von streikenden Arbeitern beabsichte Zerstörung von Kohlengrubenanlagen. ([473]) [Karte]: Das neue Deutschland nach Anschluß Deutsch-Österreichs. (474) [Abb.]: Der deutschösterreichische Staatssekretär des Äußern Dr. Otto Bauer im Zuge Wien-Weimar. (474) [2 Abb.]: (1)Wahlsiegfeier der Sozialisten vor dem Parlamentsgebäude in Wien. Von links nach rechts: Abgeordnete Therese Schlesinger, Unterstaatssekretär Dr. Deutsch, Präsident der Nationalversammlung Dr. Seitz, Dr. Fritz Adler, Unterstaatssekretär Glöckel, Abgeordneter Sever und Offiziere der Volkswehr. (2)Kundgebung für den Anschluß Deutsch-Österreichs in Wien am 2. Februar 1919. Staatssekretär Dr. Bauer spricht für den Anschluß an Deutschland. (475) Der Zusammenbruch der ottomanischen Armee in Palästina und die Katastrophe von Damaskus. (475) [Abb.]: Ankunft der deutschen Truppen aus Asien in Haidar Pascha (Konstantinopel) und Empfang durch den Marschall Liman v. Sanders. (476 - 477) Bolschewisten und Spartakisten. (478) [2 Abb.]: (1)Antibolschewistisches Plakat: Trümmer oder Aufbau? (2)Antibolschewistisches Plakat: Deutschlands ideale Zukunft unter der Herrschaft des Bolschewisten. (478) [2 Abb.]: (1)Antibolschewistisches Plakat in den Straßen Berlins: Bolschewismus heißt die Welt im Blut ersäufen. (2)Antibolschewistisches Plakat: Bolschewismus bringt Krieg, Arbeitslosigkeit und Hungersnot. (479) Übergang der letzten deutschen Truppen über die Donau. (479) [Abb.]: Die letzten deutschen Truppen überschreiten die Donau bei Belgrad auf der Schiffbrücke nach Semlin. Gesehen vom serbischen Ufer. Im Hintergrunde die Eisenbahnbrücke. (480) [Abb.]: Begrüßung der heimgekehrten ostafrikanischen Heldenschar am 3. März 1919 am Pariser Platz in Berlin. Die Reiter, von links nach rechts: Gouverneur Dr. Schnee, Major Kraut, Generalleutnant z.D. Wahle, Generalmajor v. Lettow-Vorbeck, Kapitän z.S. Loof, Kommandant der "Königsberg"; neben v. Lettow-Vorbeck stehend: Oberleutnant d. Res. v. Rucktäschell. Auf der Tribüne hält die Begrüßungsrede der Reichskolonialminister Dr. Bell. Links von ihm: Vizeadmiral Rogge, Staatssekretär des Reichsmarineamtes; rechts: Kriegsminister Oberst Reinhardt, Dr. Reicke, Bürgermeister von Berlin, Major Strümpell vom Kommando der Schutztruppen, Dr. Solf, Staatssekretär a.D., Oberleutnant v. Hepke vom Kommando der Schutztruppen. ( - ) Die Geschichte des Weltkrieges 1914/19. Heft 231 (Heft 231) ([481]) [4 Abb.]: (1)Dr. Adolf Müller, bayrischer Gesandter in Bern, (2)Dr. Karl Melchior, Hamburg, (3)Professor Dr. Schücking, Marburg, wurden zusammen mit dem Grafen v. Brockdorff-Rantzau, Reichsminister Dr. Eduard David und Reichsminister Giesberts von der deutschen Regierung als Unterhändler zu den Friedensverhandlungen entsandt. (4)General v. Lettow-Vorbeck mit Gouverneur Dr. Schnee und seiner ostafrikanischen Heldenschar nach ihrer Ankunft in Berlin. ([481]) [3 Abb.]: (1)Oberes Bild: Inneres eines von den Spartakisten völlig ausgeplünderten Warenhauses in Halle. (2)Mittleres Bild: Waffenkammer im Stadthaus von Hamburg, woselbst die Zivilpersonen Hamburgs ihre Waffen abgeben mußten. (3)Unteres Bild: Den Spartakisten in Halle wieder abgenommene Silbersachen und anderes Diebesgut. (482) [5 Abb.]: Die Märzunruhen in Berlin. (1)Die zur Vertreibung der Spartakisten anrückende Volkswehr mit Tank und Panzerwagen. Die Soldaten sind mit Gewehren, Handgranaten und Flammenwerfern ausgerüstet. (2)Auf dem Alexanderplatz aufgestellter Minenwerfer, mit dem 2 1/2-Zentner-Minen gegen die von den Spartakisten besetzten Häuser abgeschossen wurden. Im Hintergrunde links das völlig ausgeplünderte Warenhaus Tietz. (3)Ein Bild der Verheerung: Haus in der Alten Schützenstraße beim Alexanderplatz, in der heftige Kämpfe stattfanden. (4)Die durch Plünderung von seiten der Spartakisten und Beschießung mittels schwerer Minen stark beschädigten Wohnhaus am Alexanderplatz, an der Ecke der Alexander- und Prenzlauer Straße. (5)Meuterer der Republikanischen Soldatenwehr, die sich zum Teil mit den Spartakisten vereinigte. Um Überfälle auf die Begleitmannschaft zu verhindern, müssen die Gefangenen mit erhobenen Händen marschieren. (483) [Abb.]: Bayrischer Posten als Grenzschutz an der böhmischen Grenze bei der Paßkontrolle. Unmittelbar hinter dem Grenzpfahl mit dem bayrischen Wappen steht die Grenzhütte der Tschechen. (484) [Abb.]: Sprengung einer Spartakistenansammlung auf der Theresienwiese in München. ([485]) [Abb.]: Die Eröffnung der deutschösterreichischen Nationalversammlung am 4. März 1919 im Parlamentsgebäude in Wien. (486) Illustrierte Kriegsberichte. (487) Über den Bevölkerungsausfall in Deutschland und in Frankreich infolge des Krieges. (487) [2 Abb.]: (1)Die neue Uniform der tschechoslowakischen Offiziere. Tuchaufschläge mit Silberstreifen und Nummern an der Mütze und am Rockkragen. In der Mütze außerdem eine grüne Kokarde mit den in Silber gestickten buchstaben "RCS". (2)Demonstration in Wien für den Anschluß Westungarns an Deutsch-Österreich. (487) Rettung eines Kaiserschützenoberleutnants aus gefährlicher Lage im Adamellogebiet. (488) [Abb.]: Rettung eines Kaiserschützenoberleutnants durch eine Patrouille im Adamellogebiet. (488) [Abb.]: Ankunft der deutschen Orientkämpfer mit dem Dampfer "Patmos" in Hamburg. ( - ) Die Geschichte des Weltkrieges 1914/19. Heft 232 (Heft 232) ([489]) [Abb.]: Marschall Foch beim Viererrat. ([489]) [2 Abb.]: (1)Zur Auslieferung der deutschen Handelsflotte. Ein deutsches Schiff mit dem von den Verbandsmächten vorgeschriebenen Zeichen, das alte deutsche Schiffe tragen müssen, die für den guten Willen des Verbandes, Deutschland Lebensmittel zukommen zu lassen, ausgeliefert werden müssen. (2)Schwere deutsche Lokomotiven verlassen die Heimat auf der Fahrt zur Übergabe an die Verbandsmächte. (490) [2 Abb.]: Straßenumzug vor der Reichskanzlei in Berlin im Anschluß an eine Massenkundgebung gegen die Zerstückelung Deutschlands am 23. März 1919. (1)Die Spitze des Zuges. (2)Einige der zahlreichen Plakatträger. (491) [3 Abb.]: (1)Polnische Generale und Vertreter der Verbündeten bei der Truppenschau in Posen am 2. März 1919. (2)Polnische Ulaneneskadron vor dem alten Schloß in Posen. (3)Polnische Artillerie vor den Vertretern der Verbündeten. (492) [Abb.]: Einbringen polnischer Gefangener in ein westpreußisches Städtchen durch Truppen des deutschen Grenzschutzes. ([493]) [Abb.]: Der bolschewistische Kriegskommissar und Schöpfer der "Roten Armee" in Rußland, Trotzki, schreitet mit seinem Generalstab in Moskau die Front eines lettischen Regiments, der Kerntruppe der Roten Garde, ab. (494) Illustrierte Kriegsberichte. (494) Die Menschenverluste im Weltkrieg. (494) [Abb.]: Kampf mit bolschewistischen Banden in Kurland. ([495]) [Abb.]: In Hamburg ausgeladenes amerikanisches Weizenmehl für die tschechoslowakische Republik. (496) Erinnerungsmarken an die Nationalversammlung. (496) [3 Abb.]: Preisgekrönte Entwürfe für die Freimarken zur Erinnerung an die Nationalversammlung. (1)Entwurf von Ernst Böhm, Charlottenburg, zur Ausführung als 15-Pf-Marke vorgesehen. (2)Georg A. Mather, Berlin, zur Ausführung als 25-Pf-Marke vorgesehen. (3)Hugo Frank, Stuttgart, zur Ausführung als 10-Pf-Marke vorgesehen. (496) Die Geschichte des Weltkrieges 1914/19. Heft 233 (Heft 233) ([497]) [Abb.]: Abreise der deutschen Friedensabgeordneten vom Potsdamer Bahnhof in Berlin nach Paris. X Graf Brockdorff-Rantzau im Gespräch mit Mitgliedern der Abordnung kurz vor der Abfahrt. ([497]) [5 Abb.]: Der Kommunistenaufstand in Würzburg. (1)Die Ausrufung der bayrischen Räterepublik durch den Russen Weibel am 7. April 1919. (2)Der Sächsiche Kriegsminister Neuring, der von einer Horde Kommunisten in die Elbe geworfen und erschossen wurde. (3)Der bayrische Oberst Ritter v. Epp, Führer eines Freikorps zum Schutze der Heimat gegen bolschewistische Umsturzbewegungen. (4)General Haas, Führer der von Bayern zu Hilfe gerufenen württembergischen Freiwilligen-Abteilung, die Augsburg besetzte. (5)Der bayrische Ministerpräsident Johannes Hoffmann, der anläßlich der Unruhen in München mit der Regierung nach Bamberg übersiedelte. (498) [2 Abb.]: (1)Regierungstruppen in Augsburg nach Einnahme der Stadt. (2)Regierungstruppen durchsuchen bei Nacht eine verdächtige Wohnung nach Waffen. (499) [Abb.]: Wider den Bolschewismus. (500 - 501) Illustrierte Kriegsberichte. (502) Heimkehrende Flüchtlinge werden in Rovreit von österreichischer Mannschaft gespeist. (502) [Abb.]: Vom Durchzug der unter General Haller stehenden polnischen Armee durch Deutschland. Polnische und französische Offiziere auf dem Bahnhof von Sangershausen. (502) Die Schreckensherrschaft der Bolschewisten in den baltischen Landen. (502) [Abb.]: Auf der Wacht gegen die Polen: Ein verdächtiges Haus wird bewacht und durchsucht. (502) [Abb.]: Die neue deutschösterreichische Regierung. Von links nach rechts, stehend: Staatssekretär Wilhelm Miklas, Kultus; Schriftführer Sekretariatsrat Hericky; Dr. Joseph Schumpeter, Finanzen; Unterstaatssekretär Dr. Erwin Waiß, Heerwesen; Ludwig Paul, Verkehrswesen; Ingenieur Johann Zerdick, Industrie; Staatssekretär Dr. Otto Bauer, Äußeres; Schriftleiter Ministerialrat Dr. Fenz; Staatssekretär Dr. Loewenfeld-Ruß, Volksernährung; Sitzend: Staatssekretär Dr. Julius Deutsch, Heerwesen; Staatssekretär Richard v. Bratusch, Justiz; Staatssekretär Otto Glöckel, Unterricht; Staatskanzler Karl Renner, Staatssekretär Ferdinand Hanusch, Sozialverwaltung; Staatssekretär Dr. Wilhelm Ellenbogen, Handel. (503) Die Franzosen in der Pfalz. (503) [2 Abb.]: (1)Die Besatzung des siegreichen deutschen Panzerzuges, dessen Eingreifen an der Bolschewistenfront die Einwohner Schaulens vor der Schreckensherrschaft bewahrte. (2)Die Schreckensherrschaft der Bolschewisten: Im estnischen Wesenberg getötete Opfer. (504) [Abb.]: Heimkehrende Südtiroler Flüchtlinge werden in Rovreit von den österreichischen Feldküchen gespeist. ( - ) Die Geschichte des Weltkrieges 1914/19. Heft 234 (Heft 234) ([505]) [Abb.]: Ankunft der deutschen Friedensabordnung in Vaucresson am 29. April 1919, von wo aus sich die deutschen Delegierten im Kraftwagen nach Versailles begaben. ([505]) [Karte]: Die Gebietsabtretungen, die von Deutschland in dem am 7. Mai 1919 überreichten Friedensvertragsentwurf gefordert wurden. (506) [Karte]: Deutsch-Österreich im Vertrags-Entwurf der Entente. (507) [Abb.]: Die Delegierten Deutsch-Österreichs für St. Germain. (507) [Abb.]: Die Übergabe des Friedensvertragsentwurfs der Verbandsmächte an die deutsche Abordnung im Trianon-Palast-Hotel zu Versailles am 7. Mai 1919. (508 - 509) [Abb.]: General Märker (X) bei der Besetzung Leipzigs durch die Regierungstruppen. (510) [7 Abb.]: (1)Die Befreiung Münchens am 1. Mai 1919. Einmarsch der Gardeschützendivision durch die Ludwigstraße. (2)Von der Heerschau der Münchener Arbeiterwehr am 22. April 1919, Bewaffnete Arbeiter ziehen während des Generalstreiks durch die Ludwigstraße. (3)Der Höchstkommandierende der Roten Armee Egelhofer (X) im Umzuge der Arbeiter und Soldatenwehr in München während der Räteherrschaft. (4)Eine Barrikade in den Straßen Münchens. (5)Bewaffnete Münchener Bürger und Arbeiter führen nach der Befreiung der Stadt durch Regierungstruppen gefangene Rotgardisten ab. (6)Vorbeimarsch preußischer Artillerie vor General v. Oven nach der Befreiung Münchens. (7)Das Werdenfelser Freikorps, bestehend aus Bauern und Arbeitern, die zum Teil in ihres Landestracht zur Befreiung Münchens gekommen waren. ([511]) [Abb.]: Der Ministerpräsident Philipp Scheidemann protestiert in der in die Aula der Berliner Universität einberufenen deutschen Nationalversammlung am 12. Mai 1919 gegen die im Friedensvertragsentwurf der Feinde niedergelegten Gewaltforderungen. (512) [Register]: Register zu Band I-IX der Illustrierten Geschichte des Weltkrieges 1914/19. ([I]) A ([I]) B (II) C (V) D (VII) E (VIII) F (IX) G (X) H (XI) I (XI) J (XIII) K (XIV) L (XVI) M (XVIII) N (XX) O (XXI) P (XXII) Q (XXIII) R (XXIV) S (XXV) T (XXVIII) U (XXX) V (XXX) W (XXXI) X, Y (XXXII) Z (XXXII) Nachtrag. (XXXIII) A - O (XXXIII) P (XXXIII) R - Z (XXXIV) Einband ( - ) Einband ( - )

The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) learned with immense shock and sadness of the passing on of Professor Samir Amin on Sunday, 12th August 2018. Subsequently, Prof. Samir Amin's body was interned at Père Lachaise in Paris on 1st September 2018 at a site provided by the French Communist Party. The Council was represented at the burial by Prof. Fatow Sow and Dr. Cherif Sy; two members of the CODESRIA community who have worked with Samir Amin for a while.
For CODESRIA, this marks nothing less than the end of an era in the history of African social research given the many pioneering roles the late Professor Amin played as a scholar, teacher, mentor, friend, and revolutionary. Samir was many things to us as a Council; for the younger members of the community, it meant much more to be in his company at the numerous CODESRIA meeting he attended. A model for three generations of African and, indeed, radical scholars globally, Samir was that giant Baobab tree whose grandeur of intellect and spirit made him a worthy role model. While serving as Director of the United Nations African Institute for Economic Development and Planning (IDEP), he hosted the initial scaffolding of the CODESRIA at IDEP, brought together and nurtured new talent that laid the foundations which launched Council on a path of growth and resilience to what it is to-date. As the final note on his reflections contained in this Bulletin illustrates, while serving as CODESRIA's founding Executive Secretary, Samir worked very closely with Abdalla Bujra and later Thandika Mkandawire, to shape the initial years of CODESRIA's intellectual identity and trajectory.
After CODESRIA relocated from the premises of IDEP to a new home in the Fann Residence part of Dakar, Samir Amin remained engaged with Council and its community of scholars, participating actively and effectively in all its activities. This 15th General Assembly of CODESRIA is perhaps the first Assembly without Samir Amin presence. In all previous General Assemblies, Samir has been a notable presence even giving the Cheikh Anta Diop Lecture at the 10 Assembly in Kampala, Uganda. It is at the General Assembly that many young academics interacted with Samir, often for the first time and indeed experiencing the awe of his presence. Though Samir is absent at the current Assembly, there is no doubt that his intellectual and revolutionary spirit is definitely present just as the thoughts and ideas that he shared so generously and to the very end will continue to inspire reflection and debate.
Samir Amin's intellectual journey was a long and illustrious one. It was a journey marked by commitments that distinguished him as a scholar of unparalleled convictions. He died still an unapologetic socialist academic or, as the title of his memoir reads, 'an independent Marxist' whose work was driven by an unshakeable conviction to confront and oppose totalizing economic orthodoxies. He treated this confrontation and opposition as a prelude to social transformation. He was steadfast in his belief that the world must shift away from capitalism and strive to build new 'post-capitalist' societies. He described capitalism as a small bracket in the long history of human civilization. His works identify and record the multiple crises of capitalism, a system he described as senile and obsolete. In its place, Samir Amin formulated a political alternative that he envisioned would proceed by i) socializing the ownership of monopolies, ii). definancializing the management of the economy and iii) deglobalising international relations [cited in Campbell, 2015: 286]. For him, these three directions provided the basis of an active politics of dismantling capitalism; a politics he committed his skill and energy mobilizing for. Even as he grew older, he mustered fresh bursts of energy to continue the struggle and to the very last days when he was in Dakar, he was apart of the team of scholar/ activists gathered together by International ENDA Third World Network to draft the Alternative Report on Africa (Dakar, 2018). CODESRIA was apart of this process and the Report will by shared at this General Assembly.
Many of Samir Amin's writings make the point repeatedly on the urgent necessity to dismantle the 'obsolete system' known as capitalism. However, none was as emphatic in rethinking the underlying cultural underpinning of the 'obsolete system' like Eurocentricism. In that engaging publication, he provided a rggesounding critique of world history as is centered around Eurocentric modernity and invites us to understand modernity as an incomplete process that, to survive its current crises, will need 'economic, social and political reconstruction of all societies in the world.' Embedded in this argument is a long held position about the importance of the Bandung moment (1955) as a moment of an alternative globalization based on Afro-Asian solidarity. It is from this perspective that one understands why Samir Amin emphasized the importance of China [see tribute by Sit Tsui and Yan Xiaohui in this bulletin]. Afro-Asian solidarity was the basis upon which Samir Amin located his alternative politics which also defined his towering global outlook and presence.
There is no doubt that Samir Amin's intellectual presence was defined by depth of knowledge, complexity of thought and fidelity to Marxist organising principles. There is no way of summarizing the corpus of work he produced, the revolutionary engagements he undertook and the transformative potential that led him to remain steadfast even when many others were only too happy to find a good reason to backtrack and conform. His work is enormous in volume but also in the depth of its knowledge and relevance to society. He provoked and joined debates across the globe but more importantly with comrades in Latin America and Asia, those of the dependency and underdevelopment school but also later from a South-South perspective. In CODESRIA's flagship journal Africa Development alone, Samir Amin published twenty articles. A biodata document he shared with the Council has 24 books in English and 41 in French. He is published in English, French, Arabic, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish to name but these few languages. In all these publications and in the various languages, Samir Amin articulated his belief in alternatives, and as indicated above, this belief remained strong even to the last month of his life on earth.
Born to an Egyptian father and French mother on 3rd September 1931 in Cairo, Egypt, Samir Amin's convictions owe much to the context of his childhood all the way from Port Said in northern Egypt to Cairo where he schooled. He spent his early life in Egypt where he attended his formative schooling before proceeding to France to pursue higher education at Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris ("Sciences Po"). Here, he earned a diploma in 1952 and later a PhD in 1957 at the Sorbonne. Samir later earned another diploma in mathematical statistics from L'institut national de la statistique et des etudes economiques. He had always been interested in radical thought and action from early on, noting in an interview that he already considered himself a communist in Secondary School. Even though he and his cohort did not know what communism really meant in their early childhood, they assumed it meant "equality between human beings and between nations, and it meant that this has been done by the Russian revolution." It is not surprising that with this pedigree, Samir Amin focused in his graduate research on "The origins of underdevelopment – capitalist accumulation on a world scale" and emphasized in his work that underdevelopment in the periphery was, in large measure, due to the working of the capitalist system. He consequently underscored the need to search for socialist alternatives to liberal globalisation.
Samir Amin returned to Cairo in 1957, worked briefly in Gamal Abdel Nasser's Institute for Economic Management (1957–1960) before heading to work as an adviser in the Ministry of Planning in Mali (1960- 1963). Subsequently, Samir Amin's intellectual life became largely internationalist in orientation, and anchored principally on the question of accumulation as key to understanding underdevelopment. He maintained the sojourn between France where he took up a Professorship in 1966 and Dakar, Senegal his adopted home where he worked for ten years, from 1970 to 1980 at IDEP. Later in 1980, he founded the Third World Forum, originally hosted at the CODESRIA Secretariat, and lent his considerable weight to the institutionalisation of ENDA and the World Forum for Alternatives. His support for revolutionary politics is marked not just in the books and papers he published but also in the lecture circuit where he spoke to audiences about the undeniable relevance of radical politics.
Samir Amin's thinking was in large measure defined by the solidarity built around the Bandung Confer- ence of 1955. This remained a critical touchstone in his work in which non-western civilisations and his- tories played an important role. Bandung, for him, inaugurated a different pattern of globalisation, the one he called 'negotiated globalisation.' Though not asufficientbasisforcomplete"de-linking"from'ob- solescent capitalism', Samir Amin saw in Afro-Asian solidarity possibilities and pathways to that delinking; the process, as he explained, by which you submit "ex- ternal relations to the needs of internal progressive so- cial changes and targets." The notion of 'delinking' oc- cupied a major place in Samir Amin's thinking and is positioned in contrast to 'adjustment' that was the pre- ferred approach of the Bretton Woods Institutions. As Mamdani shows elsewhere in this Bulletin, there are major problematic elements of this notion that Samir Amin continued to grapple with. But ultimately, Samir Amin noted that delinking is in fact a process that, de- pending on the societies implementing it, can be used to install graduated level of autonomous development instead of countries in the periphery remaining locked into and merely adjusting to the trends set by a funda- mentally unequal capitalist system.
In Samir Amin, we found the true meaning of praxis; a thinker who insisted that his work has immediate relevance to society. His departure deprives us of the practical energy he brought to our meetings and debates; and denies radical thinkers a model around whom they found the compass that enabled them to navigate the treacherous, indeed murderous, waters of capitalism. We however are lucky to have lived in his company, to have learned from his fountain of knowledge and to have shared in the passion of his convictions. The Council plans to invigorate the value of his legacy by celebrating him during this 15th General Assembly but also beyond the confines of the Assembly.
Thus, this edition of the Bulletin contains two intertwined sets of essays; all organised around Samir Amin. In the one instance, we have a selection of messages in his memory. One the other, we have a selection of essays he authored. Separately, we will re-publish all the essays he published in Africa Development in a special issue of the journal to provide them in one collection for posterity. But whichever way, and as his own reflection in the essay published in this volume and his memoirs show, CODESRIA is an inheritance that Samir Amin bequeathed the African social science community. As such, it is fitting that the Bulletin designed for the 15th CODESRIA General Assembly is also a Bulletin that publishes essays in his honour.
The choice of theme for the General Assembly predates the passing on of Samir Amin. But the theme itself is one that was dear to Samir Amin. It is our pleasure therefore to present the essays contained here as essays that shed light on a life lived fully but also that open up a space to explore the unfulfilled promises of globalisation. We hope that at the end of it, this will be a fitting study in honour of our departed icon but also a commentary on the key issues the 15th General Assembly explored.

Il presente lavoro di tesi si occupa di verificare la possibile applicabilità del divieto di concorrenza, previsto a carico dei soci nelle società di persone, dall'art. 2301 c.c., e degli amministratori nelle s.p.a., dall'art. 2390 c.c., alle s.r.l., nel regime legale. Le citate norme precludono ai rispettivi destinatari, di svolgere, per conto proprio o altrui, un'attività in concorrenza con quella della società, e di partecipare come socio illimitatamente responsabile a società che ugualmente svolgono attività concorrente. L'interrogativo in questione si pone a valle della Riforma del 2003, là dove viene eliminato dalla disciplina delle s.r.l. il richiamo, prima di allora presente, all'art. 2390 c.c., creando, tra l'altro, quelle condizioni per cui l'interdizione all'attività concorrenziale per gli amministratori possa non rivelarsi più appropriata in tale tipo sociale, a causa dei maggiori diritti di voice e di controllo spettanti ai soci. Il nuovo ruolo riconosciuto al socio di s.r.l. rappresenta, per altro verso, la motivazione di una plausibile estensione del divieto di concorrenza nei suoi confronti. Entrambi i quesiti sono stati, però, affrontati tenendo presenti le alterazioni subite dal tipo, all'esito dell'entrata in vigore dell'art. 57 d.l. n. 50/2017, e dell'art. 377 del d.lgs. n. 14/2019. Infatti, sia il possibile accesso al mercato, avutosi nel 2017 per tutte le s.r.l. P.M.I., che l'ipotetica esclusione dei soci della gestione, disposta dal Codice della Crisi e dell'Insolvenza, sono in grado di influire sulla risposta che il lavoro di tesi si propone di fornire. Dall'analisi svolta è emerso, prima di tutto, come il problema della portata del divieto di concorrenza non riguardi solo le s.r.l., ma entrambe le società lucrative in cui lo stesso è imposto, là dove molteplici sono i dubbi sull'estensione soggettiva ed oggettiva dell'istituto, in conseguenza di una scarsa chiarezza sul fondamento dello stesso. È stata, pertanto, approfondita la questione della ratio della prescrizione normativa, esaminando la dottrina sul punto a partire dalle origini della sua introduzione nel nostro ordinamento, ovvero dal Codice del Commercio del 1865. In tal modo, è stato accertato come il divieto di concorrenza, sia nei confronti dei soci che degli amministratori, svolga una funzione interna, volta a favorire l'imparziale esercizio dei poteri gestori ed una funzione esterna, andando a prevenire il danno prodotto dall'utilizzo delle informazioni privilegiate di cui il destinatario del divieto è in possesso, a causa del potere di controllo di cui dispone, da parte di un'impresa in concorrenza. La trattazione si concentra, poi, sulla specifica questione relativa all'applicazione del divieto di concorrenza all'amministratore di s.r.l., in modo da comprendere se la regola in questione, possa perseguire lo scopo di cui sopra, nei confronti degli amministratori, nel tipo sociale in oggetto. Sul punto sono state, in primo luogo, scardinate le motivazioni di coloro che si oppongono ad un'applicazione analogica nelle s.r.l. dell'art. 2390 c.c., fondate essenzialmente sul diverso tenore della disciplina degli interessi degli amministratori, tra s.p.a. e s.r.l. Viene, difatti, rilevato come siffatte divergenze dipendano dalla maggiore capacità dei soci nel modello legale di s.r.l. del 2003 di influire sulla gestione, e non dalla minore pretesa d'imparzialità, richiesta all'amministratore, come altrove sostenuto. Superate queste obbiezioni si è verificato se l'art. 2390 c.c. sia oggi vincolante per gli amministratori di s.r.l., a causa del nuovo tenore letterale dell'art. 2475, comma 1° c.c. il quale affida ai soli amministratori la gestione dell'impresa, rendendo potenzialmente affine la posizione dei gestori di s.r.l. a quella degli amministratori di s.p.a., rendendo i primi soggetti allo statuto legale dei secondi. Sul punto, si è appurato come la portata della novella debba essere ridimensionata nel senso di conferire in via esclusiva agli amministratori soltanto la gestione organizzativa della società, non escludendo i soci da quella operativa. Allo stesso modo, si è rilevato come l'integrazione della disciplina delle s.r.l. con quella delle s.p.a., comprendendo anche eventualmente l'art. 2390 c.c., per le s.r.l. che abbiano la dimensione delle P.M.I., debba avvenire solo in considerazione dell'assunzione da parte della società di uno specifico assetto statutario volto all'apertura al mercato, non anche in via generale. In questa maniera si è acclarato come non possa fondarsi sull'ibridazione dei tipi l'applicazione del divieto di concorrenza agli amministratori s.r.l. A tale approdo si è, comunque, giunti constatando come nella disciplina legale del tipo non esistono altre norme in grado di perseguire la specifica funzione riconosciuta al divieto di concorrenza a carico degli amministratori, sicché l'applicazione analogica dell'art. 2390 c.c. risulta ampiamente giustificata. Si affronta, infine, la delicata questione dell'applicazione del divieto di concorrenza a carico del socio di s.r.l. Ciò che si è verificato è se il complesso dei diritti e poteri riconosciuti al socio siano di intensità tale da generare quegli stessi presupposti per cui il legislatore ha posto la prescrizione a carico dei membri della compagine sociale di società di persone. Una volta risolto positivamente questo interrogativo, viene verificato se nel tessuto normativo della s.r.l. esistano altre norme volte a tutelare la società da un esercizio conflittuale dei diritti di voice e di controllo spettanti ai soci, come l'art. 2479-ter, comma 3° c.c., assenti, invece, nella disciplina delle società personali. Sul punto il lavoro dimostra come la funzione di prevenire negative interferenze nella gestione e di evitare alla società un danno da concorrenza differenziale, di cui agli artt. 2301 e 290 c.c., non sia assolta da alcuna regola della disciplina legale delle s.r.l. e come, quindi, anche per i soci debba valere una simile limitazione all'autonomia privata. Viene, poi, affrontato il profilo della estensione del divieto di concorrenza a tutti i soci o solo a quelli titolari di un'aliquota di capitale sociale tale da consentire l'esercizio dei poteri di cui all'art. 2479, comma 1° c.c., concludendo sulla necessità, anche in base ad una serie di indici sistematici di imporre il divieto a tutti i soci. Questa conclusione, peraltro, non genera conseguenza negative sul piano dell'appetibilità di questo modello societario, a causa delle limitazioni all'autonomia privata scaturenti dalla partecipazione allo stesso, data l'ampia possibilità per i soci di derogarvi. La tesi si conclude verificando, infine, in che termini lo statuto possa, menomando i diritti di voice e di controllo del socio, influire indirettamente sul suo assoggettamento al divieto di concorrenza. ; This research aims at investigating whether ban on competition set by the Italian legal system with regards to members of partnerships (società di persone: art. 2301 Italian Civil Code) and directors of public companies (società per azioni: art. 2390 Italian Civil Code) can be applied to members and directors of limited liability companies (società a responsabilità limitata). The mentioned legal provisions command to said subjects an absolute preclusion to exercise – both on their or a third party's behalf – activities that would result in a competitive behaviour vis-à-vis the entity they represent; and to acquire a non-limited participation in competing entities. The research question is grounded on the 2003 Reform that eliminated a referral to art. 2390 from the statutes of limited liability companies – the new statutes provide greater voice and control rights for members of such companies, thus rendering non-compete prohibitions inadequate. The new role that is played by LLCs members, on the contrary, justifies an interpretation that makes non-compete statutes applicable to them. LLCs have undergone a continuous reform process (see art. 57 d.l. n. 50/2017 and art. 377 d.lgs. n. 14/2019) that have opened them up to on-the-market financing, and the new Insolvency Code permits an exclusion of LLCs' members from the management – these trends obviously have an impact on the answers to the research question. The research shows that the issue at stake concerns both LLCs and PLCs – unclear are both the subjective and objective requisites for the application of non-compete statutes, given that unclear are the rationales behind it. The research investigated such rationales, by means of a literature review since the Codice di Commercio dated 1865. The outcome showed how non-compete statutes play both an internal and external role – the former favours an unbiased exercise of directors' powers while the latter prevents damages that might arise from the abuse of privileged information obtained through the exercise of control powers within a competing entity. The discussion then moves on to the application of non-compete statutes to LLCs' directors, so to understand whether the aims of the provision can be achieved with respect to said companies. First of all, the research shows how the arguments brought forward by those who oppose an analogical interpretation of PLC's statutes to LLCs are weak because limited to the consideration that highlights the differences in legal regimes on directors' conflicts of interests in the two legal models. Indeed, such differences are not grounded on a lesser request of impartiality in their mandate but, rather, on a stronger set of control rights that LLCs' members enjoy vis-à-vis PLCs' ones. Having overcome such arguments, the research investigated whether art. 2390 is still applicable to LLCs' directors, given the new wording of art. 2475 that assigns the management of the corporation to directors only, thus assimilating PLCs' directors to LLCs' ones, thus subjecting the latter to the statutes of the former. A distinction was made between organizational and operational direction, arguing that only the former is reserved to directors, while the latter can be exercised by members as well. Likewise, the research showed how such an analogical integration of the legal provisions set for LLCs can be operated only when companies adopt bylaws that allow them to resort to on-the-market financing, even if just sporadically. This outcome helped in showing that the adoption of a legal regime that resembles the one in which non-compete statutes are present cannot alone ground the analogical application of such provisions to the other legal regime. Such an outcome was actually grounded on the observation that no other provisions that protects non-competition interests are present in the statutes of Italian LLCs – this would result in a normative void that legal operators must fill resorting to analogy. Lastly, the research concludes by investigating the application of non-compete statutes to LLCs' members. The analysis examined the rights and powers enjoyed by LLCs' members so to understand whether their scope is so broad to (i) assimilate them to partnerships' members and thus (ii) justify the application of non-compete provisions to them. Given that the scope of such rights and powers does in fact justify a reaction of the legal system, the research continued in the analysis of the current legal system so to verify whether other legal provisions protect LLCs from a conflicting exercise of voice and control rights members enjoy; something absent in the statutes regulating partnerships. The outcome of this prong of research concluded by stating that no other provision shields LLCs from negative interferences in the management of the company, therefore having no rule in place that prevents damages from anticompetitive behaviour to occur. Concluding, the research continued in understanding whether such non-compete statutes are applicable to every member of an LLC or rather only to those who have a take that habilitates them to the exercise of the rights provided for by art. 2479 co. 1 c.c.: The point made is that the statutes should apply to every member. Such a conclusion has no impact on the preferability of LLCs vis-à-vis PLCs given that private autonomy can decide to opt out from the default system. A brief investigation on how bylaws can interfere on the application of non-compete statutes to LLCs members by altering their voice and control rights.

Tese de Doutoramento em Arquitetura com a especialização em Desenho e Computação, Doutor, Arquitetura - Desenho e Computação, apresentada na Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade de Lisboa para obtenção do grau de Doutor. ; Com o processo de industrialização do país e subsequente concentração populacional nos grandes centros urbanos, emergem, desde o início do século XX, programas públicos de habitação. As primeiras tipologias adotadas durante o Estado Novo para as populações oriundas de zonas rurais pobres, adaptam-se à perceção tradicionalista do regime de um modo de vida português. Os conjuntos habitacionais de grande escala que lhes sucederam visavam responder ao modelo de urbanização que se afirmava com a intensificação da industrialização do país. Nos finais dos anos 1960, o investimento público em habitação permitiu um forte desenvolvimento da investigação teórica e empírica marcada por preocupações sociais e previsões sobre o futuro. Concebida como um mecanismo espacial com consequências sociais, a habitação era pensada como um instrumento de progresso. Em documentos e relatórios de investigação científica deste período, encontram-se repetidas referências à emancipação da mulher, ao desenvolvimento de laços e sentimentos de comunidade e à resposta às necessidades do momento e às aspirações futuras. Este pensamento progressista emergiu nalgumas instituições estatais permitindo algumas transformações institucionais no último período do Estado Novo, ao longo dos anos 1960 e início dos anos 1970. Todavia, os programas de habitação então desenvolvidos foram limitados, tanto na sua escala como no leque de populações a que se dirigiam, e os conjuntos habitacionais públicos implementados eram entendidos pelo poder político dominante como instrumento de controlo social. Com o golpe militar do 25 de Abril de 1974, operou-se uma maior transformação do aparelho de estado associada ao fim da guerra colonial e à transformação do modelo económico do país, gerando alterações profundas no balanço de forças e permitindo a organização de movimentos populares fortes, alguns dos quais centrados no direito à habitação. Neste contexto, a promoção habitacional ganhou novos contornos ao nível quantitativo e qualitativo. Esta dissertação foca a sua atenção neste período, estudando um conjunto de empreendimentos habitacionais de promoção pública e cooperativa construídos na cidade do Porto nos anos que antecedem e sucedem ao 25 de Abril de 1974. Incluem-se nesta leitura quatro grupos de empreendimentos: (i) os que integram a segunda fase do Plano de Melhoramentos da Cidade do Porto, construídos maioritariamente entre 1969 e 1974; (ii) os que são desenvolvidos no âmbito do Serviço de Apoio Ambulatório Local (SAAL) durante o período revolucionário de 1974-1976; (iii) e aqueles que foram construídos para associações de moradores, no mesmo período mas dentro de outros enquadramentos legais; (iv) os conjuntos promovidos pela Câmara Municipal do Porto, pelo Fundo Fomento da Habitação e os que resultam da articulação entre estas duas entidades, desenvolvidos desde antes do 25 de Abril de 1974 até 1982; (v) e, por último, as cooperativas de habitação económica construídas ao longo deste período. Ao fazê-lo, pretende-se trazer para o campo da investigação em arquitetura casos de estudo que têm sido descurados pela disciplina. Simultaneamente, pretende-se proporcionar uma visão global deste período que possa representar um contraponto à crítica de que a promoção pública de habitação de grande escala tem frequentemente sido alvo. Uma crítica que se tem tendencialmente focado nas suas características urbanas e arquitetónicas, apresentando-as como causa da segregação social dos seus residentes. A dissertação começa por explorar reflexões de autores que se referem à relação recursiva entre a habitação e a sociedade que a produz. A habitação é entendida como um produto social, o qual tem a capacidade de agir sobre as relações sociais. Isto ocorre de duas formas: o mercado imobiliário atua na diferenciação de classe, determinando quem tem acesso às infraestruturas e equipamentos urbanos e em que condições; a habitação organiza espacialmente a atividade humana - socialmente determinada e atribuída a diferentes indivíduos e grupos - no sistema de sistemas que compõem o conjunto "casa-assentamento", como definido por Rapoport. Com base na leitura de diversos autores (Harvey, Bourdieu, Lefebvre), considera-se que esta interação assume formas coerentes com a reprodução das relações de produção. Embebida no aparelho ideológico, esta interação materializa-se na educação, gosto e prática arquitetónica. Esta ideia de recursividade na relação entre o espaço e a sociedade é explorada aproveitando a dualidade interna da metodologia da "sintaxe espacial", desenvolvida inicialmente por autores como Hillier e Hanson. Em primeiro lugar, procura demonstrar-se que as características espaciais dos espaços domésticos influenciam, até certo ponto, a forma como as pessoas vivem. Para o efeito, sistematiza-se a informação produzida por inquéritos sobre dinâmicas familiares realizados durante o período estudado, ao longo dos anos 1970 e 1980. Estes dados são explorados preliminarmente no sentido de perceber de que forma diferentes organizações das atividades domésticas nos fogos se podem refletir em variações nas suas formas de uso pela família. Demonstra-se que é possível detetar características mais ou menos potencializadoras de uso coletivo ou individual dos diferentes espaços da casa, e com maior ou menor potencial para contrariar tendências de segregação e diferenciação de uso por género verificadas dentro das famílias estudadas. Explora-se também a capacidade da investigação em "sintaxe espacial" realizada nas últimas décadas de relacionar atributos espaciais com padrões de uso do espaço. Tendo em conta essas relações, articulam-se conceitos espaciais da "sintaxe espacial" com as hipóteses de diferenciação residencial desenvolvidas por Harvey. Através de uma leitura de outros autores (Bourdieu, Marcuse, Gros), constroem-se e analisam-se nos casos estudados os conceitos sócio-espaciais de segregação, "outro" (othering), hierarquização, domesticação e adaptabilidade. Argumenta-se que é através destes conceitos que a habitação funciona como regulador dos padrões de interação entre indivíduos, grupos e classes sociais na cidade, e dessa forma também de conformação de diferentes vivências. Em segundo lugar, a análise sintática é utilizada para encontrar padrões espaciais no conjunto dos empreendimentos habitacionais estudados, que são posteriormente descritos de acordo com os conceitos sócio-espaciais definidos. Estes padrões são comparados entre os diferentes programas habitacionais estudados - programas dirigidos a problemas específicos de diferentes populações, com preocupações e propósitos diferentes entre eles - com o objetivo de identificar paradigmas de projeto diferentes ou contrastantes que, através da sua contextualização histórica, possam ser relacionados com transformações sociais. Desta forma, procura-se compreender o papel desses conjuntos e programas habitacionais como parte de um processo de transformação social e urbana. Embora os grandes conjuntos habitacionais dos anos 1960 tenham sido construídos fora do centro, sendo intencionalmente segregados, a investigação mostra que eles se encontram em zonas da cidade que hoje estão bem integradas no tecido urbano. Com a transformação do contexto social, o regulamento moral e político, que no Estado Novo acentuava o papel da casa como mecanismo de controlo, foi extinto, alterando-se o significado social da localização dos edifícios na malha urbana, organizados no período anterior de forma a facilitar a vigilância dos seus moradores. Na promoção pública de habitação após o 25 de Abril são também identificados constrangimentos e contradições. Por um lado, a promoção habitacional continuou, em grande parte, a expressar uma estratégia de expansão urbana necessária ao crescimento da cidade capitalista, criando conjuntos residenciais muitas vezes ligados a áreas industriais, mas, por outro lado, a habitação produzida nos primeiros anos de democracia tornou-se mais acessível e de forma geral mais articulada com o tecido urbano existente. Os fogos tornaram-se maiores, embora descurando relações espaciais anteriormente consideradas importantes. A habitação pública nos empreendimentos produzidos nesses primeiros anos de democracia afastou-se do paradigma de isolamento e clara marcação do "outro", embora mantendo uma ideia espacial de comunidade local. Demonstra-se que o crescimento da cidade do Porto no período estudado esteve, em grande medida, articulado com o desenvolvimento público de habitação, e que isto só pode ser percebido a uma escala global. A habitação - como todo o espaço socialmente produzido - é simultaneamente um produto do seu tempo com consequências sociais imediatas e um conjunto de artefactos cujo significado social é transformado por mudanças que lhe são externas. ; ABSTRCT: This dissertation studies a set of public housing estates in Porto developed in the period surrounding the Portuguese revolution, part of which have rarely been examined in architectural research. In doing so, it seeks to provide a global reading of this period that may represent a counterpoint to the criticism large-scale public housing development has been the target for decades, which often points out its urban and architectural characteristics as the root cause of continued patterns of social segregation in their residents. In this sense, the dissertation first explores the question of how housing is both shaped by society and has the capacity to act back on social relations. It argues that the process through which this happens is twofold: the real estate market acts in class-differentiation, which determines who has access to the city and in which conditions; housing spatially organises socially defined human activity in the system of systems which comprise the house-settlement, as defined by Rapoport. Through a reading of different authors (Harvey, Bourdieu, Lefebvre), it is considered that this interaction most often takes a form favourable for or at least coherent with the reproduction of the relations of production, which have an impact on the ideological apparatus, which will, in turn, be materialised in architectural education, taste and action. The dissertation relies on the internal duality of space syntax' methods to explore this idea of recursivity in the relationship between built space and society. Firstly, it seeks to demonstrate that the spatial characteristics of domestic environments do have some impact on how people live. It does so through the systematisation of data available on family dynamics during the studied period and the preliminary exploration of how different patterns of organisation of domestic activities in apartment plans may be reflected in variances in the way people use the space of the house. It further explores how space syntax research has consistently been able to relate spatial attributes with patterns of space-use and articulates these attributes with the hypotheses of residential differentiation developed by Harvey. Through the examination of other authors (Marcuse, Bourdieu, Gros) the socio-spatial concepts of segregation, othering, hierarchisation, domestication and adaptability are developed and analysed in the studied cases. It is argued that it is through these concepts that housing acts as a regulator of patterns of interaction between individuals, groups and social classes in the city, and as such also has an impact on the conformation of different living experiences. Secondly, syntactic analysis is used to retrieve design patterns from the set of built housing estates, which are then described according to the defined socio-spatial concepts. These are compared across housing programmes to identify shifting or contrasting design paradigms, and informed by historical knowledge to link them to social and ideological transformations, as well as to understand the role of these housing estates as part of a process of social and urban change. It is shown that while these estates were initially built outside the centre and even purposely segregated, they are often located in what are today well-integrated areas of the city. A paradigm shift is identified as taking place during this period, as a trend can be detected in later housing developments of articulating the estate with its surroundings while maintaining a local community. It is demonstrated that Porto's growth was, to a great extent, articulated with the development of public housing and that this can only be understood globally: Housing - like all human-produced space - it is simultaneously a product of its time that has immediate social consequences; and also a set artefactual elements whose social meaning is transformed by changes that take place around them ; N/A

Antoja, T., et al. (Gaia Collaboration) ; [Aims] We aim to demonstrate the scientific potential of the Gaia Early Data Release 3 (EDR3) for the study of different aspects of the Milky Way structure and evolution and we provide, at the same time, a description of several practical aspects of the data and examples of their usage. [Methods] We used astrometric positions, proper motions, parallaxes, and photometry from EDR3 to select different populations and components and to calculate the distances and velocities in the direction of the anticentre. In this direction, the Gaia astrometric data alone enable the calculation of the vertical and azimuthal velocities; also, the extinction is relatively low compared to other directions in the Galactic plane. We then explore the disturbances of the current disc, the spatial and kinematical distributions of early accreted versus in situ stars, the structures in the outer parts of the disc, and the orbits of open clusters Berkeley 29 and Saurer 1. [Results] With the improved astrometry and photometry of EDR3, we find that: (i) the dynamics of the Galactic disc are very complex with oscillations in the median rotation and vertical velocities as a function of radius, vertical asymmetries, and new correlations, including a bimodality with disc stars with large angular momentum moving vertically upwards from below the plane, and disc stars with slightly lower angular momentum moving preferentially downwards; (ii) we resolve the kinematic substructure (diagonal ridges) in the outer parts of the disc for the first time; (iii) the red sequence that has been associated with the proto-Galactic disc that was present at the time of the merger with Gaia-Enceladus-Sausage is currently radially concentrated up to around 14 kpc, while the blue sequence that has been associated with debris of the satellite extends beyond that; (iv) there are density structures in the outer disc, both above and below the plane, most probably related to Monoceros, the Anticentre Stream, and TriAnd, for which the Gaia data allow an exhaustive selection of candidate member stars and dynamical study; and (v) the open clusters Berkeley 29 and Saurer 1, despite being located at large distances from the Galactic centre, are on nearly circular disc-like orbits. [Conclusions] Even with our simple preliminary exploration of the Gaia EDR3, we demonstrate how, once again, these data from the European Space Agency are crucial for our understanding of the different pieces of our Galaxy and their connection to its global structure and history. ; The Gaia mission and data processing have financially been supported by, in alphabetical order by country: the Algerian Centre de Recherche en Astronomie,Astrophysique et Géophysique of Bouzareah Observatory; the Austrian Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FWF) Hertha Firnberg Programme through grants T359, P20046, and P23737; the BELgian federal Science Policy Office (BELSPO) through various PROgramme de Développement d'Expériences scientifiques (PRODEX) grants and the Polish Academy of Sciences - Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek through grant VS.091.16N, and the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS); the Brazil-France exchange programmes Fundaçãode Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) and Coordenação de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) - Comité Français d'Evaluation de la Coopération Universitaire et Scientifique avec le Brésil (COFECUB); the National Science Foundation of China (NSFC) through grants 11573054 and 11703065 and the China Scholarship Council through grant 201806040200; the Tenure Track Pilot Programme of the Croatian Science Foundation and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and the project TTP-2018-07-1171 'Mining the Variable Sky', with the funds of the Croatian-Swiss Research Programme; the Czech-Republic Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports through grant LG 15010 and INTER-EXCELLENCE grant LTAUSA18093, and the Czech Space Office through ESA PECS contract 98058; the Danish Ministry of Science; the Estonian Ministry of Education and Research through grant IUT40-1; the European Commission's Sixth Framework Programme through the European Leadership in Space Astrometry (ELSA) Marie Curie Research Training Network (MRTN-CT-2006-033481), through Marie Curie project PIOF-GA-2009-255267 (Space AsteroSeismology and RR Lyrae stars, SAS-RRL), and through a Marie Curie Transfer-of-Knowledge (ToK) fellowship (MTKD-CT-2004-014188); the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme through grant FP7-606740 (FP7-SPACE-2013-1) for the Gaia European Network for Improved data User Services (GENIUS) and through grant 264895 for the Gaia Research for European Astronomy Training (GREAT-ITN) network; the European Research Council (ERC) through grants 320360 and 647208 and through the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation and excellent science programmes through Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant 745617 as well as grants 670519 (Mixing and Angular Momentum tranSport of massIvE stars – MAMSIE), 687378 (Small Bodies: Near and Far), 682115 (Using the Magellanic Clouds to Understand the Interaction of Galaxies), and 695099 (A sub-percent distance scale from binaries and Cepheids – CepBin); the European Science Foundation (ESF), in the framework of the Gaia Research for European Astronomy Training Research Network Programme (GREAT-ESF); the European Space Agency (ESA) in the framework of the Gaia project, through the Plan for European Cooperating States (PECS) programme through grants for Slovenia, through contracts C98090 and 4000106398/12/NL/KML for Hungary, and through contract 4000115263/15/NL/IB for Germany; the Academy of Finland and the Magnus Ehrnrooth Foundation; the French Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) through grant ANR-10-IDEX-0001-02 for the 'Investissements d'avenir' programme, through grant ANR-15-CE31-0007 for project 'Modelling the Milky Way in the Gaia era' (MOD4Gaia), through grant ANR-14-CE33-0014-01 for project 'The Milky Way disc formation in the Gaia era' (ARCHEOGAL), and through grant ANR-15-CE31-0012-01 for project 'Unlocking the potential of Cepheids as primary distance calibrators' (UnlockCepheids), the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and its SNO Gaia of the Institut des Sciences de l'Univers (INSU), the 'Action Fédératrice Gaia' of the Observatoire de Paris, the Région de Franche-Comté, and the Programme National de Gravitation, Références, Astronomie, et Métrologie (GRAM) of CNRS/INSU with the Institut National Polytechnique (INP) and the Institut National de Physique nucléaire et de Physique des Particules (IN2P3) co-funded by CNES; the German Aerospace Agency (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V., DLR) through grants 50QG0501, 50QG0601, 50QG0602, 50QG0701, 50QG0901, 50QG1001, 50QG1101, 50QG1401, 50QG1402, 50QG1403, 50QG1404, and 50QG1904 and the Centre for Information Services and High Performance Computing (ZIH) at the Technische Universität (TU) Dresden for generous allocations of computer time; the Hungarian Academy of Sciences through the Lendület Programme grants LP2014-17 and LP2018-7 and through the Premium Postdoctoral Research Programme (L. Molnár), and the Hungarian National Research, Development, and Innovation Office (NKFIH) through grant KH_18-130405; the Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) through a Royal Society – SFI University Research Fellowship (M. Fraser); the Israel Science Foundation (ISF) through grant 848/16; the Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI) through contracts I/037/08/0, I/058/10/0, 2014-025-R.0, 2014-025-R.1.2015, and 2018-24-HH.0 to the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), contract 2014-049-R.0/1/2 to INAF for the Space Science Data Centre (SSDC, formerly known as the ASI Science Data Center, ASDC), contracts I/008/10/0, 2013/030/I.0, 2013-030-I.0.1-2015, and 2016-17-I.0 to the Aerospace Logistics Technology Engineering Company (ALTEC S.p.A.), INAF, and the Italian Ministry of Education, University, and Research (Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca) through the Premiale project 'MIning The Cosmos Big Data and Innovative Italian Technology for Frontier Astrophysics and Cosmology' (MITiC); the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) through grant NWO-M-614.061.414, through a VICI grant (A. Helmi), and through a Spinoza prize (A. Helmi), and the Netherlands Research School for Astronomy (NOVA); the Polish National Science Centre through HARMONIA grant 2018/30/M/ST9/00311, DAINA grant 2017/27/L/ST9/03221, and PRELUDIUM grant 2017/25/N/ST9/01253, and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (MNiSW) through grant DIR/WK/2018/12; the Portugese Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) through grants SFRH/BPD/74697/2010 and SFRH/BD/128840/2017 and the Strategic Programme UID/FIS/00099/2019 for CENTRA; the Slovenian Research Agency through grant P1-0188; the Spanish Ministry of Economy (MINECO/FEDER, UE) through grants ESP2016-80079-C2-1-R, ESP2016-80079-C2-2-R, RTI2018-095076-B-C21, RTI2018-095076-B-C22, BES-2016-078499, and BES-2017-083126 and the Juan de la Cierva formación 2015 grant FJCI-2015-2671, the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture, and Sports through grant FPU16/03827, the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN) through grant AYA2017-89841P for project 'Estudio de las propiedades de los fósiles estelares en el entorno del Grupo Local' and through grant TIN2015-65316-P for project 'Computación de Altas Prestaciones VII', the Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence Programme of the Spanish Government through grant SEV2015-0493, the Institute of Cosmos Sciences University of Barcelona (ICCUB, Unidad de Excelencia 'María de Maeztu') through grants MDM-2014-0369 and CEX2019-000918-M, the University of Barcelona's official doctoral programme for the development of an R+D+i project through an Ajuts de Personal Investigador en Formació (APIF) grant, the Spanish Virtual Observatory through project AyA2017-84089, the Galician Regional Government, Xunta de Galicia, through grants ED431B-2018/42 and ED481A-2019/155, support received from the Centro de Investigación en Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones (CITIC) funded by the Xunta de Galicia, the Xunta de Galicia and the Centros Singulares de Investigación de Galicia for the period 2016-2019 through CITIC, the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) / Fondo Europeo de Desenvolvemento Rexional (FEDER) for the Galicia 2014-2020 Programme through grant ED431G-2019/01, the Red Española de Supercomputación (RES) computer resources at MareNostrum, the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) through activities AECT-2016-1-0006, AECT-2016-2-0013, AECT-2016-3-0011, and AECT-2017-1-0020, the Departament d'Innovació, Universitats i Empresa de la Generalitat de Catalunya through grant 2014-SGR-1051 for project 'Models de Programació i Entorns d'Execució Parallels' (MPEXPAR), and Ramon y Cajal Fellowship RYC2018-025968-I; the Swedish National Space Agency (SNSA/Rymdstyrelsen); the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research, and Innovation through the ESA PRODEX programme, the Mesures d'Accompagnement, the Swiss Activités Nationales Complémentaires, and the Swiss National Science Foundation; the United Kingdom Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC), the United Kingdom Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), and the United Kingdom Space Agency (UKSA) through the following grants to the University of Bristol, the University of Cambridge, the University of Edinburgh, the University of Leicester, the Mullard Space Sciences Laboratory of University College London, and the United Kingdom Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL): PP/D006511/1, PP/D006546/1, PP/D006570/1, ST/I000852/1, ST/J005045/1, ST/K00056X/1, ST/K000209/1, ST/K000756/1, ST/L006561/1, ST/N000595/1, ST/N000641/1, ST/N000978/1, ST/N001117/1, ST/S000089/1, ST/S000976/1, ST/S001123/1, ST/S001948/1, ST/S002103/1, and ST/V000969/1.

Flestir fiskistofnar heims eru nýttir að fullu eða ofveiddir. Ofnýting hefur í för með sér slæmar vistfræðilegar, hagrænar og félagslegar afleiðingar. Minna er hægt að veiða úr ofveiddum stofnum og hætta getur verið á hruni þeirra. Og af því að þeir gefa minna af sér eru veiðarnar ekki jafn arðbærar og geta jafnvel verið reknar með tapi. Lélegt ástand stofnanna hefur áhrif á þá sem nýta auðlindina og það getur hoggið nærri brothættum sjávarbyggðum. Í þessari doktorsritgerð er sjónum beint að Færeyjum. Íbúar Færeyja eru um 50 þúsund og þeir eiga mikið undir sjávarútvegi. Veiðar og vinnsla standa undir 24% af vergri landsframleiðslu (VLF) og útflutningur sjávarafurða svaraði til 52% af útflutningi ársins 2017. Um 10% fólks vinnur við sjávarútveg, þar af um 1.500 við veiðar og um 1.200 við vinnslu. En þrátt fyrir mikilvægi sjávarútvegs eru helstu fiskistofanar við Færeyjar ofnýttir. Í fyrstu grein þessarar ritgerðar er fjallað um stjórn fiskveiða í Færeyjum og hvernig hún hefur þróast á árunum 1948-2018. Færeyingar hafa reynt ýmis konar fiskveiðistjórnarkerfi; opinn aðgang, skilyrtan aðgang, leyfiskerfi og framseljanlegar aflaheimildir, en frá árinu 1996 hefur verið beitt sóknarstýringu með dagatakmörkunum. Í greininni er bent á að stjórnun heimaflotans, sem veiðir úr stofnum við Færeyjar, hefur ekki verið nægjanlega aðhaldssöm og fyrir vikið hafa helstu fiskistofnar verið ofnýttir. Veiðarnar hafa jafnframt að mestu verið óarðbærar. Þessu er öfugt farið með stjórn úthafsflotans, sem veiðir á fjarlægum miðum, og uppsjávarveiðiskipa, en þeim hefur að mestu verið stjórnað með kvótakerfi. Þar hefur hagnaður verið meiri og viðvarandi. Í annarri greininni er borinn saman líffræðilegur, hagrænn og félagslegur árangur af ólíkri stjórn veiða heimaflotans, uppsjávarflotans og úthafsflotans 1985-2018. Sýnt er fram á að vegna þess að fiskistofnar við Færeyjar voru ofnýttir og heimaflotinn of stór, hefur aldrei náð að myndast nein auðlindarentu í þeim veiðum. Í uppsjávarveiðum hefur á hinn bóginn orðið til allgóð auðlindarenta. Laun sjómanna á skipum og bátum í heimaflotanum hafa einnig verið lægri en á öðrum skipum og sum ár jafnvel lægri en meðallaun í Færeyjum. Fjárhagslegur stuðningur hins opinbera hefur aukið á vandann með því að viðhalda of stórum heimaflota og þannig ýtt undir ofnýtingu fiskistofna við eyjarnar. Í þriðju greininni eru beitt aðferð sem kennd er við frammistöðumælikvarða (Fishery Performance Indicators, FPI) til að gaumgæfa frekar þróun fiskveiða í Færeyjum. Allar fiskveiðarnar sem samanburðurinn nær til fá góða einkunn á samfélagslegum skala, en togarar i heimaflotanum fá þó lakari einkunn en úthafsflotinn og uppsjávarveiðiflotinn. Heimatogararnir standa sig einnig verst í vistfræðilegu tilliti. Þótt góð auðlindarenta hafa myndast í uppsjávarveiðum stendur sá floti að baki hinum flotunum tveimur í hagrænum skilningi, einkum vegna þeirrar miklu óvissu sem fylgir stórum sveiflum í heildarafla. Greiningin sýnir einnig fram á að nýtingarréttur togskipa í heimaflotanum er veikur miðað við það sem gerist og gengur almennt í fiskveiðum í iðnvæddum löndum. Í fjórðu og síðustu greininni er sagt frá þeim breytingum á stjórn fiskveiða í Færeyjum sem kynntar voru árið 2018, en með þeim var ætlunin að bæta líffræðilega og hagræna sjálfbærni veiðanna. Bent er á hvað gæti staðið í vegi fyrir því að þau áform gengu eftir, ekki síst þá staðreynd að umbæturnar áttu aðeins að ná til hluta heimaflotans. Því væri hætta á að breytingarnar myndu ekki hafa tilætluð áhrif og áfram yrði því bið á að hinir mikilvægu stofnar þorsks og ýsu í færeyskri lögsögu næðu að rétta úr kútnum. Ritgerðin dregur fram að veiðum færeyska heimaflotans hefur ekki verið stjórnað á heppilegasta máta sem hefur haft vond líffræðileg, hagræn og félagsleg áhrif. Reynslan af stjórn veiða úthafsflotans og uppsjávarveiðiflotans sýnir glögglega hversu mikið sú óstjórn hefur kostað. Ritgerðin sýnir einnig að sá auður sem sjávarútvegur hefur skapað hefur átt þátt í að lyfta lífskjörum í Færeyjum. En þrátt fyrir mikilvægi sjávarútvegs í þjóðarbúskapnum og nauðsyn þess að stjórna fiskveiðum með skynsamlegum hætti hefur Færeyingum ekki lánast að gera sér meira úr auðlind sinni. Þær breytingar á stjórn fiskveiða, sem átti að hrinda í framkvæmd 2018, gengu heldur ekki nægjanlega langt. Þess vegna er mikilvægt að kannað verði hvernig hægt sé að ná samstöðu um stjórn veiða heimaflotans sem tryggi að til framtíðar verði veiðum á heimaslóð stjórnað með sjálfbærni að leiðarljósi. ; Most of the world's fish stocks are overfished or fully fished. Overfishing has negative ecological, economic and social consequences. Fish stocks that are overfished produce less yield and may be at risk of collapse, and because they produce less yield, they are less profitable or not profitable at all. These negative consequences naturally affect the people who rely on the resource, whether for their livelihoods or for sustenance. Fisheries-dependent communities are naturally most affected by these negative consequences. The case study area for this PhD thesis is the Faroe Islands. The Faroe Islands, a country of 50,000 people, located in the middle of the Northeast Atlantic, are highly dependent upon their fishing industry. The marine fishery accounted for 24% of the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and 52% of exports in 2017. The fishing industry is also an important source of employment, employing approximately 1,500 people in the catching sector and 1,200 in the processing sector, in total about 10% of the Faroese work force. Despite the importance of the fishing industry to the Faroe Islands, fish stocks in Faroese waters are overfished. Paper I of this thesis explores the issue of fisheries policy in the Faroe Islands, describing and analysing how the Faroese have managed their fisheries in the period from 1948 through 2018. The Faroe Islands had five different management regimes in place in that period: open access; regulated open access; a licensing system; a brief period of individual transferable quotas; and, since 1996, an effort quota system, where the main control component comprised fishing days without total allowable catch control. The paper concludes that management of the home fleet has not effectively controlled effort, which has left the fish stocks in Faroese waters overexploited, the fleet overcapitalised, and the fishery largely unprofitable. This stands in contrast to management of the distant-water and pelagic fisheries, which have been managed predominantly with individual transferable quotas and, as a result, are more profitable and more sustainable. In Paper II, data on economic, biological and social indicators are analysed to illustrate outcomes in the home fleet fisheries, the pelagic fishery, and the distant-water fishery in the period from 1985 to 2018. Outcomes are linked to the management frameworks in place. The paper concludes that due to overfishing and overcapacity, there was no resource rent in the home fleet fishery for a long time while the pelagic fishery especially generated large resource rents. The paper also concludes that fishers' wages in the home fleet were lower than in the pelagic and distant-water fisheries, some years well below "normal" remuneration in the Faroe Islands. In addition to sub-optimal management, substantial fleet subsidies have exasperated the problem of overcapacity and thereby overfishing. In Paper III, the Fishery Performance Indicators (FPI) framework, developed by Anderson et al. (2015), is applied to the three main fisheries in the Faroe Islands. With the FPI methodology, the paper measured triple bottom line outcomes—Ecology, Economics and Community—using 68 individual metrics across 14 dimensions. The results show that the three Faroese fisheries all scored high on the Community indicator but the home fleet trawlers scored lower than the other two fisheries due especially to a lower Career dimension score. The trawlers also had the lowest Ecology score. Despite generating large resource rent, the pelagic fleet had the lowest Economic score. This was predominantly due to poor Risk performance as a result of large volatility in the fishery. The analysis also revealed a notable lack of harvest rights in the home fishery for an industrialised fishery. Paper IV describes and analyses the fisheries policy reform introduced in the Faroe Islands in 2018. The objectives of the reform were for fisheries to become biologically and economically sustainable but a number of barriers for success are identified, most notably that measures to ensure sustainability in the home fishery only apply to parts of the fleet, which may render them ineffective and hinder the much-needed recovery of the important cod and haddock stocks in Faroese waters. This thesis draws attention to the fact that the home fleet fishery in the Faroe Islands has not been managed optimally and demonstrates the negative impact this has had on biological, economic and social outcomes. The outcomes in the pelagic and distant-water fisheries stand in contrast to this and illustrate the lost gains from mismanagement of the home fishery. The thesis also shows that wealth generated by the fishing industry has contributed to a high standard of living in the Faroe Islands, making sound management vitally important. For several decades, the Faroese have failed to capitalise on the potential wealth of the renewable natural resource within their EEZ, despite the importance of the resource to their economy. The fisheries policy reform does not adequately address failures in management and is unlikely to improve biological and economic outcomes in the home fleet. Future research should focus on how to reach a consensus on the management of the home fleet fishery to achieve lasting and sustainable change. ; Henda serritgerð kannar sambandið millum fiskivinnupolitikk og lívfrøðilig, búskaparlig og sosial úrslit í Føroyum. Hon er samansett av seks kapitlum, harav fýra greinum, innleiðing, og niðurstøðum. Tríggjar greinar er útgivnar av altjóða akademiskum tíðarritum og tann fjórða er latin til ummælis. Tann fyrsta greinin lýsir og greinar føroyskan fiskivinnupolitikk frá 1948, tá heimastýrislógin kom í gildi og føroyingar yvirtóku málsøkið fiskivinna, til og við 2018. Í hesum tíðarskeiði vóru fimm ymiskar skipanir í gildi: frí atgongd, har ongar ásetingar vóru; skipað frí atgongd, har fáar ásetingar vóru; loyvisskipan; eitt stutt tíðarskeið við kvotuskipan; og fiskidagaskipanin, sum kom í gildi í 1996. Greinin kemur til ta niðurstøðu, at grundleggjandi veikleikar hava verið í umsitingini, ið hava ført til ovurfisking og yvirkapasitet. Umsitingin av uppisjóvarflotanum og fjarfiskaflotanum hinvegin hevur vart fiskastovnarnar betur og hevur ikki ført til yvirkapasitet á sama hátt. Næsta greinin kannar lívfrøðiligu, búskaparligu og sosialu gongdina í føroyskari fiskivinnu millum 1985 og 2018 við at kanna lyklaindikatorar. Veiðuhagtøl benda á systematiska ovurfisking av botnfiskastovnunum. Greinin vísir eisini, at tað var so at siga eingin tilfeingisrenta í heimaflotanum hesi árini, meðan tilfeingisrentan í serliga uppisjóvarflotanum var stór. Lønirnar í heimaflotanum vóru eisini lágar, summi ár sera lágar. Vánalig búskaparlig og sosial úrslit eru allarhelst ein avleiðing av ovurfisking og yvirkapasiteti. Fíggjarligur stuðul til fiskivinnuna hevur gjørt trupulleikarnar við ovurfisking og yvirkapasiteti verri. Tann triðja greinin kannar lívfrøðiligu, búskaparligu og sosialu støðuna í føroysku fiskivinnuni í 2017 við at brúka Fishery Performance Indicators háttalagi, ið Anderson et al. (2015) hava útviklað, og sum fevnir um 68 indikatorar. Sama háttalag er brúkt til at kanna fleiri enn 100 fiskivinnuskipanir. Niðurstøðurnar eru, at allir flotar høvdu góð sosial úrslit, men trolarar høvdu verri sosial og lívfrøðilig úrslit enn hinir, og uppisjóvarflotin, hóast stóra tilfeingisrentu, hevði verri búskaparlig úrslit, serliga vegna stórar broytingar í veiðumongdini, sum økir um váðan. Fjarfiskaflotin hevði bestu úrslitini. Síðsta greinin lýsir og kannar fiskivinnunýskipanina, sum løgtingið samtykti í desembur 2017. Endamálið við nýskipanina var lívfrøðilig og búskaparlig burðardygd, men greinin vísir á, at fleiri forðingar eru fyri hesum í nýggju lógini. Serliga verður víst á, at tiltøk at betra um lívfrøðiliga burðardygd ikki eru galdandi fyri allan heimaflotan. ; EU Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie MSCA-ETN Programme (project 642080)

Dogajanje v času komunistične revolucije bistveno vpliva tako na stanje kot tudi na razumevanje sodobne slovenske družbene situacije. V disertaciji avtorica v luči idejnega nasprotja med krščanstvom in komunizmom ter na podlagi konflikta, ki se je obenem razvil v obdobju revolucije, razišče vzroke in podlage za omenjeni vpliv. Avtorica v delu pokaže na temeljno povezanost sodobnega položaja in komunistične revolucije na Slovenskem. Kot pojmovni okvir ter orodje za razumevanje izbere Girardovo mimetično teorijo in teorijo o grešnem kozlu. Girard namreč kulturo opisuje kot mimetični cikel, kjer posameznik posnema drugega (tako se začne že v samem otroštvu, ko otrok posnema starše in s tem postane družbeno bitje). Posnemanje je gonilo vsake družbe. Poleg tega pa posnemanje lahko omogoči tudi uničenje družbe, kulture. Girard vpelje grešnega kozla kot razrešitev konflikta, kjer imata dva subjekta enako željo in se skupaj obrneta proti grešnemu kozlu, ki zanju predstavlja vzrok mimetične krize, in je njegovo žrtvovanje pogoj za ponovno vzpostavitev družbenega reda in socialne varnosti. Ta teo-retični okvir omogoča tudi raziskovanje preteklih družbenih konfliktov, posebej pa tudi njihovih posledic v sodobnosti, vključno z vidiki spravnih procesov ter tranzicijske pra-vičnosti. Zato ga avtorica plodno uporabi pri omenjenem raziskovanju. Kot dve nasprotujoči idejni podlagi avtorica predstavi krščanstvo in komunizem, ki sta že v svojem idejnem temelju diametralno nasprotni, posebej pa ju prikaže preko Girar-dove teorije. Krščanstvo s krističnim pojmovanjem osebne svobode izstopi iz cikličnosti mehanizma grešnega kozla, komunizem pa prav nasprotno temelji na mimetičnosti. Žrt-vena znamenja v Girardovem pojmovanju, ki opravičijo umor grešnega kozla, temeljijo na dejstvih, ki postanejo sprejemljiva za umor, ne glede na (ne)resničnost le-teh. Implementacija Girardove teorije na slovensko situacijo zajema dva ključna vidika. Prvi vidik je žrtvovanje nasprotnikov komunistične revolucije z žrtvenimi znamenji kolabo-racije, nemirov … Omenjeno žrtvovanje omogoči vzpostavitev totalitarnega komunisti-čnega režima v kraljevini Jugoslaviji in s tem tudi na Slovenskem. Komunizem kot tota-litarni režim ne dopušča alternative, človeka uniformira in osami. Obenem vzpostavi totalni nadzor in teror. Krščanstvo po drugi strani človeka opolnomoči z bogopodobnos-tjo in s tem edinstvenostjo, nedotakljivostjo, nezamenljivostjo ter svobodo. Drugi vidik pa zadeva dejstvo, da konflikt iz časa komunistične revolucije še vedno ni razrešen ter je vladavina prava in vzpostavitev demokratične družbe še vedno nedokon-čan projekt. Kljub demokratični državni ureditvi in propadu komunizma kot dolgoroč-nega družbenopolitičnega in ekonomskega sistema avtorica poudari dva izziva sodobne družbe na Slovenskem. Prvi je prisotnost komunistične ideologije v razmišljanju in delovanju posameznikov, drugi izziv pa je nezadostna uveljavitev tranzicijske pravično-sti. Omenjeni vidiki analize temeljijo najprej že v samem idejnem nasprotju in zasnovi tako komunizma kakor tudi krščanstva. Krščanstvo in komunizem sta v svojem temelju različna. Poseben poudarek je na vidikih dojemanja človeka kot svobodnega in razumskega bitja v obeh idejnih okvirih. Komunizem s komunistično revolucijo nastopi proti človeku, proti človekovemu dostojanstvu in proti človekovi svobodi in s tem krščanstvo postavi v obrambno držo. S tem pa tudi Cerkev, ki je kot ene vidnejših institucij komunistična revolucija ni prevzela in obvladovala, postane braniteljica človekovega življenja in človekovih pravic, obenem pa je postavljena nasproti komunistični revoluciji. Krščanstvo in tudi Cerkev se posluži različnih načinov obrambe in upora, ki niso vselej povsem skladni s krščanskim naukom. Metode obrambe so bile: krščanska drža v odnosu do vojne, do sočloveka, do okupatorja in do revolucionarnih sil, fizična obramba, sodelovanje tako z okupacijskimi kakor tudi revolucionarnimi silami, kulturna, medijska in politična udejstvovanja. Kljub temu je revolucionarno nasilje eskaliralo predvsem v zadnjih letih druge svetovne vojne in prvih letih po revoluciji. Situacije, v katere so bili postavljeni posamezniki na Slovenskem, niso bile enoznačne ali enostavne. Ni šlo zgolj za izbiro med revolucionarno ali protirevolucionarno stranjo, temveč so bile okoliščine zaradi okupacijskih sil bolj zapletene. Ljudem je grozilo neodobravanje, preganjanje ali nasilje z vseh strani. Komunistična partija je monopolizirala odpor proti okupacijskim silam. Že zametki kakršnekoli druge neodvisne organizacije upora so bili lahko kaznovani. Nemalo kristjanov je z namenom domoljubnosti ali nezmožnosti izognitve mobilizaciji postalo del osvobodilnega gibanja, ne glede na ideološko podlago gibanja ali organizacije, ki je gibanje organizirala. Cerkev kljub temu ni bila preveč zaželen partner v uporu, o čemer priča tudi Kardeljevo navodilo: "Duhovne v četah vse postreljajte" (Griesser-Pečar 1996, 109). Ne zgolj navodilo, tudi načrtno degradiranje duhovnikov z zaporom, priporom, deportacijami in usmrtitvami so priča odnosu komunistične partije do cerkvenih dostojanstvenikov. Revolucionarno nasilje je pustilo neslutene posledice ne zgolj v tedanjem obdobju, temveč tudi za sedanji čas, pri čemer pri avtoričinem raziskovanju teh posledic pomembno vlogo igrajo tudi osebne zgodbe, odgovornost na osebni ter družbeni ravni in medgeneracijski prenos travm, ki onemogočajo pravo tranzicijo iz totalitarnega v demokratični sistem. Tranzicija in tranzicijska pravičnost je torej mehanizem, ki si prizadeva v polnosti izpeljati tranzicijo na osebni in družbeni ravni ter vzpostaviti zaupanje v državne institucije, delovanje državnih struktur. Situacija na Slovenskem sicer nakazuje na nekatere pozitivne učinke tranzicijske pravičnosti, kot sta denacionalizacija in odprtje arhivov. Še vedno pa umanjka uveljavitev pravičnosti na osebni ravni, pri čemer so pomemben vidik spravni procesi ter prekinitev medgeneracijskega prenosa travm. Podobno kot na osebni ravni umanjka pravičnost v javni sferi, na primer pluralizacija medijskega prostora, urejene gospodarske pobude, dialog med različnimi družbenimi skupinami, vključno z vstopanjem verskih skupnosti v javno razpravo, vzpostavljanjem zaupanja v državne institucije ipd. Pogled na komunistično revolucijo na Slovenskem skozi prizmo Girardovega grešnega kozla ponudi edinstven okvir, ki poveže razumevanje komunistične revolucije in komu-nističnega sistema s sodobnim položajem slovenske družbe. Po eni strani Girardov mehanizem grešnega kozla lahko razumemo kot dopolnjenega v komunistični revoluciji, po drugi strani pa mehanizem stremi k dopolnitvi v smislu celovite uveljavitve tran-zicijske pravičnosti. ; The events during the communist revolution significantly influence the state and understanding of the contemporary Slovenian social situation. In the dissertation, in the light of the ideological contradiction between Christianity and Communism, and on the basis of the conflict that developed during the revolution, the author explores the causes and grounds for this influence. In this work the author shows the fundamental connection between the contemporary situation and the communist revolution in Slovenia. She chooses Girard's mimetic theory and scapegoat as a conceptual framework and tool for understanding. Girard describes culture as a mimetic cycle, where the individual imitates the other (this starts from the very childhood, when the child imitates his parents and thus becomes a social being). Imitation is the driving force of every company. In addition, imitation can also become a destruction of society, culture. Girard therefore implements the scapegoat as a conflict resolution where the two entities share the same desire and together turn against the scapegoat, which causes them a mimetic crisis and its sacrifice is a condition for restoring social order and social security. This general theoretical framework also makes it possible – to explore past social conflicts, and in particular their consequences in the present, including aspects of reconciliation processes and transitional justice. Therefore, the author fruitfully uses it in the mentioned research. The author embraces Christianity and communism as two opposing ideological bases, which are already diametrically opposed in their conceptual bases, and are especially illuminated by Girard's theory. Christianity, with its cristian notion of personal freedom, stands out from the cyclical nature of the scapegoat, but communism is, on the contrary, based on mimeticism. Victims of character in Girard's conception that justify the murder of a scapegoat are based on facts that become acceptable for murder, regardless of the (un) reality of them. The implementation of Girard's theory on the Slovenian situation thus encompasses two key aspects. The first aspect is the sacrifice of the opponents of the communist revolution with the sacrificial signs of collaboration, riots, … This sacrifice makes it possible to establish a totalitarian communist regime in Yugoslavia, and thus in Slovenia. Communism, as a totalitarian regime, does not allow an alternative, it uniforms and isolates man. At the same time, it establishes total control and terror. Christianity, on the other hand, empowers man with uniqueness, inviolability, irreplaceability and freedom. Another aspect concerns the fact that the conflict from the communist revolution has still not been resolved, and that the rule of law and the establishment of a democratic society are still, in the eyes of many Slovenians, an unfinished project. Despite the democratic state system and the collapse of communism as a long-term socio-political and economic system, the author emphasizes two challenges of contemporary society in Slovenia. The first is the presence of communist ideology in the thinking and action of individuals, and the second challenge is the insufficient implementation of transitional justice. The aforementioned aspects of the analysis are based first of all on the very conceptual contradiction and conception of both communism and Christianity. Christianity and communism are fundamentally different. Particular emphasis is placed on aspects of the perception of man as a free and rational being in both conceptual frameworks. Communism, by communist revolution, stands against man, against human dignity and against human freedom, thereby placing Christianity in a defensive posture. In doing so, the Church, which as one of the most prominent institutions has not been taken over and controlled by the Communist Revolution, becomes a defender of human life and human rights, while at the same time it stands against the Communist Revolution. Christianity, as well as the Church, uses various methods of defense and rebellion that are not always completely in line with Christian teaching. The methods of defense were the Christian stance in relation to war, to fellow human beings, to the occupier and to the revolutionary forces, physical defense, cooperation with both occupation and revolutionary forces, cultural, media and political activities. Nevertheless, revolutionary violence escalated, especially in the last years of World War II and the first years after the revolution. The situations in which individuals in Slovenia were placed were not straightforward or straightforward. It was not merely a choice between a revolutionary or a counter-revolutionary party, but the circumstances were more complex rather than straightforward because of the occupying forces. People were threatened with disapproval, persecution or violence from all sides. The Communist Party monopolized resistance to the occupation forces. The rudiments of any other, independent organization of resistance could have been punished. Quite a few Christians, for the sake of patriotism or inability to evade mobilization, became part of the liberation movement, regardless of the ideological basis of the movement or the organization that organized the movement. The church was not, however, a much-desired partner in the resistance, as evidenced by Kardelj's instruction: "Shoot the priests in the troops." (Griesser-Pečar 1996, 109) Not only the instruction, but also the deliberate degradation of priests through imprisonment, detention, deportation and execution, are witnesses to the Communist Party's attitude towards Church dignitaries. Revolutionary violence has left unprecedented consequences not only in that time but also in the present, with the author's exploration of these consequences also playing a significant role in personal stories, personal and social responsibility, and the intergenerational transmission of traumas that they preclude a real transition from a totalitarian to a democratic system. Transition and transitional justice is thus a mechanism that seeks to fully complete the transition on a personal and social level, and to establish trust in state institutions, the functioning of state structures. Although the situation in Slovenia points to some of the positive effects of transitional justice, such as denationalization, the opening of archives, it still lacks the enforcement of justice on a personal level ; for example, with regard to aspects of media pluralization, orderly economic initiatives, dialogue between different social groups, including the entry of religious communities into public debate, building confidence in state institutions, etc. The view of the communist revolution in Slovenia through the prism of Girard the scapegoat offers a unique framework that connects the understanding of the communist revolution and the communist system with the contemporary position of Slovene society. On the one hand, Girard's mechanism of the scapegoat can be understood as supplemented in the communist revolution, and on the other, the mechanism seeks to supplement in the sense of the full implementation of transitional justice.

Batı Afrika'nın ekonomik büyümesini hızlandırmak ve Euro'nun tek bir para birliği olarak elde ettiği başarı, Batı Afrika Devletleri Ekonomik Topluluğu'na (ECOWAS) üye devletler için ortak bir para birimi olarak hizmet etmek üzere "eko" önermesine ilham verdi. Bu tez, önerilen para birimi Birliğini ve yaratılmasının bölgenin ekonomik büyümesini nasıl etkileyeceğini inceledi. Tez, para birliği teorileri doğrultusunda betimsel bir istatistiksel analiz uygulamış ve aynı zamanda ortak bir para birliğinin öncü olan Avrupa da dikkate alınmıştır. Üye ülkeler arasında GSYİH, enflasyon oranı, faiz oranı ve ticaretler arası para birliği tesis eden faktörler göz önünde bulundurulmuştur. Şu ana kadar bazı ülkeler düşük enflasyon, düşük faiz ve döviz kuru gibi bazı yakınsama kriterleri elde edebilmişlerdir. Bir para birliği alanı oluşturmak için gereken ekonomik eğilimleri ve diğer kriterleri inceledikten sonra, Batı Afrika Devletleri Ekonomik Topluluğu önerilen eko para birliğiyle devam etmemeli ve mevcut dengesizlikleri gidermek için döviz kurunu, ticaret gelişimini, ve ayrica para birliğinin parasal egemenliğini ele geçirmeye çalışan Fransa meselesini dikkate almalıdır.to me İÇİNDEKİLER Teşekkür…………………………………………………………………………………………i Özet ………………………………………………………………………………………….….ii Özet …………………………………………………………………………………………….iii Şekiller Listesi………………………………………………………………………………….ix Tablolar Listesi ………………………………………………………………………………….xi Önsöz ………………………………………………………………………………………….xvi BÖLÜM 1 ……………………………………………………………………………………….6 1. Giriş ……………………………………………………………………………………….….1 1.1 Arka Plan …………………………………………………………………………………….1 1.2 Problemin Açıklaması ………………………………………………………………….…….2 1.3 Araştırma Hedefleri …………………………………………………………………….……3 1.4 Araştırma Hipotezi ……………………………………………………………………….….5 1.5 Analiz Yaklaşımı………………………………………………………………………….….5 BÖLÜM 2 ……………………………………………………………………………………….6 2.1 Optımum Para Alanı …………………………………………………………………………6 2.1.1 R. Mundell'in Perspektifi …………………………………………………………….……8 2.1.2 R.I. McKinnon'in Perspektifi ……………………………………………………….……10 2.1.3 Y.Ishiyama'in Perspektifi………………………………………………………………….11 2.1.4 Y.Ishiyama'nın Perspektifi …………………………………………….………………….13 2.1.5 G.S. Tavlas'ın Optimum Para Birliğinin 'Yeni' Teorisine Bakış Açısı………………. 25 2.2 Avrupa Birliği ……………………………………………………………… . ……….28 2.2.1 AB Tarihi …………………………………………………………………………………27 2.2.2 Maastrıcht Anlaşması……………………………………………………………………. 33 2.2.3 Avrupa Para Sistemi Krizi………………………………………………………………. 35 2.2.4 Neden Bazı Ülkeler Euro Kullanmıyor?. 36 2.2.5 Euro'nin Avantajları………………………………………………………………………37 2.2.5.1 Çeşitli Makroekonomik Faydalar …………………………………………………….37 2.2.5.2 Döviz Kuru İstikrarı……………………………………………………………………. 37 2.2.5.3 Daha Düşük Faiz Oranı………………………………………………………………….37 2.2.5.4 Yatırım ve Ticaret……………………………………………………………………….39 2.2.5.5 Uluslararası Para Birimi Olarak Hizmet Etmek………………………………………. 39 2.2.5.3 Daha Düşük Faiz Oranı………………………………………………………………….39 2.2.5.6 AB'de İstikrar, Hareketlilik ve Büyüme……………………………………………….39 2.2.5.7 Şeffaf ve Demokratik Kurumların Oluşturulması,……………………………………. 39 2.2.5.8 Ticareti Geliştirme, İnsani Yardım, Diplomasi ve Güvenlik…………………………. 40 2.2.6. Euro dezavantajları……………………………………………………………………….41 2.2.6.1 Teminat Para Birimi Olarak Euro…………………………………………………….41 2.2.6.2 Bazı Ülkeleri Avantajlı Bir Konumda Yerleştirmek…………………………………. 41 2.2.6.3 Avrupa İçi Ticaretin Düşüşü…………………………………………………………….42 2.2.6.4 Transfer Ödemelerindeki Düzensizlikler……………………………………………….43 2.2.6.5 Euro'nun Maliye Politikasını Kullanamaması………………………………………….43 2.2.6.6 Finansal İstikrarsızlık………………………………………………………………….44 2.2.7 Avrupa Bir Optımum Para Alanı mı?. 44 2.2.7.1 Enflasyon ……………………………………………………………………………….44 2.2.7.2. Döviz Kuru …………………………………………………………………………….46 2.2.7.3 Ticarette Açıklık………………………………………………………………………. 47 2.2.7.4 Ücretler ve Fiyat Esnekliği……………………………………………………………. 52 2.2.7.5 İşgücü Hareketliliği (Euro)……………………………………………………………. 53 2.2.7.6 Seçilmiş Euro Bölgesi Ülkelerinde GSYH'nin Payı Olarak Cari Açıklar…………….54 2.2.7.7 Seçilmiş Euro Bölgesi Ülkelerinde İşsizlik Oranları……………………………………54 2.2.8 Avrupa Birliğinde Dört Özgürlük……………………………………………………….55 2.2.8.1 Malların Serbest Dolaşımı………………………………………………………………55 2.2.8.2 Hizmetlerin Serbest Dolaşımı………………………………………………………….56 2.2.8.3 Euro Bölgesinde İşçilerin Serbest Dolaşımı…………………………………………….57 2.2.8.4 Sermayenin Serbest Dolaşımı 57 2.3 BATI AFRİKA DEVLETLERİ EKONOMİK TOPLULUĞU (ECOWAS)………………59 2.3.1 ECOWAS'a Genel Bakış………………………………………………………………….59 2.3.2 ECOWAS'nin Amaçları ve Hedefleri…………………………………………………….62 2.3.3 ECOWAS ün Temel Prensipleri………………………………………………………….64 2.3.4 ECOWAS'in İşlevleri…………………………………………………………………….65 2.3.5 ECOWAS'nın Başarıları………………………………………………………………….66 2.3.5.1 Siyasi İşler, Barış ve Güvenlik………………………………………………………….67 2.3.5.2 Gine Bissau'de Ekova'nın Rolü………………………………………………………….67 2.3.5.3 Fildişi Sahili'nde ECOWAS'ın Rolü…………………………………………………….68 2.3.5.4 Mali'de ECOWAS'ın Rolü………………………………………………………………69 2.3.5.5 Liberya'da ECOWAS'ın Rolü………………………………………………………….71 2.3.5.6 ECOWAS Yakınsama Konseyi Tarafından Makroekonomik Yakınsama Raporunun Kabulü……………………………………………………………………………………………73 2.3.5.7 ECOWAS Para Enstitüsü'nün kurulması (EMI).……………………………………….74 2.3.5.8 Tüm Devlet Mali İşlemlerinin Geçmiş Kayıtlarının Tutulması İçin Bir Kılavuzun Sağlanması . . .74 2.3.5.9 Sahel Bölgesinde Bölgesel Güvenliği Artırmak İçin Bir Eylem Planının Uygulanması.75 2.3.5.10 Tekdüzen Ticaret Geliştirme Stratejisine Giriş ………………………… …………….75 2.3.5.11 Ekonomik Kalkınma Belgesinin İmzalanması…………………………………………76 2.3.5.12 Ortak bir Dış Tarife Oluşturmak ……………………………. …………… ………….76 2.3.5.13 ECOWAS vatandaşlarının Bölgesel Güvenliği Artırmak ve Serbest Dolaşımını Kolaylaştırmak için Biyometrik Kart Tanıtımı………………………………………………….76 2.3.5.14 Sınır Yönetiminde Kılavuz Olarak Hizmet Verecek Bir El Kitabının Sağlanması……77 2.3.5.15 Ecolink 78 adlı Bölgesel Bağlantı Projesinin Başlatılması……………………………78 2.3.5.16 Tüm Finansal İşlemlerin Kaydını Tutmak için Entegre Finansal Yönetim Sisteminin Başlatılması . . .78 2.3.5.17 Üye Devletlerde Kalkınma için Çevre Yönetişimini, Genel Çevre Korumasını, Kapasite Oluşturmayı ve Sürdürülebilir Kaynak Yönetimini Geliştirmeye Yönelik Yenilenen Çabalar…79 2.3.5.18 Seme-Krake Ortak Sınır Karakolu İnşaatı Sözleşmesinin Yeniden İmzalanması (Benin - Nijerya)………………………………………………………………………………………….79 2.3.5.19 Nijerya ile Kamerun Arasındaki Bemenda Yolu ve Bir Joınt Sınır Karakolu (JBP) ve Mfum Sınırında Bir Sınırın İnşası……………………………………………………………….79 2.3.5.20 Batı Afrika Doğalgaz Boru Hattı Şebekesi Fizibilite Çalışması Sonuçlandı………….80 2.3.5.21 Düzenleyici ve Ekonomik Ortamın Düzenlenmesi İle Bölgesel Elektrik Piyasasının Gelişimi………………………………………………………………………………………….80 2.3.5.22 Yenilenebilir Enerji ve Enerji Verimliliği Teknolojileri ve Hizmetlerinin Teşviki….80 2.3.5.23 ECOWAS Üye Devletinde Enerji Verimliliği Binalarını Teşvik Etmeyi Amaçlayan Enerji Verimliliği Binası (EEB) Üzerine Bir ECOWAS Direktifi Ecree Tarafından Geliştirildi.81 2.3.5.24 Bölgesel Hastalık Merkezinin Kurulması…………………………………………….81 2.3.5.25 Bölgesel Güvenliği Güçlendirmek İçin Bir Eylem Planının Hazırlanması……………81 2.3.5.26 Ortak Pazar, Ticaret Liberalizasyon Şeması (TIS) ve Kişilerin, Malların ve Hizmetlerin Serbest Dolaşımı Protokolünün Uygulanmasının Konsolide Edilmesi………………………….81 2.3.5.27 Dakar-Abidjan Koridoru İçin Yardımcı Kanunun İmzalanması ve Bölgesel Elektrik Projesi için İlk Taşın Döşenmesi. Proje Cote D'ivoire, Gine, Liberya ve Sierra Leone'yi kapsıyor ……………………………………………………………………………………………………81 2.3.5.28 Abidjan-Lagos Koridor Otoyolu Uygulama Birimi……………………………………83 2.3.6. ECOWAS'ün Zorlukları………………………………………………………….………83 2.3.6.1 Ticaret Faktörü ve Üye Devletlerin Ekonomisi…………………………………………83 2.3.6.2 Mali Sektör Eşitsizlikleri ve Kötü Ödeme Sistemi…………………………………….84 2.3.6.3 Altyapı ve Düzenleyici Rejimin Zorlukları…………………………………………….84 2.3.6.4 Siyasi İrade Eksikliği……………………………………………………………………85 2.3.6.5 Yolsuzluk ve Siyasi İstikrarsızlık……………………………………………………….86 2.3.6.6 Koloni Aşılamasından Kaynaklanan Zorluklar…………………………………………86 2.3.7 EKO PARA BİRLİĞİNİN……………………………………………………………….87 2.3.8 FRANSA VS. ECO……………………………………………………………………….89 2.3.9 ECOWAS EKONOMİK GÖRÜNÜM……………………………………………………90 2.3.9.1 GSYİH………………………………………………………………………………….90 2.3.9.1.1 ECOWAS Bütçe Fazlası (+) Veya Açığı (-)………………………………………….92 2.3.9.2 Enflasyon……………………………………………………………………………….93 2.3.9.3 Faiz Oranı……………………………………………………………………………….94 2.3.9.4 Döviz Kurları……………………………………………………………………………96 2.3.9.5 Ticaret………………………………………………………………………………….97 2.3.9.6 Ecowas İstihdam Durumu…………………………………………………………….104 2.3.9.6.1 İstihdam………………………………………………………………………………104 2.3.9.6.2 İşsizlik……………………………………………………………………………….106 2.3.10 Eko ve Optimum Para Alanı……………………………………………………………107 3.BÖLÜM…………………………………………………………………………………….109 3. SONUÇ VE POLİTİKA ÖNERİLERİ…………………………………………………….109 REFERANSLAR………………………………………………………………………………112 --- In an attempt to accelerate the economic growth of West Africa, and the success made by the euro as a single currency inspired the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to propose "the eco" to serve as a common currency for member states. This thesis looked into the proposed currency Union and how its creation will impact on the economic growth of the region. The thesis applied a descriptive statistical analysis in line with the theories of the currency union, and also Europe being the pioneer of a common currency was also taken into consideration. Factors for establishing a currency union such as GDP, inflation rate, interest rate, and inter-trade between member countries were considered. So far, some countries have been able to achieve some convergence criteria like low inflation, low interest and exchange rate. After reviewing the economic trends and other criteria needed for establishing a currency union area, the Economic Community of West African States should not proceed with the proposed eco currency and should consider the exchange rate and trade development to remove the imbalances that exist and also should address the issue of France who is trying to hijack the monetary sovereignty of the currency. CONTENTSAcknowledgementsiAbstractiiÖzetiiiList Of FiguresixList Of TablesxiiPrefacexviiCHAPTER 171.Introductioni1.1 Background 11.2 Statement of the Problem 21.3 Research Objectives 31.4 Research Hypothesis 51.5 Analysis Approach 5CHAPTER 262.1Optımum Currency Area62.1.1 Perspective of R. Mundell……………………………………………………………….82.1.1 Perspective of R. I. McKinnon…………………………………………………….……102.1.1 Perspective of Kenan: An Electic View.…………………………………………………112.1.4 Perspective of Y.Ishiyama 132.1.5 Perspective of G.S. Tavlas On The 'New' Theory Of Optimum Currency Union 252.2 The European Union……………………………………………………………….……….282.2.1 History of the EU 282.2.2 The Maastrıcht Treaty 332.2.3 The European Monetary System Crisis 352.2.4 Why Some Countries are not Using Euro? 362.2.5 Advantages of Euro 372.2.5.1 Diverse Macroeconomic Benefıts 372.2.5.2 Exchange Rate Stability 372.2.5.3 Lower Interest Rate 372.2.5.4 Investment and Trade 392.2.5.5 Serving as an International Currency 392.2.5.3 Lower Interest Rate 392.2.5.6 Stability, Mobilıty And Growth Within the EU 392.2.5.7 Establishment of Transparent and Democratic Institutions 392.2.5.8 Trade Promotion, Humanitarian Aid, Diplomacy and Security 402.2.6. Disadvantages of the Euro 412.2.6.1 Euro As A Fiduciary Currency 412.2.6.2 Placing Some Countries in an Advantaged Position 412.2.6.3 The Decline of Intra-European Trade 422.2.6.4 Irregularities in Transfer Payments 432.2.6.5 Failure of the Euro to the use of Fiscal Policy 432.2.6.6 Financial Instability 442.2.7 Is Europe An Optımum Currency Area? 442.2.7.1 Inflation 442.2.7.2. Exchange Rate 462.2.7.3 Trade Openess 472.2.7.4 Wages And Price Flexibility 522.2.7.5 Labour Mobılıty (Euro) 532.2.7.6 Current Account Deficits as a Share of GDP in Selected Euro Area Countries 542.2.7.7 Unemployment Rates in Selected Euro Area Countrıes 542.2.8 Four Freedoms in the European Union 552.2.8.1 Free Movement of Goods 552.2.8.2 Free Movement of Servıces 562.2.8.3 Free Movement of Workers in the Eurozone 572.2.8.4 Free Movement of Capital 572.3 ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF WEST AFRICAN STATES (ECOWAS) 592.3.1 Overview Of ECOWAS 592.3.2 Aims and Objectives Of ECOWAS 622.3.3 Fundamentals Prıncıples Of ECOWAS 642.3.4 Functions of ECOWAS 652.3.5 Achievements of ECOWAS 662.3.5.1 Political Affairs, Peace and Security 672.3.5.2 The Role Of Ecowas in Guinea Bissau 672.3.5.3 The Role of ECOWAS in Ivory Coast 682.3.5.4 The Role of ECOWAS in Mali 692.3.5.5 The Role of ECOWAS in Liberıa 712.3.5.6 The Adoption of the Macroeconomic Convergence Report by the ECOWAS Convergence Council 732.3.5.7 Establishment of the ECOWAS Monetary Institute (EMI) 742.3.5.8 Provision of a Guide to Keep a Track Record of all Government Financial Transactions.742.3.5.9 Implementation of an Action Plan to Boost Regional Security in the Sahel Region 752.3.5.10 Introduction of a Uniform Trade Development Strategy………………………….752.3.5.11 Signing of the Economic Development Document 762.3.5.12 Establishing a Common External Tariff…………………………….……………. 762.3.5.13 Introducing a Biometric Card to Boost Regional Security and Smooth the Free Movement of ECOWAS citizens……………………………………………………………762.3.5.14 Provision of a Manual to Serve as a Guide in Border Management 772.3.5.15 Launching of the Regional Link Project called Ecolink 782.3.5.16 Launching of an Integrated Financial Management System to Keep Record of all Financial Transactions.782.3.5.17 Renewed Efforts to Enhance Envıronment Governance, General Environmental Protection, Capacity Building as Well as Sustainable Resource Management for Development in the Member States 792.3.5.18 Re-Award of the Contract for the Construction of the Seme-Krake Joint Border Post (Benin – Nigeria) 792.3.5.19 Bemenda Road Between Nigeria and Cameroon and the Construction of a Joınt Border Post (JBP) and a Border at Mfum Border 792.3.5.20 Feasibility Study for the West African Gas Pipeline Network Concluded 802.3.5.21 Development Of Regıonal Power Market With the Settıng Up of Regulatory and Economic Environment 802.3.5.22 Promotion of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Technologies and Services 802.3.5.23 An ECOWAS Directive On Energy Efficıency Building (EEB) Aimed at Promotıng Energy Efficency Buildings in the ECOWAS Member State has Been Developed By Ecree 812.3.5.24 Establishment of a Regional Centre for Disease 812.3.5.25 Provision of an Action Plan to Strengthen Regional Security 812.3.5.26 Consolidating the Implementation of the Common Market, Trade Lıberalızatıon Scheme (TIS) and the Protocol on Free Movement of Persons, Goods and Services 812.3.5.27 Signing of the Supplemantary Act on Dakar-Abidjan Corridor, and Laying of the Fırst Stone for the Regional Electrıcıty Project. The Project Covers Cote D'ivoire, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone 812.3.5.28 Implementation Unit of the Abidjan-Lagos Corridor Highway 832.3.6. Challenges of ECOWAS 832.3.6.1 The Trade Factor and the Economy of Member States 832.3.6.2 Financial Sector Disparities and Poor Payment System 842.3.6.3 Challenges of Infrastructure and Regulatory Regime 842.3.6.4 Lack of Political Will 852.3.6.5 Corruption And Polıtical Instability . 862.3.6.6 Challenges Emanating from Colonıal Hang-Over 862.3.7 ECO CURRENCY 872.3.8 FRANCE VS. THE ECO 892.3.9 ECOWAS ECONOMIC OUTLOOK 902.3.9.1 GDP 902.3.9.1.1 ECOWAS Budget Surplus (+) Or Deficit (-) 922.3.9.2 Inflation 932.3.9.3 Interest Rate 942.3.9.4 Exchange Rates 962.3.9.5 Trade 972.3.9.6 Ecowas Employment Status 1042.3.9.6.1 Employment 1042.3.9.6.2 Unemployment 1062.3.10 Eco and the Optimum Currency Area 107CHAPTER 31093. CONCLUSION AND POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS109REFERENCES113

In accordance with the existing environmental issues and the basic principles of the Circular Economy on waste management, the suitability of five different wastes has been assessed for lightweight aggregate (LWA) production: a granite and marble sludge generated from ornamental rock sawing (COR), a factory sepiolite reject (SEP), household polyethylene-hexene thermoplastics (P), carbon fiber remnants from the production of aviation pieces (FC) and a heavy metal polluted material (MAZ), which was taken from the tailings of an abandoned mine. This Doctoral Thesis is made up of six main lines of research and a secondary one which can be summarized as follows: i) Analysis of the suitability of mixtures rich in granite and marble sludge for the production of LWAs: Although some LWA varieties were sintered from SEP and MAZ as major components, this investigation has been focused mainly on COR as it is a relatively common and widespread residue. Hence, different mixtures were prepared using COR as major component, while FC and P were examined as bloating additives and SEP as a binder, since the plasticity of COR itself was very low to be properly molded into spherical pellets. Once the wastes were milled (FC and P) or disaggregated (COR and SEP) to a very fine particle size, a preliminary study of their physicochemical properties and their thermal behavior was carried out in order to devise the appropriate batches. In accordance with the results obtained, a base mixture was prepared by blending 90 wt% COR and 10 wt% SEP (mixture called COS) to confer plasticity as well as 0, 2.5, 5 and 10 wt% of P or FC to check their suitability as pore-forming elements. The resulting mixtures were kneaded with their optimum water volume, extruded, shaped into pellets by hand, oven-dried and finally fired at 1100, 1125 and 1150 °C for 4, 8 and 16 minutes in a laboratory-scale rotary kiln. The main technological properties of the aggregates related to bloating, density, porosity, loss on ignition, water absorption and mechanical strength were determined. In addition, SEM microscopy was used to study the microstructure of some selected specimens. Of a total of 49 types of aggregate using the granite-marble sludge as major constituent, 42 were lightweight. However, those LWAs coming from COS mixture without any additive or when it was P did not exhibit either bloating or the typical LWA shell-core-macropore structure, but one consisting of micropores and microchannels. The increase in temperature and time of heating involved a greater sintering in these samples, which in turn was translated into higher shrinkage, density and compressive strength values, but less porosity and water absorption. In fact, the addition of plastic did not entail any improvement, but rather the opposite, as the resistance to crushing dropped significantly. From those batches, only the LWA sintered without P at the minimum time (4 min) and minimum temperature of firing (1100 °C) displayed adequate features to assess its water suction capability. The results pointed out that this LWA could be suitable in hydroponics and/or water filtration systems, even better than the commercial LWA called Arlita G3. For its part, the addition of FC did promote bloating and the formation of a highly porous shell-core structure. It was remarkable the presence of unburnt carbon fibers embedded in the mineral matrix, which helped to enhance the mechanical strength. Although all the FC varieties met the regulatory requirements on LWA density, the specimens fired at 1150 °C are noteworthy, as they were particularly lightweight, yielding a particle density of 1.1-1.2 g/cm3, which is far below the maximum standardized limit of 2.0 g/cm3 applicable to LWAs. ii) Analysis of the impact of firing conditions on the mineralogy and texture of the samples: In order to assess the influence of the heating temperature (1100, 1125 or 1150 °C), the dwell time (4, 8 or 16 min) and the additive (FC, P or none) on the mineralogy and the texture, twelve of those aggregates were selected and subjected to a thorough study by means of microscopy and thermal techniques, as well as by X-ray diffraction, analyzing the polycrystalline powder diagrams according to the Rietveld method. Only small proportions of quartz, plagioclase and alkali feldspar withstood the sintering process from the original mineralogy, while glass increased from 36 to 70 % as temperature and dwell time were risen. Some augite (6.5 %) was neo-formed at about 980-1025 °C, far below the sintering temperatures. The addition of P barely affected the mineralogy, while FC promoted the development of glass and a highly porous fiber-microsphere-holding texture in which the phenocrysts observed in other specimens were almost absent. It was remarkable that the glass formation was connected with lower solid-phase density, less water absorption and greater closed porosity in the aggregates. iii) Analysis of the suitability of mixtures rich in sepiolite rejects for LWA production: A less comprehensive study with the sepiolite-rich sample, SEP, and the mining waste, MAZ, as major components was also performed. Regarding the former, some tentative tests showed that when SEP is fired without any gas-pressure-mitigating additive, the pellets burst inside the kiln very quickly. This undesirable effect was prevented by the addition of 2.5 wt% of P. In order to find out if carbon fiber entailed any impact, another mixture was prepared by adding 2.5 wt% P + 2.5 wt% FC into SEP. The resulting pellets were heated at 1225 °C for 4 minutes. White color LWAs of high porosity, low density and significant mechanical strength were obtained. A meaningful volume of glass was evolved in all the aggregates (>50 %), just as less proportions of enstatite, protoenstatite and diopside as neo-formed species. Quartz was the only inherited mineral, appearing in the form of isolated phenocrysts inside an overall porous porphyritic texture. The addition of FC did not mean any remarkable improvement in this case. iv) Manufacturing of lightweight aggregates from a heavy metal polluted mining waste: As MAZ was a sandy material, it was sieved <63 µm to collect the fraction in which the heavy metals adsorbed to phyllosilicates and organic matter are usually concentrated. Just like COR, MAZ plasticity was poor, so it was blended with 10 wt% SEP to gain consistency (MAS mixture). Likewise, two other mixtures were prepared: the first one by adding 2.5 wt% of thermoplastic and the second one containing 2.5 wt% of carbon fiber so as to check the effect of these two additives as bloating agents in MAS. The pellets were fired at 1175 °C for 4 minutes. Dark color LWAs of high porosity, low density and good mechanical strength were obtained. The addition of P and FC enabled the development of a porous core with well distributed pores surrounded by a very thin shell, which contrasted with the thick cortex formed when these components were not used. While the addition of FC did not provide real advantages in the technological properties, P promoted greater bloating and lower density. A high volume of glass was evolved in all the aggregates (= 60 %) and augite was the main neo-formed mineral. v) Study of the immobilization and changes in the fractionation of chemical elements associated with sintering: The impact of LWA sintering on the fractionation and immobilization of thirty-three metallic elements, including a good handful of heavy metals and rare earth elements, has been assessed thoroughly by means of the BCR method. Four fractions were considered: F1 (weakly adsorbed), F2 (Fe–Mn (hydr)oxide-bound), F3 (sulfide- organic matter-bound) and FR (immobile, e.g., aluminosilicate-bound). Seven LWA varieties were selected: one sintered from the mixture COS (90 % granite-marble sludge + 10 % rejected sepiolite), five from COS-2.5FC (COS + 2.5 % of carbon fiber waste) and one from MAS (90 % heavy-metal-rich mine tailing + 10 % sepiolite). Both the unfired mixtures and the SEP sample were also subjected to the BCR protocol in order to evaluate the effect of firing on the mobility of the elements. The major components detected were Fe and Mg, this last one coming mostly from the sepiolite. Besides, MAS presented concentrations of Zn, Pb, Ni and As exceeding the legal limits established in USA (US EPA, 1993; USDA, 2000), as well as the ones ruling in Spain (Real Decreto 1310/90), which are based on the Council Directive 86/278/EEC of the European Union (Council Directive, 1986). The study was mainly focused on the mixture COS-2.5FC and its selected LWAs, which were sintered at different temperatures (1100, 1125 and 1150 °C) and dwell times (4, 8 and 16 min). It has been observed that although most of the elements follow the expected redistribution (a decrease in their concentrations of F1, F2 and F3 in favor of FR), this pattern is not followed in many cases, and in fact, complex trends depending on heating intensity have been observed (e.g., in Fe, Co, Ni, Cu and As). Accordingly, the elements have been grouped into different classes based on the fractionation behavior observed. As a general rule, with some exceptions, LWA sintering has caused the desired effect by increasing the immobilization of the elements to a greater or lesser extent. Only arsenic has exhibited a clear increase of its bioavailability at the expense of a pronounced reduction of FR. An environmental evaluation based on regulatory thresholds and the Risk Assessment Code (RAC) applicable to the BCR test, has indicated that the aggregates manufactured with the granite-marble sludge as main component do not entail any negative environmental concern, while that prepared from the mining-tailing would not be appropriate for agricultural uses in its current state due to its high concentration of As and the high leachability recorded for this metalloid. vi) Application of selected aggregates in the manufacture of lightweight concrete: Since LWAs are usually intended for lightweight concrete production, three of the varieties containing carbon fiber (the most interesting according to their technological characteristics) have been selected for this purpose. Prismatic concrete specimens were prepared in triplicate using these LWAs as coarse fraction. Additional specimens containing a normal-weight aggregate, a commercial lightweight aggregate and no coarse aggregate (mortar) were prepared for comparison. Water/cement ratios of 0.45 and 0.55 were studied. A comprehensive analysis of the properties related to workability, density, porosity, mechanical strength, elastic modulus and thermal transfer was conducted. Interfacial transition zones were examined through SEM-microscopy. Compressive strengths between 35 and 55 MPa and low values of density and thermal conductivity have been obtained with the LWAs developed in this investigation. Furthermore, the concrete samples manufactured from them have displayed the highest ratios relating the mechanical strength over the density and the thermal conductivity, meaning more balanced features than the other specimens, even exceeding the values of the normal-weight concrete. vii) Secondary research line: development of a new methodology to determine more accurately the plasticity of raw materials and their optimum moisture content for extrusion and molding: This Doctoral Thesis has also addressed the development of a new method to measure plasticity. This method has been of great importance in measuring not only the consistency of the samples but also their optimal water content for extrusion and pelletizing. Furthermore, this new approach has enabled us to develop new soil classification systems and a new definition of clay, whose potential application goes beyond even the manufacture of LWAs, covering fields such as ceramics, agriculture or geotechnical engineering. On balance, it has been proven that the wastes embraced in this research are suitable for LWA production, highlighting some varieties (e.g., some of those containing carbon fiber) whose characteristics in terms of strength/density ratio exceed those of commercial LWAs, which is very important in structural lightweight concrete production. Other specimens have shown excellent features for agriculture, while from an environmental standpoint, beyond the profit linked to the recycling process, the use of highly-polluted materials to manufacture LWAs could be promising not only to obtain high-quality materials intended for concrete, agriculture or civil engineering, but particularly to immobilize heavy metals from contaminated sites.