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  • Statthalter were appointed for all the states (April 7, 1933), and the Reichsrat, representing the states, was abolished (Jan. 30, 1934).

    1933, Jan. 28 2001

  • An order from the Statthalter, dated March tenth, 1915, forbade French conversations in the schools.

    Fighting France St��phane Lauzanne

  • The conversations cited between the Emperor and the Prince turn on all sorts of topics -- the pass question in Alsace (where Hohenlohe was then Statthalter), the possibility of war with Russia, pheasant shooting, projected monuments, the breach with Bismarck, the Triple Alliance, and a hundred more of the most different kinds.

    William of Germany Stanley Shaw

  • Statthalter, Prince Hohenlohe, had to make a reluctant journey to

    William of Germany Stanley Shaw

  • Strasburg (where Hohenlohe was Statthalter) as commanding general.

    William of Germany Stanley Shaw

  • Statthalter denounced the anti-patriotism of a part of the population and stigmatized the "traitors" who had "gone over to the enemy."

    Fighting France St��phane Lauzanne

  • He showed Bismarck that they were necessary for his reputation with the population, which had already begun to think less of his influence as Statthalter owing to his one day at a review having incautiously and gallantly taken a back seat in his carriage in favour of some lady guests.

    William of Germany Stanley Shaw

  • In order to facilitate German penetration and domination and to destroy the last remnants of Bohemia's autonomous constitution, the Austrian Government attempted, by the imperial decree of May 19, 1918, to dismember Bohemia into twelve administrative districts with German officials at the head, who were to possess the same power to rule their respective districts as had hitherto appertained only to the Governor (Statthalter) of Bohemia, legally responsible to the Bohemian Diet.

    Independent Bohemia An Account of the Czecho-Slovak Struggle for Liberty Vladim��r Nosek 1929

  • But, without doubt, they had carefully sandwiched the French works in between German works to weaken their effect, and lessen the probable (and actual) enthusiasm with which French music would be received in the presence of the Statthalter of Alsace-Lorraine by a section of the Alsatian public.

    Musicians of To-Day Rolland, Romain, 1866-1944 1915

  • The Alsatian delegates are appointed by the Statthalter, who is the immediate and responsible agent of the Emperor.

    The Governments of Europe Frederic Austin Ogg 1914

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