European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 7, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse May the stars and stripes paged germans pack Castle for Reagan speech by Judy Sarasohn staff writer Germany this was Ronald Reagan country monday As germans of All Ages enthusiastically greeted the american Hambach Castle bathed in warm were packed with people who whistled and waved and German flags throughout reagans talk about the future of German reagans speech was interrupted by applause almost 40 the Walkway leading up to the Castle grounds was lined with american flags american and German flags adorned the Castle the germans who did not understand English followed a printed translation of reagans if americans were in the they we rent especially among the German youngsters in their Blue Johannes of and 30 of his friends from the Junge Union a youth group attached to West German Chancellor Helmut Kohls Christian democratic said they were there to show support for Reagan and because its important for the presi Dent to speak to Germany we support in the it May look As if German youth is All against it is not Erger Christian of said he wanted to hear the president and he agreed with some of reagans such As the presidents Strong support for Western Europe against the East i think its important to have a Strong he not All of the germans in the audience were Reinhold was a German prisoner of War in the states 40 years i like More the americans than the said who was there with his 18yearold he said he appreciated reagans Ges Ture of reconciliation sunday by visiting the Pitburg military reagans visit to the where 49 Waffen is Are buried among War provoked Strong criticism from jews and american v Heinz a resident of near by said he was there because Reagan is a Friend to West Hubert of recalled that 40 years ago when world War ii american soldiers fed the germans and gave them other we do not he Oliver from graduated from an american High school in he went to Hambach be cause he believes the president is a Power Ful person and its important to hear i would have been Here if it was for Mer vice president Walter Christ but Christ added that there is much that he likes about photo by Emmett Lewis a Large and enthusiastic crowd at Hambach listens to a speech by president i think Hes a very Strong Hes the Best representative of America to maintain the Freedom of the United states and the rest of the Christ several Young people said that while they liked they opposed his poli cies in about 20 members of the natures friends group were there to voice their criticism of Pershing ii missile deploy nato and Patrick said the German police took their Banner before they could enter the Castle he and his friends knotted their red scarves and held them up during reagans German police arrested 27 demonstrators on charges of vandalizing buses that were to take visitors to the another 200 people demonstrated along the route of reagans police spokesman Peter Strubel said demonstrators were trying to Block the Road to prevent busloads of invited youths from getting to the Reagan Drew enthusiastic cheers from the crowd when he spoke the German phrases for thank we feel quite at Home Here and my heart is with gods when Reagan mangled a German the crowd laughed and then applauded his a group of about 15 German youths who spoke briefly with Reagan on a Castle Terrace after his speech said they were disappointed in the Brevity of the we were told to be and he really didst have enough time for said one Young who said he had Given the president a German history despite a rousing performance by the american up with people singing in the audience was so tightly packed that listeners could barely Freedom sprouted in Shadow of Hambach Castle by de Reavis staff writer Germany when president Reagan spoke at the Castle Here on the German wine he was standing on Liberal for More than 150 Hambach has been a Symbol of German yearning for National Unity and Freedom from tyrannical its reputation was born on May during a Celebration of bavarian Constitution Day at the Hambach the Celebration marked the anniversary of the Day in 1818 when King Maximilian i of Bavaria finally bowed to pressure to Grant bavarian a the Constitution guaranteed them a certain number of civil but it fell far Short of the victories won by the French in their revolution of the Hambach Celebration highlighted the ideas of two political journalists Johenri Georg August Wirth and Philipp Jacob who said they wanted to Lay the foundation for the Renaissance of inspired by the French they were not con tent with the minimal freedoms and civil rights granted under the bavarian they also wanted to end German monarchies and create a unified after a notice of the planned festivities appeared in a Speyer who lived in Neustadt at the foot of Hambach Castle joined with other Liberal nationalist friends and published an Appeal on april 20 for everyone to attend a German National Celebration on May in the ruins of Ham Bach because political assemblies were strictly forbidden in the German principalities around people Circum vented the Law by organizing which were officially dedicated to drinking and reports from the time said that Between and people attended the aware of growing anti royalist authorities in Bavaria unsuccessfully tried to hinder the when the festivities ended on june some Small disturbances were reported in the some peo ple refused to pay and a few mayors were thrown out of Prince von Metternich in As Well As officials of the prussian and russian wanted to squelch the rising tide of they urged the bavarian government to Send troops into the arrest the ringleaders of the Hambach and curtail Freedom of the press Siebe Pfeiffer and Wirth were tried for their role in Hambach they were found innocent but were kept in custody and transported to Saa Bruecken and where they were tried by the moral courts for insulting Domestic and foreign adm Nistra both were sentenced to two years in Wirth served his Siebe Pfeiffer eventually escaped to but the Castle still stands a Symbol of the Peoples attempt to end the tyranny of and to gain Dom of speech and
