European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 27, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday december 27, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 9 big problem to rename Little Cavern Byton Nauroth Nuernberg Bureau Bayreuth Germany the mayor or his City which composer Richard Wagner helped turn into a music and Cul Tural Center has brought . Ambassador Richard Burl into a dispute Between the mayor and . Army officials Over a Liny Cavern named for a world War ii nazi minister of culture. Hans Walter wild mayor of Bayreuth since 1958, said this is the third time he has tried to get the army to rid the two Block Lorini facility of its notorious name Hans Schumm Cavern. Schumm was known As the Good  under Hitler s third Reich he served As District governor and minister of culture for Bay Rulh. He was killed in an air plane crash of suspicious origin outside the City in 1935. It was t until after the War that he was found to have sent hundreds of communist sympathizers and social democrats to concentration Camps. Wild said Schemm was a very danger Ous Man and he has been trying to change the name since 1966 when he approached the commander of the 1st so 2nd army Cav Rygl in nearby Bundlach. A proposal to rename the Cavern after an american Rivil War Soldier of German origin sgt. Manin Hagen. Went nowhere wild said. Unfortunately these commanders come in for one or two years and then leave before any action goes All the Way  wild said. He submitted another request last year and suggested three German names All High ranking military men one of whom was a hessian Soldier who fought with the British against the infant american army near Philadelphia during the american revolution. I certainly Don t think the army is going to name it after him 2nd army Cav Rygl spokesman maj. Christopher Thompson said. That s not  the problem May be a tempest in a Teapot. All parties including the mayor the army and the ambassador agree that the name should be changed. It s just a matter of time and proper administration. Assistant press officer Bruce Byers said front Gate of the controversial Hans Schemm Cavern in Bayreuth Cormany. Tuesday from the . Embassy in Bonn the ambassador agrees that it should be  Byers said Burl sent a letter to wild acknowledging receipt of the mayor s re quest for intervention and expressing Hope that the matter can be solved soon. It is being forwarded to wild through the con sul general in Munich who is responsible for . Relations with the state of Bavaria. The seven Page regulation and its two Page Usa eur supplement which gov Ern Memoria Bizalion of army real estate in Europe do not look upon name changes lightly. For example the approving authority for a change is either the Secretary of the army the army chief of staff or the adjutant general of the army depending on the category of Mcmorr ionization. That goes All the Way to the lop rungs of the army s leadership ladder. But according to Thompson if the army were to build a Brand new Cavern in Bayreuth the commander of 7th army training come headquartered in Grafin tvo Chr would be authorized to name it. The command has control of 2nd army Cav regt installations in Bayreuth the cavalry has operational control. They the army Don t want anybody renaming caverns after every Tom Dick and Harry Thompson Saio adding that the renaming of a Cavern is a very com plex  it can take a year or More he added. And the regulation army regulation 1 33. Memorial programs draws strict lines about what can be named after whom. Thompson pointed out that one of wild s previous suggestions was Field marshal Ervin Rommel. "1 personally would not want it named after him Thompson said. My father fought against him in  Thompson also pointed out that naming such a Small Ca sern after such a great general demeans the person it s named for he said. The Cavern also would have to be named after a deceased person and the name should be appropriate to the geographic area. A former 2nd army Cav no would be a Good Choice Thompson said. Despite wild Send run through the embassy which he said might gel the name changed quickly officials Point out that the Issue is really much ado about nothing. The name Hans Schemm docs not exist in writing on the Cavern nor do soldiers or local residents refer to it As such. There Are no signs at the Gale. The recognizable Rcd Anu a hic directional . Facility markers with american flags on them make no mention of the Cavern s name. Nor does any Street or Scarb Square carry the name. It is not listed on official City maps. When asked soldiers assigned there say Hans who and germans Call the company size facility the . Cavern on  Thoma  wild s crusade was rekindled by an offi Cial document sent to him by tile City s finance office. The document referred to construction near the Hans Schemm Ca sern. We arc trying to rid our City of All vestiges of the National socialist nazi Era wild said but we Are finding it to be a Long Way to tipperary " Thompson admits the Road is Long but there is a Way to gel there. Frankly we Don t care if it s named Mickey mouse Cavern he said but we do have to Fol Low army regulations and that s some thing mayor wild does t understand  we Don t Sec this As a major problem Ryors said. Hinting at the probability that Burl May try to spied matters up Ryors added i think he s wild got the Atten Tion of the  new spirit in West Berlin . Minister says by Joe Mapother staff writer Berlin Veteran Berlin hand and . Minister John c. Kornblum installed this summer As the top american official in this divided City said the Western i sectors Are experiencing an eco nomic upswing unprecedented in recent times. There is a new spirit in the City a spirit of Confidence a spirit of looking to the future a spirit of innovation. This is something that did t exist in the 1960s and it also did t exist four years ago said i Kornblum in a recent year end in i Ter View. Growth in High technology in i Dusty and a turnaround in project Kornblum tons for a declining labor Force were two areas Kornblum keyed on to support his Conlen the reaffirmation of the Allied presence in the City and Berlin s relation to the Federal Republic of Germany a embodied in the quadripartite agreement of 1971, pro vide economic stability that was unknown during the cold War years Kornblum said. Reconciling the continued presence of Between 12,500 and 15 000 american British and French troops with a new Era of stability Kornblum said deterrence re Maui an important part of the Western Powers purpose in Berlin. I would Call it the Challenge of normality Kornblum said. Western military forces in the City Are surrounded by 400,000 Warsaw pact troops the minister said. Our Overall military strategy is a classic Case of deter rence Kornblum said. We have our nuclear weapons As deterrents. We have them so we never have to use them. You can say the same thing for the Allied military pres ence in Berlin. We have them Here to make sure they won t Ever have to be used. By mounting a clearly capable defense Force and that Means not Only having them Here but also making it possible for them to train visibly so that everybody can see How Good they Are we make it Clear that if the soviets Ever did wish to do anything militarily Here it would t simply be a matter of walking into the City. They would have to fight to come  continued Allied combat readiness and a carefully planned economic and political strategy arc needed in the future Kornblum said. Using the same statistics quoted by . Secretary of stale George p. Shutlz on his recent Berlin visit Kornblum said 300 new High technology companies have been founded in the last five Yean. High technology Parks have been devel oped to meet this growing economic need he said. Young people Are coming into the City in greater num Bers and not Only Young dissidents but you re also get Ting lots of Young workers and Young business people Kornblum said. West Berlin government statistics support Kornblum s Contention. The population of West Berlin dipped under 2 million persons in 1976. The steadily declining rate that began in 1972 led to predictions that the population would dip under 1 a million by the end of the Century. Since 1980, the population has increased by More than 500,000 to 1.95 million people according to the West Berlin government. The disproportionately High number of elderly persons living in the City has also decreased according to statistics. Few would dispute the Point that the period of stability ushered in by the quadripartite agreement nearly 15 years ago had a hand in the economic climate of Berlin. Kornblum was one of several americans who negotiated the agreement in the Early 1970s As part of an Allied panel known As the Bonn group. The minister s Berlin experience also includes a stint As the Deputy Politi Cal adviser to the . Mission Berlin from 1979 to 1981. Before the quadripartite agreement the Legal basis for the Freedom of the Western sectors and the four Power rights throughout Berlin were officially questioned by the soviet Union. In other words from 1958 on they had said the world War ii four Power agreements were no longer valid Kornblum said. In 1958, soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev demanded withdrawal of the Western allies from Berlin within six months. The Khrushchev ultimatum although never acted on was never withdrawn and it lurked in the Back ground of escalating cold War tensions that led to the Berlin confrontations of the 1960s. The Infra Quincy of soviet attempts to disrupt transit of goods and people into the City since the agreement was signed is one Mark of its Success Kornblum said. I was Here in december 1979, when the soviets invaded Afghanistan and of course we weren t at All sure whether there would t be some Effort to squeeze us in Berlin. But the fact is there want Kornblum said