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Arno Hesse
Arno Hesse (born 1887, date of death unknown) was a German Empire, German Athletics (sport), athlete. He competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics in London. In the Athletics at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's 1500 metres, 1500 metres, Hesse placed seventh and last in his initial semifinal heat and did not advance to the final. References Sources * * * 1887 births Year of death missing German male middle-distance runners Olympic athletes for Germany Athletes (track and field) at the 1908 Summer Olympics {{Germany-middledistance-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Empire
The German Empire (),Herbert Tuttle wrote in September 1881 that the term "Reich" does not literally connote an empire as has been commonly assumed by English-speaking people. The term literally denotes an empire – particularly a hereditary empire led by an emperor, although has been used in German to denote the Roman Empire because it had a weak hereditary tradition. In the case of the German Empire, the official name was , which is properly translated as "German Empire" because the official position of head of state in the constitution of the German Empire was officially a "presidency" of a confederation of German states led by the King of Prussia who would assume "the title of German Emperor" as referring to the German people, but was not emperor of Germany as in an emperor of a state. –The German Empire" ''Harper's New Monthly Magazine''. vol. 63, issue 376, pp. 591–603; here p. 593. also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich, as well as simply Germany, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
