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Visit of Germans Officials to North Dakota

Jochen Welt, Member of the Deutscher Bundestag; Federal Government Commissioner for Matters Related to Repatriates and National Minorities, Berlin and Bonn, Germany
Klaus Pöhle, Director General, Federal Ministry of the Interior, Bundestministerium des Innern, Bonn, Germany
Dr. Alexander Schumacher, Assistant to Jochen Welt, Bonn, Germany

Bismarck, North Dakota
July 30, 2003

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German officials meet at State Capitol with North Dakota state officials; left to right: Jochen Welt; Verena Bonitz, translator, NDSU, Fargo; Klaus Pöhle; Alexander Schumacher; Governor John Hoeven; Donald Canton, Media Relations/Policy Development, Office of the Governor; and Lee Peterson, Commissioner of Commerce. Merle Paaverud, Director, Heritage Center, Bismarck, provides a tour explains the buffalo bones.
Klaus Pöhle and Jochen Welt standing by buffalo exhibit. The Bismarck-Mandan Development Association (BMDA) hosted a luncheon; left to right: Michael Miller, NDSU Libraries, Fargo; Klaus Pöhle; Jochen Welt; Russell Staiger, BMDA President/CEO; Bob Dambach, Prairie Public Television, Fargo; and Kenneth M. Will, BMDA Vice President of Business Development.

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