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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

Lehr, North Dakota
July 30, 2003

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German officials tour the historic Lehr Tabernacle Campgrounds near Lehr, ND, and visit with area Germans from Russia. Residents from the Ashley, Fredonia, Kulm, Lehr, and Wishek area listen to Jochen Welt with Verena Bonitz, NDSU, translator.
The German officials visits the Erbele Ranch, north of Lehr, ND; left to right: Alexander Schumacher; Jochen Welt; Klaus Pöhle and State Senator Robert Erbele. Buffalo on the Erbele Ranch, north of Lehr, ND.
The group standing on the highest point on the Erbele Ranch overlooking the prairies; left to right: Verena Bonitz, translator, NDSU, Fargo; Robert Erbele; Bob Dambach, Praire Public Television, Fargo; Klaus Pöhle; Alexander Schumacher and Jochen Welt. Leona Neu, Ashley, ND, presents to Jochen Welt the Zion Lutheran Church, 100 Anniversary: 1903-2003 book.

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