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Oral Interview of Rudolph Otto Zuehlsdorff

Interviewer

Timothy Madigan

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Rudolph Otto Zuehlsdorff describes his experiences working in farming and railroad engineering, beginning in the 1920s. He also discusses the effects of the Great Depression, and the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party.

Biography

Rudolph Otto Zuehlsdorff was born January 12, 1899, in the township of Sarpsborg, Minnesota, the son of German immigrants. He worked on his family’s farm in Clay County in the 1920s and worked for the Great Northern Railroad, out of Fargo, North Dakota, in the 1930s and 1940s. Following the Great Depression, he became active in Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party politics at the county level.

Date of Interview

8-25-1973

Original Format

Audio tape

Named Persons

James Fergus, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Hubert Horatio Humphrey

Professions

Farmers, Railroad engineers

Organizations

Northern Pacific Railroad Company, Moorhead State College,

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Otto Rudolph Oppermann (c1881-1947) of Oppermann and Sons

1891 Living at 8 Scott Villas, Tottenham: Carl Oppermann (age 52 born Germany, British subject), Mechanical Engineer - Employer. With his wife Elizabeth Oppermann (age 47 born Knightsbridge) and their ten children; Charlotte Oppermann (age 20 born Islington); Ernst Oppermann (age 18 born Islington), Electrical Engineer; Marie Oppermann (age 16 born Islington); Wilhelm Oppermann (age 13 born Islington); Olga Oppermann (age 12 born Islington); Otto Oppermann (age 10 born Leytonstone); Hugo Oppermann (age 9 born Leytonstone); Hildegard Oppermann (age 8 born Leytonstone); Pear Oppermann (age 6 born Hammersmith); and Fritz Oppermann (age 2 born Islington).[1]

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Otto Rudolf Salvisberg

Swiss architect

Otto Rudolf Salvisberg (19 October 1882, Köniz – 23 December 1940, Arosa) was a Swiss architect.

Between 1905 and 1930 Salvisberg worked in Germany. He worked with Bruno Ahrends and Wilhelm Büning to design the "White City" housing settlement in Berlin.

Biography

After completing his apprenticeship as a building draughtsman, Salvisberg attended the School of Architecture at the Technicum in Biel/Bienne in 1901, which he graduated from in 1904 with honors. Subsequently, he traveled through southern Germany to Munich. In Munich, Salvisberg attended courses at the Technical University of Munich, where August Thiersch, Friedrich von Thiersch, and Karl Hocheder were teaching. Presumably in 1905, he continued his journey to Karlsruhe. In addition to his employment at the architectural firm Curjel & Moser in Karlsruhe, he studied at the Technical University of Karlsruhe under the guidance of Carl Schäfer.[1]

From 1930, Salvisberg taught as a professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, where h

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