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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Minutes later Admiral Hans Georg von Friedeberg, who had sat hollow-eyed and aloof during his fourth surrender of World War II, excused himself from his personal guard, locked a toilet door behind him, and killed himself with poison. Later, his body was photographed where it lay under a picture of Doenitz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Finale at Flensburg | 6/4/1945 | See Source »

...General Admiral Hans Georg von Friedeberg (head of the German Navy since Admiral Doenitz became Reichsführer) to reply. Grey-faced and grim, that scion of a long line of Prussian officers asked permission to surrender three German armies-not those facing Montgomery to the north but those facing the Russians to the east...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Victory In Europe: Monty's Moment | 5/14/1945 | See Source »

...that plain red building in Reims, Supreme Commander Eisenhower had established advanced headquarters. To it came the German negotiators, headed by Colonel General Alfred Jodl, last chief of staff of the dissolving German Army, and General Admiral Hans Georg von Friedeberg, last commander in chief of the dissolved German Navy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How It Ended | 5/14/1945 | See Source »

...deals with prime numbers, is usually stated in Riemann's symbolism as follows: "All the nontrivial zeros of the zeta function of s, a complex variable, lie on the line where sigma is ½-(sigma being the real part of s)." The theory was propounded in 1859 by Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (who revolutionized geometry and laid the foundations for Einstein's theory of relativity). No layman has ever been able to understand it and no mathematician has ever proved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: As You Were | 4/30/1945 | See Source »

...Chemistry (the 1944 prize will be awarded later)-Georg von Hevesy, 59, Hungarian-born professor at Copenhagen's Institute of Theoretical Physics, now a refugee in Stockholm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Nobel Winners | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

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