Fürth

But there are still a lot of fall festivals and events to be found, and especially where I'm living now in Bavaria, I try to take advantage of as many as I can.

So currently ongoing in my neck of the woods is the Michaelis Kirchweih in, uh, Fürth, which is kind of like this street fair, uh, event every day going on.

It's, it's like a long street fair in the style of Oktoberfest, if you will, or like it has a lot of the same food and drink, uh, and carnival rides that you would find at a, a folk festival elsewhere in Germany.

Um, and there's a few others that listeners might be interested in.

His name is Albert Forster.

Albert Maria Forster, the youngest of six children, was born on the 26th of July 1902 in the city of Fürth, then part of the German Empire.

From 1908 to 1912, he attended a local elementary school, and later continued his studies at the Humanistic Gymnasium in Fürth, which he left in 1920 with a lower secondary school certificate.

He worked at a local bank beginning in 1922, but his political involvement soon drew attention.

In November 1923, he joined the Nazi Party and became the leader of its local branch in Fürth, while also affiliating himself with the SA, the party's paramilitary wing.

His active role in anti-Semitic agitation led to his dismissal from the bank in May 1924.

Shortly thereafter, he began working as a part-time journalist for the anti-Semitic weekly newspaper Der Stürmer.

He also developed a close relationship with its publisher, the German Nazi fanatic Julius Streicher.

Heinrich Hoffmann, the man who made Hitler famous.

The man known to history as Heinrich Hoffmann was born on the 12th of September 1885 in the town of Fürth, in the Bavaria region of the German Empire, a suburb of the larger city of Nuremberg.

His father was Robert Hoffmann, a photographer by trade who came from a family that had engaged in that craft for decades, effectively having been pioneers of professional photography in Bavaria.

Heinrich's mother was Maria Hoffmann.