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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good +. [10], xii, [3], 233, [36] pages: illustrations; 29 cm. Paperback with grey cover. Gift inscription on first (blank) page from the author to his cousin, Paul Mestern (1905-1998). In 1926 Hans Adrian Mestern (1903-1996), a student at the University of Hamburg, attended Yale University as one of 31 German students with fellowships at American colleges and universities under the auspices of the American German Student exchange. Mestern entered the German judicial service in 1930 but was dismissed by the Nazis in 1933. After the Second World War, he worked as an administrative lawyer in Hamburg; he served as Senate Counsel from 1947 until his retirement in 1968. He served as President of the Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the State of Hamburg from 1966 to 1976. This volume contains typed transriptions from his journal from September 1926 to January 1928 and from letters from his time in the United States to Hildegard Deecke (1904-1956), whom he married in 1930. Also contains remarks by Mestern from 1948 and 1975, and indices. Text is in German. Scarce. In Very Good+ Condition: slightly cocked; clean and solid.