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Volume VI · Page 299
| 4. TESTIMONY OF LINDEMANN | |
| EXTRACTS FROM THE
TESTIMONY OF PROSECUTION WITNESS KARL LINDEMANN¹ |
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| DIRECT EXAMINATION | |
| MR. LYON: Witness, will you
please tell us your full name? WITNESS LINDEMANN: Karl Lindemann. PRESIDING JUDGE SEARS: Mr. Witness, you will have to wait for the translation because of the mechanics of the courtroom. A. I understand. MR. LYON: What is your age? A. I can't hear properly. Sixty-six. PRESIDING JUDGE SEARS: If you have trouble with the earphones you will let the Court know. MR. LYON: Where were you born, Witness? WITNESS LINDEMANN: In Goldberg in Mecklenburg. Q. Will you tell us briefly about your education? A. My schooling until 1896, I went up to the senior year of high school. From Easter 1896, I had commercial schooling in Hamburg until September 1900. From October 1900 until September 1901, I did my military service. In October 1901, I was employed by the China trading firm in Hamburg, Vormeister and Company. In July 1902 I went to China for this firm. I was in Shanghai in their service from 1902 until 1903. In 1903, still for this firm, I went as Prokurist² and head of a branch to Hankow, China. There I remained, in this position until 1907. After 6 months in Germany I joined the Bremen-China firm, Melchez and Company. In this firm in 1908, as Prokurist, I took over the management of its branch in Hankow, China. Since then I have remained with the Melchez firm in China. In May 1914, as a result of serious amoebic dysentery, I returned to Germany, and as a result at the outbreak of war I was in Germany. As a result of this dysentery, after military authorities had once again given me a special medical examination in the Tropical Institute in Hamburg in 1917, I did no military service. In 1920 I then, in agreement with my partners, in order to arrange for the reconstruction of our firm in China, went first to the United States in order to take up connections which |
¹ Complete testimony is recorded in mimeographed transcript, 11-13 June 1947, pages 2908-3015 and 3109-3113.
² Prokurist is an official exercising power of attorney for his firm.
