Deutsche at
Leave Post This Weekend
Wildwood is losing two dynam
? individuals of German birth this
eek, according to “The Wildwood
Echo,” an authorized monthly
troop information publication for
*.he local Army post. Both are
saving: on June 7. Sp4 Dietrich
Zimmerman by rotation and Sp4
• iunther Hoffmann by separation.
Zimmerman is returning to the
■ Fatherland” while Hoffmann
. Ians to go to California.
“Sp4 Zimmermann will be re
turning to his birth place courtesy
f the United States Govern
ment,’’ the Echo states. “His new
. . «< uty station is the Heidelberg
Signal Center, Headquarters U.S.
. Army, Europe.”
Heidelberg is only 70 miles
r :rom Frankfurt where his parents
end sister reside. Being stationed
rHeidelberg for 24 months will
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Also quoting from the Wild
wood Echo:
“Zimmermann entered Canada
from Europe in May of 1960 and
left it in August of 1961 for the
United States. One month later,
Sept. 30, he entered the Army and
in December he came to Wildwood
. • . He has been chief operator at
Wildwood for the past year.
Dietrich Zimmermann has con
siderable experience in the hotel
business, having worked in hotels
in Germany,. Switzerland, France,
Canada and the United States. He
attended a trade school in Frank
furt from 1954 to 1958 to study
the hotel business. Part of the
course of study included working
as a hotel apprentice. Desk oper
ations and dining room operations
were Zimmermann’s specialities.
He has worked at the St. James
and Albany Hotel in Paris and
the Fairmont Hotel in San Fran
cisco.
“It is necessary for a good
maitre d’hotel or dining room
manager to speak many lang
uages,’’ says Zimmermann. He
speaks French, German and Eng
lish and says “I’d better not in
clude Italian, as I don’t speak it so
well anymore. A language you
learn must be constantly practic
ed, otherwise you lose the ability
to speak it.” He picked up the
knowledge of French by studying
at the Berlitz School of Langu
ages in Paris while he worked at
his hotel job.
zummermann has lived in so
many countries because, he says,
he has the desire to travel, is in
terested in petting better at his
job, and in studying how people
in other countries behave. It is ne
cessary to study eating habits of
diners in other countries to \>e
able to accomodate them.
When asked about his plans for
the future, Zimmermann laughs
and says “I couldn’t exactly say,
but I’d like to take a look at the
Far East.”
As for Sp4 Gunther Hoffmann,
the Echo says he was born in
Stolp, Germany. In 1947 he moved
to Ivreischa. Germany and in 1951
to Glashutte. In 1955 he moved to
East Berlin where he spent a
short time before crossing the
border to West Germany to set
tle near Stuttgart in the town of
Ludwigshafen.
From there, Hoffmann went to
Toronto, Canada. He worked there
for three years, before going to
Eos Angeles, where he was soon
to be drafted into the U.S. Army.
He took his basic at Fort Old,
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land of Seward had burned to the
ground without anyone being
aware of the conflagration.
The smoldering ruins were dis
covered by Clyde Smith as he
was enroute to work at Estes
Bros. Highway patrolmen soon
came to view the area but made
no comments as to their deduc
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mysterious blaze.
When Ed Estes, whose property
adjoins the Copeland property,
went to looking around, he found
an attempt had been made to set
fire to a small cabin on his place.
William Mason, depot agent for
the Alaska Railway, found all the
depot lights on when he came to
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to Wildwood.
Before entering the Army,
Hoffmann worked as a machinist.
He is considering reentering the
trade upon separation from the
Army. Long range plans are for
obtaining an electrical engineer
ng degree and then settling down
n San Francisco.
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