Page 107 - The Diary of A. H. W. Behrens

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Those who were like-minded grouped together, thus Ramme, Stielau and I. We were given the name The Patricians, thus
the others were The Plebeians etc. Being the youngest, I was Patrician III. None of us liked Sergeant Hartwig Dierks, his room mate Kohlmeyer had to get on with him. At one stage there was a revolution in the house, all of us against Dierks and we requested that he be dismissed. Director Th. Harms was very sad but covered up the story. He stayed, was then sent to Australia and died there. Those that had been servants had difficulties in getting rid of their poor manners, the others as well. Because I ate with knife and fork, different from them, they thought I wanted to be better. Well, I had been brought up different from them all! Stielau and Ramme were faithful souls and we were really faithful friends and stayed friends until death. Ramme went to India and died there after a few years. Then there was Johannes the Persian in our course, we were all fond of him. I went on holiday with him a couple of times, the African with the Persian. He enjoyed smoking, I did not and
so he gladly accepted all cigars that were offered to me. We had three Meyers in the house, Kohlmeyer, Heinrich Meyer, Christof Meyer and one Meyer who lived outside the house. During one visit the three Meyers stood next to each other in the row.