{"id":1720,"date":"2014-07-20T07:20:40","date_gmt":"2014-07-20T12:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/?p=1720"},"modified":"2014-07-20T07:24:12","modified_gmt":"2014-07-20T12:24:12","slug":"my-journey-to-america-july-20-1914","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/my-journey-to-america-july-20-1914\/","title":{"rendered":"My Journey To America: July 20, 1914"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exactly 100 years ago today, my 18 year old grandfather, Kurt William Leucht, wrote the following entry into his journal:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0After obtaining my passport and papers, I was on a train headed for Hamburg.\u00a0 I went per express train from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Plauen\" target=\"_blank\">Plauen<\/a> <i>[A on map]<\/i> at 6:02 in the morning to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leipzig\" target=\"_blank\">Leipzig<\/a> <i>[B]<\/i>.\u00a0 There was a layover of two hours, so I visited the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monument_to_the_Battle_of_the_Nations\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cBattle of the Nations\u201d<\/a> monument. \u00a0At 10:25am, I left per train thru <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Magdeburg\" target=\"_blank\">Magdeburg<\/a> <i>[C]<\/i> to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hamburg\" target=\"_blank\">Hamburg<\/a> <i>[D]<\/i> arriving at 4:25pm.\u00a0 I bought a ticket for the ship and after a lengthy search, I found the Hotel Minerva at the corner of Lolienstreet and the Repperbahn.\u00a0 The price for overnight was 2,16 Mark per day.\u00a0 <i>[That\u2019s about $35 today.]<\/i> \u00a0\u00a0I wandered around the city for awhile.\u00a0 That evening at 8:30, I went to see a musical at the Varsity St. Pauli Singspielhalle until 10:45 and then I let myself be photographed.\u00a0 At midnight, I was in my hotel room and fell asleep.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/journal-map-1.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1727\" alt=\"journal-map-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/journal-map-1-400x268.png\" width=\"400\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/journal-map-1-400x268.png 400w, http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/journal-map-1.png 591w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can read my grandfather&#8217;s entire journal by clicking below. \u00a0It&#8217;s quite interesting! \u00a0Of course, I&#8217;m biased! \u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/history\/My_Journey_To_America-Journal_of_Kurt_William_Leucht-1914_to_1920.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/history\/My_Journey_To_America-Journal_of_Kurt_William_Leucht-1914_to_1920.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your interest!<br \/>\nKurt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exactly 100 years ago today, my 18 year old grandfather, Kurt William Leucht, wrote the following entry into his journal: \u00a0After obtaining my passport and papers, I was on a train headed for Hamburg.\u00a0 I went per express train from Plauen [A on map] at 6:02 in the morning to Leipzig [B].\u00a0 There was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[112],"tags":[497,499,496,498],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1720"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1783,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions\/1783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}