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	German Rieckehoff
		German Rieckehoff (born German Rieckehoff Sampayo, February 5, 1915-September 30, 1997 in Vieques, Puerto Rico) is considered to have been the most influencial president of the Puerto Rican Olympic Committee.
		Rieckehoff whose ancestors migrated from Germany and settled in the "Little Island" Vieques, was raised in a homestead by his parents.
		Rieckehoff oversaw the construction of the "Olympic Village" in Carolina for the VIII Pan American Games, held in Puerto Rico in 1979 and he also oversaw the construction of the "Alberque (Hostel) Olympico" in Salinas.
	207.150.180.135 /German_Rieckehoff (602 words)

	German immigration to Puerto Rico - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		German businessmen first immigrated to Puerto Rico during the early part of the 19th century.
		Amongst the first German settlers in Puerto Rico were Johann Kifenhover, who in 1832 established a school in San Juan, Adolfo Rauschenplar, who founded a sugar cane export business and Walter Tischer who in 1915 married Carmen Vargas Alayon with whom he opened a ballet school in San Juan which still exists today.
		By the beginning of the 20th century, many of the descendants of the first German settlers had become successful businessmen, educators, and scientists and were among the pioneers of Puerto Rico's television industry.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/German_immigration_to_Puerto_Rico (1050 words)

	German Rieckehoff, Former Olympic Official, 82 - New York Times
		German Rieckehoff, former head of Puerto Rico's Olympic Committee, died Tuesday on a flight from Switzerland to Puerto Rico after suffering a heart attack.
		Rieckehoff, an honorary I.O.C. member, became president of Puerto Rico's Olympic Committee in 1976.
		In addition to his wife, Rieckehoff is survived by three sons.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9F01E6D81330F936A3575AC0A961958260 (110 words)

	German Rieckehoff School in Vieques, Puerto Rico/PR - School Tree (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-2.cs.colostate.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		German Rieckehoff School is classified as a "High School".
		German Rieckehoff School was operational at the time of the last report and is currently operational.
		German Rieckehoff School IS NOT a Magnet school.
	puerto-rico.schooltree.org.cob-web.org:8888 /public/German-Rieckehoff-098333.html (88 words)

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		The person who most influenced Irma González’s life was her late husband Germán Rieckehoff Sampayo, a major figure in the sports world, who was president of the Puerto Rico Olympic Committee for twelve years and who founded the “Albergue Olímpico” in Salinas.
		Her latest achievement is having been honored as one of five Puerto Ricans awarded the “Boricua Plus” distinction last month.
		WOSO is pleased to salute and congratulate Irma González viuda de Rieckehoff, Director of the Administrative and Development Council of the “Albergue Olímpico” and our Chrysler VIP of the Day.
	www.woso.com /vip/vip.asp?id_vi=1150 (234 words)

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		Although this plan was not put into effect in its totality, there has been an enormous forced migration of Viequenses to Saint Croix over the past sixty years as evidenced by the statistics already mentioned.
		At the end of World War II, Germán Rieckehoff, representative for Vieques in the Puerto Rican government, strongly criticized the continued Navy presence and further expropriations on Vieques.
		Rieckehoff argued that the establishment of a Navy base on Vieques would result in an unstable economic situation for the people.
	www.fire.or.cr /hisengvie.htm (2212 words)

	Olimpic Museum
		Through its meeting rooms, their Educational Program and their Center of Documentation and Investigation, values and principles of our athletes are emphasized and specially how they contribute to the improvement of our society.
		Through their meeting rooms dedicated to Eugenio Guerra, Julio Enrique Monagas and Germán Rieckehoff, we will travel through the sports history of Puerto Rico since the pre-Colombian period until the end of the 20th century.
		The information provided, as well as their objects, photography and memorabilias, will permit us to appreciate the development of sports from the point of view of the cultural history and their contribution to our path as nation.
	www.albergueolimpico.com /html_eng/museo_eng.htm (347 words)

	Volunteers, Global Society and the Olympic Movement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		To me, this fact is first of all ironic, second of all pragmatically worrisome, and thirdly indicative of everything that will remain to be done, after the December special IOC Session, to re-balance the sports industry and humanistic dimensions of the contemporary Olympic phenomenon.
		German Rieckehoff was gazing across a carpeted hotel lobby at a buzzing hive of his fellow IOC members and IF and NOC officials when he spoke the sentence used to introduce this essay: every day more and more Olympic sport and less and less Olympic Movement.
		I know this because I've seen rural peasants and urban poor people approach German Rieckehoff to ask what they could do to help the cause of Puerto Rican Olympism, some stuffing precious dollar bills in his hand, while he was asking them in return just what he should be doing to support their common cause.
	www.blues.uab.es /olympic.studies/volunteers/macaloon.html (5518 words)

	PUERTO RICO HERALD: Puerto Ricans Living Elsewhere Return For Election (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Jesús Delgado Rodriguez, secretary of the Education Union of the federation, also said in a statement that the parents and students in the Vieques public school system condemn the Education Department’s new academic evaluation method.
		"At the Germán Rieckehoff high school, for example, the vocational program is totally abandoned, they don’t have materials and the director, Jose Vega, is frequently absent," the federation said.
		According to union data, as of Sept. 20 the middle school had more than 400 students with 40 teachers, Playa Grande elementary has 200 students and 25 teachers and German Rieckehoff high school has 400 students and 40 teachers.
	www.puertorico-herald.org /issues/2004/vol8n44/Media1-en.shtml (1369 words)

	On the Navy Presence in Vieques
		Rieckehoff, formaron una comisión que visitó al Gobernador Rexford Guy
		In 1946, Germán Rieckehoff established the association, "Sons of
		on the island." Germán Rieckehoff argued that the establishment of a
	www.enchanted-isle.com /elfortin/navy.htm (4739 words)

	Cuba Awaits Baseball Classic with Optimism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The first issue discussed by the Round Table panel was baseball and the Olympics.
		Speaking for INDER, the Cuban Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation, Pedro Cabrera, recalled the long struggle to get baseball accepted in the Olympic Games, led by Manuel Gonzalez Guerra of Cuba and German Rieckehoff of Puerto Rico, the presidents of their country’s Olympic Committees at that time.
		In 2002, the first intent to exclude baseball from the Olympics took place at a meeting of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Mexico, explained Cabrera to the audience.
	www.periodico26.cu /english/coverage/worldbaseballclassic.htm (896 words)

	IAAF/NACAC Regional Development Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Regional Development Center located in the Albergue Olímpico in Salinas, Puerto Rico, was established in 1985 on the initiative of the area representative after an exhaustive perusal of alternative venues (eg.
		Mexico City, Havana, Miami) and the availability of the Puerto Rico Olympic Center whose facilities were generously offered to the area grouping by then president, German Rieckehoff Sampayo.
		Since then, at least two training courses, of no less than two weeks duration each, have been offered at the Center annually, with the participation of coaches and/or atheltes from virtually every country in the North American, Central American and Caribbean area.
	nacac.isla.net /rdc.htm (960 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - NEWS
		The trophy was presented by IOC Executive Board member Richard L. Carrión, at a ceremony attended by NOC President Héctor Cardona to present awards to the outstanding Puerto Rican athletes of 2005.
		We have just learnt of the death of Irma Rieckehoff, widow of Germán Rieckehoff, who was an IOC member from Puerto Rico from 1977 to 1990, then an honorary member until his death in 1997.
		The Organising Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad in 2008 (BOCOG) has chosen the Zhongshan Vantage Gas Appliance Stock Co., Ltd as official supplier of gas appliances for the Beijing Games.
	www.olympic.org /uk/news/olympic_news/week_uk.asp?weekDate=05/08/2006 (1193 words)

	GERMAN RIECKEHOFF, VIEQUES, Puerto Rico Public Schools and Teen Help
		GERMAN RIECKEHOFF, VIEQUES, Puerto Rico Public Schools and Teen Help
		This record is for GERMAN RIECKEHOFF in VIEQUES, PR.
		High school, middle school, and elementrary school data is deemed reliable, but not guaranteed : GERMAN RIECKEHOFF.
	www.schoolbug.org /school-720003000335.html (85 words)

	Daily Peloton - Pro Cycling News
		While in the actual race Erik Zabel has always found an Italian (bee him Cipo or Petacchi) faster than him, in the cyber-version things went differently.
		an Italian (Andrea Grandi), that started to link his virtual team to the German sprinter right when he chose its name ("speedy gonzabel" that is...) and then kept following Zabel's steps even in his performances: many excellent placings, more than one time on the stage podium, but no victories yet.
		Congrats to Kessler, and best wishes to Andrea Grandi, maybe he (and Zabel) will take their coveted stage victory in the next days.
	www.dailypeloton.com /displayarticle.asp?pk=1840 (7866 words)

	Olympic Baseball - All you need to know about Olympic Baseball!
		Participants at the roundtable made it clear that Rogge himself had termed those formalities an anachronism.
		Baseball entered the Olympic program for the first time in Barcelona 1992, following tireless efforts by late Puerto Rican German Rieckehoff and Cuban Manuel Gonzalez Guerra.
		Cuba was the champ at Barcelona, Atlanta 1996 and Athens 2004, while the US won that of Sydney 2000.
	olympicbaseball.com (4552 words)

	German Rieckehoff Alumni Registry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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	bahasa.alumni.net /The_Caribbean/Puerto_Rico/German_Rieckehoff (60 words)

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