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  August Willich, 1810-1878   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In 1858, Willich was employed at the German-language newspaper in Cincinnati, Ohio.
In August 1861, Governor Oliver P. Morton of Indiana commissioned Willich as the colonel of the 32nd Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment, an all-German, all-Indiana unit.
Willich served as county auditor in Cincinnati for three years, until he returned to Germany with the intent of participating in the Franco-Prussian War.
www.indianainthecivilwar.com /hoosier/willich.htm   (299 words)

  
  Willich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Willich is a city in western North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Willich was mentioned for the first time in the 12th century.
In Willich there are junctions of the Bundesautobahn 44 and Bundesautobahn 52.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Willich   (174 words)

  
 August Willich, Colonel, 32nd Indiana Volunteer Infantry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Willich fought with revolutionaries in Baden in 1848 then fled to the United States, where he settled in New York and worked as a carpenter in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Willich distinguished himself at Shiloh and the advance on Corinth subsequently being named brigadier general July 17, 1862.
Willich was brevetted major general October 21, 1865, was mustered out of the service on January 15, 1866, and served three years as county auditor in Cincinnati.
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 Friends' Newsletter Vol. 7 No. 1, Fall 1997   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Willich's humanist philosophy proposed that, through Bildung, selfishness and self-interest might be put to rest and human beings empowered to act as responsible members of a larger community.
Willich's volunteers described themselves as the Workers' Legion and were inspired by the example of their commander who shared their poverty, took no privilege, and did not shirk difficult manual labor.
Willich is often credited with anticipating the American democratic socialism of the later nineteenth century, one which emphasized the role of labor unions and encouraged the political activity of workers.
csumc.wisc.edu:16080 /mki/Newsletter/newsf97.html   (5038 words)

  
 StrategyPage.com - Combat Information Center analysis, facts and figures about military conflicts and leaders - ...
Becoming a marxian socialist, Willich's public criticisms of the prevailing social order led to a court martial, and in 1846 he was forced to resign from the army.
Willich quickly raised 1,500 leftist German volunteers, who soon formed the 9th Ohio, in which he was commisisoned a captain.
An excellent organizer, trainer, and disciplinarian, Willich quickly turned his command into a model regiment — a model Prussian regiment, that is — which it soon proved both on the drill field and the battlefield.
www.strategypage.com /cic/docs/cic77c.asp   (617 words)

  
 Teaching Brief - MedPage Today
According to the study, the culprit was the noise itself, not the annoyance the noise caused.
However, Dr. Willich said, for women there was a trend toward risk increase because of annoyance: the adjusted odds ratio was 1.47, with a 95% confidence interval ranging from 0.95 to 2.25.
The study was limited, Dr. Willich said, in that it didn't look at transitional noise exposure -- such as driving to work on a busy expressway -- and didn't include rural populations or people over 70.
www.medpagetoday.com /tbprint.cfm?tbid=2212   (711 words)

  
 Lincoln's War: Communism vs. Democracy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Augustus von Willich was the son of a Prussian military officer born in Braunsburg, Prussia in 1810.
Willich's force managed to slow the movement of the Prussian troops during the uprising.[3] His force gained notoriety as being the first to fly the red flag of the workers revolution.
Willich, a known communist, was commissioned as a colonel and chosen to lead a German unit formed in Indiana.[5] He proceeded training them in Prussian military tactics, even to the point of responding to Prussian bugle calls.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/596359/posts   (4406 words)

  
 Ridertown.com
Willich, then a captain, was sent to Fort Kolberg in 1846; he resigned his commission, which a year later was accepted.
Willich, with over a thousand of his followers, sought and found refuge in the young and hospitable Republic of France.
At this point General Willich said that he saw to obey General Grant's orders and remain in the works at the foot of the Ridge would be the destruction of the centre.
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 August Willich in the Civil War
But one soldier wrote, "Colonel Willich of the 32nd Indiana was seen to dig a small hole in the ground with his sword and lie down with his ear over it." Then Willich informed everybody that they were hearing sounds of battle not thunder.
Willich is disguised as the majestic figure of Valerius Gratus, the imperial governor of Judea as he marches his soldiers into Jerusalem amid the jeers and insults of the Jews.
Willich was lightly wounded and captured as his brigade was forced back before they checked the Confederate advance.
www.civilwarinteractive.com /ArticleWillich.htm   (2485 words)

  
 The Campaign for the German Imperial Constitution
Willich sent a Chevauleger with a note to Becker in order to find out whether he intended to stay for a while; the man returned in a quarter of an hour with the news that he had met Becker's troops already in full retreat.
While Willich had been looking for and had found a position for the artillery, a position that dominated the Murg valley and offered considerable advantages for simultaneous skirmishing, the artillerists had run away with the cannon and the captain had been unable to do anything to stop them.
Willich had selected the position for the artillery (we later found their park where their battle-position was to be).
www2.cddc.vt.edu /marxists/cd/cd1/Library/archive/marx/works/1850/german-imperial/ch04.htm   (14922 words)

  
 Civil War Indiana Biographies -August (von) Willich
August (von) Willich was born November 19, 1810, in Braunsberg, Prussia.
He turned communist and resigned from the army in 1846 with other officers, but was court-martialed before being allowed to resign.
He returned to Europe in 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War to offer his services to King Wilhelm I, the same monarch he had tried to dethrone, but was turned down because of his age.
civilwarindiana.com /biographies/willich_august_von.html   (411 words)

  
 The Evening Leader   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Willich's and Hazen's brigades were in the front and Sheridan's group and other divisions were in echelon in the rear.
On October 13, 1864, Willich's career in the Atlanta campaign was cut short at Resaca, Georgia, by a serious wound in the shoulder that partially paralyzed his right arm for the remainder of his life.
Willich made a great effort to get a command in the army, but due to his age Emperor Wilhelm I, declined his service.
www.theeveningleader.com /articles/2005/05/07/news/news.01.txt   (1189 words)

  
 German American Corner: History of the Thirty-Second Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment
Willich drilled his regiment, in German, to a high degree.
Willich was captured and sent to Libby Prison, Richmond, Va. Eventually he was paroled, returned to brigade.
Willich who had been wounded at Resaca, Ga., was promoted to brevet major general and put in command of Cincinnati.
www.germanheritage.com /Essays/1848/germanarmy.html   (1113 words)

  
 Page 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Willich's immediate supervisor, Captain John Newland Maffitt of the U.S. Navy, later became the commander of the Confederate commerce raider Florida.
Due to anti-immigrant resentment pervasive in the regional political arena, Willich was passed over for command of the German regiment in favor of the inexperienced, though politically connected, Robert L. McCook.
Willich was quickly elected adjutant and given sole responsibility for the training of the regiment while McCook mastered the administrative and bureaucratic aspects involved.
www.ulib.iupui.edu /kade/peake/p2.html   (585 words)

  
 ACWS Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Willich knew he was close to the Confederate lines and should have "expected the worst" but he still allowed his brigade to stack arms and go into overnight bivouac.
Willich himself had ridden back to his commander’s HQ to report that "all was quiet" in his sector.
Willich was startled to hear the roar of cannon and musketry fire, but mounted quickly to return to his brigade.
www.acws.co.uk /archives/misc/factoid.htm   (10451 words)

  
 The Scientist : German scientists trade barbs over noise study
Willich and his team concluded that high noise levels increased the risk of heart attacks by 50% in men, and 200% in women.
Willich was principal investigator and responsible for the design, conduct, and analysis of the study.
He alleges that Willich excluded the people living away from busy roads from the reference group in order to manipulate the data, and show that high noise levels greatly increase the risk of heart attacks in both men and women.
www.the-scientist.com /news/display/22981   (695 words)

  
 Persistent noise found to increase risk of heart attacks in study | Arizona Daily Star ®
A separate look at the effect of working in noisy settings in the past 10 years found men's risk of heart attacks rose by 31 percent, while it didn't seem to have a significant effect in women, according to the findings to be published online by the European Heart Journal.
Willich said this gender discrepancy may be caused by biological differences in the ways that men and women react to stress, or the fact that more women in the study spent more time at home.
While noises level were a factor, researchers found no link between how annoyed people felt about the noise and the heart attack risk in either men or women.
www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/103948   (459 words)

  
 Municipality of Willich (Viersen County, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The city of Willich is a town approximately 20 kilometres from Neuss.
In Willich there are 4 districts —Willich (or Old Willich) Anrath, Schiefbahn and Neersen— which were previously independent municipalities.
Neersen Castle is the most famous building in Willich, built in the 16th century.
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/de-vi-wi.html   (157 words)

  
 The Knight of Noble Consciousness by Karl Marx
Herr Willich, as a “partisan” in the war, finds that in peace also it accords with his mission to go from one party to another, and it is fully in accord with the truth that his noble-minded desires for a coalition were voted down.
I must point out, furthermore, that Willich and his companions were already at the scene of the duel when we arrived, and that they had marked out the duelling ground, on which Willich took up a position that placed him in the shade.
Willich was kind enough to promise that when this job in Cologne and the Prussian Rhine province was done, he himself would come to separate the sheep from the goats and to pass judgment on the living and the dead.
www.marxists.org /archive/marx/works/1854/01/knight.htm   (9760 words)

  
 Marine Corps Reserve Association Foundation :: Advocate for Reserve Families Named Chairman of Marine Corps Reserve ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Willich served in the United States Marine Corps Reserve for over 30 years.
Willich is currently the president/CEO of Medical Development International (MDI), a national medical services organization and medical professional liability insurance company providing health care for more than 120,000 individuals.
Prior to forming MDI, Willich founded Dow Industries, a company which engineered shielded centers for MRI diagnostic systems and was ranked the 11th fastest growing private company by Inc. Magazine.
sev.prnewswire.com /publishing-information-services/20050504/FLM01602052005-1.html   (332 words)

  
 Willich (Germany)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The city of Willich is a town approximately 20 kilometres from Neuss.
In Willich there are 4 districts - Willich (or Old Willich) Anrath, Schiefbahn and Neersen - which were previously independent municipalities.
Neersen Castle is the most famous building in Willich, built in the 16th century.
flagspot.net /flags/de-vi-wi.html   (143 words)

  
 BioEd Online: Noise raises risk of heart attack   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Another possible explanation might be that poorer people may live and work in noisier environments, and may also have a less healthy lifestyle or worse access to health care.
But Willich says his team controlled for this effect by looking at the patients' education.
Instead, Willich suggests, constant exposure to noise might raise levels of stress hormones in those working in loud factories or living next to busy roads, which can ultimately affect heart health.
www.bioedonline.org /news/news-print.cfm?art=2186   (435 words)

  
 NFIB Member Willich Named one of Small Business People of the Year
When Fred Willich's business partner decided to move out of state in 1993, Willich thought he might see the end of Hi-Tech Interiors, a then two-year old construction firm that specialized in commercial interiors.
But with the hard work and determination of an outstanding group of 15 employees, Willich was able to salvage Hi-Tech and has grown the firm to 50 employees in the eight years since his partner left.
Willich has been an NFIB member for about four years and finds the ballots one of the most important aspects of his membership.
www.nfib.com /object/2817822.html   (496 words)

  
 Noise Raises Heart Attack Risk , Study: Living, Working Amid Noise Could Be a Heart Hazard - CBS News
Willich directs the Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology, and Health Economics at Berlin's Charite University Medical Centre.
Willich's study covered 4,115 heart attack survivors from 32 major hospitals in Berlin from 1998 to 2001.
Willich's study doesn't prove that noise caused any of the patients' heart attacks.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/11/28/health/webmd/main1077700.shtml   (804 words)

  
 Health News: Lifeclinic.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
This increase in risk appears to be caused by the physiological effects of environmental and work noise, the German research team found.
They found that exposure to environmental noise, such as that of traffic, tripled the risk of heart attack for women and boosted it by nearly 50 percent for men.
Sixty decibels is the level of noise typically found in a large office, the report indicated.
www.lifeclinic.com /healthnews/article_view.asp?story=529287   (650 words)

  
 August Willich
August Willich was born in Germany in 1810.
Willich emigrated to America and worked as a carpenter in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
A follower of Karl Marx, Willich later he found work as a journalist.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USACWwillich.htm   (195 words)

  
 Blum-Novotest: How to find us in Willich
This is the site where all business of our Novotest test stand division is handled.
Willich is about 20 minutes by car west of Düsseldorf in the region called "Linker Niederrhein".
It is therefore essential that you verify all such information with us before taking any action in reliance upon it.
www.blum-novotest.com /e/directions/willich.html   (188 words)

  
 WILLICH cemetery records - documents 1 to 4
Documents 1 to 4 of 4 matching the query " WILLICH ".
Newspaper obituaries containing the surname " WILLICH ".
Uploaded family histories based on the " WILLICH " surname.
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 Battle for the Bridge Historic Preserve - Forts Terrill and Willich
The two large redoubts were named Fort Willich and Fort Terrill, after Brig.
Fort Willich was armed with one 10-pounder Parrott, one 3.8-inch James rifle, two 12-pounder light guns, two 6-pounder smooth-bores, and two 24-pounder Howitzers.
Forts Willich and Terrill were generally garrisoned by one or two companies, while Battery McConnell and Battery Simons were generally garrisoned by half a company or a detachment.
www.scrtc.com /~ftcraig/northforts.htm   (498 words)

  
 Judge Hatchett ( RERUN Episode 6057 Marjorie Willich vs. Josh Willich a 14 year old son was arrested for assault for ...
Mother Marjorie Willich says her son Josh Willich is physically abusive her and assaulted her many times.
Marjorie Willich says Josh Willich slammed her against the wall, grabbed her by the neck and she had him arrested.
Son 14 year old Josh Willich says his grandfather told him to call the cops on her when she bit him in the hand.
www.tvtalkshows.com /board/showthread.php?t=109370   (3376 words)

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