GERMAN CIVILIAN’S ACTIVITIES

Taihape Daily Times, 6 November 1917, Page 3

GERMAN CIVILIAN’S ACTIVITIES

Lieutenant-Colonel Joachim, Chief of the Chartographic Division of the German General Staff, died in Berlin recently. He was the son of the late famous violinist Josef Joachim. The interesting feature of this officer’s death is that for years before the war he was a resident ,cf Paris, ostensibly as partner in a business undertaking. Immediately on the outbreak of hostilities Joachim (who was an officer by profession) returned to Germany and was appointed chief and “reorganiser” of the general staff’s entire map a strange post for a “civilian” resident abroad as a “business man.” He married a wellknown French violinist, Mile. Chaigneau, and while in Paris is said to have devoted himself zealously to the “musical arts.”