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My special thanks go to Mrs. Hoppe, staff member of the Stadtarchiv Dresden, because Hans Nieland's biography is almost unkown today. It would have been nearly impossible, for instance, to find out the correct Christian names ("Hans Heinrich", but he just used his first name "Hans" solely) and his exact obit without her help. Nieland seemed to vanish successfully into thin air after he served a sentence in British post-war internment camps in Northern Gerrmany ...and this term of imprisonment is already quite hard to detect. Some (commercial) Dresden web pages assert misleadingly that his first name was "Hermann" ([1] or [2]) this very day and unfortunately the official City of Dresden homepage gives as yet no information at all about previous Lord Mayors. There are just 20 scanty pages about his life in Vol. No. 7 of the Dresdner Geschichtsbuch (part of a historical research series edited by the Stadtgeschichtliche Museen Dresden). Historian Christel Hermann wrote a chapter about "Hans Nieland, Lord Mayor of the City of Dresden, and deputy Rudolf Kluge" (pp. 181-200). You couldn't find any reliable information about Nieland in the internet until now. Even his place and date of death had been a closed book. Some web sources insist absolutely, Nieland would be "missing since 1945". He still lived on for 31 years indeed. --Bogart99 12:16, 7 December 2005 (UTC)