IN MEMORIUM OF EINSTEIN

• Albert Einstein's Swiss Passport.
• Little Albert encountered the first "wonder" when his father showed him a compass that deeply impressed him.
• About the compass, the first "wonder", he wrote:
  "I encountered a wonder of such a kind as a child of 4 or 5 years when my father showed me a compass. That this needle behaved in such a determined way did not fit into the way of incidents at all which could find a place in the unconscious vocabulary of concepts (action connected with “touch”). I still remember – or I think I do – that this incident has left with me a deep impression. There must have been something behind things that was deeply hidden. To things which man sees from childhood on in front of him he does not respond to in such a way, he does not wonder about the falling of bodies, about wind and rain, not about the moon nor about the moon not falling down and not about the difference between the animate and inanimate."
• Why did Einstein stick out his tongue to the photographer?
  Albert Einstein and the Aydelottes were just returning from an event which had taken place in honour of Einstein. Einstein was, though already sitting in the car, still bullied by reporters and photographers. They didn’t let him be and he is said to have shouted: "That’s enough, that’s enough!" However, these words didn’t hinder the photographers from taking some more pictures of Einstein and his companions. And when he still was asked to pose for a birthday picture he really grew tired of the journalists and the photographers and as encouraging words didn’t help any more, he stuck out his tongue to his "prosecutors". The photographer Arthur Sasse pressed the button of his camera in just this moment.
  Einstein liked the picture very much. He cut it into shape so only he can still be seen. Then he had made several copies of it and sent the thus "manipulated" picture as a greeting card to friends later on.
  In this form we know it today and though it isn’t shown here the reader clearly remembers the picture with Einstein’s tongue.
• At age 6, Einstein began playing the violin which would become both his hallmark and psychological safety valve later in his life. He was taught by rote rather than inspiration and seven years would have passed before he was aroused by Mozart into an awareness of the mathematical structure of music. Although amateur, Einstein would always enjoy playing the violin. At this time, Einstein also entered the Luitpold Catholic elementary school.