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lives of the Caesars Among all the Renaissance humanists and Reformation clerics who followed the fashion of translating their family names into Latin or Greek, some were luckier than others. I think the too blatantly obvious cases like Mercator or Piscator fell out of fashion pretty swiftly. Then there are the too difficult Greek names like Arthopoeus. I guess Caesar is a good middle way as it is memorable and not too trivial. There's also a justification in that the German word and name Kaiser is derived from Caesar, so rather than translating to a posh language, you could say they just reverted their name to its original version. Anyhow, among the multiple clergymen that have popped up in the ancestry of Anna Katharina Andrae, there are also a few called Caesar, and I just can't resist the temptation to write their biographies under the title you see above. * * * **Valentin Konstantin Caesar** (No. 70 in Anna Katharina Andrae's family tree) Born in Suhl, County Henneberg (today Thuringia) 1585 vicar of Sien (Kr. Birkenfeld) 1593-98 vicar of Enkirch (Monatshefte 1914, 321-355) In 1597 he was reported to be not strong enough for this tiring position, so he moved to become: 1598-1600 vicar of Dill Married Sara, no further details of her are known. Their only known child was Catharina Caesar, who married Heinrich Orth (* ca. 1561 at Kirn, + … 1612/15, Braunsberg, see V-30 in the Orth genealogy). He was Amtmann in Merxheim and the son of the second Lutheran vicar of Kirn, Johann Balthasar Orth (IV-43). **Martin Caesar** the vicar of Traben (1585-98), may have been Konstantin's brother or a close relative, as both were born in Suhl, according to the Enkirch article. From 1586-1595, he was the vicar of Traben (the third since the Reformation). In his account of the parish of Traben 1560-1620 (Monatshefte 1917, 3-32), Friedrich Back doesn't say much about his tenure, but has several pages about how his successor Wenzeslaus Fend, vicar from 1595-1598, quarrelled both with him and with schoolmaster Musculus. Part of the problem was that Fend alleged that Martin Caesar was intimate with his maid. It is not clear at all why Caesar was still present at Traben during that period (in a different text, Back claimed he was moved to a place called Franken in the Eifel in 1595). The quarrels became so bad that the intervention of a single church inspector wasn't sufficient to call the vicar to order. In addition to Inspector Jacoby from Trarbach, the Duke also sent Inspector Johann Conon (his CV is coming up next week as it happens) to Traben to sort things out. Eventually, Fend was moved to Allenbach (Hunsrück). In 1599 Martin Caesar was vicar of Irmenach. * * * **Sixtus Caesar** (140.) According to Penningroth, Sixtus Caesar, vicar of Demmingen and Salzungen, is "probably" father to Konstantin Caesar and possibly also to Martin who were both born in Thuringia. I found a Caesar family history where this Sixtus appears as many times great grand uncle, so I'll just adopt him as No. 140. and translate their biography: He was born ca. 1522 In 1537 he enrolled as student at Wittenberg. In 1542 he graduated as a magister, then became parson at Wersternach. After the death of his father in 1543 he looks after his mother and younger siblings. Further positions: 1543 parson at Finningen 1545/46 Planverweser (sounds like a planning admin role) in Löpsingen Diakon in Nördlingen (that is the town that was famously built into the crater a meteorite left 15 million years ago, which kind of provided a degree of natural fortification) 1548 After the Augsburg Interim he moves to Thuringia 1549-1552 vicar at Salzungen Also enrolles at the University of Jena since 1549. 1553/54 Lauffen (Neckar) 1554/55 Kürnbach then Finningen 1558 good report from a visitation at Finningen. 1561 Demmingen 1566 appointed to a positin at the palace of Count Wolfgang of Zweibrücken/Pfalz, possibly in parallel to the position at Demmingen. 1578 celebrates 18 years as vicar of Demmingen, aged 56 1584 presumed to have died as the position is filled anew. Merian view of Nördlingen. Source: Wikipedia Von Martin Zeiller - Scan eines Original Buchs, Gemeinfrei, **Johannes Keyser** (280.) (listed as father of Sixtus and earliest ancestor in this Caesar family tree). Also listed on Gedbas. born around 1480 in Nördlingen. He served first as a Catholic then as a Protestant priest in Harburg / Ries. Married Barbara NN. They have at least ten children. 1518-25 Frühmesser in Harburg (this is a very Catholic thing, with a foundation set up to fund a priest reading the mass before everybody else goes to work) 9.8.1524 Son David Caesar born at Harburg. For the other 9 children there are only estimated birth years (interestingly, one site claims that eight of them were born in 1524). 1525-43 vicar in Harburg and Großsorheim, court preacher for the count Carl Wolfgang of Oettingen at Harburg. 1535 also listed as an assistant preacher in the town of in Nördlingen. From 1538 Kapellan in the Frühmesshaus Großsorsheim. Died 1543. * * * > Long story short: A whole dynasty of clergymen. Unfortunately, not very much is known about the wives of those Caesars! However, in other parts of this network of clergymen I am currentlly unravelling the connections are very much matrilinear, will blog about those separately. What I find absolutely mindboggling is the fact that this is the third lineage that leads us to a protestant priest of the first hour, taking office with the Reformation. Johannes Keyser joins Peter Siegel, the first vicar of Kirn, and Johannes Andreae of Schönbach (the elder). (Oh, and coming up, one Diakon who made himself very unpopular by triggering the removal of a first-hour Lutheran vicar for Calvinist tendencies.) Overall, including the Andreae lineage and the Caesars as possible/plausible ancestors, I now have 14 clergymen in the family tree. Of those, 13 are (possible) ancestors of the five Kauer sisters. One (Peter Siegel) is from their mother's side, the remaining dozen connects via the people mentioned in the Weiß Chronicles, so they are all ancestors of the teacher Christoph Gottlieb Weiß, the father of their paternal grandmother. There may be a couple more hiding in the bushes. Plus quite a few more among the many-times-great uncles (such as David and Martin Caesar, above). * * * Confused about who is who? - see my new name index for all things family history.

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War Opa bei den Nazis? 16 Millionen NSDAP-Karten jetzt frei im Netz dpa: (Bild: MeganBrady/Shutterstock.com)War der eigene Opa ein Nazi? Diese Frage kann nun über das US-Nationalarchiv beantwortet werden. Erstmals sind Mitgliedskarteien der NSDAP online einsehbar.Mehr als 80 Jahre nach dem Ende der Nazi-Herrschaft in Deutschland [1] ermöglicht das US-amerikanische Nationalarchiv eine historische Familienforschung über das Internet. Auf der Suche nach den eigenen Großeltern kann sich jeder ohne vorherige Anmeldung durch Millionen Einträge klicken. Dazu eine Einordnung und Anleitung.Umfangreiche Archivbestände erstmals frei zugänglichDie USA ermöglichen im Gegensatz zu Deutschland einen Zugang zu einer vollständigen digitalen Kopie der mikroverfilmten NSDAP-Zentralkartei sowie NSDAP-Ortsgruppenkartei. Damit stehen mehr als 16 Millionen digitale Objekte wie Fotos auf mehr als 5.000 digitalisierten Mikrofilmrollen frei zur Verfügung. Diese enthalten die Daten Millionen Deutscher, die bis 1945 Mitglied in der Nationalsozialistischen Deutschen Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP) waren. Nach Angaben des Deutschen Historischen Museums war 1945 „jeder fünfte erwachsene Deutsche einer von insgesamt 8,5 Millionen Parteigenossen“ und hat damit zumindest auf dem Papier das Unrechtssystem unterstützt.Es sei nicht ungewöhnlich, dass solche Bestände im US-Nationalarchiv liegen und dort digital zugänglich sind, sagt Historiker Martin Winter von der Universität Leipzig. „Das hat eine transatlantische Geschichte – die Unterlagen wurden nach dem Krieg für Entnazifizierung und Prozesse genutzt.“ Auch im Bundesarchiv Berlin gibt es digitale Kopien des Materials. Aus rechtlichen Gründen ist ihre Nutzung aber nur viel eingeschränkter möglich.Hitler, Himmler und Hess sind in den Archivdaten zu findenKern der US-Sammlung ist die sogenannte „Master File“, die mehrere zentrale Karteien vereint. Dazu gehört die Ortsgruppenkartei mit rund 6,6 Millionen Mitgliedskarten, die detaillierte Angaben wie Name, Geburtsdatum, Beruf, Parteieintritt und Wohnort enthalten. Ergänzend existiert die Zentralkartei mit etwa 4,3 Millionen Karten, die zwischen 1929 und 1943 angelegt wurden und auch führende NS-Funktionäre wie Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler und Rudolf Heß erfassen.Dazu kommen mehr als 200.000 Fragebögen von NSDAP-Mitgliedern im Großraum Berlin und Materialien zu angeschlossenen Organisationen wie dem Nationalsozialistischen Lehrerbund oder der Reichsärztekammer.Papierfabrik-Geschäftsführer rettet Beweismaterial vor VernichtungDass die von den Nazis akribisch verfassten Karteien ihrer Parteimitglieder überhaupt noch existieren, ist Hanns Huber, Geschäftsführer einer Papierfabrik nördlich von München, zu verdanken. Er widersetzte sich [2] kurz vor Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs dem Befehl, insgesamt 65 Tonnen Papier einzustampfen. So bewahrte er das umfangreiche Beweismaterial vor der Vernichtung.Das Münchner Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte bezeichnet das rückblickend als „mutige Entscheidung von politischer Tragweite“. Im Herbst 1945 erkannte die US-Militärregierung schließlich die Relevanz der zu großen Haufen aufgetürmten Karten und Akten in der Papierfabrik und brachte sie im neu eingerichteten Berlin Document Center (BDC) unter.„Keine Nazisuchmaschine“Forschende und auch Privatpersonen können das Archiv nun online nutzen. Historiker Winter betont, es handle sich um einen Zugang zu sehr umfangreichen Archivbeständen: „Es ist eben keine ‚Nazisuchmaschine‘, wo man Namen eingibt und sofort alles herausfindet.“Solche großen Datensätze seien etwa für Historiker sehr hilfreich, weil man nach Namen suchen kann, aber mit anderen Suchbegriffen auch neue Personen findet, auf die man sonst gar nicht gekommen wäre, sagt Winter, der an der Universität Leipzig zum Thema „Unternehmenskultur, Zwangsarbeit und Judenmord beim Leipziger Rüstungskonzern HASAG“ forscht [3].So funktioniert die Suche in der DatenbankUm auf der Internetseite des US-Nationalarchivs [4] NSDAP-Mitglieder zu finden, braucht es aus Deutschland aktuell wohl zumeist einen VPN. Am einfachsten funktioniert das über Dienste, die direkt im Browser integriert [5] sind, beispielsweise bei Opera [6]. Wenn sich das Archiv öffnet, muss man zuerst auf der Startseite die Suche aktivieren („Search within this Series“). Dann erhält der Nutzer Zugriff auf die Dokumente.Ähnlich, aber komplizierter als bei einer Google-Suche, gilt es, diese einzuschränken – und das geht so: Wer etwa nur nach „Müller“ sucht, bekommt knapp 200 Treffer angezeigt. Was hilft, ist die Suche nach dem Schema Nachname, Vorname und dazu idealerweise dem damaligen Wohnort zu begrenzen. Die besten Ergebnisse liefert die Maschine durch die zusätzliche Eingabe des Geburtsdatums ohne das damalige Jahrhundert – also etwa 10.06.18.Wer dann im Idealfall nur einen Treffer übrig hat, ist trotzdem lange nicht am Ziel: Hinter dem Dokument verstecken sich oft mehrere Tausend Seiten digitalisierten Mikrofilms. Historiker Winter umschreibt den folgenden Prozess des Durcharbeitens als „deutlich langwieriger als man denkt“. Im Idealfall sollte eine Liste der Suchergebnisse innerhalb des Mikrofilms angezeigt werden. Diese kann hilfreich sein: Grün hinterlegte Karten sollten die Suchbegriffe enthalten.Zur Aussagekraft: Eine Mitgliedschaft und ihre FolgenFindet man einen Namen im Archiv, sollte man nicht voreilig Schlüsse ziehen. Die Mitgliedschaft in der Partei zeige vorerst nur, dass jemand eingetreten sei und sage wenig darüber aus, wie sich die Person im Nationalsozialismus verhalten habe, erklärt Winter und betont: „Allerdings hat man durch den Beitritt auf jeden Fall eine Zustimmung signalisiert.“ Umgekehrt bedeute es aber auch nicht, dass jemand ohne Treffer im Archiv nichts mit dem Nationalsozialismus zu tun hatte.Ob es trotzdem zu Diskussionen am Familientisch führen könnte? Das wäre „ein begrüßenswerter Impuls, denn es gibt durchaus eine Verantwortung, sich mit der eigenen Familiengeschichte auseinanderzusetzen“, meint Winter. Zugleich betont der Historiker: „Niemand muss heute die moralische Verantwortung für die Taten des Urgroßvaters übernehmen.“URL dieses Artikels:https://www.heise.de/-11217608Links in diesem Artikel:[1] https://www.heise.de/meinung/Missing-Link-Die-Tage-der-Befreiung-4717883.html[2] https://www.zispotlight.de/iris-lauterbach-ueber-die-auslagerung-und-auffindung-der-nsdap-kartei-vor-75-jahren/#:~:text=Durch passiven Widerstand widersetzte sich Hanns Huber, der Geschäftsführer der Fabrik, dem Befehl, die Kartei einzustampfen. 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the vicars of Eckweiler After revisiting the Weiß Chronicles including the biography of Johannes Weiß, the vicar of Eckweiler from 1740 to 1772, I had another look at the history of the village, which unfortunately disappeared from the surface of the Earth in the 1980s, leaving nothing but the little church and an old chestnut tree. It reminded me that the Lutheran village clergymen in that area formed an interesting kind of network between neighbouring parishes and across generations. For instance, the next vicar of Eckweiler taking over from Johannes Weiß, was his son in law. Four of my direct ancestors played parts in that game regionally. Johannes Weiß at Eckweiler was the most recent one, then there's his father-in-law Philipp Nicolaus Ebner at Alterkülz, then the great-great-grandfather of his daughter-in-law at Gebroth, and finally Peter Siegel, who studied with Martin Luther and brought the Reformation to Kirn, was the earliest. In an effort to better understand the culture of these networks, I'll list all the vicars who held the parish of Eckweiler in a timeline from the Reformation through to its dissolution, to see if there are any further connections with people we know (names of interest in bold). My main source for this endeavour is the book: > Eckweiler: Eine Kirche ohne Dorf > Monika Kirschner, Hans Werner Ziemer > 2005 (printed privately, no ISBN number referred to as "the book" below, but in an earlier effort to draw up a family tree of an Eckweiler person not (yet) related to me, I also used the Einwohnerbuch Eckweiler-Daubach, which I don't have at hand right now. That ancestry of Johann Nikolaus Fuchs also includes several of the clergymen listed below. #### timeline 1557 16.7. official date of the Reformation in the Hintere Grafschaft Sponheim, the microstate to which Eckweiler then belonged. (While the book says it belonged to Hintere (Eastern) Grafschaft Sponheim, Wikipedia says at least in the initial partitioning it was part of the Vordere (Western) Grafschaft Sponheim. It may have been reshuffled to the other part at some point, but the Reformation came to both parts simultaneously, which were otherwise surrounded by mostly catholic areas.) 1557-1586 Remigius Thiel is the first Lutheran vicar of Eckweiler. He died at Eckweiler 9.1.1602 aged over 80. 1586-1593 Johannes Ries, then moved on to Gebroth. 1593-1599 Melchior Beerwein. He ran into trouble and disappeared without a trace. 1599-1621 Johann Valentin **Faber**. He died in Eckweiler January 1621. His son and grandson also were vicars, more info about the family here. According to that forum contribution, his wife, Juliane Teutchag, was the daughter of the vicar of Wallhausen, from a long line of clergymen in Hessen. The unusual name may be a misreading of Tautphoeus, which originated from a latinised version of the village name Dautphe (near Biedenkopf, Hessen) where that lineage came from. 1621-1635 Nicolaus **Mohr** Now that's interesting because I think he may very well be related to our Landschreiber Mohr in the same generation. Both are believed to have died from the plague which hit the area in 1635-36. The village of Daubach near Eckweiler was reported to have no residents left for about a decade. until 1663 Johann Jakob **Faber** , grandson of Johann Valentin Faber, listed above, was the vicar. Not sure when his tenure started as the 30-years-war and the plague may have interrupted village life and church services. The earliest mention in the book is from 1650. From 1663 until 1677 he was the vicar in nearby Pferdsfeld, which meant he oversaw the burial of the next vicar of Eckweiler: 1663-1674 Johann Michael **Becker** who died 30.4.1674 aged only 37. According to Gedbas he married Anna Katharina Hauth (from a long lineage of clergymen, who married two other colleagues before and after this one) and had a son called Johann Friedrich Becker born 28. May 1673 in Eckweiler. NB I have an ancestor Anna Eva Becker from Laubenheim who married in 1671 at Horn. Her father was Wendel Becker from Laubenheim. 1674-1690 Johann Justus **Leyendecker**. Born ca. 1642 in Trarbach, died 28.11.1699 in Weiler. That is funny - he appears in a family tree we once drew up for somebody else who's not related to me (yet) but whose ancestors in the Hunsrück area moved very much in the same kind of social circles as mine. (That's the ancestry of Johann Nikolaus Fuchs, born 24.8.1820 in Eckweiler.) And oops, the Fabers mentioned above are also part of this family tree, as are the Schauss family who held the post station and inn in the village. 1691-1697 Johann Heinrich Brach 1697-1740 Johann Philipp Forst. According to this page, he married Elisabetha Margaretha Liernur from a family that produced multiple clergymen. Her Father was Johann Albert Liernur, who was the vicar of Bergen from 1678 to his death 31 Mar 1707. Johann Philipp Forst died 30.1.1752 at Eckweiler aged 77. 1740-1772 Johannes **Weiß** (1704-1772). My ancestor - see the Weiß Chronicles for his short biography. Note that his wife, Katharina Elisabeth Ebner (1712-1790), was the daughter of a Lutheran priest as well. She came from Trarbach, where her father and grandfather hat taught at the grammar school (Lateinschule) which still exists today. 1773-1818 Philipp Jacob Bauer, who was married to Maria Elisabeth Weiß (-1819), the daughter of his predecessor, so he also appears in the Weiß Chronicles, with the claim that they had no children. The residents register of Eckweiler notes two children, however, who both died before reaching school age. According to the book, Philipp Jakob Bauer died 27.7.1818 aged 85, having retired from the vicar's job earlier that year. According to GedBas, however, he was born 24.11.1734 at Enkirch (on the river Mosel, just downstream of Trarbach) and died 29.8.1818 in Eckweiler which would make him 83. He is part of a very extensive family network on GedBas, with a complete set of eight great-grandparents and name line ancestry (wine growers at Enkirch) going back to the 16th century, but no obvious link to any of my Bauer ancestors in the area. Funnily enough, I have another protestant priest from Enkirch among my direct ancestors, Nikolaus Andreae, who became vicar of Gebroth (not far from Eckweiler) in 1632. And his great-great-granddaughter married a son of Johannes Weiß. It's all one big network, I'm telling you. 1818-1822 The vicar of nearby Pferdsfeld, Markus Mitscher, also serves Eckweiler, but the parish resists being permanently merged into that of Pferdsfeld and having to commute for services. 1822-1827 Georg August Ludwig Schmidtborn, who moved on to Kirn after his brief tenure. He went on to have a rather stellar career in the church administration, see his Wikipedia entry. 1827-1829 Georg Röbenacke, who followed a call to Wetzlar after only two years in office. There he drowned in the river Lahn. Could have lived a long and happy life in Eckweiler ... In 1828 Regina Katharina Weiss (born 10.9.1779), granddaughter of the vicar Johannes Weiss, and daughter of the mayor of Pferdsfeld, married Johannes Fuchs in Eckweiler. She was 49 years old at that point, so probably married to somebody else before? 1829-1844 Johann Wilhelm Arnold Mebus He died 25.3.1844 freezing to death at age 81 when travelling on foot from Winterburg to Eckweiler and caught in an unseasonal snowdrift. 1845-1847 Konrad Cörper Died 28.9.1847 aged only 39. 1848-1859 Gustav Adolf Lang, moved on to Hottenbach 1859-1862 Karl Heinrich Noel. Died 22.11.1862 at Eckweiler, aged 44. 1864-1888 Gustav Heinrich Roffhack. Died at Eckweiler 15.4.1888 aged 76. During his tenure, in 1881, the teacher Valentin Klee took office in the village, who left detailed comments about many aspects of village life. He was not impressed with Roffhack's work but liked the work of his successor better: 1889-1900 Johann Wilhelm Vogelsang. He moved on to Kirn. First to be represented with a portrait photo in the book. On 28.8. 1891 Christian Gottlieb Weiß (* 29.5.1819), great-grandson of our vicar Johannes Weiß, wrote down the Weiß Chronicles, stating explicitly that he was living at Eckweiler at that time. Based on that date, our family connection with Eckweiler lasted for at least 150 years, from 1740-1891. However, his daughter Sophie married Franz Philipp Kehrein in Eckweiler (his family seems to have had a farm in Pferdsfeld). Their older son (born before 1880) appears to have stayed in Eckweiler had five children there (and Christian Gottlieb may have been living with them when he wrote down the family history, seeing his wife had died in 1886), so for all we know there may have been descendants right through to the time the place was evacuated. Their younger son Karl Kehrein (1880-1942) was a baker at Kirn, where my great-great aunt Johanna borrowed the Weiß Chronicles from him and made the copy we still have today (the original has gone missing). Incidentally, Karl Kehrein was married to Lina Martin, who according to our records was also a cousin of Johanna's via the Kauer family (Gedbas disagrees though). According to this newspaper clipping, Artur and Else Kehrein refused to leave Pferdsfeld when the villages were cleared in the 1980s. Artur died in 1994 and Else eventually moved to a care home in Sobernheim where she died in 2014, but their house was only demolished in 2022, long after the military airfield ceased to exist. So between the two villages we easily get to 250 years of family presence. 1900-1906 Wilhelm Rheingans. In 1906, he published a short history of the parish of Eckweiler which I haven't got. Then he moved on to the new industrial city Oberhausen in the Ruhr area (not to be confused with the eponymous village in the Hunsrück). According to Gedbas he had four children and died 7.2.1914 in Elberfeld, aged 43. 1907-1934 Otto Jungjohann. Building work on the church that was planned under his two predecessors finally started happening in 1908, always accompanied by the critical remarks of teacher Valentin Klee in his school chronicles. Both his predecessors came for the grand inauguration ceremony on 2.12.1908. On 9.2.1915, the village was connected to the electricity network. 1935-1942 Eduard Jungjohann, son of the predecessor. Retired for health reasons and died the same year at Ulm. 1943-1952 Ernst Altenpohl 1952-1952 Eduard Otto Heinz Hinnemann (GedBas entry) Died suddenly on 16.11.1952 while the bells were ringing for a service he was due to hold. 1954-1956 Erich Lotze. Moved to Wuppertal. 1956-1957 NN Theunert. Died 26.9.1957. Didn't even leave a record of his first name. 1959-1976 Peter Schumacher. The last one officially appointed to this parish. As the increasing problems with the nearby airfield made people move away, the remaining residents were served by priests from neighbouring parishes until the evacuation. 10.6.1979 the villages of Pferdsfeld and Eckweiler officially cease to exist. In Eckweiler alone, the last 302 residents were resettled and 51 houses demolished, leaving only the church standing. * * * Other Eckweiler-related VIPs include Friedrich Wilhelm Utsch, who may or may not have been the inspiration for the folk song "Ein Jäger aus Kurpfalz", and who used a hunting lodge at Entenpfuhl, which the book claims as Eckweiler territory. A later reincarnation was built on Pferdsfeld's land in an effort to save tax, apparently. Leads for further study: * This genealogy wiki has short biographies of many parsons (more than 50 family names) in the Hunsruck area in English - sadly not including any of my ancestors or in-laws. Although the Andreae person at the top of the list must be related to my ancestor Nicolaus Andrae who was vicar of Göroth and Gebroth (Gedbas). * Stop Press, clicking through from that Gedbas entry I found another clergymen in my family tree, Johann Balthasar Orth, vicar of Kirn from 1560-69, thus the direct successor of Peter Siegel. (Oh, and related to Goethe.) And another one, Valentin Konstantin Keiser. Basically both grandfathers of Nicolaus Andrae's wife were vicars too. And after his death, she married another one, Valentin Corvinus, who appears in that wiki list linked above. The Corvinus guy married three Orth women in succession, two sisters and their cousin. All of which calls for a separate blog entry or two. * * * Who is who? - see my new name index for all things family history.

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Recherche zur NS-Familiengeschichte: Workshops 2026 – preposition

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Die (handschriftliche) Rezeptesammlung meiner Mutter beginnt im Oktober 1952 und hat sich über die Jahre zu einem analogen Rezepte-Pinterest weiter entwickelt. Sie kochte daraus bis zu ihrem (frühen) Ableben Ende der 1990er. #wirkochengut #rezepte #kochbuch #familiengeschichte

Für diesen Online-Rechercheworkshop am 8. Januar 2026 sind noch die letzten Plätze frei!
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Diese Ausgabe der "Gedichte von Friedrich Schiller"wurde offenbar noch zu Lebzeiten des Autors gedruckt. Es war damals die Neueste und vollstaendigste Ausgabe, und #Schiller noch nicht geadelt. proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2025/12/our-oldest-book....
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what happened in Hamborn I'm trying to figure out what happened to the ca. 15 children of the East Prussian patchwork family we met in the Every picture series, so let's tag the three patches. There are the litters Faust 1 and Faust 2 sharing Franz Faust (1857-1938) as a father, and the Wittke family from Wilhelmine Domscheit's (1863-1942) first marriage. Of the (at least) four children of Faust 2, we know that the sisters Auguste and Hanna moved west to the short-lived industrial city of Hamborn in the 1920s, wheras Luise landed in Lippstadt via a refugee camp in Denmark so presumably stayed in East Prussia until January 1945. We know that their brother Otto Faust (born 1895 as the first child of Faust 2) died in January 1945 in the attempt to defend East Prussia. Browsing lots of address books of Duisburg, I now discovered that the semi-mysterious aunt Therese Vietz (who could be from any of the patches) also lived in Hamborn for several decades, actually two doors down from her sister Hanna. So from 1950 to 1980 we have three patchwork sisters living on a geographically very limited patch in the former city of Hamborn, now part of Duisburg, less than a mile apart. The iconic town hall of Hamborn, which reminds me of the one at Elberfeld, built only a few years earlier. Own photo. More photos from my recent visit to Hamborn in this flickr album. So to gain some clarity I need to spell this out as a timeline. Dates before 1950 are from documents and addresses on envelopes; from 1950 onwards from the excellent collection of addressbooks of Duisburg) in the city archives. **Timeline: 100 years in Hamborn** 1922 13.10. Auguste registers at Weseler Str. 95 as a lodger with a resident called Hirsch. At the time, Weseler Str. and especially its intersection with Kaiser Wilhelm Str. were becoming the big shopping destination in the new city, with the Arnold Pollmann department store completed in 1929, after which the area is now named Pollmannkreuz. 1923 2.2. Auguste moves to Wittfelderstr. 189a (still in Hamborn but on the southern edge of the city). 1923 23.3. Auguste marries Ernst. 1924 2.8.; 21.11. They live at Kampstr. 140a, which is the northern edge of the Dichterviertel (poets'/writers' quarter) , a major development of workers' accommodation built by the Thyssen company (mines and steelworks). By 1927 they move one block further east to Knappenstraße 43 which may have been new then, as this northeastern part of the Dichterviertel was developed later than the bit around Goethestraße. 1930s Auguste's sister Hanna and her husband Fritz Krieger also live in Knappenstr., at number 51 (based on a list of residents compiled by Auguste's son born 1926 who refers to the residents listed as the "Ureinwohner", ie original or indigenous residents). Other neighbours include the Kuhwald family. section of a map from 1936. Schachtstraße is on the left under the red number 15, Knappenstraße runs diagonally into the top right corner. Hamborn town hall, post office, and the protestant church where Auguste and Ernst married are all on the large through road Duisburger Straße just southwest of the centre of this map. Although chronically overrun by cars now, it is essentially a 15 minute city, as everything is within walking distance and there are trams too. 1943 Hanna and Fritz now live Schachtstr. 27. 1945 Ernst dies, Auguste continues to live in Knappenstraße 43 with her sons. 1950 Therese now lives in Schachtstraße 23, two doors down from Hanna and Fritz. Therese is recorded as a widow in the address book of 1950, but we don't now what happened to Mr Vietz (or even what his first name was). We also don't know whether Therese arrived at Hamborn before the war like Hanna and Auguste or whether she had to flee from East Prussia like Luise. 1973 last addressbook entry for Auguste and her son Erwin in Knappenstraße. Around 1975 Auguste has to leave her home of five decades in Knappenstraße as the site is cleared for a new development. She moves to Obere Holtener Str. 87. This is on the northeastern edge of Hamborn, the street leading towards Holten which is now part of Oberhausen. She was in a way unlucky to be in the newer and less coherent part of the Dichterviertel, as the older part around Goethestrasse has largely survived to this day (see my photos from Goethestraße on flickr). As do the Schachtstrasse houses where Hanna and Therese lived for several decades. 1977 First addressbook entry for Auguste and Erwin in Obere Holtener Str. In Knappenstraße, the odd numbers from 29 to 59 are now missing from the address book. 1979 Auguste dies. Two of her sons still live in Hamborn. Therese and the Kriegers are still living in Schachtstraße. The town of Walsum, which in 1975 also became part of Duisburg, also has a street called Schachtstraße. Therefore: by 1981 the former Schachtstraße has become Dr-Heinrich-Laakmann-Straße, named after a catholic priest who taught at the nearby Abteischule and died in Hamborn. Therese is still there in the address book of 1981, but the Kriegers no more. 1982 Last entry for Therese Vietz in the address books. 1984 Therese Vietz no longer appears in the address book. 2015 The last survivor of Auguste's sons dies in Hamborn. 2025 A new development of 80 homes goes up on the north side of Knappenstrasse. where the lower odd house numbers must have been. Google Street View shows vegetation on that side of the road right now, and then the 1970s four-storey apartment blocks from around number 47 onwards. So maybe the development in the 70s never extended to this area of the new project? Meanwhile the relevant houses in the former Schachtstrasse are looking really lovely on Street View. Resources * Lovely website from Duisburg city about the district Hamborn. * History of the Dichterviertel (in German), the area of which Knappenstrasse is a part. * Havenburn, Hamborn, Duisburg-Hamborn: Geschichte und Geschichten. Walter Braun Verlag Duisburg 1979. I found a copy of this at a book exchange when I visited. PS some of the patchwork grandchildren emigrated to Australia in the 1950s, so if anybody down there sees this and has ancestors in East Prussia named Faust, Domscheit, Wittke or Witt, do let me know.

Aus #Ostpreussen ins #Ruhrgebiet: #Migration und #Familiengeschichte aus #Hamborn (jetzt Teil von #Duisburg) proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2025/12/what-happened-in...

Wer bin ich und wo komme ich her? In Archiven graben, Dias durchforsten und Stammbäume digitalisieren: Die Suche nach den eigenen Wurzeln beschäftigt immer mehr Menschen – zum Beispiel an der Universitätsbibliothek Bern.

In Archiven graben, Dias durchforsten und Stammbäume digitalisieren: Die Suche nach den eigenen #Wurzeln beschäftigt immer mehr Menschen – zum Beispiel an der Universitätsbibliothek Bern.

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Tip 2 – Ahnenforschung im Escape-Room-Stil Jeder Hinweis bringt dich raus – aus dem Raum oder hinein in die Vergangenheit. Mach eine Liste mit Indizien: Geburtsorte, Berufseinträge, alte Karten. Kombiniere wie im Escape Room, bis die Story passt. Manche Rätsel werden schneller gelöst, andere bringen Überraschungen. Hilfreich: historische Adressbücher oder Kirchendatenbanken. Starte deine eigene Familien-Escape-Challenge und teile dein cleverstes Fundstück unter […] Der Beitrag Tip 2 – Ahnenforschung im Escape-Room-Stil erschien zuerst auf Verein für Computergenealogie e.V. (CompGen).

@DigiBib Mein Urgrossvater steht auf Seite 33. #Rheydt #Familiengeschichte #Genealogie

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Die Geschäfte meines Urgroßvaters unter Hitler

Dass das Zementwerk ihres Urgroßvaters unter Hitler gut verdiente, wusste #ChristinaStrunck schon lange. Aber produzierte das Werk auch Pfosten für KZ-Zäune?

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Sylvain Prudhomme: Der Junge im Taxi, Unionsverlag

Neu auf DieBedra:
Sylvain Prudhomme: Der Junge im Taxi.

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Mittwoch, 19. November 2025 | 18.00 – 20.00 Uhr Filmvorführung & Gespräch NACHLASS - Mit Christoph Hübner (Autor, Regisseur und Produzent) und Gabriele Voss (Autorin und Editorin)

NACHLASS | Filmvorführung und Gespräch

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Dokumentation "Sedimente" bei Duisburger Filmwoche Die Schweizer Regisseurin Laura Coppens hat mit "Sedimente" eine Dokumentation über ihren Großvater gedreht. Er kollaborierte mit der Stasi. Zu sehen ist der Film bei der Duisburger Filmwoche.

#Film #Familiengeschichte #Dokumentation #Festival #Movies #WongKar-Wai #Hongkong #DDR

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Böse Déjà-vus: Am 27. und 28.11. darf ich wieder – diesmal am Staatstheater #Braunschweig – bei der Performance dabei sein und im Anschluss über die »(un-)heimliche Wiederkehr von rechter Täter:innenschaft« diskutieren.

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Meine Mutter war nach 1945, nach Jahren im Bombenkeller, als Kind und Jugendliche in Wien schwerer Diskriminierung ausgesetzt – nur weil sie keinen österreichischen Pass hatte. Sie war Deutsche und ist als kleines Hascherl sicher nicht aufgefallen. #Denkanstoß #Familiengeschichte #Nationalfeiertag

#Buchtipp: Die #Aufsteiger
Der deutsche #Mittelstand unter #Hitler und die Schuld: eine #Familiengeschichte als Fallstudie. Von Christina Strunck.
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Und dieses Foto, dass einen ersten Entwurf der Kapelle zeigt, aus dem Sand des Strandes, vermutlich aus dem Jahre 1931.
Man kann es sich vorstellen, die Dame war überglücklich.
#graphicnovel #comics #familiengeschichte #timmendorferstrand