by Marc Jarzebowski | Jan 20, 2021 | People
A Name with a Sound My parents had a friend named Gildemeister. Therefore, even as a child, I knew that this name stood for a respected bourgeois family in my hometown of Bremen.Johann Friedrich Gildemeister (1750-1812) and his son Johann Carl Friedrich (1779-1849)...
by Marc Jarzebowski | Dec 24, 2020 | People
Willi Hentschke Six years ago today the story about Willi Hentschke and his family appeared in the Berliner Tagesspiegel and about how I could help to illuminate it by means of genealogy: Wurzeln ans Licht. On this occasion I tell here – with kind permission of the...
