Germany Connectors Challenge October 2023: Inventors of things we love

Question

This month we will be connecting people who contributed to the invention of everyday things we love:

Rudolph Heinrich Baer:  Video game console  (Connected)

Johann Riegel:  Gummy bear

Paul Julius Gottlieb Nipkow:  Early television transmission

Amalie Auguste Melitta (Liebscher) Bentz:  Coffee filter

Have fun!

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I love Gummy bear. Best memories of Berlin in 2018.

Answer 1

Paul Nipkow: There are some sources and relatives on Familysearch  https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/9KQW-LPM. I´ll add some of them to the tree

Comments

Could anybody with access to Ancestry look up his marriage record? I would like to confirm the father of his spouse. I would also be interested in knowing in which church they were married. There are way too many churches in Berlin to search:-)

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Hi Manuela,

if nobody has done it yet, I can download the available documents and sent them to you via email.

(oo 1885, *1885 (and ~1886), *1889, *1891, *1892, *1894, *1896, oo 1919 son H.K.Paul (and + for 2 of his children), +1939 daughter Marie Cl.J., +1940 his wife Sophia, +1940 himself)

Their first daughter was born Dec 1885 in Berlin, but baptized Sep 1886 in Hannover, as Sophia lived (or at least stayed) at H-Linden at that time.

Sophias parents:

Johannes August Colonius oo Marie Lisette Bösenberg

Sophia lived at Johanniterstr. when they married, maybe this helps with identifying the church (if in Berlin).

Vanessa

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In their first daughter's baptismal record (Hannover in Sep 1886) was noted: "Die Eltern zur Zeit der Taufe noch nicht kirchlich getraut."

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Thanks to the documents you provided Vanessa I added more people from his daughter-in-law´s family.

Right now I´m trying to find connections within Mecklenburg-Strelitz (Schönberg) and Mecklenburg-Schwerin (Damshagen). See relatives Sophie Schmöcker

Hope this is easier than searching for connections in the vast city of Berlin...

Answer 2

some BAER / BÄR from Rodalben and Pirmasens in Familiendatenbank Juden im Deutschen Reich (data taken from Gedenkbuch Bundesarchiv): - Rodalben: [https://ofb.genealogy.net/namelist.php?ofb=juden_nw&ort=Rodalben&e=life&sort_by=name&lang=de] Alfred BAER (born 14 Sep 1875 in Rodalben) -- (living in Rodalben and Süssen, 01 Dec 1941 deported from Stuttgart to Riga-Jungfernhof (Außenlager Ghetto Riga)) -- https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Baer-1656 Auguste BAER oo Löwenberg (born 27 Sep 1883 in Rodalben) -- (living in Duisburg, 22 Apr 1942 deported from Düsseldorf to Izbica (Ghetto)) -- https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Baer-1657 Eugenie / Rosa Eugenia BAER oo Metzger (born 03 Dec 1881 in Rodalben) -- (living in Rodalben and Süßen, 01 Dec 1941 deported from Stuttgart to Riga-Jungfernhof (Außenlager Ghetto Riga)) -- https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Baer-1658 Louise BAER oo Mann (born 14 Oct 1889 in Rodalben) -- (living in Rodalben and Duisburg, 11 Dec 1941 deported from Düsseldorf to Riga (Ghetto), 01 Oct 1944 deported to Stutthof (KZ)) -- https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Baer-1659 Siegfried BAER (born 04 Oct 1930 in Rodalben) -- (living in Rodalben and Süssen, 01 Dec 1941 deported from Stuttgart to Riga-Jungfernhof (Außenlager Ghetto Riga)) -- https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Baer-1660 Werner BAER (born 13 Aug 1923 in Rodalben) -- (living in Rodalben and Süßen, 01 Dec 1941 deported from Stuttgart to Riga-Jungfernhof (Außenlager Ghetto Riga), deported to Stutthof (KZ), deported to Neuengamme (KZ)) -- https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Baer-1661 Hans Ernst BÄR (born 12. Apr 1917 in Pforzheim, Baden) -- (living in Rodalben and Süssen, 12 Nov 1938 - 21 Jan 1939 interned at Dachau (KZ), 01 Dec 1941 deported from Stuttgart to Riga-Jungfernhof (Außenlager Ghetto Riga)) Isidor BAER (born 31 Jul 1881 in Rodalben) -- (living in Rodalben, emigrated to Netherlands, 27 Apr 1943 deported from Westerbork to Sobibor (Vernichtungslager), declared dead per 30 Apr 1943) -- https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Baer-1668 Julie / Juliane BAER oo Elikann (born 27 Nov 1876 in Rodalben) -- (living in Hagenbach and Karlsruhe, 22 Oct 1940 deported to Gurs (Internment Camp, France), deported to Drancy (Sammellager), 10 Aug 1942 deported to Auschwitz (KZ)) -- https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Baer-1662 - Pirmasens: [https://ofb.genealogy.net/namelist.php?ofb=juden_nw&ort=Pirmasens&e=life&sort_by=name&lang=de] Selma Lissy BAER (born 18 Feb 1907 in Pirmasens) -- (living in __?__, emigrated to Netherlands, deported to Auschwitz (KZ), declared dead per 02 Sep 1942) Stelly (or probably) Steffy BAER oo Schestowitz (born 29 May 1904 in Pirmasens) -- (living in Pirmasens, emigrated to Belgium, 04 Aug 1942 deported from Mechelen (Malines) to Auschwitz (KZ))

Comments

Not sure if you are aware of those:

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GSHX-XMB

https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/22948634/person/380016020060/facts?_phsrc=hTu1&_phstart=successSource  Including a link to :  http://www.ralphbaer.com/rhbc.htm

https://www.myheritage.de/research/collection-1/myheritage-stammbaume?itemId=224678941-1-658708&action=showRecord&recordTitle=Ralph+Henry+Baer including a link to https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/unionleader/obituary.aspx?n=ralph-h-baer&pid=173398418&fhid=4813

There is a sister: which would be a first side step: Ilse Jane Wertheim (born Baer)  1924 - 2012

All ending at a grand father Joseph Baer 1848–1922 BIRTH 1 FEB 1848 • Germany DEATH 10 MAY1922 • Germany

with no source given.

I checked into Jewish Geni but did not have any sucess there either.

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Also checked into here: http://www.alemannia-judaica.de/rheinland-pfalz_friedhoefe.htm since the grandfathers dates could be from a grave stone. Unfortunately those graveyards are not complete photographed. May be on another site. Or to ask someone in Pirmasens to go and check. Unfortunately there is more than one graveyard.

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Hi Alexandra,

thanks for all the information & links and sorry for not responding earlier.

Real life is a little demanding right now so I recently didn't have much time to continue the BAER research and further contribute to this challenge or WT in general.

I'm aware of some FS and ancestry profiles, but I don't have access to MyH (no account).

3 weeks ago I phoned Rodalben and Pirmasens archives and was given some interesting info concerning the Jewish communities. Further research for documents would have to take place there. Hopefully I will be able to get some more info and answers in a next phone call, but probably this will have to wait until next month...

Answer 3

I have added possible parents for Johann Riegel in the research notes - I cannot connect because Johann Riegels data is not available online.

Comments

Service: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Riegel-638

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According to https://www.rheinische-geschichte.lvr.de/Persoenlichkeiten/hans-riegel/DE-2086/lido/57cd1fee5e53a6.38269037 he was son of a craftsman from Friesdorf

Hans (Jo­han­nes) Rie­gel wur­de am 3.4.1893 als Sohn ei­nes Hand­wer­kers und ei­ner Bäue­rin in Fries­dorf bei Bonn ge­bo­ren.

The linked record https://dfg-viewer.de/show?tx_dlf%5Bdouble%5D=0&tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.landesarchiv-nrw.de%2Fdigitalisate%2FAbt_Rheinland%2FPA_3102%2F~021%2F02160_Bd02%2Fmets.xml&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=30&cHash=ca8a6e632a1b4f608c6dfb4c00625f50 claims he was a mason ("Maurer") from Friesdorf, so I guess this has to fit.

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Yes, it fits quite well, but we should have a proper source for it, e.g. birth or death record.

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Offering the line "Maurerhandwerk seines Vaters will er absolut nichts wissen" from the Google Books preview of "Ein Bär geht um die Welt: Haribo, vom Bonbonkocher zum König der Gummibärchen ; eine deutsche Familiensaga"

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Thanks for connecting the father. I added a bit of research note to document the connection.