This week, I find that I am related to several famous German notables.
Per wikitree.com, I am:
24 degrees from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - considered to be one of the greatest
poets and novelists of all time
26 degrees from Dietrich Bonhoeffer - imprisoned and executed for his part in a plot to
overthrow Adolf Hitler.
28 degrees from Lucas Cranach - one of the most famous German painters of the Renaissance.
23 degrees from Stefanie Graf - famous women's tennis player
25 degrees from Wilhelm Grimm - German author and anthropologist, and the younger
brother of Jacob Grimm, of the literary duo the Brothers Grimm.
26 degrees from Fanny (Mendelssohn) Hensel - German pianist and composer.
28 degrees from Theodor Heuss - elected to the Reichstag, the German parliament
15 degrees from Alexander Mack - the leader and first minister of the Schwarzenau
Brethren (or German Baptists
34 degrees from Carl Miele - one of the founders of the German household appliance
industry
20 degrees from Nathan Rothschild - made a fortune in trading bills of exchange through
a banking enterprise begun in 1805.
25 degrees from Hermann Friedrich Albert von Ihering
24 degrees from Ferdinand von Zeppelin - a German general, and later inventor of the
first lighter-than-air rigid dirigible airship, known as the Zeppelin
It is always interesting to visit the past to see how we are related to each other. I have
some ancestors that were black, bank robbers, politicians, physicians, detectives,
actors,
comedians. I guess that I am a collection of all of them, as we ALL are. WikiTree.com
helps me gather this information with their weekly newsletters.
If you would like to find your connections to famous people, you can start by giving me
some basic information by going to:
https://www.hobbyline.com/genealogy_web_design.htm and click on the 'Request Form'
link.
I have researched the ancestry for many persons interested in their family history.
Mike Dippel
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