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.

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Germany's Day of Unity is October 3, so we're celebrating German genealogy. Per
wikitree.com I am:

32 degrees from Ludwig van Beethoven
24 degrees from Dietrich Bonhoeffer
21 degrees from Uta Hagen
25 degrees from Hermann Hesse
23 degrees from Brigitte Horney
22 degrees from Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg
27 degrees from Sophie Scholl
29 degrees from Clara Schumann
22 degrees from Levi Strauss
23 degrees from Justus von Liebig
29 degrees from Friedrich von Schiller
22 degrees from Eberhard Zeidler

More info about them:

Ludwig van Beethoven, one of the most revered composers and pianists in Western
classical music, spanning the transition from the Classical to Romantic periods.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, theologian and pastor who led a clandestine seminary in defiance of
Hitler, and who was imprisoned and executed for plotting to assassinate him.

Uta Hagen, actress and acting teacher to Hollywood stars.

Hermann Hesse, German-born Swiss poet, novelist, and painter who received the Nobel
Prize in Literature in 1946.

Brigitte Horney, prominent German-American actress known for her theatre and film
roles, as well as her work in radio plays.

Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg, German army officer and aristocrat who was one of the
leading members of the failed 20 July plot of 1944 to assassinate Hitler and remove the
Nazi Party from power.

Sophie Scholl, Anti-Nazi political activist who was active within the White Rose non-
violent resistance group in Nazi Germany.

Clara Schumann, child prodigy musician and composer considered one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era.

Levi Strauss, Levi Strauss denim garment company founder.

Justus von Liebig, one of the pioneers of organic chemistry.

Friedrich von Schiller, German playwright, poet, essayist, historian, and philosopher.

Eb Zeidler, German-Canadian architect known internationally for his use of dramatic
interior atrium space and for such innovative landmarks as the Toronto Eaton Centre,
Ontario Place, and the Health Sciences Centre at McMaster University.

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I have some ancestors that were actors, architects, astronauts, Afro-American, bank robbers, boxers, comedians, detectives, pro hockey players, singers and musicians, painters, physicians, politicians, poets, popes, writers. I guess that
I am a collection of all of them, as we ALL are.

https://www.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,
and I would love to see how WE are related.

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