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The Family Meeting on 30 September and 1 October 2023 attracted a good number of participants - we were 47 altogether.
Remember that the first meeting of descendants of our forefather Nikolaus Hinrich Brehmer (1756‒1822) took place in 1948 ‒ 75 years ago. Since then the family tree has grown many more branches, in fact so many that the youngest generations hardly know of each other and, in many cases, have lost interest in these meetings. For this reason the 2023 meeting has been the last of its kind, bringing together members of the seven lines.
In the future, family meetings should be organized within a family line (Wilhelm, Ernst, Adolf, Wilhelm Heinrich, Hermann, August, Hugo). Whoever is taking up the initiative should ask CONTACT the mailing list.
Back to the Familientag 2023: It was planned by Annette Eickhölter, Friedemann Hellwig and Sabine Langhammer-Coleman. The program can be found on the page FAMILIENTAGE.
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A extraordinary event took place on May 24, the reinstallation of old Nikoalus Hinrich Brehmer's gravestone. I had been erraneously transfered to another cemetery. After its restoration it was now put back to where it once stoodd, at the St. Laurence Cemetery. Gisela Brehmer and her husband had taken great efforts to achieve this against burocratic hazards.
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I read from Magdalene (Ala) Brehmer's diary from 1898 to 1900 at the most recent family gathering in September 2019. As her text met with great interest I am now preparing an annotated and illustrated publication. It can go to the printer's as soon as I can get a photo of Ala's tapestry based on her prize-winning design.
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Last update 28/057/2023
