Family Gatherings since 1948 and still every second year
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The first family gathering (Familientag) was held in 1948, only three years after the end of the Second World War. Since then about thirty such meetings have taken place, during the past decenniums nearly every second year on the last Saturday of September. And always in Lübeck, of course. Here is a list of all these gatherings.
When and where will the next Familientag be? Take a look at the NEWS page.
The images and texts below should offer an impression of the gatherings. For reasons of data protection the names of participants can only be seen on the INTERNAL page (user name and password necessary for gaining access).
- Twenty-two family members got together inspite of the pandemic. Once again the Museumscafé Marlistro in Lübeck's historic centre was the most enjoyable location for undisturbed talks, for coffee and cake and an evenig buffet. A guided tour through the courtyards prvided a vivid idea of old Lübeck and its rich historic heritage.
- Information on the NEWS pager:
- Thirtytwo members of the Brehmer family met in Königstraße Lübeck for the next Familientag on the 26th of September. The staff of Marlistro Restaurant spoiled us with traditional north German cake and coffee. Thereafter we went to the neaby St. Jabobs Church ot listen to a recital on the early Stellwagen organ, in fact the only early organ that survived the last war undamaged. Heiner Stiebeling then gave a talk on Nikolaus Hinrich Brehmer, our ancestor, also touching upon the question of his premartital(?) daughter Elisabeth. Later on she married into the Klug family of whom a descendant took part in the gathering. The evening ended around an opulent buffet.
- Before the formal opening of the gathering a good number of participants took part in a touor through the gothic monastry formerly near the Burgtor, now belonging to the newly installed Hanseatic museum.
- This year's Familientag took place on the 28th of September, as before in the Restaurant Müggenbusch on the shore of river Wake
- nitz. The preprogram offerd a guided tour of St. Gile's (Ägidienkirche) and the surronding quarter (see the images in the head runner).
Benefactors donated a flag with the family coat of arms:
- The meeting of 2011 on teh 24th for September brought all persons of the photo below together:
- This was the last gathering in the old Schabbelhaus in Mengstraße (this well-known traditional restaurant had for many years been run by members of the Brehmer family).
Die Find the participants' names on the INTERNAL page.
- This meeting took place again in the time-honoured Schabbelhaus in Lübeck's Mengstraße.
- See here the participants of the 2003 Familientag and find their names on the INTERNAL page:
- Another well-attended gathering in the Schabbelhaus in Lübeck:
- May be this gathering was well-attended but there is no documentation, there is onyl this photograph of Otto and Hannchen Stiebeling (the person on the left is unidentified).
- Many have come together in teh restaurant Lachswehr. Unfortunalety there is no documentation of who is who in the image. Only very few have been identified. Can you help?
- Hans-Heinrich Stiebeling (line Adolph) sent the photo of the Familientag 1981 in Scharbeutz at the Baltic Sea. There the lines Adopf, August, ernst and Wilhelm were represented. The identification of the people on the photo is still imcomplete. Who can help?
- Another family gathering in Scharbeutz in Ulli Scheunemann's house. You will find only a handful of names on the INTERNAL page..
- One of the early gatherings in Scharbeutz in Ulli Schnemann's children's home. Many participants can be recognized, others not. Help is needed!
- Many thanks to Michael Brehmer for the two pohotos of the 1954 family gathering again in the Lachswehr restaurant vom Familientag 1954.
- This meeting was headed by the motto of a "Lomer Kin Gathering" ("Lomerscher Sippentag"). Two Brehmer brothers had married two Lomer sisters. Their descendants attended enjoyed this day encountering many hitherto unknown relatives. Their names can be found on the INTERNAL page.
- This was the very first Familientag of the Brehmers. It tok place in the small fishermen's village of Gothmund, aboout ten kilometers down the river Trave. "Alen [Müller-Hellwig] and her mother Ala [Magdalene Müller, born Brehmer] were convinced to the necessity,to bring together what was left after the terrible war and the Nazi regime (of course, there were Nazis in teh family)..." (Heiner Stiebeling 2012 in the family album)
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