Paechter roots in West Prussia

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Paechter roots in West Prussia

Our Paechter family prospered in the Vistula delta town of Tiegenhof. But their roots probably go back further in west Pomerania.

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When: 1820 (est.) - 1900 (est.)
Family Branch: Paechter, Wohlgemuth
Generation: -1G, -2G

Discovery Notebook

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Jacobi brewery
Intermarriage with the Jacobi family from Neuteich
  • Feb 15, 2024

Were Meyer Paechter and Emilie Jacoby possibly double cousins?
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Tiegenhof in the 1890s
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Meyer Paechter returned from Danzig to Tiegenhof in 1871
  • Feb 06, 2024

His first two children were born in Danzig. The next five were born in Tiegenhof.
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Fabian Stammbuch cites Rahel Paechter from Tiegenhof
The Paechters of Märkisch Friedland—how are we related?
  • Jan 29, 2024

A family connection in three West Prussian towns explains not one but two long-distance marriages
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More Paechter stories still to be told
Taking stock of our Paechter census
  • Nov 30, 2023

After recent discoveries, this is a good time to review what is known and to chart further…
The Paechter store succession reconsidered
  • Nov 17, 2023

I now think it was Salomon Paechter, not Isaak, who ran the family store in the 1890s.
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Simonson visits Brazil in 1948
Salomon Paechter branch leads to notable emigre physiologist Ernst Simonson
  • Nov 16, 2023

This Paechter branch went from provincial merchant to eminent scientist in two generations.
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Emil Paechter was one of 30 first cousins
Our Paechter branch grows wider yet—all roads lead to Berlin (and onward)
  • Feb 27, 2023

There were 30 or more first cousins from the original five Paechter children.
Isaak and Betty may have met through a Paechter relation in Kolberg
  • Dec 08, 2020

The Katz-Wohlgemuth nuptial in 1898 may not have been brokered after all
Paechter's store pinpointed on a vintage map of Tiegenhof
  • Sep 15, 2020

As a boy, Otto Stobbe walked by the store on his way to the steamship landing
Mea culpa: Isaak Paechter did live in Crossen
  • Sep 12, 2020

I was wrong. Isaak Paechter returned in 1891 from Crossen to run the family store in Tiegenhof.
Was this the Paechter's store?
  • Sep 12, 2020

In Otto Stobbe's article about Tiegenhof in which he describes the fire at Paechter's Kaufhaus,…
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Family tree of Hirsch Zvi Ringel on Open Database Project
Both of our German branches are getting bigger
  • Sep 08, 2020

There were two significant breakthroughs in the last 24 hours. It may take me a while to write…

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Heinrich, Isaac and Friedricke Wohlgemuth
Elbing directories list the Wohlgemuth business and residences
  • Sep 07, 2020

The collection of West Prussian address books linked in the last post includes a substantial…

Writings on the Hommel River detail how hydro power ran Elbing's flour mills
  • Sep 07, 2020

A diverted river channel drove four mills on the Outer MUhlendamm
Julius Paechter is in the 1858 Tiegenhof address book
  • Sep 07, 2020

Rodney Down Under came through again. After I showed him the marriage record for Rosalie…

The Wohlgemuth mill was on a branch of the Hommel River
  • Sep 07, 2020

I had expected to find the Wohlgemuth's mill building near to the Elbing River that flows north-…

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Peter Nash en route to Shanghai in 1939
Julius Paechter is the missing link
  • Sep 06, 2020

I discovered the vivid article about the arson at the Paechter store on the Geni web site…

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Peter Nash memoir published in 2017
We are related to the Australian Peter Nash
  • Sep 06, 2020

Several posts back, I mentioned that Rodney wrote to introduce me to an Australian contact. Now…

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The historical magazine Unser Danzig has been published since 1959
A department store fire in Tiegenhof
  • Sep 04, 2020

Isaak Paechter's department store in Tiegenhof was set aflame in an 1898 anti-Semitic attack.

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Pächter published under the pseudonym of Henry Rabassiere
Prominent emigre historian Henry Pachter was related
  • Sep 04, 2020

There was email this morning from Rodney Down Under, as he calls himself. He was introducing me…

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Friedericke Pächter death record
Frederike Paechter Wohlgemuth died in Danzig in 1910
  • Aug 24, 2020

Our grandmother's grandmother was Frederike Wohlgemuth, nee Paechter. She  lived until age 72…

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Synagogue record from Prueßich Stargradt
Leopold Wohlgemuth marriage in 1863
  • Aug 23, 2018

 I'll put out the important documents one by one as I capture them. Here is the November 4, 1863…

Wohlgemuth map, 1812-1942
  • Aug 24, 2016

I annotated this map of the northeastern section of the German Empire under Kaiser Wilhelm II…

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The Elbing synagogue was destroyed in November 1938
Isaak Wohlgemuth on 1893 Elbing list
  • Aug 21, 2016

Virtual Shtetl has lists of Jewish Households and Individuals in Elbing for a few random years…

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The Katz family originated in Kolberg
Wohlgemuth-Katz family names and towns
  • Aug 18, 2016

The ancestral towns of our Katz and Wohlgemuth families are revealed in the marriage record of…

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Breakthrough marriage record
Found! Wohlgemuth-Katz marriage certificate
  • Aug 17, 2016

Following up on Joanne's question about Bette Wohlgemuth, I just found the March 28 1898…

Citations

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beta decay theory(21) angular correlation(21) Rustad-Ruby experiment(17) mössbauer effect(17) beta spectrum experiment(14) Mössbauer spectroscopy(12) parity nonconservation(12) V–A theory(8) synchrotron radiation(8) conference/meeting(7)
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