My great-grandfather Jakob Schobloch (1868-1933) ca 1895. He was the son of a glass maker, and continued the trade, as well as starting a retail business in glass ware.

He became prominent in the city of Lindau, especially following the socialist uprising in 1919, and has a small street named after him.

Gorgeous picture of the Schobloch siblings:

Kurt (1902-1989), Gertrud (1898-1995), Luitgard (1897-1986) Schobloch.

Ca 1908.

Gertrud Schobloch, ca 14 years of age, 1912

Gertrud Schobloch, Ca 1913

Luitgard Schobloch, Bertha Hauser, Gerturd Schobloch at confirmation 1912 or 1913.

my grandmother Gertrud Schmitt was briefly engaged to an officer by the name of Ernst Reimann. He came from a well-to-do family in Coburg. He was a test-pilot and perished in Schleissheim, when the plane he was testing crashed, ca 1916 or 1917

Jakob Schobloch as `Sanitaeter'. He co-founded the Red Cross station in Lindau. Ca 1920

My grandfather Friedrich (Fritz) Schmitt as a young man in Rastatt. Ca 1920.

Christmas 1922

Fritz and Gertrud Schmitt, Luise and Jakob Schobloch, Kurt Schobloch in the back, Luitgard and Emmeran Dummler.

Schobloch Business ca 1925

a close look at the people in the window of the Schobloch Business:

probably Gertrud, then Luitgard, then the parents Schobloch

Luise and Jakob Schobloch

my grandfather Fritz Schmitt became a technical designer first for Dornier, then for Escher-Wyss. Here he is at work, Ca 1925.

my mother Waltraud as a toddler with her older brother Ernst. Late 1926, probably in Wuerzburg, where her family stayed for about 4 years (1926-1930)

my greatgrandmother Luise (Unglehrt) Schobloch, ca 1930

my great-grandparents, Luise and Jakob Schobloch, in front of the house in the Brougier Strasse, which Jakob Schobloch had built. between 1927 and 1933.

Gertrud Schmitt with children Waltraud and Ernst. 1928

a short series of picture of Waltraud with Ernst, ca 1928.

ca 1929 in Wuerzburg. Left to right: grandfather Jakob Schobloch, Ernst, Waltraud, Gertrud, Fritz Schmitt

There were two occasions during the 20th century where the winters were so cold that the Bodensee (Lake Constanze) would (almost) completely freeze over: Feb 1929, and Feb 1963. Here are my great-grandparents Schobloch with two of their grand children, Helen and Kurt Dummler, standing on the ice in Feb 1929.

July 1930 in the Brougier strasse. The Schmitts had just returned from living in Wuerzburg.

Left to right: Ernst Schmitt, unknown, Gerhard Schobloch, Anna-Lies Schobloch, grandmother Schobloch, Kurt Dummler, Helen Dummler, Waltraud Schmitt

from left to right: Waltraud Schmitt, grandmother Schmitt (this is the only picture of her that I have seen), Ernst Schmitt, Gerhard Schobloch, Helene Dummler, grandmother Luise Schobloch, Kurt Dummler. Summer 1930

taken on the same occasion as the previous

Summer 1931 on the beach of the Bodensee. The cousins:

left to right: Kurt Dummler, Gerhard Schobloch, Lienhard Schmitt, Helene Dummler, Annaliese Schobloch, Ernst Schmitt, Waltraud Schmitt

Siblings Schmitt: Waltraud, Ernst, Lienhard in 1932. There was a fest in Nonnenhorn

ca 1934. `Indianer Spielen' in the garden of the house in the Brougier Strasse. Feustel and Schmitt Children

1937: the only time Waltraud went to the birth place of her father Fritz Schmitt: Rastatt on the Rhine river. Her father was the extra-marital child of her mother with a Prussian soldier by the name of Schimkat. His mother later married a poor employee of the railways by the name of Schmitt, who adopted Fritz. The occasion of the visit was the 70th birthday of Fritz's mother, whose first name I do not even know.

1937, Waltraud about to swim in the Rhine, near Rastatt. She is 11 years old.

Beautiful picture of my mother's brother Ernst in late 1942, probably right before deployment on the Russian front where he died in October 1943

a little earlier picture of Ernst

Waltraud (second from left) during her `Arbeitsdienst' (Civil service) 1944 in Schrobenhausen

Luise (Unglehrt) Schobloch on her death bed April 1949.

Gertrud (Schobloch) Schmitt, ca 1950 (?)

Fritz Schmitt, Ca 1954

Fritz and Gertrud Schmitt, ca 1952

the car is a Borgward, probably the car of a Swiss friend

Gertrud (Schobloch) Schmitt, Fritz Schmitt, Luitgard (Schobloch) Dummler. Ca 1955

Fritz Schmitt at a game. It is easy to see his crippled left hand. During the first WW a bullet shattered his left wrist.

my mother's brother Lienhard (*1929)

Lienhard with his son Holger ca 1960

ca 1965: my mother Waltraud Volpert accompanies the 12th grade class of my father on a `field trip', (Klassenfahrt)

The Schobloch retail business of glass and procellain passed from my great-uncle Kurt Schobloch to his son Gerhard Schobloch in the mid 60's. He completely renovated it and gave it a very beautiful modern look. Here is a scan of a notification card from 1969.

Gertrud (Schobloch) Schmitt, 1971 in her first nursing home, Maria-Martha-Stift. She is 73 years old. I am impressed by her muscular build

ca 1975

Hannah with her great-grandmother

July 1990