C. E. Walter Pehlemann,
Fritz-Wilhelm Pehlemann
and Eberhard Pehlemann
C. E. Walter Pehlemann died in 1960
A period of two generations has passed since Walter is no longer with us. We as a family owe him a huge debt of gratitude for his lifelong work in compiling the family history and creating the family tree to its very considerable extent. I will explain more about this elsewhere.
Unfortunately, I didn't get to know Walter himself - it wasn't meant to be.
I was too young; Today I am one of the seniors in the family.
Fritz-Wilhelm Pehlemann died in 2004
In 1982 I made him head of the family at the first "Pehlemann family festival" that I organized in Lembruch on Dümmer Lake in Germany because he was predestined for this in the family and had the right skills. I had asked that all participants at the festival provide documentary evidence of this - many of those present at the time are no longer with us today.
It made sense that I would combine my family research, which I began in the 1960s and 1970s, with his.
There wasn't enough time with him to continue writing our history.
It was not meant to be.
Foto © Wolfgang L. M. PehlemannHe was followed in 2023 by his son Eberhard Pehlemann,
too early - between 2004 and my retirement in 2012, Eberhard and I made the decision that the history of the Pehlemann family had to be continued and that we should approach this in a digital manner in a contemporary manner -
this was also not meant to be together.
On the photo with the funeral bouquet on a high floor vase for Fritz-Wilhelm's funeral service, I left a last greeting on the ribbons in 2004:
Pehlemann family - Germany - Netherlands - Namibia - Canada - USA
“Everything has its time”? Everything may remind us to do what our time dictates.
Perhaps this photo can remain on this website for longer to illustrate this:
Pehlemann - a family.
Sprouted from Märkisch soil and scattered around the world.
May the picture testify that it is and remains a family which belongs together.
May 10, 2024
Wolfgang L. M. Pehlemann
