August Wilhelm Henry HOPPE
Birth:
29 Dec 1888
Bantorf, Hannover, Prussia
Death:
20 Jul 1960
Sarasota, Sarasota, Florida
Marriage:
15 Sep 1917
Newark, Essex, New Jersey
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August's natural father is a Mr. Hartje, who never married his mother Sophie. Mr. Hartje was German. He got Sophie and another single lady in the same town pregnant. After the news got out he was given his walking papers. Nothing more is known about him.
August was raised in Hannover, Germany by his mother and her husband Georg.
August played professional soccer before joining the German Merchant Marine as a
young man. At the beginning of World War I he, not liking what the Kaiser was
doing, jumped ship in New York harbor. He was naturalized at Newark, N.J. on
15 May 1936, paper #3964670. He came to America in 1909 and processed through
Ellis Island. Played soccer for the sports club Viktoria in Hannover-Linden.
He married and lived in the Newark, N.J. area until retiring. He lived in
Sarasota, Florida after retirement. His home address in Sarasota was 6319
Hollywood Blvd. Directions: Ledo Key to Stikney Pt Bridge Rd to mainland
(4 lanes, old fashioned shops on R). First L off bridge (Beachwood). L on
Hazelwood. L on Hollywood.
He worked for Westinghouse as a machinist in a shop in Newark.
August knew what was going on at Penemunde and about assassination attempts on
Hitler through his immigrant contacts during WWII. He'd write letters to the
relatives in Germany telling them how bad Hitler was. They finally wrote back
saying, "Don't write these things anymore. You'll get us all killed."
According to Wilhelm Mahlmann, "The name Hoppe was famous in Bantorf Bei Bad
Neundorf Am Deister.
Emma LESZAK
Birth:
14 May 1896
Budapest, Pest, Hungary
Death:
12 Jul 1977
Doylestown, Bucks, Pennsylvania
Burial:
Cremated
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Emma grew up in Budapest. Her father was wealthy. At that time Franz Joseph
was the Austrian Kaiser and the King of Hungary, ruling both countries.
Franz Joseph and his wife Elizabeth had a son named Rudolf. Rudolf and his
two daughters took rides in carriages and stopped and talked to the people in
front of Emma's house. Emma came to America on the ship Prince Frederic Wilhelm
in 1914 with her sister Etta. They were going to visit their Aunt Emma Szalvay
who was living in New York.
She got caught here by the war and stayed and married in the Newark, N.J. area.
She lived there until her husband retired, after which they moved to Florida.
After her husband died she moved to Pennsylvania and lived with her daughter
Eleanor and family until her death. Her favorite opera was Carmen. She was a
very nice person. She began losing her eyesight in her 20s and was legally
blind in her older years. Her nickname was Tomi.
Emma went to a little school for girls in Budapest. She also went to high
school and three years of college there. While in America during WWI she lived
with her Aunt Emma in Newark.
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August Wilhelm Henry Hoppe - Emma Leszak
August Wilhelm Henry Hoppe
was born at Bantorf, Hannover, Prussia 29 Dec 1888.
His parents were Georg Heinrich Wilhelm Mahlmann and Sophie Dorothee Juliane Hoppe.
He married Emma Leszak 15 Sep 1917 at Newark, Essex, New Jersey . Emma Leszak was born at Budapest, Pest, Hungary 14 May 1896 daughter of Joseph Leszak and Ethel Szalvay .
They were the parents of 2
children:
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August Wilhelm Henry Hoppe died 20 Jul 1960 at Sarasota, Sarasota, Florida .
Emma Leszak died 12 Jul 1977 at Doylestown, Bucks, Pennsylvania .