Georg Heinrich Wilhelm MAHLMANN

                   NOTES:
    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.
                  

                       Sources:  Social Security Death Index for birth and death dates and place of
    death.  Clara Mahlman.  Death Certificate.
    The second N in Mahlman was apparently dropped when Fred came to America.
    Fred was raised in Hannover, Germany.  Immigrated to America in 1910.
    He immigrated to America and went to work for GMC in Detroit where he lived

    with his wife Anne.  They apparently didn't have any children.  They were close
    to Fred's brother Otto and his wife Clara.  Anne and Eleanor Seitner kept in
    touch for many years.  Fred and Anne later lived in Inverness, Florida.
                  

                       Sources:  Wilhelm Mahlman, Eleanor Seitner, George Hoppe, Clara Mahlman
    Dora was raised in Germany.  She came to America and got stuck in the U.S. by
    the first world war.  She was upset with the war and had mental health problems.
    She stayed with her brother August in New Jersey and her brother Fred in Detroit
    and was also institutionalized for awhile.  She returned to Germany and
    eventually got better.  She married but didn't have children.
                  

                       Sources:  Clara Mahlman.
    Robert was reported missing in action in WWI.  His father kept going to the
    train station hoping he would turn up, but he never did.  His death was a
    terrible blow to his father.
    His middle name Henry was probably Heinrich.
                  

                       Sources:  Wilhelm Mahlmann, Eleanor Seitner, Clara Mahlman.

    Mimi was raised in Germany.  She was married to a man named Brandes who was an
    alcoholic.  She had a hard life.  She never came to America.
    In May 1978 Mimi Brandes lived at Gehrden 5 (Lenthe), Hannover.
                  

                       Sources:  Social Security Death Index for birth and death dates and place of
    death.  Death Certificate.
    The N in Mahlman was apparently dropped when Otto came to America.

    Otto was raised in Hannover, Germany.  He immigrated to America and settled in
    Detroit where he worked for GMC.  His son Robert said that, when Otto first came
    to America and still couldn't speak much English, his brother Fred had him
    unknowingly running booze across the Canadian border.  Otto and his wife Clara
    raised their children Carol and Robert in Detroit.  Carol died suddenly of
    undiagnosed leukimia while they were on a trip to New York to pick up Otto's
    visiting brother Wilhelm.  The death of Carol was a terrible blow to Otto.
    Otto and Clara later lived in Connecticut for 13 years.  They then retired in
    Bradenton, Florida.  Occupation:  Tool and Die
    Natl Cremation Soc Inc  508 S Pineapple Ave Sarasota, FL  33577
    Death date from Social Security Death Index and from Clara is 18 July 1976.
                  

                       Sources:  Karl Mahlmann, Wilhelm Mahlmann.

    Karl was raised in Hannover, Germany.  He died of a heart attack while bowling
    with his brother Wilhelm.  Clara Mahlman said he looked like a movie star and
    thought he was a extremely nice person.