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| Format | Book Whole |
|---|---|
| Author, Monographic | Gylund, Gary |
| Title, Monographic | The Bertermann Family Tree: Bertha Johanna Hessberger, 16 March 1890 - 9 February 1963 & Rudolf Grosshofer (2nd Husband to Bertha), George Hessberger, Sr., Paula (Hessberger) Heinberg, August (Hessberger) Berns, George W. Hessberger, Jr, & Paula Gunzel, George L. Hessberger, III, & Angeline Vate |
| Extent of Work | [74] |
| Abstract | Bertha Johanna Hessberger was born in 1890 in Moers, Germany. She had a brother, George, and two sisters, Auguste and Paula. In 1908, she married her first husband, Karl Ernst Friedrich Bertermann, in Moers, and the couple had two children, Fritz Karl and Carol. In 1912 the family emigrated to the U.S. aboard the Konigen Luise, settling in Chicago. Bertha and Karl divorced in 1919, in Chicago, and in 1920 Bertha married Rudolf / Rudolph Grosshofer, a baker. Rudolf was born in Austria in 1884, emigrated to Canada in 1910, and came to Chicago, Illinois, in 1913. Bertha died in 1963 in Krankenhaus Bethanien, Moers, Germany; Rudolf died in 1970 in Chicago. Bertha's brother, George Hessberger, arrived in Boston in 1923, and made his way to Chicago. He was a musician and became the director of the Bavarian Concert Orchestra. His wife, Paula Gunzel, and young son, Georg(e) Hessberger, Jr., emigrated in 1924. The family owned the Heidelberger Fass, later named Hessberger's, a Chicago restaurant that appears in the movie Groundhog Day. |
| Notes | Donated by Gary Gylund. |
| Call Number | FH Bertermann 1 |
| MKI Terms | Family history/ Bertermann/ Hessberger/ Grosshofer/ German Americans -- Illinois/ Chicago |