I found this lovely family photo in an online shop. With so many clues, handwritten on the back of the photo, of course I had to buy it. It shows:
Paula Tischer née Sprotte
with Helmut und Ruth
December 1907
in Bautzen
I know that the archives in the eastern regions of Germany are a bit behind with digitising their records, so I was hoping some family member might have built a family tree online and I was lucky!
I could find out that Paula Sprotte married Wilhelm Tischer, a pastor at St. Michael in Bautzen, on August 21, 1900, in Bautzen. Paula, a daughter of Gustav Adolf Sprotte and Auguste Marie née Dietz, was born on December 1878. So perhaps it was around her 29th birthday that this photo was taken. She had an older brother Walter Sprotte.
Paula’s husband Wilhelm Tischer was born on October 7, 1871 in Meschwitz, Bautzen, to parents Hermann Tischer and Mathilde Ida née Noack. He had 8 siblings (Ludwig, Elisabeth, Hermann, Max, Alfred, Bertha, Helene and Charlotte).
I don’t know exactly when their children Helmut and Ruth were born, but they look about 2-3 years old in the photo, so I assume about 1906-1908. I don’t know when mother Paula passed away; husband Wilhelm was a widower when he died in 1952 at the age of 81 in Dresden. It was his daughter Ruth, then Ruth Friedrich, who reported his death to the authorities.
That is all I can tell you about these lovely faces in my found photo. I will try to make contact with whomever built their family trees on MyHeritage and Ancestry,
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