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The photo was handed down to me from my grandfather here seen as a boy. From left to right: Friedrich Viktor Hubert v. Kühlwetter born 6.5.1836 in Düsseldorf, died 20.04.1904, his son Friedrich Felix Maria Hubert v. Kühlwetter 20.11.1865 - 9.1.1931 and his eldest grandson Friedrich Hubert Maria Sydney v. Kühlwetter 21.10.1894 - 1978 Friedrich Felix Maria Hubert v. Kühlwetter later served as Contreadmiral in the German navy and as highest liaison officer and Pasha in the Ottoman Empire during WWI. He wrote a famous book about the battle at the Skagerrak (Battle of Jutland). He spoke about a dozen languages. His father (left on photo) was very conservative and very catholic. He was rather short of statue. He refused to take up a post in protestant Berlin. He was supposed to go to Berlin as "Vortragender Rat" (a councillor who could also speak directly to the king and emperor)for Bismarck. His son, the contreadmiral, on the other hand was cosmopolitan. His last years he spent in Berlin Zehlendorf. He married Adele Schaedler, the daughter of a German merchant, originally from Hamburg, in Sydney, Australia. His wife was called the Mimama by her children and grandchildren, two her sisters married in Germany, called the aunties. Aunty Nelly married a Heimburg and Aunty Gussie married Dr. Jessen from Davos. They always spoke German with a strong accent. All their children were baptized as Prostestants to the horror of his sister Marie. His eldest son (the little boy on the picture, i.e. my grandfather), later served in both world wars and became a civil servant in the finance department in Hannover after the last war. The eldest son of my grandfather, also called Friedrich died when collecting British mines on a lorry in July 1942 in North Africa. Date 28 February 2012, 16:54:21