XIV.FRIEDRICH ANTON WILHELM "FRITZ" HELLE

b.Benshausen, Thueringia; 23 May 1905

m.Heiligenstadt;  Oct. 1935

HELENE "LENI" FROMM

b.Heiligenstadt;  Feb. 1911

FRIEDRICH ANTON WILHELM "FRITZ" HELLE first studied law then entered a university in Berlin to become a licensed brewmaster. He worked as a brewmaster in Bochum from 1934-1942, marrying LENI FROMM in 1935. He was inducted into military service in 1942 and served as a driver for an officer until war's end in 1945. In the early years of the war and his military service, the family lived at Bochum. However, when bomb attacks made it too dangerous for Leni and the children, she took them to her family home in Heiligenstadt, Thueringia, where they remained until the end of the war.

In 1945 the family returned to Bochum, now in the political division of West Germany, and Fritz resumed his occupation as a brewmaster. In 1952 he moved the family to Belgium and later Luxembourg where he continued his profession. Fritz retired in 1957 and moved to Ruethen, his grandfather's town, where he and Leni managed the Helle Brewery complex for COUSIN JOSEF WILHELM AUGUST "WILLY" HELLE, called JOSSEL, who owned the business. Because Cousin Willy and his wife had no children, it was agreed between the two families that Cousin Willy and his wife would adopt Fritz and Leni's oldest son, WOLFGANG, so the business would remain in the family.

Fritz and Leni retired from management in 1968. During their first ten years in Ruethen, Fritz did additional research of the HELLE FAMILY OF RUETHEN and revised, updated and shortened the scroll in 1968. In December of 1967 he wrote a letter of inquiry to Macomb, IL, U. S. A. and eventually got into touch with descendants of FREDERICK HELLE who had immigrated to Illinois in 1857.

Since his second retirement, Fritz has continued with the Helle Family research maintaining a lively correspondence with many family members in Germany and abroad, cares for a garden in one of the plots outside the south wall of Ruethen, belongs to a card club and a swimming club, does oil paintings, and plays chess.

Fritz and Leni are both devout Roman Catholics usually attending services at St. Nikolaus Church and St. Johannes Church each weekend. Leni's family name, "FROMM means pious. Her family, as well as other Roman Catholics at Heiligenstadt and surrounding places, belonged to the Bishopric of Mainz, Rhineland, and resisted the Protestant Reformation which was very strong in Thueringia. Though of the minority, the family remained faithful since the 1500's. Fritz and Leni had four children:

1.WOLFGANG AUGUST ALEXANDER HELLE

b.Bochum,  Aug. 1936

2.DIETMAR HANS HELLE

b.Bochum; Sept. 1937

3.KAROLINA MARIA HELLE, called KARLA

b.Bochum;  Mar. 1939

4.HER HER TOTI HELLE

b.Bochum, July 1946

All four children were delivered by the same mid-wife. With the exception of Dietmar, all completed their secondary education in Belgium.

XV       WOLFGANG AUGUST ALEXANDER HELLE

b.Bochum;  Aug. 1936

m.Ruethen; May 1967

MARGRET SOKEFELD

b.Ruethen;  July 1944

WOLFGANG AUGUST ALEXANDER HELLE

attended one year of brewery school in Berlin. He and his wife manage the Helle property interests in Ruethen and have a resale beverage business which includes the distribution of beer brewed by a large brewery and marketed under the name Helle-Ruthen. They are the parents of:

1.MARKUS WILHELM HELLE

b.Ruethen,  Apr. 1969

2.RALF HELLE

b.Paderbom;  May 1971

XV  DIETMAR HANS HELLE

b. Bochum,  Sept. 1937

mn. Hamburg;  Dec. 1971

MARIA MARGOT SCHLESINGER

b.Bleckede;  Mar. 1949

DIETMAR HANS HELLE is the second child of Fritz and Leni.. He attended school in Monschau, receiving his degree 1957. He then entered the military service for four years. as a teacher in Buchholz near Hamburg, West Germany. 1979 Dietmar took a four year leave of absence and was house-husband" for the family of four while Maria completed her doctoral degree in public health medicine. Their third child was born in 1983. Maria is now on leave while the children progress through early childhood. The children are:

1.JENDRIK HELLE

b.Hamburg;  Oct. 1977

2.JONAS HELLE

b.Nordency;  Jan. 1980

3.JUTUA HELLE

b.Buchholz, near Hamburg;  Apr. 1983

XV.KAROLINA MARIA HELLE, called KARLA

b.Bochum;  Mar. 1939

m.Meschede;  Apr. 1966 KLAUS PETER JOHN

b.Hohenm6lsen;  May 1936

KAROLINA MARIA HELLE, called KARLA, is a pediatrician in Seligenstadt near Frankfurt, West Germany. Her husband is a teacher. They are the parents of:

1.ALMUT MARIA JOHN

b.Wolfenbrittel;  Mar. 1970

2.SIBYLLE HEDWIG JOHN

b.Offenbach;  Jan. 1972

3.ROSWITHA JOHN

b.Offenbach;  Oct. 1973

XV.HERBERT OTTO HELLE

b.Bochum,  July 1946

m.Ruethen;  July 1968

MARIA ELISABETH MARIELE SCHREWE

b.Ruethen; 22 Mar. 1946

HERBERT OTTO HELLE and family live near Frankfurt. He is a regional planner and often travels to other countries remaining there for several months at a time to design and oversee the building of industrial parks, residential and busi-ness areas, etc. The children are:

1.NINA HELLE

b.Berlin; 10 Aug. 1976

2.EVA HELLE

b.Berlin; 19 Jan. 1979

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