Can anyone connect heavyweight champ Max Schmeling?

Question

I have created profiles for German boxing legend Max Schmeling and his wife, actress Anny Ondra. I have included the names of their parents and siblings in their bios, but don't have enough data to create individual bios for any of them. (No birthdates, etc.)

Addendum: Max's parents were Max and Amelia (Fuchs) Schmeling. Not enough info yet to create their profiles.

I welcome assistance from the community.

Comments

It appears the parish records for Klein Luckow are not online yet on archion.de, so unfortunately cannot work on his parents.

Answer 1

I added the marriage (1933) in Berlin-Charlottenburg. The source is on ancestry. Their parents are not mentioned in the certificate, because their was a official proclamation before. I will search that certificate this evening. His wife came from Tarnow,  Poland. I will have a look also into the polish archive.

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Anna Ondrak is deposited at Geneteka:
1902 Anna Ondrak Tarnów - Katedra Strusina

Unfortunately only as index. the entry is not deposited with a link; this means that it exists in the archive, but has not been put online yet.  

Responsible archive:
Archiwum Diecezjalne im. Arcybiskupa Jerzego Ablewicza w Tarnowie
ul.Katedralna 3,
33-100 Tarnów
Polska

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This index is on ancestry:

Siegfried Adolf Otto Schmeling

in der Sammlung Hesse, Hesse-Kassel, Hess Darmstadt, Hess-Marburg, Hess-Reinfels, Rhineland und Waldeck, Deutschland, evangelische Kirchenbücher, 1661-1957

Name:	Siegfried Adolf Otto Schmeling
Art des Ereignisses:	Taufe
Taufdatum:	15. Jan 1906
Taufort:	Lutheriesch, Pommern, Deutschland
Vater:	Max Schmeling
Mutter:	Amanda Schmeling
Legitimität:	Ehelich
Verfasser:	Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche. Altlutheraner Gemeinde Stettin
Stadt oder Distrikt:	Stettin

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The assignment of the books on ancestry is completely wrong, but the entry gives the right hint:

The mother is Amanda Schmeling, nee Fuchs (so the right person) and the father Max Schmeling.

Since he was an Old Lutheran and baptized in Stettin, I looked on archion; there are church books for Old Lutherans in Stettin, unfortunately the relevant baptismal book 1875-1943 is not yet available online.

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Schmeling, Max (Maximilian) Siegfried Adolph Otto

Boxsportler, Unternehmer, * 28.9.1905 Klein-Luckow (Uckermark), † 2.2.2005 Hollenstedt bei Hamburg, ⚰ Hollenstedt bei Hamburg. (evangelisch, seit 1965 konfessionslos)

Source: https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz74731.html

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Father of Max Schmeling:

Schmeling, Max

• 1874 bis 1926

• Steuermann

Lebensdaten

Beruf/Funktion

Source: https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz113320.html

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Ondra, Anny (eigentlich Anna Sophie Ondráková)

Schauspielerin, * 15.5.1903 Tarnów (Galizien), † 28.2.1987 Hollenstedt bei Harburg/Elbe. (katholisch)

Genealogie

V: Gottfried Ondrak, k. u. k. Oberst, zuletzt in Prag;

Source: https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz73538.html

Answer 2

Your text is copied from Wikipedia, and you should give them credit and cite the same reference to his family so that someone with proper German translation skills can find it easily.

Amazing someone so famous wasn't already listed, thanks!

Answer 3

My great grand uncle Giovanni Joseph DeStefano Sr (1910 - 1999) was his sparring partner I’m very interested in helping in his genealogy however I’m limited to the English language. A duplicate profile was created as did needs merging as it was not noticed a profile existed. 

Thank you

Comments

Merges have been made.

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Thank you