Germany Connectors' Challenge March 2024: Nobel Laureates

Question

This month we have four German Nobel Laureates to connect.  Would you like to help?

Walther Hermann Nernst - Chemistry, 1920 (Connected - Thanks Manu!) (3 starting connections)

Nelly Sachs - Literature, 1966 (Connected) (0 starting connections)

Rudolf Christoph Eucken - Literature, 1908 (Connected - Thanks Manu!) (4 starting connections)

Carl von Ossietzky - Peace, 1935 (0 starting connections)

Have fun!

Answer 1

Walther Hermann Nernst (1864 - 1941) formulated the Nernst heat theorem which helped pave the way for the third law of thermodynamics, for which he won the 1920 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.  He was born in 1864 in Briesen in Westpreußen.  He's in the FamilySearch tree, but his wife's side doesn't appear very well sourced.  https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/MFFM-QFH

Comments

I worked on his wife´s family and found a connection to Friedrich Michaelis. Connection should show up soon:-)

Answer 2

Leonie "Nelly" Sachs was born in 1891 to a Jewish family in Berlin.  She and her mother fled to Sweden in 1940.  She became a translator to support herself and her mother, and later wrote plays and poems.  She never married. 

Her birth record is on Ancestry, but it doesn't appear anybody has built out her tree on FamilySearch.

Comments

I found a new (to me) resource whose goal is to "transcribe the 19th century marriage records from the historic Greater Poland (then Prussian Province of Poznan) into a searchable online database."  

https://poznan-project.psnc.pl/

I was able to source some relationships I found in an unsourced FamilySearch tree because they included the parents names in the marriage transcriptions in this database.

Nelly should be connected now through her mother's sister's husband's sister's son's wife's brother's wife's English family.  

Answer 3

Carl von Ossietzky has a british wife. His parents (both from Silesia) are on Familysearch https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KZBL-JDM

Comments

And his daughter has a Swedish journalist as husband.

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his marriage is shown as taking place in 1913 in Lancashire.  I can find two records which locate it in Essex. I don't want to tread on any toes but should I change it?

England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:26ZC-G7F : 13 December 2014), Maud H Woods and null, 1913; from "England & Wales Marriages, 1837-2005," database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing 1913, quarter 3, vol. 4A, p. 1438, Rochford, Essex, England, General Register Office, Southport, England.

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Go for it and change it. You found a proper source and besides the profiles is orphaned. Be bold :-) Thank you

Answer 4

Rudolf Eucken: His father in law Arnold Passow is notable as well. His Wikipedia page has infos about his wife and children. 

Comments

That was quick. His wife´s great-grandfather Moritz Passow has a profile on Wikitree. Consider Rudolph Eucken connected :-)