Fritz Maximillian Nass (1913 - 2002)

Born 14 Sep 1913 in Briesen, West Prussia, Prussia, Germany

Ancestors

Husband of Irmgard (Hamm) Nass — married 18 Nov 1939 (to about 1944) in Ladekopp, Danzig, Prussia

Descendants

Died 29 Apr 2002 at age 88 in Germany

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Biography

Fritz Nass was a Black Sea German.

Fritz was born in 1913 in Briesen, a province of Graudenz, Prussia. He was born in a German colony, and worked as a laborer (farmhand) in the Mennonite colonies. This is how he met his first wife, Irmgaard, who was the daughter of the estate owner. They married in 1939 but divorced when their only son was 2. Fritz remarried and had a daughter. He lived in East Germany after the war.

Sources

• personal papers including hand written Ahnentafel smuggled from Prussia

• details as told to granddaughter by his sister-in-law

• Baptism: "Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1567-1945"
  Custodian: Staatliche Archivverwaltung Der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik; Film Number: 245322; Page Number: 154;154; Page number: 154;154; FHL Film Number: 245322
  Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 61250 #41822 (accessed 15 June 2023)
  Fritz Max Nass baptism on 26 Dec 1913 (born 14 Sep 1913), son of Erich Nass & Meta Nass, in Briesen, Westpreußen, Preußen.