GATTERs
OF SILESIA
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(Breslau, Görlitz)
In Breslau (today Worclaw in Poland)
on the Oder River we find end of the 19th century Paul Gatter who
marries on July 8, 1884 Anna Schneider.
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Breslau in the 1840s
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It seems possible that these are the parents of Paul
Carl Richard Gatter. He was born on June 4, 1885 in Breslau as son
of a merchant and married in 1917 Julia Barsch, daughter of the Silesian
Poet Paul Barsch. Gatter worked as teacher in the easter German city of
Görliz and as anti-fascist was member of the socialist city council
in the time after 1945, responsible for culture and education.
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Paul Gatter hat 3 sons: Ludwig Gatter 1919-1957 a journalist
in Breslau and Cologne, F. Gatter (born 1923) a teacher once
in Burgtonna, who is living in western Germany today, and Heinrich
Gatter (born 1925) who lost his life in the Russia campaign
of World War II.
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Their descendents live in Germany today, among them ist the famous
German TV journalist Peter Gatter (1943-1997), the politician
S. Gatter, and the writer N. Gatter (meet him at:
www.lesefrucht.de)
who wrote a fascinating account on the family history in the Görlitzer
Magazin 1999, 13. Jahrgang, pages 62-84 (in German).
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Novel of the well known film "Heavenly
Creatures" by the writer N. Gatter
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Book on the German Green Oarty
by journalist Peter Gatter
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