Karl (Richard) Alexander Otto R Rueger

• Birth Notes
  • name: Karl Otto Rrueger 
    event: Christening 
    event date: 13 Apr 1873 
    event place: Friedland, Friedland, Lübben, Brandenburg, Germany 
    gender: Male 
    religion: Evangelische 
    father: Friedrich Krueger 
    mother: Henriette Musik 
    volume: 197, 198 
    page: 
    film number: 1273046 
    digital folder number: 004109931 
    image number: 00708 
    

• Death Notes
  • Sophie accompanied Richard Rueger and family when they returned to Germany (Bremen) 7 April 1922.  Richard felt betrayed by the British after he was interned towards the end of the first world war and wanted to return to his homeland.  Unfortunately, they returned to Germany just as the great depression hit with hyper-inflation and effectively lost all the money they had taken with them.  They were assisted with accommodation in Bremen by the Dunkacke family. 
    
    Sadly, Richard only lasted 18 months and died 25 October 1923.  The family then struggled to survive and lived through the Hitler years.  They held on to their British passports, however (hiding them from the authorities), and when Bremen was liberated by the British in 1945, they were repatriated to the UK.  Ronald V, in the meantime, had escaped to England (not sure exactly when) before he could be called up to the German army and, there, joined the British Army!  When the remainder of the family were repatriated, one of the first things Ronald did was persuade them all to change their name from Rueger to Rogers (to avoid any possible repercussions from the British people).  He had already changed his.
    

• General Notes
  • Arrived in Liverpool after 1901
    
    Married in 1907, and then Departed for New York in September (recorded as a MetalWorker, so may be wrong person).
    
    Called Richard on 1911 census (jn  Birkenhead).
    
    During WW1 (in 1918), Richard Rueger was interned in the Isle of Man. After the war, in 1922 he returned to Bremen, but hit by the great depression. He died there 18 months later.

Click here for details of Richard's family with Mary (Merri or Maria) Fredericke Westpfahl

¹ 1911 UK Census
² FamilySearch.org
³ Individual - Roland Zilz

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