Elmar Oswald Leoke’s Windsheim registration card
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The main German record of the Leokes’ refuge: it gives Elmar Oswald’s identity, his marriage, the family’s entry into Germany and every address they lodged at in Windsheim.
What the record says
- Born 8 August 1896 at Groß-Keppo (Suure-Kõpu); parents Hans and Mari née Tõllasepp.
- Married Hilda Wilhelmine on 12 January 1919 in Viljandi (Fellin).
- Lodgings in Windsheim: 22 Sep 1944, Weinmarkt 434, with the Götz family; 2 Nov 1944, Äußere Ringstraße 568½; 14 Feb 1946, Brenkgasse 335, with the Koch family; 6 Jun 1947, house no. 602 (street name uncertain), with the Hönig family.
- Departure on 24 July 1948 to the Warner-Kaserne in Munich.
Key entries as read in the family history; a full transcription has not yet been made.
What it supports
The card gives 22 September 1944 both for entry through Gotenhafen and for the first Windsheim lodging. The repeated date does not establish that the family reached Windsheim on the day they arrived at Gotenhafen.
Uncertain
The street name of the 1947 lodging is uncertain.
- Code
- L201
- Collection
- Leoke family · Arolsen: Elmar Oswald, Hilda, Pilvi
- Catalog description
- Elmar Oswald Leoke: Windsheim alien registration card, front
- Repository
- Arolsen Archives
- Reference
- Arolsen document number not yet recorded
- Reuse
- Arolsen Archives documents may be used with a source citation; check their terms.
- People
- Elmar Oswald Leoke 1896–1972
- In the family history
- Germany, 1944–1948
- Other copies
- L202, L203
How to cite this page
The Leoke and Koik Families, “Elmar Oswald Leoke’s Windsheim registration card” (L201), compiled by the Koik family, https://koikleoke.dckoiks.com/records/l201.html, accessed [date].