Translated by Cristina Mohr, June 1988

First Newsletter - February 1935

Up to the present, our family clan+ has 36 members. This seems to be a relatively small number if related to our, after all, rather big.. .family. However, we regard this number as a solid basis and hope that it'will continuously grow in the future. In this respect, we particularly count on our younger family members who might join our clan.after obtaining more financial independence and thinking of setting up their own households. As members of the clan we have to use any possibility to recruit new members and promote the sale of.our Family Book.

In 1938, after a target-oriented and strong government presented us with the integration of our Eastern tribesman and thus established the long desired "Grossdeutschland" [literally greater or larger Germany (CFH)I, the clan to our pleasure grew considerably. In response to several small reports about our last family get together which had been published in different newspapers, descendants of two Haeberlen branches got in touch with us. one line branched off from ours in the 16th and the other in the 18th centuries.

The older one traces back to Eva Heberlin, born in Weinsberg on November 11, 1575, married name Betz (Family Book, p. 43, I,2). In Magdeburg, Her Reg..bms-tr. [this abbreviation probably,means "Regierundsbaumeister" or "Regierungsbuergermeister" (CM) I and Studienrat [this man presumably held some kind of government or state official position and also worked as a high school ("Gymnasium") teacher (CM)] Moeller's intensive genealogical research showed that the same Eva Haeberlen formed part of his mother's family. .His mother came from Reutlinger, her maiden name,Was Memminger. It seems unfortunate that this,discover could not only be made after the death of our cousin Karl Haeberlen (p.921, x,41) who died in Magdeburg in 1929 and who as a' colleague and friend of Mr. Moeller would have been particularly happy about this finding,
A further still flourishing collateral line derives from Catharina Elisabetha Haeberlin (p.46, vl,4), born on April 4', 1740. One of her great great-granddaughters, Frau Lina Meyer, nee Kummer, the widow of professor Dr., Ludwig Meyer, chairman. of the meteorological weatherbureau in Stuttgart and grandson of Ltidwigs Uhland's sister, very kindly made her genealogical table available to us. We shall quote part of it in the appendix. Many members of this line do not only live in the southern part,.of Germany, particularly in Heilbronn and

+ ( Clan is difficult to define in the english sense. It basically is a
family grouping and in the US the descendents of August Frederick Haberlen
would be considered a clan. [CPHI )

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Stuttgart (e.g. families Wegenast, Kummer, Kuder, and Kurtz), but also in Trieste and Chicago.

Thus, a wish formulate in the Family Book has already become reality: descendants of our elder and eldest ancestors appear. However, we do hope that in the future even more lines of the vigorous branch will be discovered.

Changes Within the Family

Since the publication of our Family Book in November 1937 the following, partly painful and partly pleasing, changes in our narrower family circle have come to our knowledge. They should be added to the Family Book. [What follows in this family letter is a list of births and deaths and unless you have the printed version of the family book would be of little value to the reader and really does not add to the content of the family letters.]

Financial Report

140 Family Books were printed. 80 of which have,been bound until [as of (CFH)] now. The production costs amounted to (Reichsmark (CM)] RM 1,161.75. A RM 800.00 mortgage from two of our cousins and the incoming sale's money of Family Books immediately covered all production'cos . ts. From May 1934 to the end of 1938, all other expenses mainly-for postage, copying of news letters and statutes, genealogical research, family get togethers, interest and bank fees ran up to RM 205.56

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The 1939 membership contributions and the hopefully incoming money from the Family Books sale will balance this debit. Also, we will be able to completely pay off the remaining mortgage debt of RM 100.00.
Besides the until now 67 sold Family Books, 4 books were given gratuitously to the following people and institutions:
- * Wuerttembergergischer Verein fuer Familienkunde [Association for Genealogical Research in - - -Baden-Wuerttemberg (CM)
- *Local Library of the City of Weinsberg
American Line of, the Haeberlen Family, attention: John Christian Haberlen
- *August Haebich, book printer in Stuttgart-Botnang

We would like to finish this letter with a double request:

1. The aforementioned changes doubtless only represent a small part of all those things that really took place. In order to provide a more complete list in the future we urgently ask for detailed information about name, place, and time of every single case. it seems extremely desirable to ask one member of the clan in each place or for each line to transmit relevant information to us.

2. We also ask you to send us your membership contributions as soon as possible--if you have not already done so. (The Haeberlen Family, Staedtische Girokasse Stuttgart, account #34337)

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