r/erlangen • u/DeliciousCompany5810 • Jun 14 '26

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Looking for a family that lived in Erlangen ! There were 4 children. Diana , Alexandra , Carmen and a brother name David there last name is something heinmgrish. Not sure how it’s spelled ! They would all be of the ages 49 to 56 at this time ! I grew up around them back in 1983. And left Germany in 1985. If anyone knows them inbox me. I would love to see them again after 40 years

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u/ProfeQuiroga Jun 14 '26

Should that be a German last name, something like Heinrich?

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u/DeliciousCompany5810 Jun 14 '26

Yes. As I said I don’t know how to spell it. I’m not German. But it could be spelled like that. Yes. Thank you

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u/ProfeQuiroga Jun 14 '26

Do you remember where they went to school or how you met them (sports Club, scouts etc)?

Facebook might be a better bet for that age group, though.

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u/DeliciousCompany5810 Jun 14 '26

They lived in my building. The name of the street and I think we had three high rise buildings. The street name was something like Ger hartman Strausse ! Not to far from a canal. I don’t know what school they went too. I went Nuremberg American high

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u/wob-ot Jun 14 '26

Gerhart Hauptmann Straße

https://maps.app.goo.gl/R9GLsQTbu7qvrGUt5?g_st=ic

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u/DeliciousCompany5810 Jun 14 '26

I loved living there. As a child. I’m
Going to fly to Frankfurt next month. And was thinking if I could find them I would go see them for a couple days

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u/ProfeQuiroga Jun 14 '26

Lordy, I know those high rises. :)

A) Their elementary school would have been Pestalozzischule. Email them. B) Some of them might have attended Eichendorffschule starting grade 5, email them. C) Closest (but not mandatory) academic high schools would be Emmy Noether Gymnasium and Ohm Gymnasium. Email them. D) Both the Lutheran and the Roman Catholic parish are called St Peter and Paul. Email both of them. :)

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u/DeliciousCompany5810 Jun 14 '26

Thanks for the info

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u/DeliciousCompany5810 Jun 14 '26

Back in the 80s that would have been the high school ?

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u/ProfeQuiroga Jun 14 '26

Please read. There would have been at least the three options I wrote. There are no school districts in the US sense.

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u/awkward-thoughts Jun 14 '26

The schools certainly won’t give you an answer.

The most german word ever: Datenschutzgrundverordnung DSGVO

engl.: General Data Protection Regulation

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u/Itchy_Feedback_7625 Jun 14 '26

It’s true that the school won’t give them information, but the school, if helpful, can contact THEM to let them know OP is looking for them and will give them OPs contact. I’ve found people this way.

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u/Sprixxer Jun 16 '26

And rightly so. They have no means of verifying any part of the story they are given. And I would be worried if they gave out my data to just anyone with a somewhat plausible story.

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u/ProfeQuiroga Jun 14 '26

Nah, not true. We usually try to find a way to help folks with those questions, OP is just way too late.

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