Family of Hans MULLER and Paula BURGER

Husband:	Hans MULLER (1888-1966)
Wife:	Paula BURGER (1893-1942)
Children:	Ruth Maria MULLER (1919-1983)
Marriage	14 Dec 1916

Husband: Hans MULLER

Name:	Hans MULLER1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
Sex:	Male
Father:	Georg MULLER (1855-1919)
Mother:	Rosa AUERBACH (c. 1858-1943)
Birth	23 Jun 1888	Hohenfelde, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany4,5,9,10,11,12,13,14
Residence	1900 (age 11-12)	Wismar, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany15
	Marital Status: ledig
Departure	9 May 1921 (age 32)	Hamburg, Germany16
Immigration	1933 (age 44-45)	to USA
Residence	1935 (age 46-47)	Hamburg, Germany17
Residence	27 Apr 1936 (age 47)	Germany18
Departure	27 Apr 1936 (age 47)	Lillo, Antwerpen, Belgium19
Arrival	30 May 1936 (age 47)	San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, USA20,21
Residence	29 Sep 1936 (age 48)	California, USA22
Residence	1 Apr 1940 (age 51)	Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA23
	Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head
Residence	1942 (age 53-54)	Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA24
Death	18 Mar 1966 (age 77)	Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA4,5
	Cause: Heart Attack

Wife: Paula BURGER

Name:	Paula BURGER25,26,27
Sex:	Female
Father:	Franz BURGER (1855-1928)
Mother:	Emma BURCHARD (1858-1925)
Birth	23 Jan 1893	Hamburg, Germany26,28,29
Residence	1932 (age 38-39)	Germany30
Immigration	1933 (age 39-40)	to USA
Residence	1935 (age 41-42)	Hamburg, Germany31
Arrival	30 May 1936 (age 43)	San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, USA32
Residence	1 Apr 1940 (age 47)	Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA33
	Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Wife
Death	22 Mar 1942 (age 49)	Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA26
	Cause: Brain Tumour
Departure		Lillo, Antwerpen, Belgium34

Child 1: Ruth Maria MULLER

Note on Husband: Hans MULLER - shared note

Story of Hans Muller by his granddaughter Katherine Mader.

EMail: nkulla AT aol.com

 

My Grandpa Hans was a wonderful man with a very gentle and kind disposition. He was born in Hamburg, Germany, and fought for the Germans during World War I. He was part of the German army that invaded France by violating Belgium's neutrality. He earned several medals which are in my jewelry bags. Hans commanded a group of soldiers and always told them not to shoot at anyone, but to only point their guns in the air when they shot. He also insisted that they share their water with the enemy soldiers who were wounded on the battlefields. It was probably this experience that caused Hans to become a lifelong pacifist and join the Quaker Society. During the war, when Hans was hiding in a barn with his soldiers he received shrapnel damage to his foot. The shrapnel was never fully removed, and occasionally in later life he would have to go to the hospital to have a piece of shrapnel taken out that had migrated to the surface of his foot.

 

When Hans was a young man it was the custom in Germany to send youngsters to be "finished" in Latin America. Hans was sent to Maracaibo and Caracas, in Venezuela, where he learned to speak fluent Spanish. When he returned to Germany he went into business where he sold women's underwear and items that he imported/exported from Latin America. His family was not particularly Jewish, but it was the style of the time for Germans to consider themselves at first Germans, and then Jews. His wife Paula set her eyes on Hans, who was quite shy, and one day she said to him, "so when are we going to get married?" Hans apparently had no intention of marrying her, but did so any ways. As the Jews became edged out of mainstream life in Germany Hans was able to arrange for Paula and their only daughter Ruth to emigrate to Los Angeles.

 

While in Los Angeles, Hans did some work again with importing and exporting from Latin America; however, he went from a wealthy Hamburg family to a quite poor family in LA. His daughter Ruth ended up cleaning houses while attending high school, and Paula, who had been quite healthy and athletic in Germany, began suffering from headaches and other head problems that were eventually diagnosed as a benign brain tumor. Unfortunately, by the time it was diagnosed it was too late, and Paula died, making Hans a widower while Ruth was in nursing school. Ruth lived with her dad Hans until she married Paul, and then Hans moved in with them.

 

Hans became a wonderful nanny for Ruth's only daughter, Kathy, who is writing these notes. He would walk me to school and pick me up every afternoon so that Ruth could work as a school nurse. He used to prepare the dinner so that it would be ready when Ruth and Paul returned home from work. I especially remember what I called "Grandpa Soup", which was made of stew meat, potatoes, carrots, and big soup bones with marrow we used to suck out. Every night after dinner Hans would do the dishes with Paul and then go to his room where he had a date at 8 pm to listen to classical music on the "Gas Company concerts." Lots of times I would sit with him in his room to listen to the concerts and we would play cribbage together. Grandpa Hans also kept a big bar of dark chocolate in his dresser drawer and break off pieces for me at night. I have a fruit-painted tin box on my desk today in which Grandpa Hans used to keep the chocolate. I should add that I really love to break off thick pieces of dark chocolate, and didn't realize until I began writing these notes, that 45 years ago my Grandpa Hans started me on this path. Perhaps I have such a good feeling when I eat chocolate because I connect with my dear Grandpa.

 

Hans never liked raised voices or fighting, a carryover from his World War I experiences. I used to argue constantly with my parents about practicing the piano, and he would always counsel me to just play the piano to get along with my parents, even if I didn't want to do so. He had a large collection of classical recordings he brought from Germany as well as German novels by Goethe that he used to read over and over. He also had an autographed picture of Paul Caruso, the world's most famous opera singer, which I have in my room today. Grandpa Hans would walk every week to the Brentwood Library on San Vicente to exchange his books for the week, and then spend the rest of the week reading them. (I also love to read - another vestige from Grandpa Hans?) He also used to meet his friends from Hamburg in Santa Monica on the weekends at Palisades Park where they would sit on the same bench every week, talk about old times, and then go to dinner. He never learned how to drive, but always got around on the bus. His favorite friend was Martha Aronson, who wanted to marry him, but Grandpa Hans said he would never marry again after Paula died. I have placed a picture of me as a child sitting on Grandpa Hans lap on a bench in Santa Monica as part of a Santa Monica program to sell benches as mementos. I don't know how long this bench with its permanent picture will last, but it is there today in 2001 just north of California and Ocean Avenue.

 

Another hallmark of Grandpa Hans was that he never wanted any fuss made over him. He absolutely insisted that when he died he wanted no funeral, and wanted to be cremated. When I was 18-years-old I went to college at UCLA, and lived at a sorority during the week. So there wasn't much for Grandpa Hans to do. One weekend, on a Sunday night, Grandpa said that he wasn't feeling well, and thought he should go to the hospital. That was very unusual, because he never ever got sick. And when he did get sick he never ever complained. So I remember clearly taking him to Santa Monica Hospital, where they put him in a wheelchair, and wheeled him away. I remember kissing him on the back of his bald head just above where he had a fringe of grey hair, and saying so long, I'd see him next week. And then my parents drove me back to my sorority.

 

The next Friday night I had a date with a boy I really didn't care much about to go to a dance. And I slept home on Friday night, but didn't see my parents. When I went into the kitchen on Saturday morning they told me that Grandpa Hans had died two days earlier of a heart attack in the hospital, but they didn't want to tell me because they didn't want me to miss my date. And that I should get dressed quickly because we were going to his funeral. I remember being really shocked and angry that they hadn't told me what was happening with Grandpa. I only vaguely remember the funeral, but recall that it was the last time I saw Martha Aronson. Grandpa Hans was a wonderful, unassuming, loyal and caring friend and Grandpa to me. His ashes are at the Home of Peace cemetery in Whittier in the Urn Garden, Row 18, Grave 33. Paula is in the orthodox Jewish section of the same cemetery. Hans would never have wanted to be buried in a religious manner, and remained true to his Quaker beliefs until he died at age 78.

Note on Wife: Paula BURGER - shared note

Story of Paula Burger by her granddaughter Katherine Mader.

EMail: nkulla AT aol.com

 

The Burger family were Hungarians and very orthodox Jews. They all also had fiery tempers. Paula was a very modern woman and the "boss." She played a lot of tennis. She asked Hans, "so when are we going to get married?" Hans supposedly didn't have any intention of marrying her, but then did. Paula and Hans were related to each other as distant cousins.

 

Paula and her husband Hans had a beautiful home in Hamburg, Germany at Klosteralle 20, first floor. However there was huge inflation in Hamburg in the 1920's. One stamp cost millions of German marks. People got paid twice a day and spent the money before lunch before it became worthless. When the Jews began being treated poorly in Germany they were able to come to Los Angeles where their daughter Ruth, my mother, attended high school. Paula died from a benign brain tumor which was supposedly misdiagnosed by a German refugee doctor. Ruth was still in nursing school when her mother Paula died. Paula is buried in the Orthodox section of Home of Peace Memorial Park in Whittier, California in Row 17, Grave 51.

 

The Burger family were Hungarians and very orthodox Jews. They all also had fiery tempers. Paula was a very modern woman and the "boss." She played a lot of tennis. She asked Hans, "so when are we going to get married?" Hans supposedly didn't have any intention of marrying her, but then did. Paula and Hans were related to each other as distant cousins.

 

Paula and her husband Hans had a beautiful home in Hamburg, Germany at Klosteralle 20, first floor. However there was huge inflation in Hamburg in the 1920's. One stamp cost millions of German marks. People got paid twice a day and spent the money before lunch before it became worthless. When the Jews began being treated poorly in Germany they were able to come to Los Angeles where their daughter Ruth, my mother, attended high school. Paula died from a benign brain tumor which was supposedly misdiagnosed by a German refugee doctor. Ruth was still in nursing school when her mother Paula died.

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