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Early Junkers Family History(
16th Century
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The history of the Junkers family could be traced back until the 16th century. The early Junkers family worked as farm workers at Rheydt, a small village between Monchengladbach, Dusseldorf and Aachen. The first company of the Junkers family, a textile manufacturing company, was founded in 1818 by Johann Peter Junkers (1793-1853), the grandfather of Hugo Junkers. This textile company became the backbone of the Junkers family and it was continued by the father of Hugo Junkers and was also later continued by a brother of Hugo Junkers until the 20th century.
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Junkers, Heinrich( *
1823
+ 1887
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Heinrich Junkers was the father of Hugo Junkers. He was a textile manufacturer at Rheydt nr. Monchengladbach. He was married with Luise Vierhaus since May, 21st 1855. Their family grew up to seven boys until Luise died in 1869. On 6th October 1873 Heinrich Junkers married Luise Pfaff as his second wife. He died in 1887 by a gas accident at his home.
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Junkers, Luise( *
1827 (born Vierhaus)
+ 1869
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Luise Junkers, born Vierhaus, was the first wife of Heinrich Junkers and the mother of Hugo Junkers. Both married on May, 21th 1855 and had seven boys and one girl, which died shortly after her birth. Luise Junkers died on September, 24th 1869.
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Junkers, Luise( *
1827 (born Pfaff)
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Luise Junkers, born Pfaff, was the second wife of Heinrich Junkers. Both married on October, 6th 1873 but had no children.
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The Junkers Brothers(
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Hugo Junkers had six brothers and one sister. His sister died shortly after her birth. Hugo Junkers was the third of Heinrich and Luise Junkers' children. Hugo Junkers was about 10 years, when his mother Luise died. The Junkers brothers grew up without a woman in the house for four years, but after four years in 1874 Heinrich Junkers married again.
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Junkers, Therese( *
1876 (born Bennhold)
+ 1950
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Therese Junkers was the wife of Hugo Junkers. Junkers married her in 1898 and he had 12 children with her. After the death of Hugo Junkers in 1934, Therese Junkers was the legal owner of the remaining Junkers' shares of Junkers Flugzeugwerke. But finally Therese Junkers was forced by the Nazi government to sell this last Junkers stake to the Reich.
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Childs of Hugo and Therese Junkers(
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Hugo Junkers and Therese Bennhold married in 1898, when Hugo Junkers was already 39 years old. They had 12 children, which were born between 1899 and 1920. His youngest daughter Dorothee was born, when Hugo Junkers was 61 years. She was fourteen, when Hugo Junkers died in 1934.
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Other Junkers Family Members( *
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