The Jatow's.

Eva Jatow is my mother. In 1944 she and Wihelm Kleinschmidt got married in the German Lutheran Church in Swakopmund, Namibia. Eva's parents, my maternal grandparents, Opa, Hermann Jatow and Oma Frieda came to German South West Africa before WWI. Opa worked for Telefunken. He built the Funkenstation (telecommunications facility) in Windhoek for the colonial power in Windhoek. He had built similar installations in other German colonies, including Togo and Tsingtao. WWI stopped him and his family to return to Germany. After the war the relations in Germany write that they should stay in DSWA, even if he was unemployed, because of poverty and hunger in Germany.    

Opa Gerhard Jatow and his daughter Ilse in Windhoek. Ilse was the oldest of five children.










Oma, Frieda, daughter Ilse, and Opa Hermann Jatow, ca. 1914 in Windhoek. 







Männe, Hermann jr, youngest of five children. Sent from Swakopmund to Germany to be educated in a political school of the Nazi party. At the start of WWII he was trained as a pilot. He was shot down over the USSR on one of his first missions. Was POW in Siberia until the end of the war. 

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Die Badewanne, the bath tub, favourite walking destination from Swakopmund southwards. On the left, Tante Martha Jaacks, sister to Frieda Jatow.