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HITZ Family Convention 2004 The (Swiss) Albert Hitz Branch Davos/Klosters, Switzerland surrounded by a great Alpine playground Jri Hitz 16??-1751 Christian Hans Hitz 1720-90 + Luzia Tuffli Hans Hitz (1750) + Margareth Thni Hans Hitz

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HITZ Family Convention 2004

The (Swiss) Albert Hitz Branch

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Davos/Klosters, Switzerland

surrounded by a great Alpine playground

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Hans Hitz (1750) + Margareth Thöni

Hans Hitz (1772-1840) Christian Hitz 1783 –

USA 1831-

Conrad Hitz 1811-1885 Conrad Hitz 1845-1902 Pista Hitz 4

C. Albert 1883-1954 Conrad

C V U Pedro

Jöri Hitz 16??-1751 Hans Hitz 1720-90 + Luzia Tuffli Christian Elena

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Landammann H. HITZ 1772-1840

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Schmelzboden Davos 1842 and around 1900

DAVOS

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SCHMELZBODEN (DAVOS)

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Hans Hitz (1772-1840) Christian Hitz 1783 – 1820 ? USA 1831 Conrad Hitz 1811-1885 Conrad Hitz 1845-1902 In 1820 74 employees Including 1 doctor and 5 women

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Hans Hitz (1750) + Margarethe Thöni

Hans Hitz (1772-1840) Christian Hitz 1783 – USA Conrad Hitz 1811-1885 Conrad Hitz 1845-1902 Pista Hitz C. Albert 1883-1954 Conrad C V U

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Conrad HITZ (1845-1902) Maria Brunner (1848-1891) Gotthard, Brünig, Landquart-Davos

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Hans Hitz (1750) + Margarethe Thöni

Hans Hitz (1772-1840) Christian Hitz 1783 – USA Conrad Hitz 1811-1885 Conrad Hitz 1845-1902 Pista Hitz

C. Albert 1883-1954 K-7

Conrad Pedro Helena C V U

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C. Albert 1883-1954 + H. Bay 1885-1978

C V U

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1883 Born in Chur, son of Conrad Hitz PhD in law, Distric Judge in Chur, Swiss socialist party 1911 married H. Bay Three daughters (1913, 1915, 1917) 1919 Moved to Zürich, Editor of « Volksrecht » 1921 Co-founder Swiss Communist Party 1922-31 MP at Cantonal and Federal levels 1925 second marriage (Gertrud Piefke) 1927 Delegate in Moscow 1931-33 lives in Berlin, then returns to Zurich as a lawyer 1947 correspondance with H.H. Burton /searches archives 1949 H.H. Burton visits him in Zürich (Fehrenstrase) 1954 dies in Zürch aged only 71

Christian Albert Hitz A dedicated fighter for justice and freedom…

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The 1920s and 1990s

Verena Charlotte Ursina

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C.A. Hitz + ‘Gattin’

with twins in Kinder-Zoo Berlin

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C. Albert Hitz 1883-1954 + H. Bay 1885-1978

C V U Christian Albert Hitz has presently 23 descendants: 19 girls and 4 boys… (que de filles!..) So, the name is gone, but not the spirit

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The next generations K-8/K-9: 1943

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The next generations K-8/K-9 : ten years later (1953)

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Let us look at the details of the modern ‘tree’ K-10/K-11 late 1990s and beyond

C. Albert Hitz 1883-1954 + H. Bay 1885-1978

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Charlotte v Salis family

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Verena Stoeckli family

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Ursina Benz family (3 generations crypto-Hitz)

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Ursina’s descendants (I) : 3 daughters + 1 son (see )

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Ursina Benz’s descendants (II) :

Heiri, currently in Australia with 3 wives and 4 children: three girls + 1 boy (no real surprise in our branch...)

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Ursina Benz descendants (Susi/Tina): 5th generation Welcome to Sara Kathryn, born Dec. 18, 2003!

(Scottsdale, Arizona)

K-11 and life goes on…

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Just remember…

Christian

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http://www.uwm.edu/Library/arch/civilwar.htm Hitz family. Papers, 1835-1993. UWM Manuscript Collection 56 Papers of the Hitz family, compiled by John B. Hitz, with some information on

ther extended family, especially Frederick C. Winkler, mostly from Milwaukee,
Wisconsin. Includes family correspondence, mainly discussing their personal affairs,

photographs, scrapbooks and genealogical histories for the Hitz and Winkler families. Of special interest the letters and military records of Rudolph Hitz, who served as a surgeon in the U.S. Army in the Montana Territory from 1867-1870; and Henry Hitz's letters from the Army (where he was a surgeon) during World War I. The collection contains photographs of Frederick C. Winkler who served in the Civil War as a brevet brigadier general. The collection also contains news clippings, notes, and letters of Harold Hitz Burton, J. Edgar Hoover, Helen Keller, and Norman Mailer, usually abou personal affairs, sent to members of the Hitz family.

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