Last summer I spent three weeks in Hötensleben, where I participated with 16 other students and young people from all over the world in a workcamp to maintain a section of the former inner-German border fortifications, which have been retained by the town as a historical memorial. http://www.grenzdenkmaeler.de/hoetensleben/Hoetensleben.htm

The choice of Hötensleben for such a holiday activity was not entirely coincidental, since Hötensleben is the the birthplace of my grandfather and we had already paid a brief visit to the place in 1998. During this longer stay in the town, however, I had the opportunity to establish personal contacts with many of the local residents. I received a particularly cordial welcome from the town’s mayor, Mr. Buchwald, whose wife very kindly prepared copies of the following excerpts of the local registers of baptisms for me.

1. Hobohm, Heinrich Carl
   Born: 26 November 1854
   Baptised: 17 December 1854
   Father: Johann Heinrich Jacob Hobohm
   Mother: Dorothee Hobohm, née Becke
   
   
2. Hobohm, Friedrich, Franz, Albert (...führer)
   Born: 30 April 1904
   Baptised:12 June 1904
   Father: Edmund Hobohm
   Mother: Maria Hobohm, née Bode
   
   
3. Hobohm, Frieda, Hermine
   Born: 8 September 1906
   Baptised: 21 October 1906
   Father: Gustav Hobohm - Miner
   Mother: Helene Hobohm, née Arche
   
   
4. Hobohm, Elsa
   Born: 1 January 1909
   Baptised: 28 February 1909
   Father: Gustav Hobohm - Farm labourer
   Mother: Helene Hobohm, née Arche
   
   
5. Hobohm, Anna, Frieda, Margarete
   Twins
   Hobohm, Hermann, Otto, Herbert
   Born: 22 October 1926
   Baptised: 26 December 1926
   Father: Otto Hobohm - Railway secretary
   Mother: Lucie Hobohm, née Schäfer
   
   
6. Hobohm, Heinrich Otto
   Born: 2 April 1929
   Baptised: 4 April 1929
   Father: Otto Hobohm - Railway secretary
   Mutter: Lucie Hobohm, née Schäfer
   
   
7. Hobohm, Margit
   Born: 23 June 1941
   Baptised: 4 April 1942
   Father: Arthur August Hobohm
   Mother: Ingelotte Minna Dora Hobohm, née Bock