Hello OW-Preussen Members,
I am researching the famous silent film actor Rudolf Klein-Rogge (Dr. Mabuse, Metropolis, Die Nibelungen, etc.), born Friedrich Klein in Köln in 1885 or 1888.
Thanks to Norbert Stepke’s posts in March about Ost Preussens in the Rhineland, I found the actor’s mother, Maria Bertha Emma ROSE, born in Kraplau, Kreis Osterode in 1849 and died 26/10/1936 in Köln-Müngersdorf. This information came from her death registration record but I can’t locate her birth records. The Kraplau Lutheran church records have not been scanned yet and the Kraplau civil birth records in the Polish archives don’t go back to 1849.
Meyers Gazeteer says Kraplau had its own registration office, but was there a different registration district for Kraplau in the 1840s?
Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!
Leslie Zupan
Alexandria, Virginia
United States
Missz@aol.com