August II
Pytlik
7 December 1905 — Unknown
Father
August Pyttlik
1875 – ?
Mother
Ida Hildebrand
? – ?
Siblings
Unknown
Children
Adolph Pytlik (adopted)
Anneliese Pytlik
Gerhard Pytlik
Ilsedore Pytlik
Biography
August Pyttlik II was born on 7 December 1905 to August Pyttlik and Ida Emma Hildebrand of Gladbeck, Germany. He married Erna Emma Grabenstein, who already had a son named Adolf Heinrich Wilhelm. The father was not known.
At some point before July 1934, August changed the spelling of the family name from ‘Pyttlik’ to ‘Pytlik’. Erna’s son Adolf adopted the Pytlik name on 16 July 1934, probably due to the marriage of the couple.
August and Erna went on to have at least three more children together. Their daughter Anneliese passed away after a short illness at the age of 21. August’s adopted son Adolf eventually moved to Canada to start a new life after World War II.
Gallery
Sources
Birth Certificate for August Pyttlik, 9 December 1905, File No. 1091, Gladbeck. Certified copy in possession of the Pytlik family.
Birth Certificate for Adolf Heinrich Wilhelm, 13 April 1929, File No. 16, Edemissen. Certified copy in possession of the Pytlik family. [The original birth certificate does not include a last name, but a certified note in the margin dated 16 July 1934 states that August Pytlik has given the name of Pytlik to the child.]
Photographs of August Pytlik and others, from the personal collection of the Pytlik family.