Clare Maillard

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Clare Maillard b. Zechlin (born July 4, 1892 in Danzig ; † October 24, 1966 in Berlin ) was a German historian and genealogist.

Willi Maillard: Cläre Maillard with daughter Maria (1920)

life and work

Cläre Maillard had been married to Willi Maillard , a painter at the Free Secession led by Max Liebermann and professor at the Art Academy in Berlin , since 1910 . She was a granddaughter of the local historian Theodor Zechlin and sister of the historian Egmont Zechlin and the works teacher Ruth Zechlin . Maillard was a historian and also worked as a professional genealogist . In addition to researching numerous Maerkisch gender they created a chronicle of her own family, the Salzwedel family Zechlin and the pedigree of coming from Salzwedel historian Friedrich Meinecke , who had been a childhood friend of her father Lothar Zechlin.

Willi and Cläre Maillard had two daughters, the older one was the painter Maria Kegel-Maillard , the younger one the musician and well-known children's book illustrator Katharina Maillard , married to the poet and librarian Lutz Greve . During the Second World War , the family moved to Konstanz in 1943, where Willi Maillard died in 1945.

Cläre Maillard spent her last years in Meersburg and West Berlin until 1966 , in Meersburg she was also active as a local historian.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Clare Maillard, b. Zechlin: The Zechlins. Family and descendants tables of Achim Segelin 1541 in Kyritz, Lentz Zechlin around 1600 in Scharlibbe u. Jürgen Zechlin around 1700 in Stolper Land. Berlin 1937.
  2. ^ Clare Maillard: The historian Friedrich Meinecke (= pedigree of famous Germans. 127). Reprint from: Genealogical Yearbook ( Degener & Co ), Volume 5.
  3. ^ Egmont Zechlin: Experienced and Researched 1896-1919. Edited by Anneliese Zechlin. Muster-Schmidt, Göttingen 1993, ISBN 3-7881-1535-1 .
  4. ↑ Guntram Brummer: Obituary Clare Maillard-Zechlin. In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , Issue 85, 1967, pp. XV-XVIII ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Maillard, Clare
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zechlin, Cläre (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and genealogist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 1966
Place of death Berlin