Ute Baur-Timmerbrink

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Ute Baur-Timmerbrink (born November 15, 1946 in Vöcklabruck , Upper Austria ) is a German author, blogger and guide for children of the occupation .

Life

Ute Baur-Timmerbrink was born in Vöcklabruck as the daughter of an American occupation soldier and a German who had been married to a professional soldier in the Reichswehr since 1936 . According to her birth certificate, Ute was his legitimate child. The couple had lived in Vienna since 1938 . In autumn 1947 Ute and her mother were expelled from Austria . They moved to Bochum in North Rhine-Westphalia , where their father, who had been released from prisoner-of-war , also moved in 1948 .

"My parents did not speak to me about my true origins until they died."

After school and professional training as a medical assistant , Ute Baur-Timmerbrink moved to Stuttgart in 1967 , married and had two sons. Since 1996 she has been living in Berlin in her second marriage to the lawyer and attorney Matthias Timmerbrink .

Act

At the age of 52, Ute Baur-Timmerbrink found out that her father was an American occupation soldier and began looking for him. Accessing government and military archives and locating original documents proved extremely complicated and time consuming. Unlike many of the estimated 250,000 occupation children in West Germany alone , the search was successful. Her father was James G., who died in 2002 at the age of 87 after a long illness.

“I read in his obituary that he was married twice, had no children, and was an esteemed lawyer. Furthermore, that he was involved in various aid organizations such as Amnesty International and was dean of a Baptist church. "

Since Baur-Timmerbrink found her father in the USA, she has been using the experience and knowledge gained during the search to voluntarily accompany other occupation children in the search for their fathers and to support them with advice and action. As part of the British non-profit organization GI Transatlantic Children's Enterprise (GI-TRACE), she has made it possible for well over 200 women and men to find their fathers.

The commitment by Ute Baur Timmer Brink as Wegweiserin is for the numerous crew children in Germany and Austria, which are up to the present time into it in search of their biological fathers, helpful and encouraging. Their relevant publications , lectures and events keep alive the memory of the occupation children, which is not too seldom ignored, in Germany and Europe.

And their life experiences and their commitment continue to fertilize the work of sociologists , psychologists , educationalists and historians who value and use their expertise in studying this research field .

Honors

Fonts (selection)

  • We occupation children: daughters and sons of Allied soldiers tell stories . Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2015. ISBN 978-3861538196
  • Mi djeca okupacije. Pripovijesti kcerki i sinova Saveznickih vojnika . TPO Fondacija, Sarajevo 2016. ISBN 978-9958-0386-9-3

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ute Baur-Timmerbrink: We occupation children: daughters and sons of Allied soldiers tell . Ch.links Verlag, Berlin 2015, p. 18.
  2. ↑ Ute Baur-Timmerbrink: We occupation children: daughters and sons of Allied soldiers tell . Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2015, pp. 23–24.
  3. ^ GI Transatlantic Children's Enterprise (GI-TRACE)
  4. ↑ Christoph Stollowsky: Consequences of the occupation. The secret children of the winners. In: Der Tagesspiegel, October 22, 2017.
  5. ↑ Lecture series at the BürgerUniversität Coesfeld
  6. ↑ Video sa promocije knjige: MI DJECA OKUPACIJE
  7. ↑ They finally want to know who their father was.
  8. ↑ Reading by Ute Baur-Timmerbrink
  9. ^ Sabine Lee: Children Born of War in the Twentieth Century . Manchester University Press, Manchester 2017, p vii. ISBN 978-1-5261-0458-8
  10. ^ Federal Cross of Merit for Ute Baur-Timmerbrink.

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personal data
SURNAME Baur-Timmerbrink, Ute
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and guide for occupation children
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Vöcklabruck