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Wolfgang RUGE

Wolfgang RUGE

Male 1936 -  (87 years)

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  1. 1.  Wolfgang RUGE was born on 26 Oct 1936 in Kiel (son of Friedrich RUGE and Ruth GREEFF).

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Friedrich RUGE was born on 24 Dec 1894 in Leipzig (son of Rector Prof. Dr. RUGE); and died.

    Notes:

    Friedrich joined the Navy on 1 Apr 1914 and distinguished himself as lieutenant in the World War, so that he received the Cross of Honour in the second and first class.
    He also took part in the scuttling of the German fleet in Scapa flow.
    After the World War he was officer of the watch on torpedo boats and then commander of a minesweeper.
    From 1928, by which time he had been promoted to lieutenant commander, he was active in the inspection of the torpedos and mines function.
    After a command as chief of half a flotilla of minesweepers and serving as Admiralty staff officer in the command of the naval station of the Baltic sea, he became naval captain in command of mnesweepers. In this position he held the designation of Commodore.
    During the campaign against Poland he played an outstanding role in the deployment and thorough training of the minesweeping organisation and in the continuous and successful mines operation of the German Navy.
    In the action in Norway he took part in searching and clearing voyages and led undertakings far out in northern waters.
    A flotilla of minesweepers led by him personally was the first group to cross the straits of Dover by daylight.
    These minesweeping activities were then extended up to the spanish border. On Oct 1940 he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.


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    Friedrich married Ruth GREEFF on 28 Aug 1920 in Bautzen. Ruth (daughter of Ewald GREEFF and Leni BORKENHAGEN) was born on 25 Feb 1897 in Struth; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Ruth GREEFF was born on 25 Feb 1897 in Struth (daughter of Ewald GREEFF and Leni BORKENHAGEN); and died.
    Children:
    1. Ingeborg RUGE was born on 22 Jun 1922 in Kiel.
    2. Ursula RUGE was born on 31 Dec 1923 in Kiel.
    3. Walter RUGE was born on 5 Jan 1930 in Kiel; died in Dec 1930.
    4. 1. Wolfgang RUGE was born on 26 Oct 1936 in Kiel.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Rector Prof. Dr. RUGE was born in in Bautzen.
    Children:
    1. 2. Friedrich RUGE was born on 24 Dec 1894 in Leipzig; and died.

  2. 6.  Ewald GREEFF was born on 21 Jul 1866 in Adenroth (son of Ewald GREEFF and Anna OVENBECK); and died.

    Notes:

    Dr Med Borsdorf
    He visited the gymnasium at Elberfeld from Porten and passed the examination for his Abitur in 1887.
    Then he studied medicine, first in Tubingen where he did his first semester, then in Wurzburg and Kiel.
    After passing the State Examination and his promotion to his doctors degree in medicine he fiirst participated in special courses in Berlin and served a second semester in Hannover and subsequently his internship. In 1893 he started his practice in Ebergotzen by Gottingen, moved to Struth near Adenroth in 1896 and in 1898 to Brosdorf by Leipzig, where he was active for 33 years.
    He retired in 1931 and took up residence inSt. Gallen, since 1940 inBlankenburg on the Harz.

    Ewald married Leni BORKENHAGEN on 23 Aug 1893 in Kiel. Leni (daughter of Karl Wilhelm Ludwig BORKENHAGEN and Helene Mathilde Elise SCHILL) was born on 27 Jan 1872 in Perleberg; died on 22 Nov 1915 in Borsdorf. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  3. 7.  Leni BORKENHAGEN was born on 27 Jan 1872 in Perleberg (daughter of Karl Wilhelm Ludwig BORKENHAGEN and Helene Mathilde Elise SCHILL); died on 22 Nov 1915 in Borsdorf.
    Children:
    1. Hildegard GREEFF was born on 15 Nov 1894 in Ebergotzen; and died.
    2. 3. Ruth GREEFF was born on 25 Feb 1897 in Struth; and died.
    3. Ingeborg GREEFF was born on 27 Oct 1902 in Borsdorf; and died.


Generation: 4

  1. 12.  Ewald GREEFF was born on 14 Jan 1835 in Barmen (son of Joh Peter GREEFF and Sophie Emilie BREDT); died on 11 Mar 1918 in Barmen.

    Notes:

    He studied agriculture in Hohenheim and Luxemburg and became leaseholder of the royal estate Adenroth in Wied, Nassau. In 1867 he obtained the estate in Porten by Bohwinkel, which he estranged again in 1903 in order to move to Barmen.
    The Reformed congregation Barmen-Gemarke elected him as elder in 1906 and he served the congregation meritoriously till his death (Werth-Lauffs p.482)

    Ewald married Anna OVENBECK on 12 Feb 1863. Anna (daughter of Hermann OVENBECK and Amalie HALBACH) was born on 22 Feb 1836 in Kamen, Westfalia, Germany; died on 9 Feb 1919 in Barmen, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 13.  Anna OVENBECK was born on 22 Feb 1836 in Kamen, Westfalia, Germany (daughter of Hermann OVENBECK and Amalie HALBACH); died on 9 Feb 1919 in Barmen, Germany.
    Children:
    1. Paul GREEFF was born on 28 Mar 1864 in Adenroth; and died.
    2. Maria GREEFF was born on 21 Feb 1865; died in 1866.
    3. 6. Ewald GREEFF was born on 21 Jul 1866 in Adenroth; and died.
    4. Anna GREEFF was born on 9 Jan 1868 in Porten; and died.
    5. Martha GREEFF was born in 1870 in Porten; died on 19 Mar 1871.
    6. Sophie GREEFF was born on 25 Apr 1872 in Porten; and died.
    7. Otto GREEFF was born on 5 Apr 1874 in Porten; and died.
    8. Ida GREEFF was born on 1 Mar 1876 in Porten; died on 11 Jan 1900 in Porten..
    9. Gotlob Emil GREEFF was born on 9 Jan 1880 in Porten; and died.
    10. Julie GREEFF was born in 1882; died in 1883.

  3. 14.  Karl Wilhelm Ludwig BORKENHAGEN was born on 17 Oct 1839 in Schwetz; died on 6 Jan 1891 in Kiel.

    Notes:

    Vice-rector at the higher secondary school in Kiel.

    Karl married Helene Mathilde Elise SCHILL on 15 May 1869 in Berlin, Germany. Helene was born on 5 Oct 1843 in Berlin, Germany; died on 12 Sep 1929 in Borsdorf. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 15.  Helene Mathilde Elise SCHILL was born on 5 Oct 1843 in Berlin, Germany; died on 12 Sep 1929 in Borsdorf.
    Children:
    1. 7. Leni BORKENHAGEN was born on 27 Jan 1872 in Perleberg; died on 22 Nov 1915 in Borsdorf.


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