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* Meyer ~ Rode ~ Dietrich ~ Dallmann*

Updated August 24, 2002


RODE/RODEY ~ The Palatinate & Bavaria are now completely separate states. This area was for centuries the possession of a branch of the Bavarian Wittelsbach nobles & was an Electorate (the ruling noble was one of the 7-8 who had the privilege of electing the emperor).
In the late 1700's Napoleon conquered it & made it a French possession (as well as quite a bit of the German lands north of the Pfalz). After his defeat in the early 1800's, the Pfalz
was given back to the Wittelsbachs, only this time to the Wittelsbach king ruling Bavaria itself & not a cadet branch.
Napoleon decreed that all records in all the former German lands that he conquered conduct record keeping in French & all dates be recorded using a calendar whose days and months were based on the founding of the French Republic & unrelated to the Gregorian calendar.

DIETRICH ~ (Connected to the Meyer Family)~ I am hoping to find the children from Anna's first marriage to Adam Dietrich in (about) 1809.

DALLMANN ~ Immigrated from Braunsforth, Stettin Dist. Pomern, Germany. Braunsforth is now Brod Poland. (Since 1939)
After the 30-Years-War (1648) Pommern consisted of two areas: Schwedish-Pommern in the West under Swedish rule and the Eastern area under the rule of the Brandenburg Electors.
After the defeat of Napoleon, Sweden in 1815 renounced all her claims to areas in Germany including Pommern.
Pommern West of the Oder River was also called Vorpommern (Cis-Pomerania), East of the Oder River Hinterpommern (Trans-Pomerania). In 1938 areas from the former provinces of Westpreussen and Posen which were lost after WWI were added in an administrative reform.
Hinter-Pommern was cleansed of its ethnic German population and given to Poland in 1945.
The Western powers were silent on the ethnic cleansing.
Stettin was renamed Szczecin.



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Bette J. Sutton-Rodey

anya@tdi.net


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