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Also Known As:<_AKA> Richard Maerz /(Maertz)/ Cause of Death: Heart Failure and Cremated on 2-15-68 inGermany. Richard Maerz was Sophie Mikat's father. His born name wasHermannRichard Maertz, but he was always called him Richard. Henever knew hisfather for he died six months before he was born.Richard lovedwrestling as a young man and was very good at it. In 1903-1940 heowned and operated the Thermometer-Bauanstalt onHofenerStrasse 76 in Bad Cannstatt, Germany. He specialized inindustrialthermometers; using a design, sketch, or pattern, he did hisown glassblowing. . It was such a very successful business that attimes Richardflew on an airplane to where his family (his wife,Friederike anddaughters, Gertrude and Sophie) was vacationing. Backthen, only richpeople could afford to fly on airplanes. Then when hewas sixty-twoyears old, he sold his factory to Gottlieb Glockler for4,500 gold marks. Sophie, his oldest daughter, left home in 1929 to move to the U.S.A.Shewanted to save her own money for back then her mother always tookherpaycheck and saved it for her. When the World War II bombing destroyed their home, Gertrude,hisdaughter, and he used a wheel barrel to dump the rubble in a holeunder abridge that had been bombed. In 1945, Richard and his wife moved to the U.S.A. to be nearhisdaughter, Sophie. They could not get over all the food that was onourdinner table for they only had very meager amounts of food on theirtablein Germany. Richard bought a farm on Sheridan Road near BrockwaywhereSophie, his daughter, and husband, Gustav lived. He worked veryhard.Gertrude arrived in 1947 to live with them Later when Richard and family moved to Euclid Street in Yale, heenjoyedworking in his vineyard and making a very good wine. When hiswife,Friederike, had her strokes before her death, he helped take careofher.Then later Richard and Gertrude went back to Germany to livein1965. He diedsuddenly in their home on Turmackerstrasse1,Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany in 1968. He was almost 90 yearsold.
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