Georg Wilhelm August Friedrichs

Goldsmith in Jakarta (Batavia). Pictures: © 2023 private family archive.

George married Emma Bertha Warner, known under her nickname Betty or Bobby. Jährling (2006) mentions Berthi Friedrichs as one of the women whom she met in the Tjibadak internment camp for German women and children.

Emma and Georg had two children. The first was George Wilhelm Ferdinand Friedrichs. He changed his name to Fred George Friedrichs. He became the father of Kelly Friedrichs-Valldeperas who contacted vanimhoff.info in 2023. In the correspondence that followed she shared the following family information and moving photographs.

Kelly is proud of her grandfather. For her he comes across as a wonderful husband and father.

The second child is Ursula Erna. She is the only child still living and resides in South Carolina. She was born after the sinking of the Van Imhoff.

In post war NEI, Georg teamed up with other Van Imhoff survivors to assist each other in the middle of the country's chaos. He also met Albert Vehring. Together they seek (with success) to formally legalise the status of Clara as daughter and heir of Van Imhoff victim Ernst Emil Pflug. (See biography Ernst Pflug for more details.)