Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Zeidler
Victim | 1890 | Rubber planter / press agent with ANIEM
Born in 1890 in Leipzig (Sachsen).
Ex-Tsingtau. Called to arms in August 1914 and enlisted as sea soldier in the 3rd company of the 3rd sea battalion. From November 1914 imprisoned by the Japanese ending up in the Kurume concentration camp with prisoner no. 848. Released in December 1919.
He accepted the option to immigrate to the NEI as rubber planter. In 1922 he is registered as employee with the trading company G. Hoppenstedt in Batavia. In 1940 he became press agent with ANIEM (Algemeene Nederlandsch-Indische Electriciteits-Maatschappij - NEI Electricity Company) in Jember (Java).
Interned in May 1940 and deported in January 1942 with the Van Imhoff. Drowned.
On 1 June 2019, Jamos Tan, a direct descendent of Karl Zeidler, mailed the following information.
To avoid using the German name Zeidler, the family adopted the name of Karl's wife: Tan Lan Nio. This picture shows Karl Zeidler's wife Tan Lan Nio with their 2 sons and 2 daughters. The first born son Ludwig Maximilium (on the far left) was also officially renamed Tan as family name rather than Zeidler. Ludwig and his mother migrated to Holland where Ludwig married with Liberta Bockma. They had one child Michiel Laurens Tan who becomes the father of Jamos Zefanja Tan.
Jamos feels that his proper family name should be Zeidler rather than Tan. He can not verify if the victims Karl Zeidler and Friedrich Zeidler are one and the same person. He intends to explore the family archive a bit further and collect more information on Karl Zeidler for publication on this site.
Jamos is planning to travel the world by sailing boat and dive for the Van Imhoff wreckage if the area is accessible.
Ex-Tsingtau. Called to arms in August 1914 and enlisted as sea soldier in the 3rd company of the 3rd sea battalion. From November 1914 imprisoned by the Japanese ending up in the Kurume concentration camp with prisoner no. 848. Released in December 1919.
He accepted the option to immigrate to the NEI as rubber planter. In 1922 he is registered as employee with the trading company G. Hoppenstedt in Batavia. In 1940 he became press agent with ANIEM (Algemeene Nederlandsch-Indische Electriciteits-Maatschappij - NEI Electricity Company) in Jember (Java).
Interned in May 1940 and deported in January 1942 with the Van Imhoff. Drowned.
On 1 June 2019, Jamos Tan, a direct descendent of Karl Zeidler, mailed the following information.
To avoid using the German name Zeidler, the family adopted the name of Karl's wife: Tan Lan Nio. This picture shows Karl Zeidler's wife Tan Lan Nio with their 2 sons and 2 daughters. The first born son Ludwig Maximilium (on the far left) was also officially renamed Tan as family name rather than Zeidler. Ludwig and his mother migrated to Holland where Ludwig married with Liberta Bockma. They had one child Michiel Laurens Tan who becomes the father of Jamos Zefanja Tan.
Jamos feels that his proper family name should be Zeidler rather than Tan. He can not verify if the victims Karl Zeidler and Friedrich Zeidler are one and the same person. He intends to explore the family archive a bit further and collect more information on Karl Zeidler for publication on this site.
Jamos is planning to travel the world by sailing boat and dive for the Van Imhoff wreckage if the area is accessible.
ANIEM - Algemeene Nederlandsch-Indische Electriciteits-Maatschappij - Jember
Karl Zeidler's wife Tan Lan Nio with their 2 sons and 2 daughters. The family name of the first born son Ludwig Maximilium (on the far left) was officially renamed from "Zeidler" to "Tan" as family name. Ludwig Tan and his mother migrated to Holland where Ludwig married with Liberta Bockma. They had one child: Michiel Laurens Tan.
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Official act of the (family) name change for Ludwig Maximiliaan issued in August 1954245-Zeidler,_Karl_-_official_name_change_to_Tan.pdf
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