Frank Wissel

Last year, my wife and I were talked into taking a Danube river cruise from Budapest, Hungary to Prague, Czech Republic in late August. While we were planning our trip, my wife agreed to add an extra day at the end of our trip in Prague so that I could learn more about my Wendish […]

Below is a list of all the patents I have found to date that Wends have either been awarded individually or working with a group. The names of those of Wendish descent are in bold type. The list is in chronological order and each entry has the names of the patent awardees, the name of

I recently received an email from George Nielsen about a patent.   Patent number 948,508 was for a Cotton Oil Mill Seed Huller and was awarded to John G. Kappler and John Gaines of Giddings, Texas on February 8, 1910.   Mr. Kappler and Mr. Gaines filed for the patent on January 25, 1909.  George

William Friedrick Kieschnick Junior was born on January 5, 1923 to William Friedrick Kieschnick Senior and Effie Meador Kieschnick.   He is a great grandson of Andreas Kieschnik. Andreas Kieschnik was born in Dauban, Rothenberg on November 13 or 15, 1828 and was a Ben Nevis passenger.  Andreas Kieschnik married Elisabeth Louise Koerner and they

On June 9, 2017 I posted an article “Search for Wendish Patents Continue”.  Part of that post focussed on Robert Gloyna and his brother, Dr. Eanest Gloyna, with more of an emphasis on Dr. Gloyna’s accomplishments.  Since then, I have learned more about Bob Gloyna and would like to share that here.  This was shared

After the article about my search for Wends who had been awarded patents was published in the TWHS Newsletter, I received several emails from TWHS members who had either been awarded patents, or who had relatives who had been awarded patents.  I was excited by all of them and I wanted to share with you

In 1854 Johann Kiesling who was sixty seven years old decided to leave his home and head for Texas on the Ben Nevis with about 600 other people to make a new home and start a new life. Johann brought with him his wife Hanna, age fifty seven and their three children; Johann Kiesling, age

I have always found patents and inventions fascinating.  A few years ago I found out that my Wendish great grandfather, Andreas Mattijetz, had been awarded six patents during a ten year period (1888 – 1898), thanks to the help of Kathe Richards and Weldon Mersiovsky of the Wendish Research Exchange.  Since then I have been interested

Last month I was reading through the post titled “Serbin in the News by Weldon Mersiovsky” on The Wendish Research Exchange website under the “Wend Blogs” on “Weldon’s Wendish Works”.  I found the information to be very interesting.  There were several references about some kind of disagreement between two doctors named Molette (also spelled Mallette

Danny Mattijetz is my first cousin on my mother’s side of the family.  The Mattijetz family was a close knit family so we saw each other often as we grew up.  We continued to stay in touch. Recently, we both started posting on Facebook, and that is where Danny found out I was looking for