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Childhood in Germany before 1914

Children at a Christmas market in Berlin, 1910

Children admire gifts at a Christmas market.

Archduke Nicholas of Oldenburg, 1904

The archduke as a child in front of a pony.

Peasant woman at the stove, around 1900

Westphalian farm life around 1900: A farmer's wife looks after the fire and is cooking at the stove while her daughter watches her.

Mother with daughter, 1910

A mother with her daughter and a doll. [automated translation]

Crown Prince Wilhelm with his son, 1908

The Crown Prince, with his eldest son, Prince Wilhelm, on horseback.

Crown Prince Wilhelm of Prussia with his family, 1910

The Crown Prince (left) riding with his eldest son Wilhelm and his wife Crown Princess Cecilie (right).

Under the Christmas tree, 1910

A grandmother reads fairy tales to her grandchildren at the Christmas Tree.

Family, around 1880

'The City Cousin' by B. Vautier. A family in the countryside receives visitors from the city - a mother and son. The boy doesn't dare to play with the village children.

Playing

Teenagers play the game 'Kaemmerchen vermieten' in the forest (undated image).

Princes Albrecht and Rudolf of Bavaria

Their royal highnesses: Prince Albrecht and Prince Rudolph of Bavaria in folk costume.

Berlin children splashing around, 1914

Berlin children are showered with a water hose in the splash zone in Schillerpark.

Children exercise on a "training ship" on the beach of Swinemuende, 1913

For educational reasons artist Georg Schmitt, who lives in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, has donated a second model ship to the beach of Swinemuende, as well as an already existing ship in Wilmersdorf, so that children interested in the navy and young soldiers can play.

Kindergarten teachers in Berlin, 1914

Kindergarten teachers at work in a kindergarten in Berlin. These war kindergartens provide accommodation and meals for the children whose fathers and mothers work.

Delivering baskets in Upper Franconia, 1909

A child with a basket wagon in Lichtenfels in Upper Franconia.

Playing children, 1883

Children on Schreberplatz in the southern suburb of Leipzig. From: Gartenlaube 23 (1883).

Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia and hereditary Prince Wilhelm, 1910

Prince Louis Ferdinand (left) playing a soldier game with his older brother, Hereditary Prince Wilhelm (right). Both are standing in a black and white striped guardhouse of the sentry and have toy rifles with them.

Emperor Wilhelm II with Louis Ferdinand and Wilhelm, 1912

Emperor Wilhelm II (left) speaks, during a maneuver on the Tempelhof field, with his grandchildren Louis Ferdinand and Wilhelm (in the coach from left). Right behind the Emperor, Crown Prince Wilhelm. The Emperor and the Crown Prince wear the uniform of the Death's Head Hussars (1st Life Hussars Regiment No. 1) in Gdansk.

Hereditary Prince Wilhelm of Prussia and Prince Louis Ferdinand, 1913

Hereditary Prince Wilhelm (left) sitting together with his younger brother Prince Louis Ferdinand (right standing) on an ice rink. The two princes wear ice skates. Prince Wilhelm is sitting on a wooden sledge, Prince Louis Ferdinand rests on his brother's shoulders.

Heinrich Luebke

Heinrich Luebke, politician, Germany, CDU, general pictures until 1959

Bertolt Brecht as a child, 1908

Bertolt Brecht as a child in a family photo taken in 1908. It shows his father Bertold Friedrich Brecht and his mother Sophie, on the left the young Eugen Berthold and his brother Walter in Augsburg.

Crown Prince Wilhelm as a child, 1890-1893

Crown Prince Wilhelm during an outing. With his right hand he holds his pony by the reins, with the left he gives his dog a treat.

Women and children on a beach holiday on the East Sea beach, 1910

Women and children on a beach holiday on the Baltic Sea, a boy hands over a find to his mother. In the background a pier.

Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, 1911

Prince Louis Ferdinand as a three-year-old in a sailor suit. On his cap is written the ship name S.M.S. Hohenzollern.

Children of the Duke and Duchess of Saxe-Altenburg, 1911

From the left: Princess Charlotte, Hereditary Prince George Moritz, Princess Elizabeth and Prince Frederick Ernst.

Prince Frederick of Prussia, 1911-12

Prince Friedrich as a baby in a cradle.

Prince Ernst zur Lippe, 1912

Youth portrait of hereditary Prince Ernst zur Lippe, son of Prince Leopold IV.

Food distribution from the field kitchen, 1912

Field kitchen serving meals to common soldiers during the manoeuvres of the 3rd Army Corps. As usual at this time, numerous children of the poverty-stricken population gathered, hoping to get a plate of food from the leftovers.

Hereditary Grand Duke Friedrich Franz of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, 1912

The Hereditary Grand Duke as a toddler in a wicker carriage.

Girls on the beach of Borkum, 1913

Girls marching on the beach of Borkum.

Strollers, 1913

Two women are walking with children in strollers.

Clothes collection in Berlin , 1915

Pupils collect clothes in baskets during the 'Reich's whool week'.

Children taking a nap, 1915

A governess supervises sleeping war children in the Count Arco Palace in Munich during the First World War.

Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia with his brothers, 1916

From left: Prince Friedrich, Prince Hubertus, Prince Louis Ferdinand, Hereditary Prince Wilhelm.

Prince Ludwig of Bavaria Jr. and Princess Maria, 1918

Prince Ludwig Karl Maria of Bavaria, later husband of Princess Irmingard, and his sister Princess Maria. The two are the eldest children of Prince Franz.

Ski exercise, 1918

The Munich youth assault regiment performing a ski exercise.

Servants school, circa 1900

Girls receive domestic service education in a school kitchen. They weigh out flour and cut vegetables.

Children, circa 1900

Children of a large family. Undated picture.

Luitpold Prinz von Bayern, 1901

Sohn des bayerischen Kronprinzen Rupprecht.

German School in Dar-es-Salaam, 1903

A German teacher educates black students in a school. On the wall above the blackboard hang the pictures of Kaiser Wilhelm II and the Empress.

Fürstenfamilie von Oldenburg, 1903

Die Kinder des letzten regierenden Großherzog von Oldenburg Friedrich August: Von links nach rechts: Herzogin Altburg, Herzogin Ingeborg, Großherzog Nikolaus von Oldenburg und Herzogin Sophie Charlotte.

Gottfried and Albrecht von Bismarck, 1903

Gottfried Count von Bismarck-Schoenhausen and his brother Albrecht, sons of the deceased Prince Herbert von Bismarck

Schulklasse in Leipzig, 1903

Eine Mädchenklasse in Leipzig.

The children of the Grand Ducal couple of Oldenburg, 1904

The children of the Grand Duke of Oldenburg. From left to right: Hereditary Grand Duke Nikolaus, Duchess Altburg and Duchess Ingeborg-Alix.

Princess Victoria Louise, 1904

The daughter of Kaiser Wilhelm II, Princess Victoria Louise as a child. She later married Duke Ernst August von Braunschweig.

The little Prince of Bavaria and Belgium, 1904

Prince Luitpold of Bavaria (left) and Prince Leopold of Belgium (right) as children.

Orphanage in Berlin, 1905

Children of the Berlin orphanage Marienheim, having lunch.

Parents and siblings of Heinrich Himmler, 1906

The later Reichsfuehrer-SS Heinrich Himmler (left front) at the age of 5. At right his father, the tutor of the Bavarian prince Joseph Gebhardt, Himmler, on the left, her mother Anna Maria, born Heyden. The three children from left: Heinrich, Ernst and Gebhard.

Wilhelm of Prussia, 1907

The one-year-old Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, the eldest son of Prince Friedrich of Prussia.

The first electric tram in Potsdam, 1907

The first electric tram in Potsdam at its ceremonial opening on September 2, 1907. The line with trolleys from Gottfried Lindner AG ran between the Central Station, Sanssouci and Charlottenhof Station. Children walk beside the tram decorated with flowers and flags.

Prince Wilhelm of Prussia

Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, son of the Prussian Crown Prince Wilhelm and his wife Cecilie zu Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

Hermine Bosetti with daughter, 1909

The Munich artist Hermine Bosetti with her daughter.

Fencing master Gazzera with a student, 1909

The Italian fencing master Carlos Arturo Gazzera in Frankfurt a. M. with one of his students from the Frankfurt high society. Only very forward-thinking parents allowed their children to take physical education lessons at that time, even more rarely to the young ladies. A distinction was also made between socially acceptable sports such as riding and fencing and those of the proletariat such as football.

The youngest daughters of Oldenburg, 1909

Duchess Ingeborg Alix (left) and Duchess Altburg of Oldenburg, the youngest daughters of the Grand Ducal couple.

Children 1850 to 1900

Children admiring a car in Berlin, 1895

Children admire a car in Berlin. They are mostly barefoot.

Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, 1877

The last Grand Duke of Saxony, William Ernest, as a toddler.

The German School in Luederitz Bay, 1926

German children play in front of the building of the German School in Luederitz Bay, German South-West Africa.

School 1900 bis 1919

Luis Trenker beside a little girl, 1896

The mountaineer, actor, director and writer Luis Trenker at the age of four next to a little girl in a meadow.

Children's home in Berlin, 1897

In the most modern children's" home in Germany at that time, the Pestalozzi-Froebel-Haus in Berlin, the children were bathed every Saturday.

The five sons of Kaiser Wilhelm II, 1897-1900

First row from left: Prince Oskar, Prince Joachim, Prince August Wilhelm. Second row from the left: Prince Eitel Friedrich, Crown Prince Wilhelm, Prince Adalbert.

Old town in Hamburg

Children in a back courtyard in a district of old houses slated for destruction in the southern Neustadt part of Hamburg.

Prince August William and Prince Oskar, 1899

Prince August Wilhelm and Prince Oskar, the two sons of Emperor Wilhelm II, in the sailor suits of the Empire.

Christmas presents in a protestant parsonage, 1899

Christmas presents are handed out to poor city children of Berlin by Protestant deaconess sisters in a parish home of the Protestant Church.