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Fritz Todt's Family

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  1. GRW

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    Doing some research on an Alexander Todt who tried to escape from Britain with a married British woman in 1946, but only got as far as Calais.
    He was supposedly Fritz Todt's son, former Afrika Korps captured at Bardia, and supposedly a student in Britain prewar.
    Trouble is, the sources contradict each other; one says Todt had a son (Alexander) and two daughters, another says he had one son (Fritz) and a daughter called Ilsebill, yet another said his two daughters laid a memorial stone on his grave in the early 2000s.
    Getting nothing else online, so wondered if anyone knew more background on Todt's family. I can't even find his wife's name, but would really be useful to get his son's name and story.
     
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    Wife was Elsbeth.

    Childrens' names & spelling are questionable
     
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  3. GRW

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    Any idea how many kids he actually had?

    EDIT: got details on Elsbeth Kramer (nee Muller) on a german wiki. turns out she was a widow (and eight years Fritz's senior) when she married him in 1921. They had three, possibly four kids; two daughters, and a son called Fritz who was a fighter pilot killed in 1944.
    So if this Alexander is even related, he may have been a stepson from her first marriage.
    The plot thickens.
     
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    Searching AHF only came across the wife's name. Nothing on the children.

    Saw you just posted over there, hopefully you will have some luck.
     

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