Translations:Bildergalerie Kinder der Familie Eckart/3/en

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  Babette Schneider was born in 1860 in Greiz, Germany, as daughter of Jacobine Schneider, née Eckart, and Johann Schneider. This photograph shows her at the age of around ten years, at a time when the family lived in Bogenhausen, near Munich, and Babette attended the only Protestant school in Munich, located at the Glockenbach brook.

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  A watercolor painting showing Hedwig Eckart, born in 1878, at the age of around four years. This was the time when the Munich canning factory of her father, Johannes Eckart, experienced financial difficulty and the family had to move house from time to time.

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  This photograph shows the one-year-old Anita Hoppe with her mother Marianne in 1888.

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  The siblings Hanns and Gertraud Eckart in costumes, photographed in 1903. The family lived in Munich.

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  Maximilian Eckart, who had emigrated to Hawaii, in 1906 with his youngest children Yette, Marie, May and William. Maximilian was 64 years old; two years later, his wife Maria died.

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  Oskar and Hinzula Blum in 1907. The Blum family lived in Hallthurm, near Bad Reichenhall, Germany, in a guest house where the families of the Eckart sisters (Tilly, Kaethe, Elsa, Hedwig and Johanna) met in summer.

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  Hinzula Blum and her baby brother Otto, born in 1910. Otto already died at the age of three years.

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  Ruth and Werner Eckart, enthroned aloft the carriage; photograph probably taken in Munich in 1910.

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  Ruth and Werner Eckart in the same year, this time with their nannies.

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  Otto Blum in 1912, sitting on the highchair characteristic of that era. The wooden seat contained a round hole under which a potty-chair could be attached. It was also possible to convert the chair into a low chair with a small table in front of it.

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  Children bathing, around 1912.

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  Group picture in the garden, around 1914. From left to right, in front: Hinzula Blum, Lisbeth Eckart, Werner Eckart, Ruth Eckart, Gertraud Eckart, Hedwig Reuter, Ilse Eckart, Fritz Reuter, Oskar Blum.

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  Werner Eckart in 1914 at the age of five years, wearing a uniform. This year witnessed the start of World War I.

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  Otto Eckart’s family bathing at Schönberger beach at the Baltic Sea in 1916. At that time, the family lived in Kiel, Germany, where the father was in the navy.

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  Maximilian Eckart’s grandchildren at the beach in Hawaii in 1923: Harry, Olga, Curtis and Irene Sylva.

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  Erika Lepperdinger, the daughter of Hinzula Lepperdinger, née Blum, snacking from a butter churn in the 1930s.

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  Children’s games in the postwar period: Otto Eckart pulling a hay wagon with his sisters and other children in 1947.

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  A group picture from a children’s carnival party in 1951 with Lilo Klein.

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  A hiking trip in dresses in the mid-1950s: Gisela and Heidi Eckart.

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  On the first big family reunion of the Eckarts in 1957, there was also a children’s carnival party; just for fun, Fritz Eckart aims his gun at his cousins Deborah and Kealoha Giugni.

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  Feeding the children in dirndl dresses: Easter 1968 with Heinrich Killinger, Kuki Keller as well as Ute and Antje Eckart.

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  Carnival in the Kaufmanns-Casino (Business Men’s Casino) in 1971; Angelika Killinger and Antje Eckart participate in the celebration at the club of which the Munich branch of the Eckart family has been a member since 1890.

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  A theater performance for the 60th birthday of Anny Eckart in 1973. Antje Eckart and Angelika Killinger dance with Werner Eckart and Anabel (?).

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  Smiling for the photographer: Antje and Werner Eckart in 1974.

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  Summer 1980 in Bibione, Italy, with Marlies, Christel and Caroline Eckart.

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  1989, the young generation of the Munich Eckarts: Marlies Eckart, Christel Eckart, Antje Eckart, Caroline Eckart, Stephan Neuber, Werner Eckart jr., Claudia Killinger, Angelika Killinger, Jürgen Seidel.

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  In the late 1990s, Magdalena Seidel was proud of this impressive snowman.

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  Eckart children from all over the world at the family reunion in 2015.