"Obama's
[maternal] sixth great-grandfather, who went by the name of Johann Conrad Wölflin, was born just north of Stuttgart in the beautiful little
town of Besigheim on January 29, 1729. ... Not only a great uncle who helped liberate
a concentration camp, he even has a German ancestor who battled Muslims."
Born in Hawaii of
American-Kenyan descent: That's how we have come to know Barack Hussein Obama
II. His father, a scion of the Luo people of Africa,
his mother from Wichita, Kansas. While growing up, he lived briefly in
Indonesia and later ascended to the legal heaven that is Harvard Law School.
This man is a melting pot incarnate, so thoroughly American - yet at his core he’s
always been, and will always remain, one of us [Germans].
This notion now has a
scientific basis, since the Internet portal Ancestry.com
has been able to prove that his [maternal] sixth great-grandfather, who went by
the name of Johann Conrad Wölflin, was born just
north of Stuttgart in the beautiful little town of Besigheim
on January 29, 1729.
ONE HUMONGOUS MELTING POT
In 1750, the young man
crossed the Atlantic on board a ship called Patience. Henceforth he was
called Wolfley and settled in Middletown,
Pennsylvania. He started a family with Anna Catherine Schockey
and had at least six children with her, including Ludwig Lewis Wolfley, Obama’s
fifth great-grandfather. All of this came to light when researchers in the
Mormon State of Utah uncovered evidence in the Family
History Library of Salt Lake City. There they came across a so-called “Seelenregister”
or “Register of Souls,” which made it easy to trace the Wolfley-Line
back across the centuries all the way to Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham. It was
also discovered that Johann Conrad Wölflin’s grandfather was mayor of Öfingen [about 75
miles south of Stuttgart] for thirty years and that his father, as a field
surgeon, went to war under the noble knight Prince Eugene of
Savoyagainst the Turks from 1716
to 1718 [the Austro-Turkish War], until being injured by a hostile
arrow. Political leaders, even though only at a local level, and a healing
warrior - Obama's Dresden-Buchenwald visit has already taken on another, more
homespun dimension. Not only a great uncle who helped liberate
a concentration camp, he even has an ancestor who battled Muslims.
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But the White House remains shrouded in silence on all
matters ancestry: How the leader of the Western World deals with these rather
stirring revelations is as yet unknown. For German Internet users however, this
is akin to kicking in an already open door. We know Obama to be our Swabian
[someone from southwest Germany - see map, left] by now from this fantastic video [see below] by Jürgen Bauer: Barack Obama as a speaker at the annual meeting
of apartment owners at 48 Wilhelmstrasse [Wilhelm
Street].
“What really gets to me is
this whole issue of bicycles parked in the main corridor,” he grumbles.
Alluding to the Swabian “Kehrwoche[show you care week],” he then gets going about “rusty old bicycles with
unbelievably dirty tires.” The Swabian dialect is perfectly
synchronized to images of Obama’s appearance in Berlin on June 24, 2008 before
200,000 people. As we know with certainty [according to the video], they were
all in actual fact, co-owners of 48 Wilhelm Street.
[Editor's Note: Kehrwoche is a Swabian
tradition that goes back to at least the 1400s, and refers to a week every year
when people who live in a building (if it contains more than one party) take
their turn tidying up the yard and polishing everything until it's absolutely spotless.
What the author is driving at is that Germans have known that Obama was "one
of them" ever since this video appeared. In the video, Obama is engaged in
the common German tradition of speaking up and complaining at an apartment
owner's meeting - in this case, an imaginary 48 Wilhelmstrasse, about
the abuse of the building's common areas. It's all done in a Swabian accent - the area that Obama's ancestor hailed
from. see video below].
From now on, Württemberg [a city in
Swabia] is with Obama wherever he goes, just one humongous melting pot. Only
with those from Baden
[which was split off from Swabia after World War II] does he have real
difficulties.
