Ursula Rochlitz looks back on a long, eventful life.
This Wednesday she will be 102 years old in Lenggries.
Lenggries - The jubilarian was born and raised in Gdansk.
Even today she raves about swimming in the Baltic Sea waves.
On July 20, 1945, her life changed.
Gisela Rochlitz was almost 26 years old when she was evicted with her eight-month-old daughter Gitta and her mother.
The escape took them via Berlin to Gaissach.
There son Wolf-Dieter was born.
After the war her husband Hans Rochlitz found his family again and they settled in Lenggries.
There the youngest daughter Tina saw the light of day in what was then the Lenggries hospital.
Ursula Rochlitz worked for the Schwarzenberger construction company, but mainly looked after the three children.
Her husband Hans was initially employed in the Lenggries barracks before he became the general representative of a large insurance company.
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The mountains have done it to her: The photo was taken in 1966 in front of the Tölzer Hütte on Brauneck.
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Almost drowned with the "Wilhelm Gustloff"
“Our mother is incredibly tough.
She has proven that in all situations, ”says her daughter Gitta, who now lives in Germering near Munich.
Her son agrees: “She often told us harrowing reports from the last days of the war.” Ursula Rochlitz was to be disembarked with thousands of other families on the ship “Wilhelm Gustloff” at the end of January 1945.
She was disappointed when she was refused entry on board due to overcrowding.
Hours later, the ship was sunk by a torpedo and nearly 9,000 people drowned in the floods.
“A small coincidence, otherwise none of us would exist today,” says Wolf-Dieter Rochlitz.
Ursula Rochlitz mourned her old homeland for a long time. But in the end she fell in love with her new home and clearly feels at home in the mountains. She and her husband often explored the near and far area by car on weekends. Daughter Gitta reports that her mother still remembers the smallest details, the narrow streets and crossroads or inns that she visited. “She has a phenomenal memory. I think she still knows what dress I wore when I started school as a child. "
Daughter Tina lives a few meters away today and checks on her mother every day: "I always come by around 10 o'clock." Dahoam is dahoam ”she could laugh heartily.
Even if she no longer hears well, she now understands Bavarian well.
And as it should be, she still enjoys going to the tavern.
It goes without saying that Ursula Rochlitz had her two daughters and son-in-law Hansi invite her to lunch at the “Altwirt” on her jubilee day.
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