Subtree: Clemens Langemeijer 1883

About Joseph Clemens Langemeijer and Emilia Heitkönig.

Memories, by Gerard Langemeijer.
My father had a number of fixed habits. I will name just a few. If he wrote to you, and that happened very rarely, he addressed you as: E.g. If you; now that we are not at home… In the evening when he came home by train from Amsterdam and did not meet my mother, he always shouted in the hall that he was there. Hung coat and jacket on the coat rack in the hall. He replaced his jacket with a chandelier jacket. (Luster was a light quality woolen fabric. Such a chandelier jacket was very comfortable. I‘m not sure if he also took off his stiff white cuffs that were on his wrists. Those cuffs always protruded more than a centimeter under the sleeve of his jacket. Then he went to the living room that was only used on Sundays to have a drink, took a few sips and then entered the dining room with a full glass. He smoked from early in the morning until late at night. After washing, my parents‘ bedroom was the only bedroom on the first floor where there was running water. (The bathroom of course also had running water. In the other three bedrooms there was a lamp jug and a sink, which was emptied into the lamp bucket. My father came downstairs smoking the piece of cigar he had put next to his bed in the evening. He smoked cigars practically all day and only in the evening a long German pipe. When he sat at the table in the dining room in the evening and read the newspaper, we kept getting smoke in our noses from under the tablecloth. We threatened to look for another father. My mother solved the problem by asking father to make a turn. This is how father came to sit parallel to the table. He died on 25 Aug. 1956. Nettie and I received that message in Medan where we lived at the time. He was a very quiet man. Averse to bragging. Despite the fact that the firm of Langemeijer and Stöcker rests largely on him. too. He founded another company next to that company: J.C. LANGEMEIJER J.C. = Jozef Clemens. (In German the last letter was, here the C so the nickname). It became a total of seven companies. Before the war he visited his sister in Neuenkirchen in Oldenburg, who had become an early widow, twice a year. With his brother in the Netherlands, he supported that family and had two children study to become doctors. During the war he was very anti–Nazis (Hitler and his cronies).

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