How all this began...

As early as the 1950s, some of the Fellbachers and the Stuttgart Idler met quite regularly. They knew and respected each other. At that time it was assumed that they were somehow related. The butcher-idler of Backnang was always very interested in the family stories and started first attempts to get out more about the individual families. But only his son Eugen, our now sadly deceased honorary president, steered this into more concrete paths. An old family picture of the Krebshof had aroused his curiosity.

The drawing of 1816 shows three soldiers in different uniforms from different regiments of Napoleon's troops and asked for a closer examination. Eugen looked for some comrades-in-arms from the different family groups and systematically went to the church archives and local books. Mrs. Weishaar from Strümpfelbach was a competent advisor. When it came to setting up the pedigrees, Gustav and Irene Idler found the right support in making and writing the individual plates. These became the basis of our family albums. It soon became clear that there was not only one branch of the family. For example, no closer relationship between the Fellbacher and the Stuttgart line could be proven up to now, although the spatial distance is not particularly large. Other branches of the family were also quickly discovered in Germany and Europe, and some of them were worked up. In the 1980s, a number of family members who had travelled a long way and were interested in the subject researched the local telephone directories during their travels. Thus the first contacts to USA and Australia arose. All this information was summarized in Family Book I and published for the 8th Family Reunion in April 1986. The Family Book II with further additions was published in 1994. Thus our worldwide connections and family ties arose long before the dawn of the digital age.