Rampitz is the birthplace of Franz Jaeger. His father, also Franz, and his mother, born Kersten and sister of Gustav Kersten, still lived there as small farmers and innkeepers. Franz Jaeger preferred to give a German adress when applying for this DRP, so he chose his home village.
BTW, on things that happened in America I believe in American sources, on matters that happened in Europe European ones. In this case American sources merely state that Bittiner and Jaeger left America in 1902, direction Suhl in Europe. Official European sources say Bittiner never got to Suhl, but had adresses as a registered gunmaker in Liege, Belgium, from 1904 to 1907 at least. European and family sources say Franz Jaeger first went to Liege too, but in 1903 opened a small shop in Suhl on Mühlhügel, where his daughter Selma, mother of Dietrich Apel, was born Nov.9, 1904. At the same time, 1904, he moved to a better house at Schleusinger Strasse 19. In May 1907 Franz Jaeger together with Lüdecke registered "Franz Jaeger & Co.", trademark "Nimrod", and built a factory at Pfiffergrube 17. At the same time Carl Bittiner in Liege had moved to Paul Scholberg's adress.
