When Johannes Schlenker was born on 16 February 1886, in Wittenberg, Bessarabia, Russian Empire, his father, Christoph Schlenker, was 34 and his mother, Christina Stumm, was 31. He married Rosine STUMM about 1916, in Russia.
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Nicholas II crowned emperor.
Russian Social Democratic Labor Party established and holds first congress in March. Vladimir I. Lenin one of organizers of party.
Bolsheviks seize power from Provisional Government. Lenin, as leader of Bolsheviks, becomes head of state. Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic (Russian Republic) formed. Constituent Assembly elected.
Some characteristic forenames: German Erna, Helmut, Helmuth, Juergen, Manfred, Otto, Ralf.
German:
from Middle High German slenger, slenker ‘slingshot’, an occupational name or a nickname for someone who used a sling to hurl stones.
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