When Elisabeth Meier was born on 23 November 1859, in Ebnat, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland, her father, Johann Melchior Meier, was 21 and her mother, Verena Schaellibaum, was 35. She married Ulrich Kuenzle in 1885.
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Jean Henru Dunant founded the Red Cross in Geneva.
Switzerland organizes Red Cross units during World War I.
Treaty of Versailles reaffirms Swiss neutrality.
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Otto, Hans, Erwin, Manfred, Heinz, Armin, Bernhard, Lorenz, Franz, Gerhard, Helmut.
German and Dutch: variant of Meyer . The German surname in this form is also found in some other European countries, e.g. in France (Alsace and Lorraine) and Poland.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): from a variant of the personal name Meyer (see Meyer 2).
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