When Berta Schmitt was born on 8 December 1828, in Baden, her father, Franz Joseph Schmitt, was 27 and her mother, Felizitas Herm, was 24. She married Ferdinand Pfistner on 3 January 1853, in Baden. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. She died on 17 June 1888, at the age of 59, and was buried in Ottenau, Amt Rastatt, Baden.
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Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Erwin, Hans, Dieter, Gerhard, Alfons, Bernhard, Franz, Heinz, Helmut, Otto, Bernd.
South German: variant of Schmidt ‘blacksmith’. This form of the surname is also common in France (mainly Alsace and Lorraine).
Germanized form of Slovenian and Croatian Šmit, Czech Šmít, surnames of German origin (compare above, see Smit 3).
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