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SWR1 surprised David with his ancestors from Bremen

During the talk show "Leute" ("People") at German radio station SWR1, which aired on Sunday 25th of July 2010, David found out for the first time that his family original came from place called Völkersen positioned around 30 km from Bremen.
He was very surprised and touched by this information and immediately asked are there still some Hasselhoffs living in Völkersen and said how he'll for sure go and search for his "new" family.
Professor Jürgen Udolph, well known expert in the field of genealogy from the Leipzig University and by the order of SWR1 radio station, has been able to track David's ancestors all the way to 16th century. It seems that the farm was in the near of hazelnut tree (Haselnussstrauches in German). Udolph has also said that the house and the farm should still be existing in Völkersen, 30km south of Bremen. Until this moment, David thought that his family is coming from Nordhessen near Kassel because there's a place called Hasselhof.
Show moderator Birgit Steinbusch gave David copies of the documents that professor Udolph has found and they included signatures of family members for population census, a draft of notice from the First World War and even the passenger list from the ship that brought David's great-great-grandmother Meta Hasselhoff and her family to Baltimore in 1865.
"This is the greatest and the most important gift I've ever got" said excited David and finished with: "I love Bremen!"

This article was originally published here, and big thanks goes to Maria for translating it :)

In case you missed the interview and you speak German, click here to download the podcast.
(Is there some good soul that is willing to offer to do a transcript of the show for the rest of HoffSpacers?)

HNC

Tags: David, Hasselhoff, Leute, SWR1, ancestors, interview

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Comment by camila cristina on July 29, 2010 at 5:24pm: I though that I sang the ball to my mother. I talked to him had German descent.
And talked this when he did the Knight Rider

Good luck. In your quest family David

Comment by silvia on July 28, 2010 at 11:56am: thank you sssssssssssssssssoooooooooooooooooo much !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Comment by 2young2die [Marvin] on July 26, 2010 at 11:51pm: David, you really have german relatives. crazy...;) http://www.weser-kurier.de/Artikel/Region/VERDENER+NACHRICHTEN/2044...

Comment by Maria (ps.:unknown) on July 26, 2010 at 6:13pm: i found a few Hasselhof (one is a farm) and also one with the name Hasselhoff who are living in Völkersen/Langwedel. I´ll keep my fingers crossed for you sir

Comment by Maria (ps.:unknown) on July 26, 2010 at 4:25pm: BIG thank you back because i see you had a lot of work to bring it into a readable english :-D
Bitte gerne!

Comment by Sunny on July 26, 2010 at 2:22pm: Danke für´s Reinstellen. :)

Comment by 2young2die [Marvin] on July 26, 2010 at 2:11pm: but the songs are cut out :(

Comment by Julia (Julia1981) on July 26, 2010 at 1:59pm: Here I have a link where you can listen the show! You can download it as mp3 too.
http://www.swr.de/swr1/rp/programm/leute/-/id=446530/nid=446530/did...

Comment by Sue Hanrahan on July 26, 2010 at 1:45pm: The podcast is really interesting, whether you're fluent in German or not. I loved the enthusiasm in the translator's voice!