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Hubertus Klaus Agobard Bung, known as Klaus Bung, born 3 Nov 1935 in Berlin-Lankwitz, baptised in the Annakapelle (St Anne's Chapel; a hospital chapel?) in Berlin-Südende on 17 Nov 1935.

Ina Sinclair explains this detail on Klaus Bung's certificate of baptism (Taufschein):

I think our parents lived next to a St. Anna-Krankenhaus (St Ann's Hospital) and were very friendly with the nuns there; we were however all born at home and as far as I know our father was present at all our births. ??? To be confirmed once more by Ina.

The godparents were Frau Hildegard Schmid, stud. phil. (student of philosophy) and Heimfried Hantelmann. The certificate is signed by Pfarrer Hinz (Vicar Hinz). This Hildegard Schmid (known as "Tante Hilde", Aunt Hilde) is the sister of Erika Bung, who died so early. She was Roman Catholic. Her descendants are listed in the section about the Schmid clan.

Heimfried Hantelmann (who died in about 1995), is somehow??? related to Paula Faßbender (née Hantelmann), mentioned above. This is the Protestant Branch of the family, very much of North German stock. He was an engineer by profession and his hobby was sailing (in the Baltic Sea, between Denmark and Germany. Klaus Bung does not know if he ventured any further "afield".) While Klaus Bung's godmother Hildegard died early and Klaus Bung therefore does not remember her, Klaus Bung had a lot of contact with Onkel Heimfried (Uncle Heimfried). He remembers especially that he coached him in mathematics in which Klaus Bung was a very bad student at school. He did so very well, managing to give very simple explanations and, being an engineer, he understood the subject very well and took a very practical view. When he was about 60 (not sure about the age), his wife died and a few years later he got married again to a friend of many years standing (she may have been from Denmark, but spoke German well), who also had a passion for sailing; and they went on many sailing "Törns" (turns, trips) until he was very old. Ina Sinclair says they did not get married but spent a lot of time together.

Ina Sinclair says: Heimfried Hantelmann was a nephew of Paula Faßbender, née Hantelmann, and a son of her younger brother Kurt Hantelmann. Klaus Bung thinks Kurt Hantelmann (who had a black face because some powder exploded ??? in his face during a war) is the person who held the Hantelmann family archive until his death. (when???)

Heimfried Hantelmann had two daughters and a son (Uli Hantelmann = Ulrich Hantelmann), of whom Klaus Bung knows only one, Maila Hantelmann. She was a bit of a rebel, a hippie in the 60s, an Aussteiger (drop-out), going in for the simple life, anti-authoritarian education, extra-parliamentary democracy, street protests, etc etc, but Klaus Bung has not heard from her for 10 or 20 years. She had at least one child, called "Lina". That must have been a traditional name in the Hantelmann family, because Klaus Bung remembers that there was also a Tante Lina (perhaps a sister of Paula Faßbender). When Klaus Bung last heard of her, she lived on a farm in Wohlde, near Husum, in Schleswig-Holstein, near the Danish border in North Germany. She came to Klaus Bung's attention rather charmingly when she phoned him or wrote to him in London saying that she wanted to meet him. She had noticed that his family in Germany (parents, sisters) always got embarrassed and evasive when his name was mentioned. Why were they hiding him? For her that was a commendation, so she wanted to get to know him. Klaus Bung fully agrees with her, he is a most commendable person. Since nobody, except his champion Maila, says this about him, he has to say it himself. He strongly believes in supporting the underdog.

Klaus Bung married Gloria Antoinette Thomasos (called Gloria Thomasos), Roman Catholic, on 19 March 1960 at St Joseph's Church, Highgate, London, was separated soon after, formally divorced in about 1966 (High Court, The Strand, London; Decree Nisi No 103, dated 10 February 1966). Gloria Thomasos was born in Trinidad [town: Arima] on 29 March 1933 as daughter of Arnold Thomasos and Theodora Thomasos, née Austin. Arnold Thomasos was one-time Minister of Education of Trinidad and Tobago and later Speaker of the Trinidad and Tobago Parliament. Gloria Thomasos-Bung died on 3 January 2000 in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, in hospital. Arnold Thomasos has ancestry going back to Panama and thence to Spain, to Italy (as his name suggests), and was also said to be a descendant of the last caribs (Amero-Indian aborigines) living in Trinidad. They died out, presumably, two centuries ago. Researchers can track down poetry, short-stories, and other material published by Arnold Thomasos in books and magazines.

Klaus Bung searched on the Internet (www.familysearch.org) for the ancestors of Arnold Thomasos and of Theodora Austin. The name Austin came up a few times, but not in Trinidad. The name Thomasos, strangely, did not come up at all, at no time and in no part of the world. Presumably the Mormons (owners of www.familysearch.org) have not yet photographed the church and registry records in Trinidad. Note that a common variant of the name, also as a Christian name, is "Thomaso".

The following information on Arnold C (Clytus?) Thomasos and other Thomasoses came up on the Internet:

- There is a Gary Thomasos, calypsonian, who lives at: 6 Arena Road, San Raphael, Trinidad. Tel: (868) 643 8010. He may be worth writing to. If he is related, he may have family information. (The same applies to all the other Thomasoses in view of the present lack of Thomasos family information. Thalia could write personally; children always produce reponses where adults do not.)

- Arnold C Thomasos was speaker at the Trinidad and Tobago Parliament from 1961-1981; he was the third holder of that office, which started in 1950. He published a book or poetry and short prose, "One Moment" (Guiseppi, Arima, Trinidad, 1980). He must also have published much short fiction and poetry in various newspapers and magazines. These are yet to be located.

Klaus Bung and Gloria Thomasos had one daughter, Erika Elizabeth Bung, called Lisl Bung. Lisl Bung was born prematurely (induced birth due to her mother's dangerously high blood pressure) and spent her first weeks in an incubator at the Mother's Hospital (run by the Salvation Army) in Clapton, London E5. Since the Salvation Army not only provided a hospital for Lisl's birth when circumstances made it impossible to find another, but also saved Gloria's and Lisl's life, Klaus Bung has a soft spot for them and they always get money and a pleasant word when they come to collect.

As a baby, Lisl followed her mother back to Trinidad where she went to school and high school, then to New York, where she studied accountancy. In New York, Gloria Thomasos married Paul Pollard, from whom she had a second daughter, Paula Leslie-Ann Pollard (called Leslie), who is now a young doctor in New York. This marriage was later divorced. Gloria did not marry again.

(Her birthday coincides with that of her great-great-great-grandfather, Hubert Bung (1846-1930), who was born on 5 September 1846 in Esch near Rheinbach.)

Father: Hubertus Klaus Agobard Bung (called Klaus Bung) (born 3 November 1935 in Berlin, Germany; will die God-knows-when-and-where but all this is already determined [The die is cast-iron: alea iacta est]). Hindi proverb:

dhane dhane me likha he
khane vale ka nam.

On every grain is written the name
of the person who is going to eat it.

Mother: Gloria Antoinette Thomasos (born 29 March 1933 in Trinidad [Arima?], died 3 Jan 2000 in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad)

Marriage: Lisl Bung married Santiago DeJesus (called Sam DeJesus), occupation: Mental Hygiene Therapy Aide, born on 17 October 1952 in the Dominican Republic. At the time of the marriage his parents, brothers and sisters, lived in New York. The marriage took place in Long Island City on 13 February 1982 (Catholic Church; both her parents were present, her father played the organ, improvised on "Schmücke dich, du liebe Seele"). It was divorced in Ballston Spa, New York State, on 26 April 1999. Many of Lisl's cousins, with whom she grew up in Trinidad, now live in the USA and Canada.

- Darius Santiago DeJesus, born in Queens, New York, 12 March 1984. He is a computer whizkid and plays the trombone in the school orchestra.

(His birthday coincides with that of his great-great-great-great-great-grandfather Christian Esselbrügge (1780-1821), born on 12 March 1780 in Burgsteinfurt.

- Thalia Antoinette DeJesus, born in Queens, New York, 6 July 1986. She plays the violin in the school orchestra, is the comedian of the family (as her name foretells) and tortures her little brother by putting rice into his hair when he is writing e-mails to his grandfather.

Ihm ruhen noch im Zeitenschoße
Die schwarzen und die heitern Lose.
(What the lottery of life has in store for him
is still hidden in the womb of time.)

(His birthday coincides with that of his great-great-grandfather Wilhelm Bung (1873-1953), born on 24 April 1873 in Neukirchen.)

Why wasn't at least one of them born on 25 December to coincide with the birthday of their namesake Jesus? Bad planning?


Gloria Thomasos and Klaus Bung outside St Joseph's Church, Highgate, London, on 19 March 1960
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