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Trying to find a source for Dorothea as Angela Merkel's middle name.
I have looked via Horst but even in the Kazmierczak family there is no trace. I tried to trace Herlind back but she doesn't seem to exist prior to Merkel's political career. She does look like Merkel and she could have been the young girl who resembled Hitler's mother who was photographed with Adolf.
So, I thought I would look at Horst's spiritual father, Hans-Otto Wolber. No photos, no history, no parents. His wife was Else Lotte which are Scandinavian names. Hamburg was once part of Denmark.
Then I remembered an odd thing I saw looking for Dorothea Kazmierczak. One site showed me an Ann Dorothea Kissner from Sweden. So let's look for Dorothea Wolber. And again there are Scandinavian connections in Sweden and Norway. It could well be that Hans-Otto came from somewhere in Scandinavia and there is a Dorothea in his ancestry.
If Horst had asked him about a name, because Herlind's father was a Nazi and he did not want to honor a Nazi family, then perhaps Hans-Otto pulled a name from his ancestry. We still do not know his true past and even the surname may be false. But Dorothea is used in Scandinavia and the Lutheran church is found there too.