227 year old zombie to testify in a court.

[Heresson]

I just found it funny and thought I'd share.

The authorities of Gorzow published in local papers an order for Sophie Bohm, born in 1782, to come to the court.

Absurd? it's just a legal necessity: Sophie Bohm has disappeared without a trace in 1847 and was never officially acknowledged as a dead person. She still figures in papers as missing. And they can't officially do nothing with her property if she's not officially dead.
Therefore, they have to publish a call for this 227 year old woman to come to the court, wait three months, and only then they can do something about her land

[DinoDoc]

Just for ****s, what happens if she shows?

[OzzyKP]

Wow, so what has happened to her property for the last 200 years?

[Lorizael]

And who wants it, since that's clearly why this is coming to light now.

[SpencerH]

probably a descendent

[Theben]

The Descendents

[Wezil]

Just for ****s, what happens if she shows?

"****s" would happen.

[DanS]

There can be only one.

[Heresson]

one tv news have made a nice show, asking people on that street if they've ever seen her neighbour, asking some actors dressed in XVIII/XIX century dresses (they were making a show about Mozart), asking modern Bohm family, and they even hired a psychic to find her But a historian commented that miss Bohm was a german who moved to Bydgoszcz from Gorzow, which at this point was completely or almost completely german, so she wouldn't understand the announcement in papers, as she probably didn't know polish much. He was replied, however, that this lady in her 227 year life had plenty of time to finally learn polish.



and a little mistake: the lady was from Gorzow, but she moved to Bydgoszcz, so the event itself took place in Bydgoszcz.

[duke o' york]

Regardless of the small mistake, she'll still be dead/embalmed in a tomb below Lenin's. So why the fork have the court asked her to appear?

[Ben Kenobi]

Polish govt wanting german land. Isn't it obvious from Heresson's post?

[duke o' york]

Yeah, because the nonappearance of a person has a massive weight in international law.

[Heresson]

Polish govt wanting german land. Isn't it obvious from Heresson's post?

Bydgoszcz belonged to Poland before ww2, although it had a big german minority. Polish gouverment has nothing to do with that.

Anyway, don't you have a shame to criticise the gouverment representing the nation of your polish forefathers?

[Ben Kenobi]

Bydgoszcz belonged to Poland before ww2, although it had a big german minority. Polish gouverment has nothing to do with that.

You mean Bromberg? I don't see why you insist on using silly names. Calling Bromberg Bydogszcz is just as silly as calling Warsaw, Varshava.

Anyway, don't you have a shame to criticise the gouverment representing the nation of your polish forefathers?

Ethnic cleansing, you should be ashamed yourself, for your government is occupying land. It seems pretty clear. Polish govt wanted to buy land found out that it was already owned by a German lady who's family was one of the folks driven out.

My family was German, tyvm. If they had wanted to be Polish, they would have moved to the south. I like Poles, but really, you should give the land back. When Stalin offers you a gift you should say no.

[Heresson]

Polish govt wanted to buy land found out that it was already owned by a German lady who's family was one of the folks driven out.

Don't you think that if she had family, it'd collect this land in the 100 years between here disappearance and expulsions of germans from the city?

My family was German, tyvm. If they had wanted to be Polish, they would have moved to the south.

Why? Entire south Prussia were prussian citizens of polish origin, speaking polish, having polish surnames etc. Your forefathers were Germans of polish origin, at best.