This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/WFC.2ACI/977.1657.4 Message Board Post: Perhaps the following information can bring some light in your researches (it is not a lot, but anyway): I am related to a Weichmann too. In found out that there exist two lines (probably more), but I will say in the moment two lines. Both are immigrants in Germany. The first line came from Ssouthern Germany. They went away when they must got or wanted to go because of religious reasons (probably at the End of the Middle Age). They were catholics and the little town in Southern Germany changed to protestantic (or calvinistic). They went to Northern Germany, which was also full of protestantic people, but there they got land and houses, to fill the empty fields with life and their catholic religion was tolerated. In Northern Germany the name Weichmann was sometimes changed in Wisman, Weisman, Wiesman , or Wichman or so, because of the Northern German dialect. The Northern did not know the southern name and they changed it. The catholic Weichmann and all the others from Southern Germnay wanted a little catholic church in those protestantic field and they got it. They lived with few others in a kind of "diaspora". The places are Hoppenwalde and or Strasbourg . "My" Weichmann settled in Hoppenwalde, to-day Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. But unfortunately I do not know from which town in Southern Germany they originally came, so I must stop my researches in the moment. This was the first line of the Weichmann to whom I belong. The otherWeichmann- line is yewish. Probably they came from Bohema or Kattowice (now Poland, before it was Austria Hungary), where a lot of yewish peple lived. They came perhaps to Hamburg (Northern Germany) and must emigrate while Holocaust. The name changed in Germany into Weichman (lost one "n"), at least in Germany. Weichman is in Germany a proper sign for yewish provenience. They overcame the Holocaust and returned to Hamburg, where Weichmann became "Bürgermeister" of the City of Hamburg for a long time. May be he was also Professor at the University of Hamburg, but I am not sure.He was very famous. And also his wife. If you look in Internet for Weichmann (or Weichman) Hamburg, you can find a lot of information about both. That is all I can tell you. Perhpas you can need it at all. Rosemarie Brieger