Kroll Letters Case Study

Appendix 2. The Kroll Letters
Three letters from members of the Kroll family in Berlin are presently in the possession of Mollie Greer, whose Aunt Enid was the last surviving daughter of Jane Bullock, nee Dettmann.
Enid was a schoolteacher. She had been given letters in old German written to Agnes by Agnes’ sister and a brother-in-law. When Agnes married Louis, they had cut off relations – the local assumption was that the family could have been Jewish.
Mollie’s aunt had had the letters translated from old German to modern German, then into English.
Apparently Louis and Agnes’ eldest son Louis went to Germany. One of Queen Victoria’s sons [Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh] was the first member of the Royal Family to visit Australia in 1867. He had a letter of introduction to the Dettmanns, as a result of an association with the Emperor of Prussia. Alfred met the Dettmanns in Sydney and got on well with Louis jr, then 17 or 18, who was asked to go back to Europe as an aide de camp. Louis did. His parents suggested he contact the Krolls, in Berlin, to get employment and experience in their restaurant business. He did so, but wasn’t at all thankful for their efforts. …show more content…
At this time Agnes must have contacted her sisters in Germany.
Her brother-in-law answered because his wife was affected by a mental disorder. Said “not to go into reasons why you have ignored us for 20 years”. They wanted to help young Louis but he wasn’t

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