Friedrich Peter Wòffler (Woeffler) was my maternal grandfather. I don't know much about him only that he was born near the French border. He lived in Wüfrath and in Wuppertal-Elberfeld, Germany. He served in the German military in WW2. He died during the war, that is all I know about him.
Portrait photographs and paintings of our loved ones and ancestors.
Before photos we had paintings of family members - most usually these were reserved for the well off. The era of modern photography began with the daguerreotype, in 1839. Since the advent of photogr...