Who I am and what I do!
November 1999
I am born on the 01.
August 1975 in Wipperfuerth which is in the community
of Gummersbach in the area of Remscheid
(North-Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Germany), where my Grandparents lives still today
and my parents are growing up. My father was just 1 year back from El Paso,
Texas, USA where he was as a Soldier for the German Bundeswehr
with my mother Rita Sagel (27.01.1953) and where also
my brother Denny was born on the 20. February 1973
After the time as a soldier, my father Klaus Sagel
(16.11.1948), got a job by an american company in Frechen in the area of Cologne (Koeln).
We moved in that area into a little town which is called Manheim (first written
in 898 after Christ !). It is part of the community of
the city Kerpen, from where is also Michael and Ralf
Schumacher and Graf Berghe von Tripps
(FORMULA 1 - driver). Here I was growing up in real peacefull
countrysite. My parents are divorced since 1984. I
went to the Highschool for Economy (Hoeheren Handelsschule) and went allready on the way for a salesman. Later I made an
education as a salesman for houses (Kaufmann in der Grundstuecks-
und Wohnungswirtschaft) and got a job at a company in
Cologne (Koeln), which closed the office in Cologne
after 1 year and so I followed my way in the education at the general-office in
Bonn (At that time the Capital-city / Today it is Berlin again).We have 2 sons now: Timon
(2005) and Henrik (2007) and we bought a house in the city of Kerpen. Since the 01. July 1998 I worked as a free Salesman
and officeleader for the Erftkreis
(BM – where I live) in the name of the BHW Immobilien
ltd.. After some time this job was not enough for me
and for that what I wanted to reach and so I changed very soon (on the 01.
June.1999) to the well known Real-Estate-company Von Emhofen Immobilien Koeln (Cologne),
here I am working from the office at my home.
In neighbour to the familyresearch I am interested in
the Bonsai-art, I am doing Tai Chi. I was active in political work for the
FDP (Liberal Democratic Party of Germany) until 2002, I
am interested in historical buildings how I came to the Deutschen
Burgenvereinigung (German Club for help castles and
palaces) and to the Deutschen Stiftung
Denkmalschutz (German Heritage Foundation). Jesus
Christ and philosophic questions are also very important for me! My big love
for Afrika I developed while my studentexchange
over 1 month in 1995 into a Southafrican Zulu-family.
Still today this land and the people of it are enjoying my bigest
respect. But my hobby to travel is allready expand on
the map (West of the USA, Mexiko, Zimbabwe, Canada,
Russia, Thailand, Cambodia, Panama (Sagel-Reunion in
2001), Namibia (Sagel-Reunion 2002) Venezuela / Brazil 2003, as well as nearly every european
city and nation...) so that I don´t have to spend every holidays in Southafrica.
ME AND THE FAMILYRESEARCH
In September 1998 I began with intensiv
work at the familyresearch and very soon I got a very
interesting adress: The states-archive of Hessen in
Marburg gave me the adress of Dr.
Albert Sagell, in Bremen (northern Germany), who was
busy and practice intensive familyresearch for the
last 20 years for the names Sagel, Sagell, Saggel, Sachel and Zachel. I wrote to
him. Some days later I got a letter of Else Sagell.
She wrotes, I am sorry still today, that her husband
passed away in 1993 in the age of 73 years and she is having more than 4
or 5 books (spring covers), which I can see if I would come to Bremen once.
Because Bremen was ca. 5 to 6 hours away from me, I told to myself: Who knows
if the papers in there are including also my familytree?
But I was very intersted to see it. We phoned
sometimes and we had a very good relationship. Because of the trustworthy this
78-years old lady had in me she sended this 4 spring
covers by the post to me. It was like a goldmine and very big luck for a familyresearcher. The spring covers were full of documents
and the translations from 1288 up, over the centuries. Dr.
Albert Sagell as a doctor had have the talent (gift)
to translate the OLD-German language and the Latin words into the Actual German
with a machine. It was to read for everybody! This man, who I never meet by
myself I have to thank very very much, and I do have
very big respect to his work, which I try to expand still today. So it was also
coming to the installation of this Homepage. Without these documents and the
results of his family-research I would not be there where I am today. But I
have still invested a lot of money, time and work into the further research.
Because it costs duty, if I want to have some informations
by public departements or churches. But every time I
also meet some people which are so helpfull like Frau
Else Sagell (The name Sagel
was expanded with a second L, something like 150 years back so that it is
hearing more french...) which are working and spent
some time for me and the familyresearch without
money-interests or something like that. All those people I want to thank here again !!!
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Dr. Albert Sagell (+) and his wife Else, without them this side would not exist! |
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Rita Sagel (my mother) and her new husband Siegfried |
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The ex-house of my father, in Kerpen-Manheim, where I have been growing up |
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Manheim - the town where
I have been growing up and
lived for 20 years of my
life! (Not even 100 years back, it was in the middle of
the forest!) - I am sorry:The church in the right outline
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In June
2013 we moved to our new-built house. |
Best wishes from Kerpen /
Deutschland.
Auf Wiedersehen!!! (Good bye!)
Martin Sagel -
Amsterdamer Strasse 129 - D-50171 Kerpen – Deutschland
- Tel.: +49 – 22 37 – 655 800
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