born on 16th November 1849 in Carlsbrunn
died on 7th October 1894 in Metz
 
Conrad Darm, son of Paul Abraham Darm and Sophie Sommer, married

on 11th October 1881 as his second wife and had 4 children with her, among them as the youngest

, Great-Grandmother of Katya and Robin Müller. His first marriage with Maria Ackermann stayed without children.

Conrad Darm was a descendant of (almost exclusively) Huguenots, who during the 16th and 17th century fled from France, mainly from the areas near the German borders. Some of these regions initially had belonged to the Holy Roman Empire and then been conquered or acquired by France before persecution started. As religious refugees they found shelter in Germany, in this case in the County of Saarbrücken, where they founded and built a new village near the border, Ludweiler (today part of Völklingen in the federal land of Saarland).

 
Thanks to the “

” (Society for Local History of Ludweiler and the the Warndt Area), their  chairman

, and the genealogist

we know about a remarkable number of ancestors, partly going far back into the 17th and 16th century, periods when many of them still lived in France, not only in Lorraine, but also in a number of other regions like, for example, Savoie.

Conrad Darm together with his family  in the year 1892 in Metz

Right: The Hugenots church in Ludweiler was built in 1785 by Balthasar Wilhelm Stengel at the location of three predecessor buildings of 1604, 1660 and 1720. It is a Baroque church but in the non -ornamental style of the Reformist church.

This photograph was taken by

Helmut Lang

, who gently allowed us to publish it here, with support by the association  

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,

Left: Maria Katharina Ackermann, Konrad Darm's, first wife, was born on
4. November 1846.
They were married on 5. Oktober 1876
in Kölln near Saarbrücken.
 
She died on 21. Juni 1881 from  "Issue of blood and consumption".
 
The couple had no children.