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- Konrad Kick, raised by his widowed mother in Lindau, was a promising student. After World War I, which he spent in northern France, he studied engineering at a university in Munich. There he met Anna Schreitmiller, his landlord's daughter; she had been a nurse during the war and was working as a telephone operator. He left in 1924 to find work in the US, stopping first with relatives in the New Jersey woollen mills and then moving to San Francisco. He found work as a mechanical engineer, and Anna traveled from Germany to marry him, in 1926. Their children Walt and Anne were born soon afterward. They lived in the German immigrant community in San Francisco, and Konrad became a prominent pump engineer with Fairbanks Morse. Anna died in 1944, and Konrad remarried, to Leni Pelligrini, in 1950.
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