Paul Theodor Zimmermann Sr.

   Another name for Paul was Leonhardt Or Theodore.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Occupation. He worked for the Swiss railways. He had been trained as a pastry chef, in Uberlingen, Germany, and worked on a shop on the Lake of Constance. There were no jobs, later and he started working for the Swiss railways, as a track-inspector,as a young man. They always needed employees, according to Aunt Rosli, and he worked up to conductor. There was terrible poverty, when they went to Poland, women used to beg for food, by the trains and he would give them his bread. There were signs listing RR jobs available in 1995, when LZ and Davis were there.

2. Alt. Birth: International Birth Certificate Copy, 29 Jun 1873, Überlingen, , Baden-Württemberg, Germany. See Scanned Copy

3. Alt. Birth: Birth Certiicate Copy, 29 Jun 1873, Überlingen, , Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Scanned Birth Certificate copy.

Paul married Rosine Magdelene Gilgin, daughter of Wilhelm Gilgin and Rosine Magdelina Christina Woelter, on 2 Jan 1900 in Basel, Basle, , , Switzerland. (Rosine Magdelene Gilgin was born on 25 Jan 1880 in Basel, Basle, , , Switzerland and died about 1951 in Basel, Basle, , , Switzerland.)