MUNICH, Germany - Descendants of Charles Lindbergh have met with three Germans who claim the aviator was their father, a spokesman for the three said Friday. Lindbergh descendants meet Germans who claim aviator was their father The marriage endured until Lindbergh's death in 1974, but during the last decades of his life he roamed the globe, rarely visiting his Connecticut home.Īnne Morrow Lindbergh died in 2001, as did Brigitte Hesshaimer. In 1932, their first-born baby son was kidnapped and murdered. He married Anne Morrow in 1929, and they had six children. Lindbergh's 1927 solo flight across the Atlantic made him a global celebrity. They said then they were not interested in money, but just wanted acknowledgment that Lindbergh was truly their father. The German siblings came forward this summer with their claim, offering as evidence a bundle of 112 letters that they said Lindbergh wrote to their mother, Brigitte Hesshaimer. They agreed to make the announcement quietly, ``because that is the style of the American Lindbergh family.'' Charles Lindbergh grew up in Little Falls, Minn.Īre they Lindbergh's children?Joerg KochAfpSchwenk said after receiving the results of the test, carried out by the Munich-based LMU Institute, the three Germans informed their half-siblings in the United States, some of whom they met last month.
No one was immediately available for comment at the Lindbergh Foundation in Anoka, Minn., which was closed for the Thanksgiving holiday.
The Hesshaimer children, born between 19, said they didn't realize Lindbergh was their father until the early 1980s when Bouteuil, the middle child, began asking questions.Ī TV documentary on the family also is scheduled for release in Germany next year. The children, Dyrk and David Hesshaimer and their sister, Astrid Bouteuil, have no plans to stake a claim as legal heirs, but wanted to verify the relationship before going ahead with plans to publish a book on their mother's long-running secret relationship with the married pilot, said their spokesman, lawyer Anton Schwenk.ĭyrk Hesshaimer, Astrid Bouteuil and David Hesshaimer, from left to right, pose for photographers prior to a press conference in Munich, southern Germany. aviator Charles Lindbergh fathered the three children of a German hatmaker, a spokesman for the siblings said today. Three Germans say DNA test proves they're Lindbergh descendantsįRANKFURT, Germany - A DNA test has proven that U.S. Post your comments and feedback to this story in the Charles Lindbergh Discussion Center.
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