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Katherine Vissering " Kitty " Oppenheimer ( née Puening; August 8, 1910 – October 27, 1972) was a German American biologist, botanist, and a member of the Communist Party of America until leaving in the 1930s. Her husbands were Frank Ramseyer, Joe Dallet, Richard Stewart Harrison, and physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the ...
The daughter of Franz Puening and the former Kaethe Vissering, she spent her infancy in Germany’s North Rhine-Westphalia state. Years before meeting and marrying J. Robert Oppenheimer, it wasn ...
With engineer father Franz and mother Kaethe Vissering Puening, Kitty crossed the Atlantic by ship as a toddler in 1912 or 1913 (accounts differ). Left behind were such relatives as Kaethe’s sister Hilde, who would work on Nazi propaganda films, and first cousin once removed Wilhelm Keitel, who would lead the German Armed Forces High Command ...
Jul 25, 2023 · Kitty Puening, Before She Met Robert Katherine "Kitty" Vissering Puening was born in Germany on August 8, 1910. When she was nearly 3, her family emigrated to the United States where they settled ...
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Aug 9, 2023 · August 8, 1910. Birth of Katherine Oppenheimer. Recklinghausen, Münster, NRW, Germany. 1956. February 6, 1956. Age 74. Death of Franz Puening. Lower Saucon Township, Northampton County, PA, United States. Genealogy for Franz Puening (1881 - 1956) family tree on Geni, with over 250 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives.
She is best known as the wife of activist Joe Dallet, and then of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II. Katherine "Kitty" Vissering was born in Recklinghausen, Germany, on August 8, 1910, the only child of Franz Puening and his wife Käthe Vissering.
Käthe Vissering was born on 25 April 1882, in Königsberg, East Prussia, Prussia, Germany. She had at least 1 son and 1 daughter with Franz Puening. She lived in O'Hara Township, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States in 1930 and Cornell, Upper Southampton Township, Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States for about 1 years.
