SELLING ICE CREAM
SON OF GERMAN SUBMARINE COMMANDER. GIVES UP CAREER FOR ENGLISH WIFE. Riding a tricycle through the streets of London, selling ice cream, is the son of a German submarine commander. He gave up a good career in his own country for the sake of his English wife. Said ice cream salesman George Gercke: —“I know five languages— French, Spanish, English and Italian, as well as my native German. I was educated at the Cadet School at Ploen, then at Geneva and Lausanne. “My father commanded a German submarine. He went down with it in 1918.' My mother was English. “I was in a good position in Berlin. My affairs were prospering. “I met my wife when I came to England in 1933—1 had been here twice before. “We fell in love at once and I married her a year later. At first we were both happy at my home in Berlin, but soon Elsie grew homesick, felt a stranger in a strange land. “She went back to England for a holiday and when she returned . I realised that she would never be happy in Germany. So I gave up all my prospects and came to England. “The little money I was able to bring out of Germany soon vanished and this is the only job I have been able to get.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 August 1938, Page 2
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