Mileva Maric,  Einsteins erste Ehefrau,mit der er drei Kinder hatte, das
erste, ein Mädchen ?Lieserl unauffindbar verschollen, Hans Albert und Eduard 
Einstein,

Es gibt, sagt man, für den Kammerdiener keinen Helden. Das kommt aber bloß daher, weil der Held nur vom Helden anerkannt werden kann. Der Kammerdiener wird aber wahrscheinlich seinesgleichen zu schätzen wissen.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Quelle: Goethe, Maximen und Reflexionen. Aphorismen und Aufzeichnungen. Nach den Handschriften des Goethe- und Schiller-Archivs hg. von Max Hecker, 1907. Aus den Wahlverwandtschaften, 1809. Aus Ottiliens Tagebuche

Elsa Einstein (* 18. Januar 1876 in Hechingen; † 20. Dezember 1936 in Princeton, New Jersey, Vereinigte Staaten) war die Cousine und zweite Ehefrau von Albert Einstein. Elsas Geburtsname war Einstein. Durch ihre erste Heirat mit Max Löwenthal nahm sie dessen Nachnamen an. Durch ihre zweite Heirat mit Albert Einstein erlangte sie ihren Geburtsnamen zurück.

Eduard Einstein (28 July 1910 – 25 October 1965) was born in Zürich, Switzerland, the second son of physicist Albert Einstein and his first wife Mileva Marić. Einstein and his family moved to Berlin in 1914, but shortly thereafter Marić returned to Zürich, taking Eduard and his brother with her.

Eduard was a good student and had musical talent. He started to study medicine to become a psychiatrist, but by the age of twenty he was afflicted with schizophrenia and institutionalized two years later for the first of several times. Many people believe he was overdosed with drugs and harmed by the many "cures" that were used at the time.[1] According to his brother Hans Albert Einstein, the thing that ruined him were the electric shock treatments.[2]

After his illness struck, Eduard told his father that he hated him. Einstein never saw his son again for the rest of his life.[3]

His mother cared for him until she died in 1948. From then on Eduard lived most of the time at the psychiatric clinic Burghölzli in Zürich, where he died of a stroke at age 55. He is buried at Hönggerberg-Cemetery in Zurich.[4] His family lineage has been used to raise public awareness of schizophrenia.



Lieserl Einstein
Birth: January 1902 Novi Sad, Vojvodina, Serbia
Death: 18 September 1903
Father: Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Mother: Mileva Marić (1875-1948)
Lieserl Einstein (born January, 1902 – last mentioned in 1903;
Date of death is 18th of September 1903)
was the first child of Mileva Marić and Albert Einstein.

According to the correspondence between her parents, "Lieserl" was born in January, 1902, a year before her parents married, in Novi Sad, Vojvodina, present day Serbia, and was cared for by her mother for a short time while Einstein worked in Switzerland before Marić joined him there without the child.

"Lieserl's" existence was unknown to biographers until 1986, 
when a batch of letters between Albert and Mileva were discovered 
by Hans Albert Einstein's daughter Evelyn.

Marić had hoped for a girl, while Einstein would have preferred a boy. 
In their letters, they called the unborn child "Lieserl", 
when referring to a girl, or "Hanserl", if a boy. Both "Lieserl" and "Hanserl" were diminutives of the common German names Liese and Hans.

The first reference to Marić's pregnancy was found in a letter 
Einstein wrote to her from Winterthur, probably on May 28, 1901 (letter 36),
asking twice about "the boy" and "our little son",[1]
whereas Marić's first reference was found in her letter of November 13, 1901
(letter 43) from Stein am Rhein, in which she referred to the unborn child
as "Lieserl".[2] Einstein goes along with Marić's wish for a daughter,
and referred to the unborn child as "Lieserl" as well,
but with a sense of humour as in letter 45 of December 12, 1901
"... and be happy about our Lieserl, whom I secretly
(so Dollie[3] doesn't notice) prefer to imagine a Hanserl."[4]

The child must have been born shortly before February 4, 1902,
when Einstein wrote: "... now you see that it really is a Lieserl,
just as you'd wished. Is she healthy and does she cry properly? [...]
I love her so much and don't even know her yet!"[5]

The last time "Lieserl" was mentioned in their extant correspondence
was in Einstein's letter of September 19, 1903 (letter 54),
in which he showed concern for her suffering from scarlet fever.
His asking "as what is the child registered?
[Adding] we must take precautions that problems don't arise for her later"
may indicate the intention to give the child up for adoption.[6]

As neither the full name, nor the fate of the child are known,
so far several theories about her life and death have been put forward:

    Michele Zackheim, in her book on "Lieserl", Einstein's Daughter,
states that "Lieserl" was mentally challenged at birth,
and that she lived with her mother's family
and probably died of scarlet fever in September 1903.[7]

    Another possibility, favoured by Robert Schulmann 
of the Einstein Papers Project, 
is that "Lieserl" was adopted by Marić's close friend, Helene Savić, 
and was raised by her and lived under the name "Zorka Savić" until the 1990s. 
Savić did in fact raise a child by the name of Zorka, 
who was blind from childhood and died in the 1990s. 
Her grandson Milan Popović rejects the possibility that it was "Lieserl", 
and also favors the theory that the child died in September 1903.[8]

Bernhard Caesar Einstein (1930-2008)
Bernard Caesar Einstein ‡
Bernard Einstein, August, 2003
Birth: 10 July 1930 Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Death: 30 September 2008 Insel Hospital, Bern, Canton of Bern, Switzerland
Father: Hans Albert Einstein (1904-1973)
Mother: Frieda Knecht (-1958)
Skills: physicist, engineer
Spouse / partner: Doris Aude Ascher (c1938-2008)
Wedding: 1927 Switzerland
Sex: Male 
Signature: File:BernardEinstein.png

Bernard Caesar Einstein
Citizenship 	Switzerland, USA
Education 	University of California, Berkeley,
ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Religion 	None

Bernard Caesar Einstein was born 10 July 1930 in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany to Hans Albert Einstein (1904-1973) and Frieda Knecht (-1958) and died 30 September 2008 Insel Hospital, Bern, Canton of Bern, Switzerland of unspecified causes. He married Doris Aude Ascher (c1938-2008) 1927 in Switzerland.
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Bernard Caesar Einstein (July 10, 1930 – September 30, 2008)[1] was a German-born Swiss-American physicist, the son of Hans Albert Einstein. Of the four known biological grandchildren of Albert Einstein (all sons of Hans), he was the only one to survive childhood.

Bernard Einstein was the son of Hans Albert Einstein and Frieda Einstein (née Knecht), who had married in 1927 in Switzerland. Bernard Einstein was born on July 10, 1930 in Dortmund, Germany, where Hans Albert was involved in a bridge building project.

Hans Albert was the only one of Albert Einstein's three children to marry and have children. Hans Albert's sister, Lieserl Einstein, is assumed to have died in infancy, although it has been suggested that she was given up for adoption. Their younger brother Eduard developed severe schizophrenia in early adulthood and died at age 55, and had no children.

Bernard's brother, Klaus, was born in 1932 and died at age 6 of diphtheria in Clemson, South Carolina, United States. Frieda had two more sons that died in early infancy. Eventually Hans Albert and Frieda adopted a girl, Evelyn, shortly after she was born in 1941.

One year after Frieda died in 1958, Hans Albert married Elizabeth Roboz, a neurochemist.

Bernard spent his early years in Switzerland until the age of eight when his family moved to South Carolina. Albert Einstein was very worried about the rise of Nazi Germany and encouraged his son Hans Albert to emigrate to the United States as he himself had done in 1933. Hans Albert heeded this advice, and moved his family to Greenville, South Carolina where he was a civil engineer working with the US Corps of Engineers. Bernard spent his teenage years in Pasadena where his father was a professor at the California Institute of Technology, and in Berkeley, where his father was a professor at the University of California.

Bernard first met his grandfather Albert when he was two years old. As a boy he travelled alone to spend time with Albert in New Jersey, and at Saranac Lake in upstate New York. Bernard recounted to his son Thomas that he used to irritate his grandfather because he would urinate out the window directly above Albert's study in Princeton. At Saranac Lake he enjoyed sailing with his grandfather. Apparently Albert Einstein's favorite time to sail was when there was very little wind. According to Bernard, his grandfather enjoyed the challenge of harnessing whatever little bit of breeze he could capture. The sailing tradition was carried on by Albert's son, Hans Albert who loved to sail with Bernard, and Bernard's children on the San Francisco Bay. Albert Einstein died in April 1955. Having shared his love of music with his grandson, he bequeathed Bernard his violin in addition to a modest sum of money.

Bernard's children are Thomas, Paul, Eduard, Mira, and Charles.[2]
Education and career

Bernard was not a serious student in high school, or even in his first two years of college at University of California at Berkeley. He excelled only in German language at UC. He enlisted in the US Army in 1954. He finished basic training at Fort Ord, near Monterey, California, and was stationed in southern Germany, where he met his first wife, Doris Aude Ascher, whom he married in 1954. Bernard credited the army for giving him self-discipline, and after discharge he applied and was admitted to ETH (Federal Institute of Technology) in Zürich, Switzerland. He followed in both his grandfather's and his father's footsteps to study physics at ETH. He recounted that he was most influenced by Professor Pauli, a colleague of Albert Einstein, whom he had met earlier as a boy in his grandfather's company. Pauli taught him quantum physics, a subject Bernard would return to later in life.

When he obtained his diploma at ETH Bernard returned to the United States and worked as an engineer for Texas Instruments in Dallas, Texas, ITT in the Los Angeles, California area, and Litton Industries in the San Francisco Bay Area. His area of expertise was electron tube technology, and specifically light amplification devices for night vision. He filed and obtained four U.S. patents related to light amplification technology while he worked for Litton Industries. In 1974 Bernard moved back to Switzerland, worked for a laser technology company, and obtained a US patent there as well.

Offspring of Hans Albert Einstein (1904-1973) and Frieda Knecht (-1958)
Name 	Birth 	Death 	Joined with
Bernhard Caesar Einstein (1930-2008) 	10 July 1930 Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany 	30 September 2008 Insel Hospital, Bern, Canton of Bern, Switzerland 	Doris Aude Ascher (c1938-2008)
Klaus Martin Einstein (1933-1939) 			
David Einstein (1939-1939) 			
Evelyn Einstein (1941-2011) 	28 March 1941 Chicago, United States 	13 April 2011 Albany, California 	Grover Sanders Krantz (1931-2002)

Children

Offspring of Bernard Caesar Einstein and Doris Aude Ascher (c1938-2008)
Thomas Martin Einstein (1955) 	1955 Switzerland 		
Paul Michael Einstein (1959) 			
Eduard Albert Einstein (1961) 			
Mira Einstein (1965) 			
Charles Quincy Ascher Einstein (1971) 			

Bernhard Caesar Einstein +
Thomas Martin Einstein (1955)
Eduard Einstein (1910-1965)
Hans Albert Einstein (1904-1973)

Hans Albert Einstein

Hans Albert Einstein (* 14. Mai 1904 in Bern; † 26. Juli 1973 in Woods Hole, Massachusetts) war Professor für Hydraulik an der University of California, Berkeley. Als Sohn von Albert Einstein und dessen Frau Mileva Marić besaß er die Schweizer Staatsbürgerschaft und wurde später auch US-amerikanischer Staatsbürger.
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Hans Albert Einstein besuchte die Grundschule in Zürich und begann sein Studium der Ingenieurwissenschaften an der ETH Zürich. Hier erlangte er 1926 sein Diplom und 1936 seinen Doktortitel.

Im Jahre 1927 heiratete er Frieda Knecht, Lehrerin für Deutsch und Literatur an der ETH Zürich. Aus dieser Ehe gingen die Kinder Bernhard Caesar Einstein (1930–2008) und Klaus Einstein (1932–1938) hervor. Klaus Einstein starb kurz nach der Emigration in die USA an Diphtherie. Die Tochter Evelyn (1941–2011) wurde adoptiert. Albert Einstein akzeptierte seine Schwiegertochter zeitlebens nicht, weil sie kleinwüchsig und älter war als sein Sohn und weil er sie für erblich belastet hielt.[1]

Hans Albert arbeitete unmittelbar nach seinem Diplom als Ingenieur für Stahlbau in Dortmund. Von 1931 bis 1938 war er Versuchsingenieur an der neu gegründeten Versuchsanstalt für Wasser- und Erdbau der ETH Zürich.

In den USA setzte Einstein seine Arbeiten zum Transport von Sedimenten fort, welche er bereits in seiner Zeit in der Schweiz und Deutschland begonnen hatte und die einen Teil seiner Doktorarbeit ausmachten. Er arbeitete zunächst an der Agriculture Experiment Station in Clemson, South Carolina (1938–1943), und später für das U.S. Department of Agriculture Cooperative Laboratory am California Institute of Technology in Kalifornien. Aus dieser Zeit stammt auch eine seiner wichtigsten Veröffentlichungen zum Geschiebetransport in Fließgewässern.[2]

Hans Albert Einstein erhielt 1947 eine Assistenzprofessur an der University of California, Berkeley, wo er später auch ordentlicher Professor für Hydraulik wurde. 1970 trat er in den Ruhestand. Bei einem Besuch der Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts im Juni 1973 erlitt er einen Herzinfarkt, an dessen Folgen er am 26. Juli starb.
„Budi“ war sein Kosename. Hier macht er Schreibübungen auf einem Brief des Vaters an Maurice Solovine (1908)

Wie sein Bruder Eduard litt Hans Albert sehr unter der Trennung der Eltern, nach der die Söhne bei der Mutter in der Schweiz lebten. Der Vater besuchte sie jedoch weiterhin. Das Verhältnis zum Vater galt lange als gestört, verbesserte sich aber im Lauf der Zeit. Gemeinsam war Vater und Sohn das Segeln, v. a. in der Ostsee in der Kieler Förde. Später trennte sie lange Zeit Albert Einsteins obsessive Feindseligkeit gegenüber seiner Verbindung mit Frieda Knecht.