Meinhold Ancestry Information

I have recently been on the hunt to try and find my family on the Meinhold side. I have to say that it has been pretty difficult.
So to try and effect this, I have decided to post all that I know here so that anyone searching for me, might find me.

I will update this as I gain information:

My Meinhold Family information (Not all confirmed yet):

I know my Grandfather was Max Reinhard Meinhold and I know my Grandmother was Johanne Gertrude Meinhold (nee Schmalfuß who lived at 123 Bremer Strasse, Hamburg. I spoke with her a few times and wrote a bit to her.
My father was Dieter Wolfgang Meinhold. born 17 October 1930, in Albertstadt Dresden. Also known as Derek Meinhold.

I know that he was married at least twice before my mother and I suspect twice.

I know his first marriage was to an Erika Meinhold and I believe I now know I have a half sister named Gabriele Rose (nee Meinhold) born in 1954. We are now in contact.

I know his second marriage was to Jean Maureen Nash in 1955 and that there were 3 children from this marriage. Stephen Meinhold, Anita Meinhold and Johanna Meinhold. I am now in contact with all three of these half siblings as well.

This is as far as I have gotten to date. If any of this sounds familiar to you, please contact me as I am really keen to meet more of my family.

After my mother, my father was married to Jackie and then Lillian.

Please help me.

An Open Letter to the Current Government of South Africa

Let me tell you who I am!

I was born in the mid sixties, grew up in the seventies and eighties in South Africa under the National Party Government. As a child, on the farm I grew up for a part of my life, my best friend was a Black South African. I visited and slept over in his room and we played together everyday and I suppose I loved him and he was my best friend. When we moved to Cape Town, I went on the upper deck of the bus, was friends with the domestic workers my mother hired and I did not understand apartheid and racism. I was not brought up to hate or to fear.

In my late teens and early twenties I ran a multiracial nightclub in Cape Town and often got arrested for serving alcohol to black people and for allowing black people to dance with white people. We even held clandestine ANC meetings on the premises and all the slide shows we presented, showed South Africa as it really was.

Yes, I got an education in this country when people with darker skins could not. Yes, I went to the army and did National Service in the then South African Defense Force instead of going to jail for disobedience. Yes, I lived in white suburbs and had privileges that other races did not.

I was excited on the day the ANC was unbanned, I ran to Cape Town city to listen to Nelson Mandela’s first speech and I cried with joy that things were finally changing in this country.

I supported the change and I voted in the first true democratic election with pride. The beautiful African lady who worked for us as a domestic came with us to vote. On the day I asked her, “Aren’t you excited that you will now have a new life and a new government?” She humbled me when she said, “Yes, but I understand that this change will only benefit my children. It is too late for me but I have hope for my sons.” That made me want to cry as it showed me the lost generations that apartheid had caused. This helped me to understand affirmative action and the process of RDP.

I accepted the new South African Constitution with pride and I embraced the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, realising that the truth had to be revealed for closure to occur and for us to move on for a new future.

Since then, I have listened and read as the white race and I are continually blamed for the past and the injustices of this country. I have accepted that you are angry that I did not do enough to stand up against the previous regime, that I was not directly part of the struggle, that we just carried on with our lives while you suffered and went without.

You taught me well because I will now stand up for myself as an adult. I will not make the mistake I made before and live in fear to say something against my government when I believe them to be in the wrong.

This letter is about that. After all that all South African’s have been through I am ashamed that you have become just like the previous regime. You too want to hide your secrets from the world and all South Africans. You spend millions on parties and avert justification for your actions. You wish to change the magnificent constitution more and more.

Seeing the Protecting of State Information Bill adverts this morning has infuriated me beyond belief. You are doing a great job attempting to become like the previous regime and I am disgusted. Look at the number of dislikes you are getting on the video’s versus the number of likes, and you will begin to see that we South Africans are not stupid and we can see you are trying to deceive us.

Yes, I have always agreed that South Africa would not go the way of other African countries under the ANC and I have spoken out against people who were negative and held onto their racist opinions.

Let me tell you my fear. You are showing your people that you are no better than the National Party was, that you are just stuffing your pockets and riding the gravy train while they still suffer much the same as they always have. You have let someone like Julius Malema become so powerful that I can see he has a credible chance of opposing you politically and winning. I believe that man has a larger following that you would care to have noticed or realised. I fear the South Africa; post an election, won by a man like that. I believe you have created and nurtured your own adversary and that he will now stand against you and end up undoing all the good you have helped create.

Please seriously consider what I am saying, get rid of the rot and get back on the magnificent course you started off on and make us all proud to be South African in the Rainbow Nation.

Yours sincerely

Paul S Meinhold

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Let in the Love... It's yours to keep....

The magnificent thing about love is that it arrives unannounced and often unexpected. You never know when it's going to come or the form it'll take.

Thank the Universe for the fact that you cannot choose when or from where love will come. So often it arrives from a direction that you are not observing. You are watching the sunset admiring it's beauty but your heart is growing in the sunrise, opening with the dawn flowers.

The Dalai Lama says, "The Universe expands in the direction you are looking." which, incidentally, matches the findings of the new physics. Make sure you look in the right directions before you manifest what you do not need.

The Universe does not give you what you want, it gives you what you need. Accept It's gifts to you.

An herbalist once told me that every cure is within walking distance. The Universe puts all you need at your fingertips. Just reach out and touch it, it's a gift to you.

Once Love takes hold, it cannot be extinguished by the mind, it can only be carried inside you. Look around yourself and see that it is just possible that the love you crave might already have arrived and could just be waiting, quietly, right next to you, inside you. See it, recognise it, accept it, treasure it.

Remember that looks will fade and are not the miracle. The miracle blooms in your heart and cannot be controlled by the mind and is timeless and ageless.

You do not choose love, it chooses you to experience it's exquisite pain and wonder.
Just accept it and let it in... Even if it is not reciprocated!!!!
It belongs to you and must not be used as a sword or currency.

Our Fear, our responses and our defences

A quick note!

We all have behaviours and mechanisms that stood us in good stead whilst we were growing up. These forms of self protection kept us safe as children and allowed us to cope with the stresses of growing up and protected us. They allowed us to feel less pain when attacked by others and to feel safe when the world around us was falling apart or just plain scary.

Our parents and educators warned us about interacting with others out of fear of being taken advantage of in some or other way. This was important at that stage of our lives, however we need to acknowledge that we have grown up and have other defenses we can use. We have to acknowledge that we DO want to interact with other people on various levels and for all sorts of purposes. We now want and need to be held and loved and comforted by others.

The difference between Humans and the rest of the animal kingdom is that we have a sense of discretion. We can choose who and want we want to be. This ability to choose is what makes us incredibly special. We do not have to perpetuate our past, our beliefs or our upbringing. People who were abused or witnessed abuses do not have to become abusers. They can choose to be more. They can choose to reject ways of living that do not suit them. They can also choose to step out of their fears and begin living. This is the true sign of coming of age. Unlearn what does not serve you and relearn it and understand it in a new way.


We each need to analyse which of our behaviours serves us and which enslave us and we need to unlearn so much and replace old ways with ways that now serve us a adults.
Trust is such a difficult concept and so many of us live a stunted life because we just will not allow ourselves to trust. I see so many people pulling back from intimacy out of fear of loss. The main reason you fear loosing something is because it IS what you want. You need to allow love in, even though the chances are good that it will fail often and we will be hurt. This kind of pain is not something to fear, it is something to face, over and over again until we find our place. It makes us strong because we learn that as adults we are able to face and handle anything. "The only unbearable thing in life is that NOTHING is unbearable!" - (Love and Eternity).

Remember a special relationship is special because you do not find it easily. So you have to persevere until you find it. You need to approach each possible relationship without using your past experiences as a hindrance. You need to approach each relationship with fresh eyes. I'm not saying be foolish but I am saying that each person you see is NOT the person you last dated or where hurt by and thus do not prejudice them by what others have done. You need to make yourself vulnerable because it is only by trusting that we can learn whether someone can be trusted or not.


A previous note dealt with expectations in relationships and how damaging they can be so maybe go back and read that again at this point.

So take the time to evaluate which of your learned behaviours serve you and which of then hold you in chains.

We do not have to lie to others and fool ourselves by telling ourselves that we are protecting others. We can learn to say no to the behaviours others try and force on us. No is such an important concept. As much as us knowing what we do want, we also need to express what we do not want.

Once we have unlearned and relearned, we need to set boundaries with ourselves and with others. It is making decisions counter to our habits and our upbringing, with our true needs in mind, that builds our own self-esteem.

Unlearn, relearn and grow... Remember it is only through trusting that we learn to trust and be trusted!!!

Tomorrow is D-Day!

In this case the D is for diet, Raw and Living food diet actually.

It's been a while since I did this diet properly and it is definitely time.

I have stopped smoking again and I'm ready.

Tonight we take pictures and measurements (which will NOT be posted at this point!)

Watch this space for updates as I go along.


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