No, this is not Gregory Peck, but Tim Breckwoldt, last of the Breckwoldts who once operated an empire of branches all over the South Pacific. Where were their branches, you asks? Perhaps it would be easier to answer the question, "Where weren't their branches?" As I wrote in an earlier post, they were everywhere.
Then, suddenly, they were all gone without a trace sometime in 1980, which was too soon for then still nine-year-old Tim Breckwoldt to step into his father's and grandfather's shoes to continue the proud tradition.
There's a German saying that suggests that "Der Apfel fällt nicht weit vom Stamm". In Tim's case it must've kept rolling down the hill because he became a public servant in the family's hometown Hamburg, which is the very antithesis of his father's and grandfather's pioneering spirit.
However, he has decided to keep the history of Breckwoldt alive by publishing, either here or on a separate website yet to be done, lots of archived material that will document the rise and rise and then sudden fall of Breckwoldt & Co., once a very proud South Sea Islands trader.
I'll drink to that with a BREWO-BEER!
