resting_place death_date death_place birth_name birth_place children title resting_place_coordinates nationality ethnicity parents birth_date term_start spouse birthname article_title term_end name
der stadt friedhof 28 april 1911 fredericksburg , texas , u.s. karl heinrich nimitz bremen , germany twelve two more daughters texas legislature , district 89 30 , title 16 16 n 98 51 42 w inline american german karl heinrich nimitz sr. dorothea magdalena dressel 09 november 1826 1890 sophie dorothea mueller karl heinrich nimitz jr. . charles henry nimitz
 1892 charles henry nimitz
charles henry nimitz

charles henry nimitz -lrb- born karl heinrich nimitz ; november 9 , 1826 -- april 28 , 1911 -rrb- was a german merchant seaman , as was his father before him .
he was the grandfather of , and role model for , fleet admiral chester nimitz .
in 1852 , he built the nimitz hotel in fredericksburg , texas in the united states .
the hotel he built now houses the national museum of the pacific war .
the nimitz hotel was designated a recorded texas historic landmark in 1989 , marker number 10089 .
nimitz was elected to the twenty-second texas legislature in 1890 , representing gillespie , comal and blanco counties , which constituted district 89 .
