Friedrich Nietzsche's Eclectic Family

m. 1784

m. 1809

Friedrich August Ludwig Nietzsche and Johanna Friederike Richter Nietzsche had a total of nine children, four of which are listed here. The remaining five had little or no contact with Nietzsche.

m. 1843

m. 1816

David Ernst Oehler and Wilhelmine Hahn Oehler had a total of eleven children, of whom three are listed here. While Nietzsche met the remaining eight, he was not intimate with any of them.

Carl Ludwing Nietzsche and Franziska Oehler Nietzsche had three children, including Friedrich Nietzsche.

After Johanna Friederike Richter Nietzsche’s death, Friedrich August Ludwig Nietzsche remarried. He and Erdmuthe Krause Nietzsche had three children. Lina Nietzsche, one of the offspring from the earlier marriage was so young that she lived with the new family for a while.