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nine children of the tailor Karl Ebert (1834-1892) and his wife Katharina (née Hinkel; 1834-1897). Three of his siblings died at a young age. Although he wanted to attend university, this proved impossible due to his family's lack of funds. Instead, he trained as a saddle-maker from 1885 to 1888. After he became a journeyman in 1889, he travelled, according to the German custom, from place to place in Germany, seeing the country and learning fresh details of his trade. In Mannheim,

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