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Any thoughts or prove of this good idea?
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Only to confirm the hypothesis, Jaap. Most everyone has one or more middle names, including myself. Quite often, a first son will be given the same first name as the father, but the family and friends will use his middle name to avoid confusion with the father. This is exactly the situation in my case.
So Dietrich was probably Dietrich Philipp von Bothmer; Dietrich being his legal and official first name but everyone who knew him called him Philipp which, in effect, was both his middle name and his nickname.
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