Gottfried Watermann was a son of Hille Watermann and Amalie Nordheim. He was married to Clara Marcus. She died in 1916. They had four children: Hille Hans, with whom he lived, Martha and two children who survived the war. Gottfried Watermann remarried Frieda Cohen. They left Bunde in 1939 and went to Winschoten. Frieda Watermann died there at the end of 1939.
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In September 1941, an obituary was placed in Het Joodsche Weekblad for G. Watermann.
Het Joodsche Weekblad, 26 September 1941, 10