Forged by Fire

<p>Hard-working and straightforward people of unshakable faith who leave footprints that their descendants will follow!</p><p>The book written in a romantic style will absorb you. You will be involved in stories of secure and resilient families who build successful companies.</p><p>The Author is Astrid Kepler Neitzke. Her father Otto Kepler is a first-generation immigrant. Her grandfather Adolfo was a courageous and tireless explorer who came from Europe as a teenager. The Kepler Weber company started with blacksmithing and is today known worldwide in the agribusiness sector in the post-harvest stage of the grain production chain.</p><p>Astrid is his youngest daughter who was born when her parents' life was at its peak. As a baby of four months she loses her father! What he left behind gave her lasting impressions that shaped the course of her life.</p><p>A huge treasure! Her mother Fanny Stillner Kepler continues to lead the family keeping them happy together in the small town called initially New W��rttemberg and today Panambi where until the Second World War they also spoke the German language.</p><p>Astrid discovers that her grandfather Vincenz Stillner a native of Austria was a street boy in Vienna who became a beloved and respected pastor in Porto Alegre Brazil.</p><p>The Kepler family continues to work and have faith. Other families are connected like the Richters the Rehns the Stillners and the Neitzkes. Astrid marries Ari Neitzke.</p><p>The Author upholds the cheerful and adventurous humor she inherited. People forged by fire which left a legacy to be remembered and imitated.</p>