August 4, 1927 | Hilde Roth is born as the second daughter of Paula Pullmann (née Wedekind) and Karl Pullmann in Darmstadts old town, Bachgasse 2. Both are merchants and royal purveyors for basketry and household goods. |
1932 – 1936 | Attends primary school in Darmstadt. |
1936 – 1944 | Attends the Eleonorenschule Darmstadt – secondary school diploma. |
1944 – 1946 | Apprenticeship as a photographer in Darmstadt-Eberstadt, succsessful completion of journeyman's examination |
May 1947 | Marriage to Heinz Georg Roth, born on August 12, 1922, in Mayen, Eifel. |
1949 | Birth of the first daughter Angelika Beate Brücher-Herpel (née Roth). |
From 1950 | Hilde Roth takes photographs for the local daily newspaper »Darmstädter Tagblatt« under the abbreviation: hiro. Relocation to Riedeselstraße 43 B. |
1962 | Birth of the second daughter Corinna Catherin Hochrein (née Roth). |
January 1964 | Sudden death of husband Heinz Georg Roth at the age of 41. From now on, Hilde Roth finances the family's livelihood on her own. |
1986 | The Darmstädter Tagblatt discontinues, Hilde Roth is taken over as a freelance photographer by the Darmstädter Echo. |
2001 | Officially retired, unofficially still sporadically working as a freelance photographer, plus an expert in city history, active in the Freundeskreis Stadtmuseum Darmstadt for many years. |
2010 | Increasing focus on the family and withdrawal from the public. |
September 7, 2019 | Hilde Roth dies in the Agaplesion Elisabethenstift nursing home in Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt at the age of 92. |