Jenny Schmitt , circus wife in Germany in Germany dead 1999 in Germany . Jenny, from the island Sylt, in north Germany, married elephant trainer Hugo Schmitt, who moved to U.S.A. in 1947. The rest of the Schmitt family stayed behind in Hamburg until 1948 when they got visas to go to Sweden, where they stayed in Malmö. Finally, in the end of 1950, Hugos wife Jenny, and their two sons Manfred and Hugh went with the ocean liner "Stockholm", departing from Gothenburg, to New York and America. Jenny Schmitt died in Hamburg 1999.