During his time at Breslau Hans Thieme met Ursel Emming (born Ursula Rauch: 1912–1997), a law student originally from Kulm - and later a professional lawyer - to whom he taught commercial law. Their marriage was solemnised in 1937, conducted by the pastor of the Confessing Church at Rosenbach (Eulengebirge), a village in the mountains on the southern rim of western Silesia. It was followed by the births of the couple's five children and lasted for more than 60 years. A friend of the couple later recalled Ursel as "a courageous woman who towards the end of the war [by which time her husband had been conscripted for military service] walked with her children and a perambulator all the way from Stettin to Switzerland and safety".
