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51 Appears on the Pfaundler Family Tree - Leopold Pfaundler 1878, however, unattached to the tree structure and not included in the family lineage. Pfaundler, Jonas (I814)
 
52 Appears on the Pfaundler Family Tree - Leopold Pfaundler 1878, however, unattached to the tree structure and not included in the family lineage. Pfaundler, Michl (I815)
 
53 Appears on the Pfaundler Family Tree - Leopold Pfaundler 1878, however, unattached to the tree structure and not included in the family lineage. Pfaundler, Helias (I816)
 
54 Appears on the Pfaundler Family Tree - Leopold Pfaundler 1878, however, unattached to the tree structure and not included in the family lineage. Pfaundler, Tobias (I817)
 
55 Appears on the Pfaundler Family Tree - Leopold Pfaundler 1878, however, unattached to the tree structure and not included in the family lineage. Pfaundler, Elisabeth (I818)
 
56 Appears on the Pfaundler Family Tree - Leopold Pfaundler 1878, however, unattached to the tree structure and not included in the family lineage. Family: Christof Diebald / Elisabeth Pfaundler (F264)
 
57 Appears on the Pfaundler Family Tree - Leopold Pfaundler 1878, however, unattached to the tree structure and not included in the family lineage. Pfaundler, Sabine (I820)
 
58 Appears on the Pfaundler Family Tree - Leopold Pfaundler 1878, however, unattached to the tree structure and not included in the family lineage. Family: Philipp Phawdler / Eva Blum (F266)
 
59 Appears on the Pfaundler Family Tree - Leopold Pfaundler 1878, however, unattached to the tree structure and not included in the family lineage. Blum, Eva (I823)
 
60 Appears on the Pfaundler Family Tree - Leopold Pfaundler 1878, however, unattached to the tree structure and not included in the family lineage. Plintner, Anna (I822)
 
61 Appears on the Pfaundler Family Tree - Leopold Pfaundler 1878, however, unattached to the tree structure and not included in the family lineage. Anna (I828)
 
62 Appears on the Pfaundler Family Tree - Leopold Pfaundler 1878, however, unattached to the tree structure and not included in the family lineage. Family: Christof Pfaundler / CP Spouse (F268)
 
63 Appears on the Pfaundler Family Tree - Leopold Pfaundler 1878, however, unattached to the tree structure and not included in the family lineage. Pfaundler, Mathias (I833)
 
64 Appears on the Pfaundler Family Tree - Leopold Pfaundler 1878, however, unattached to the tree structure and not included in the family lineage. Family: Mathias Pfaundler / Agathe Frey (F269)
 
65 Appears on the Pfaundler Family Tree - Leopold Pfaundler 1878, however, unattached to the tree structure and not included in the family lineage. Family: Mathias Pfaundler / Maria Bartel (F270)
 
66 Appears on the Pfaundler Family Tree - Leopold Pfaundler 1878, however, unattached to the tree structure and not included in the family lineage. Bartel, Maria (I835)
 
67 Assistant local tax collector Linden, J. (I867)
 
68 Assumed to be a widow given the "Frau" prefix Vogt, Frau Fanny (I929)
 
69 Audit counselor and Professor in Lemberg, Hofrat, Knight of the Order of the Iron Cross.

[Hofrat is used as an Austrian academic title here and means someone is who is a very high ranked magistrate] 
von Escherich, Philipp (I918)
 
70 Audit counselor by law in Vienna von Escherich, Gustav (I937)
 
71 AUGUST EISENMENGER
(translated by Ernst Weber)

History painter, born February 11, 1820 in Vienna, died there on December 6, 1907. At the age of 15, he enrolled in the Akademie (Viennese Academy of Painting) but interrupted his studies in 1848 to join Karl Rahl and his atelier, who was in bitter competition with Carl von Blaas, who had received the order for the frescoes at the Vienna Arsenal in 1859. In his fight against Blaas, Rahl's other students Griepenkerl, Bitterlich, Lotz, Gaul, Fblix joined with Eisenmenger. On the other hand, the close friendship of Rahi with Theodor von Hansen was very fortunate because Hansen was very fortunate because Hansen directed many large commissions for monuments after Rahl's death to his students. Eisenmenger who was valued as the best student of Rala and who also was unquestioned master of wax mold painting, received the most important commissions. The first assignment was the decoration of the front entrance of the "Heinrichshof" with allegories and festoons using the last named technique; these paintings have been preserved rather well. In 1890 followed the ceiling frescoes (Apollo and the 9 Muses) in the large hall of the Musikverein, and then in the newly built City Hall of Vienna a depiction of the expansion of the city (beyond the raised city walls) and the apotheosis of "Austria". 1872 to 1874 followed the 12 frieze medallions in the Austrian Museum of Art and Industry, as well as the frieze "The Taming of Nature's Power by the Graces" in the Court staircase of the Court Theater (State Theater). Very remarkable are his ceiling frescoes in the Palais Gutmann (child presentations of the twelve months), the frescoes (The Graces and Peace) in the staircase of The Palais Tietz on the Schottenring, paintings from the life of Maximilian I and Leopold von Babenberg for the Chateau Hornstein of Archduke Leopold. 1878 he achieved his greatest success with the Aesop curtain for the theater in Augsburg, on which be memorialized his teacher Rahi in a Portrait.

1881 he created the "Triumph of Justice" a large cyclic frieze for the Palace of Justice; the "Development of the Modern Government" in the Parliament and as the last large commission a series of 50 medallions in the "Antique" halls of the Museum of Art History. Eisenmenger had also been successfully active as portraitist (portrait of Johann Strauss in the Museum of History of the city Vienna, and of Minister Duke Leo Thun, portrait in the possession of the Austrian Ministry for Education). For the Church of the Scots (Schottenkirche) he painted two altar portraits (Saint Benedict and Saint Gregor). He also created the design of Austrian banc note of 1 Gulden. Since 1872 be had been Professor of the Vienna Academy and director of a Master class of History painters and had a number of excellent students, all outstanding in the use of color. In 1901 he retired. He has been the last representative of that exceptional era who under Hansen, Ferstel, Schmidt, Rahl, Makart have created the new Vienna.
 
Eisenmenger, August (I29)
 
72 Aulic Council member [for more information on the Aulic Council (one of two supreme courts of the Holy Roman Empire): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aulic_Council], Bohemian knight, privy councilor to the Princes of Schwarzenberg [more information on the House of Schwarzenberg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Schwarzenberg] von Escherich, Georg Lorenz (I856)
 
73 BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES
Baltimorean Heroes of Israel Advocacy
By Connor Graham - April 19, 2018

Any individual accomplishment on the resume of Jerold "Chuck" Hoffberger is impressive enough for one person?s lifetime. Owner of the Baltimore Orioles for 14 years and owner of the National Brewing Company for 28 years are among his accolades.

Add to that list a stint as chairman of the board of governors for the Jewish Agency for Israel, during which Hoffberger was a part of meetings to plan Operation Moses, a rescue mission that successfully brought some 8,000 Ethiopian Jews to Israel, and his story becomes nearly inconceivable.

"He wasn't a guy who talked about his work much. He was much more interested in our pedestrian lives," said Hoffberger's son, Peter. "It wasn't at all that he was this tight-lipped guy who kept his cards close to his vest, he was just more interested in what we had to say."

Hoffberger's lack of disclosure wasn't exclusive to clandestine, potentially dangerous missions like Operation Moses. Peter remembers the way he learned of his father's first, and arguably greatest accomplishment as the owner of the Orioles, the signing of Frank Robinson.

"I don't think I knew about it until I was walking across the hall at Park School and saw Frank Robinson walk in with his kid," said Peter, barely able to control his laughter.

When asked at what point his father became involved in philanthropy, Peter replied, "Birth."

"His grandparents were exceedingly generous people," Peter said. "They were really planning to address a systemic social concern and eliminate it."

To end his phone interview with JT, Peter shared an anecdote to illustrate his father's ability to be a masterful negotiator, while also not taking himself too seriously.

Shortly after Hoffberger's death in 1999, the family went through one of his vaults, which contained a manila envelope with six documents. Although the majority of them Peter could not recall, two will forever stand out in his mind.

"One document was the owner's manual for his Casablanca overhead fan; the other was an advance copy of the Camp David Peace Accord, the body of which he had sought to influence at the pleasure of President Carter," Peter said, chuckling in disbelief. "On the Accord was a note in my father's handwriting, instructing his secretary to file it away and pull it out in ten years so they could see "how it was holding up."?

 
Hoffberger, Jerold Charles (P349)
 
74 Baltimore Magazine
Corey McLaughlin - Feb 2019



LUST FOR LIFE

At 97, pioneering sex therapist Lois Feinblatt shares what she has learned about love and life.

"Life is so interesting, isn't it," says 97-year-old Lois Blum Feinblatt. She should know. In 1966, when most women her age were stay-at-home moms, she was already a trailblazer, working in Baltimore's department of welfare, where she screened every couple in the city who was interested in adopting a child.

"I loved it," she says, but even five decades ago, Feinblatt twice married, twice widowed, with three kids, two step-children, and seven grandchildren was never one to settle. One weekend, a friend showed her a headline in The Baltimore Sun. "Hopkins to Train Housewives as Psychotherapists," it read.

Feinblatt was intrigued, as she still often is. At almost 100, sitting on a flower-patterned upholstered chair in her spacious and art-filled north Baltimore apartment, her gray hair tucked into a bun that frames a soft face and curious blue eyes, she remains sharp and quick-witted while recalling decades-old details of her life.

Before her job with the department of welfare, Feinblatt had volunteered as a Parent Teacher Association president at a city public school and was endlessly fascinated by what she saw, the complexity and desire of the human mind. "If I had my choice then, I would have been a psychiatrist," she says.

And suddenly, right there in the newsprint before her, was an unlikely opportunity. A program like the one advertised had been organized a few years earlier at the National Institutes of Health in Washington, D.C., which sought to train therapists drawn from what was then described as an untapped resource pool of married women.

Now Johns Hopkins wanted to do the same. The ad specified that applicants should be over 35 and have "successfully" raised a family.

More than 400 women applied. And Feinblatt, then 45 years old with three kids (Patty, 17, Jeff, 19, and Larry, 23) was one of only eight hired.

"She brought an enormous amount of life experience to her job," says Dr. Chester Schmidt, who worked with Feinblatt for four decades. For the first two years, Schmidt, now the clinic's medical director, was among the psychiatrists who helped train the group of eight, who immediately started seeing patients.

By 1970, hospital leadership made plans to start a first-of-its-kind clinic modeled after the work of pioneering sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson, who had shocked the public with candid and demystifying talk about orgasms and sexual dysfunction. When they stopped in Baltimore at the hospital to present their research, Feinblatt, who was forced to sit on top of a baby grand piano because the auditorium was so crowded, was fascinated. Later, she was asked to be part of the startup Johns Hopkins Sexual Behaviors Consultation Unit, which began to see heterosexual couples in a therapy setting in which they were seen together by male and female therapists.

"It was a wonderful job from the very beginning," Feinblatt says. "People had all kinds of sexual problems. Some people were very shy about sex, or some people had their own ideas and their wife or husband didn't think they could go along with that. Everybody's needs and wants are so different."

If there is anyone who might be an expert on the secrets and nuances of love and sex it would be Feinblatt, a pioneering therapist who has seen four decades worth of patients: women, men, straight, gay, transgender. She often jokes, "A marriage license is not like a driver's license," says Dr. Chris Kraft, co-director of clinical services at what's now known as The Johns Hopkins Sex and Gender Clinic. "You need all this training to drive a car, but you don't have to have training to be in a relationship."

Until fairly recently, Feinblatt continued to head to the office almost every day. "One of the biggest things going on now," she says, "is that we have a transgender person almost every week, a drastic change from when she started."

Indeed, Feinblatt's career and remarkable life have spanned sweeping social changes: from the pre-birth control era to internet porn addictions, from abstinence before marriage to legal gay marriage and marrying outside of one's religion. Years ago, when she was just 7, her uncle married a Catholic girl, and her Jewish grandmother hung blankets over the mirrors in her house as if the family was sitting shiva. "It's so amazing how much everything has changed in my lifetime," she says.

Feinblatt has seen and heard just about everything in matters of the head and heart, but even she hesitates to articulate the meaning of it. "Love," she muses, "Well, it's a difficult thing to try to get your brain around, because it's sort of not a brain thing."

A friend showed her a headline in The Sun: Hopkins to Train Housewives to Be Psychotherapists.

The start of Feinblatt's own love story reads like a script to a romantic black-and-white movie. On a spring break from Frederick's Hood College, then Lois Hoffberger one of three children of Gertrude and Sam, a prominent city lawyer who was active in the Democratic party and a major shareholder and director of the National Brewing Company met Irv Blum, six years her senior, at an engagement party held for one of his friends. The night ended at the Belvedere Hotel. There, Irv asked her to dance, their images reflecting in the floor-to-ceiling mirrors of the first-floor Charles Room. "It's amazing," she says. "It's 75 years ago now, and I can remember it so well, seeing myself dancing with him."

He drove her back to Hood in his snazzy convertible, wind whipping as they headed east through the mountains. He sang a German song, "Yours Is My Heart Alone."

"He was being so romantic," she says. It was practically love at first sight. With the clouds of World War II brewing, they wed in 1941 and started a family. But only eight months after Lois gave birth to their first child, Irv was overseas with the Army as the white captain of an all-black transport unit, known as the 524th Quartermaster Car Company.

It was then that the handwritten letters, addressed to "Sweetheart" he to her, her to him were exchanged nearly every day for the two years Irv was deployed, about 1,400 correspondences in total. On June 6, 1944 D-Day Lois wrote: "I'm sure you know how much I have thought of you today. Although 3,000 miles apart, I know we've spent this most important day in our history together."

In a letter dated three days later, addressed from "Somewhere in England," he acknowledged the anxiety his young wife must have felt, and said he was okay. "Everyone is imbued with the idea of getting the job over with," he wrote. In other letters, Lois, then 23, mentioned the Wives Club she was a part of and how she spent time volunteering at the American Red Cross.

"They developed an intimacy through these letters," says Feinblatt's daughter Patty Blum, a human-rights lawyer who is working with her mother on a book about her parents' correspondence. "Until I started reading them, I had no concept of everything their relationship had gone through, the experiences and challenges they had as this young couple separated for close to two years, and how they maintained their intimacy despite this distance."

Lois Feinblatt's own love story reads like a script to a romantic black-and-white movie.

By 1945, Irv had returned from the war and gone to work at his father's department store. When their youngest child was in second grade, Lois and Irv agreed that it might be a good idea for her to take a job to help foster their children's independence. After nine years at the department of welfare, Feinblatt landed her dream job at Hopkins.

Although she can't divulge any specific details about her patients, Feinblatt says some cases were as simple as correcting bad habits that had formed, while other patients struggled with more complicated issues. "Homosexuality was on the list of abhorrent behaviors in 1966, and that went on for a long time," she says. Patients came in hoping to be cured. She saw one lesbian couple, from a conservative Pennsylvania town, for two years.

Mostly, though, she treated women having sexual intimacy issues with their husbands, including extramarital affairs. "I know we can cause ourselves a lot of unnecessary problems," she says. "It was so important," Feinblatt says, "to provide a safe space where couples could actually address those problems. You can have meals with other people, have fun with other people, or go on vacations with other people," she says. "But marital fidelity is something that you and your partner have just with each other." Which, of course, is where a licensed therapist comes in.

Feinblatt continued her work against the backdrop of tumultuous times, which was fitting given the liberal bent sewn into the fabric of her upbringing. She marched to help desegregate Gwynn Oak Amusement Park in 1963, was the first woman on the board at Sheppard Pratt Hospital, has since founded scholarships to the Maryland Institute College of Art, and helped to start Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Baltimore, which seeks to protect foster kids.

In 1965, Johns Hopkins Hospital drew national attention for being the first academic institution in the U.S. to perform sex reassignment surgeries. These were done in conjunction with the sex clinic, which required and provided two years of pre-surgery therapy. There were some staffers at the hospital who were ambivalent, at best, about the surgeries, but Feinblatt wasn't one of them. She supported a person's right to define their own gender, even when that was a controversial opinion.

Then again, Feinblatt was always putting her patients first. "Schmidt, the clinic's budget administrator for three decades," said Feinblatt, "who was financially comfortable, donated fees she earned from patient work back to the department. I thought it was terrific," he says, "but I wasn't surprised. That's just the kind of thing she'd do."

And the clinic gave her a lot, too, providing a much-needed professional focus when her dear husband Irv, who had been a president of the Associated Jewish Charities, died at age 58, in 1973, after becoming sick from glomerulonephritis, a kidney disease. To help her work through her grief, the clinic gave Lois more patients to help occupy her time, and she co-founded an organization dedicated to supporting adoptive families.

Three years later, she married Eugene Feinblatt, who had been Irv's lawyer and the college roommate of her older brother Jerold (a former president of the National Brewing Company and one-time owner of the Baltimore Orioles). "I was lucky," Feinblatt says. "I had two fabulous husbands, and such really wonderful men and interesting men. Both were important in the community, and ethical, and brilliant minds."

Lois and Eugene were married for 15 years, until he died in 1998 from heart failure at age 78. Once again, she moved through her grief by continuing to work. A year after Eugene's death, she started a teacher-mentoring program in the city. "Life is a challenge, and bad things happen to good people," she says. "The best thing that can happen to you is your partner, so you at least can deal with things together. If you really think that you're in love, you're lucky."

She treated women having intimacy issues with their husbands, including extramarital affairs.

Just five years ago, at age 92, Feinblatt stood on stage at Morgan State University to give a 13-minute TED Talk entitled "Choices We Make." Making "sometimes hard or unusual choices," she said, "is what we all must do in order to live an interesting, fulfilling, and worthwhile life. As times change, so must we."

Today, with the aid of a walker, Feinblatt still regularly attends art exhibits, dines at the newest restaurants, welcomes company, and hosts dinner parties, as is evident by the liquor tray in her apartment. "You see her everywhere," says Kate Thomas, another co-director of clinical services at the Johns Hopkins clinic. "She's a Renaissance woman, and we all adore her."

In October, Feinblatt was honored at the Open Society Institute's 20th anniversary celebration at The Baltimore Museum of Art for her philanthropy and service to the city. Alicia Wilson, a senior vice president and legal counsel to Kevin Plank's Sagamore Development Company, introduced Feinblatt, whom Wilson met when she was 18. "She taught me that being authentically me is the best gift I can give to this world," Wilson said.

Sitting beside Wilson on the auditorium stage, Feinblatt took her turn at the mic. "They gave me the choice to speak or not," she said. "I thought a few minutes, and I decided, I'm 97-and-a-half years old. . ." Applause interrupted. "I can't depend on being asked to speak again." The crowd broke out laughing.

As for her longevity and sharpness, Feinblatt attributes it to luck and diet. "When Birds Eye [frozen] food came out, that was a big thing that changed our family's eating habits," she points out. Feinblatt is often quick with a quip about her advanced age. "You don't have many people almost 100 years old to ask [that question to]," she cracks at one point during an interview at her home. But she is also reflective.

"The two things that have made my life as good as it?s been are love and luck," Feinblatt says. "You have to have luck, too. But I really believe that love is like a cushion. If I'd been sitting here all this time on a hard, little iron chair, I would be miserable. But love is like the cushion that's around you, that makes you be able to think about things in a sweeter way."
 
Hoffberger, Lois (I151)
 
75 Bank clerk Pfaundler, Eduard (I641)
 
76 Bank clerk in Bekescaba, Hungary [Békéscsaba, Hungary] Pfaundler, Hans (I987)
 
77 Barbara Swetman Meyer 12/16/1933 - 5/4/2015 OBITUARY

Barbara Swetman Meyer, adored and adorable wife, mother and grandmother, passed away in the afternoon of Monday, the 4th of May, 2015, in her home in Houston, Texas. Barbara Swetman was born in Rowlands, Mississippi the 26th of December, 1933. Barbara graduated with honors with a degree in accounting from Louisiana State University in 1955. Barbara married the love of her life, Randall Meyer of Mt. Union, Iowa, the 29th of November, 1958. Barbara met Randall on a blind date during his tenure at Exxon's Baton Rouge Refinery, where she eventually worked as a secretary until they wed. She was proud to tell everyone that they were married for "54 years and 8 days," until his death in 2012. Together they raised and nurtured a loving family of three children, Warren, Gretchen and Kirsten.

In her free time in her younger years, she loved to play bridge and tennis with her close friends, play the piano and create needlepoint works of art. She was also a skilled fly fisherwoman and skeet shooter. She dedicated herself to supporting Randall's career and was the perfect lighthearted and outspoken balance to his serious business persona. But Barbara's ultimate focus was caring for her children.

She and Randall were passionate about education and made sure that their children had access to and remained motivated to perform at their highest levels from kindergarten through graduate school. While Barbara excelled as a wife and mother, she found her true calling with the birth of the first of her five grandchildren in 1994. Her grandchildren were the world to her, as she was to them. She took the time to recognize, appreciate and celebrate the unique personalities of each of her grandchildren and, by doing so, developed remarkably close and unshakeable bonds with each child. Barbara's grandchildren loved her limitlessly and unconditionally and they will profoundly miss their "crazy redneck Grandma!"

Barbara was preceded in death by her parents, Emory Goss Swetman and Ruby Mae Swetman Stringer; brothers, James Robert and Rod Swetman; and sister, Anelle Swetman Jones. She is survived by her children, Warren Meyer and his wife, Kate, of Phoenix, AZ, Gretchen Meyer Manias and her husband, Bill, of Houston, TX, and Kirsten Meyer Wrinkle and her husband, Geoff of Charlotte, NC; and grandchildren Nicholas and Amelia Meyer of Phoenix, Andrew and Hayden Manias of Houston, and Alex Wrinkle of Charlotte.

Barbara's family wishes to acknowledge and express their sincere gratitude for the love and friendship extended to Barbara by her dear friends and selfless caretakers, Donita, Bunny, Jack, Helen, Janet and Carolyn. Those honored to serve as honorary pallbearers are her five grandchildren.

A memorial service is to be conducted at four o'clock in the afternoon on Saturday, the 27th of June in the Jasek Chapel of Geo. H. Lewis & Sons, 1010 Bering Drive in Houston. In lieu of customary remembrances, and for those desiring, memorial contributions may be directed to the Wounded Warrior Project, P.O. Box 758517, Topeka, KS, 66675.

Barbara Meyer was born in rural Mississippi during the Great Depression to meager beginnings, but was a bright child and motivated not only to pursue her education at the college level but also to perform at the highest level. She approached every aspect of her life with a sharp wit and irreverent sense of humor and was a truly authentic individual. Barbara was loving by nature and was generous in heart and spirit. She never knew a stranger and welcomed everyone into her home as their "grandma." In her own words, Barbara declared, "I have lived a great life and would like to be remembered with smiles rather than tears. I would also like to quote my grandson, Andrew, as I write my own epitaph "You don't have to be right, Grandma, you're adorable."

Funeral Home
Geo. H. Lewis & Sons Funeral Directors
1010 Bering Drive Houston, TX 77057
(713) 789-3005

Published in TheAdvocate.com from May 9 to May 10, 2015
 
Swetman, Barbara (I237)
 
78 Baron since 1790, Vice president of the district administration in Prague von Escherich, Franz Adam Wenzel (I868)
 
79 At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. Hodge, Elizabeth (I83)
 
80 BIOGRAPHY: Named as son in the Will of James Flack dated 3 Aug 1793 - Will proved 20 Sep 1802.
John had actually died by the 'proving of the will' and his 3 children James, Jane and John were summonsed to appear instead.
JIm Flack - 14 Jan 2008.

BIOGRAPHY: Extracts from letter by James Flack (b. Oct.-7-1834 d. Nov-23-1917) written in 1909/1910:-
"John Flack was a First Sergeant in Captain Robinson Company of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania."
Source - Tania Shurko (James Flack's letter copied to me - JAF)
COMMENT on above. I would like to investigate further as there is ANOTHER Flack family in Lancaster County !!

BIRTH: Birth date from headstone image supplied by Rich Flack - Sept 2007
The previous date I had was 11 October 1752 (Tania Shurko.)

DEATH: Death date from headstone image supplied by Rich Flack - Sept 2007

Source: flackgenealogy.com 19 Dec 2019 
Flack, John (I213)
 
81 Birth date & Death date listed on 1915 version of tree is in July instead of June Pfaundler, Alois Anton Nicolaus (I569)
 
82 Birth date listed as 24 Jan 1866, but year doesn't make sense for the birth year since she would have been 4 when Carl died, and it is unlikely she was married before the age of 4. Whoever copied this record probably mislabeled her death date as her birth date.  Meyer, Franziska (I909)
 
83 Birth place listed as Pförth, an alternate spelling of either Forth, Furth, or Fürth, which are all towns located in the area of Prussia Lehmann, Emilie (I973)
 
84 Birthdate listed on 1915 version of tree: 14 Mar 1736 Pfaundler, Josef Aloisius Benedict (I547)
 
85 Birthplace Roczog: alternative spelling of the town of Rotzog, now known as Rosocha. See here for more information and a historical map: https://www.meyersgaz.org/place/20642033 von Limprun, Carl (I967)
 
86 Bookseller Pfaundler, Carl Anton (I595)
 
87 Born in Bozen IT [now known as Bolzano] Moser, Anna (I596)
 
88 Brunnecken IT, now known as Bruneck, Tirol IT Family: Alois von Pfaundler / Gabriela von Tschusi von Schmidhofen (F238)
 
89 Bruno Kurt Riesenfeld (1899-1974) was born on 27 October 1899 in Würzburg, Germany to Alfred (1866-1936) and Jenny (née Brauer, 1866-1938) Riesenfeld. He had two sisters, Betti (later Betty Suessmann, 1896-1976) and Margot (1895-1943), and one brother, Walter (1901-1984).

Frieda Therese Riesenfeld (née Schwabacher, 1908-2012) was born on 16 April 1908 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany to Emil (1873-1919) and Dora (née Schwabacher, 1881-1943) Schwabacher. She had one sister, Henny (1906-1918).

Bruno and Frieda married in 1931, and their first son, Ernst, was born in 1935. Bruno owned a paint factory in Heidingsfeld, near Würzburg. In 1938, he was forced to sell his business and then arrested. Frieda helped secure his release, but he was arrested again several months later and sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp. After his release, they left Germany to go stay with Bruno's sister Margot in Amsterdam while they continued to wait for U.S. visas. Their son, James was born 17 April 1939 in Amsterdam. On 14 March 1940 the family sailed out of Rotterdam for the United States on the Veendam. They settled in New York.

Bruno's sister Margot perished during the Holocaust at the Sobibór extermination camp in 1943. Frieda's mother Dora was deported from Würzburg to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1943 where she perished.

The Riesenfeld family papers are kept at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, and can be viewed here:
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn84900#?rsc=122532&cv=0&c=0&m=0&s=0&xywh=-524579%2C-73%2C1050911%2C1455 
Riesenfeld, Bruno Kurt (I59)
 
90 Caroline was born in Baltimore, Maryland. She graduated from Western High School in Baltimore in 1961. She then graduated from Towson University in 1965 with an education degree. She was the principal of a school for many years. Mayer, Carolyn (I1065)
 
91 At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. Family: Steven Weinberger / Carolyn Mayer (F345)
 
92 At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. Pfaundler, Caspar (I99)
 
93 Ceramic Artist

(Commentary by Lea Nickless, research curator at The Wolfsonian Museum, Miami FL, re: Credo Altar in permanent collection - abt. Dec 2018)

CREDO ALTER

Viennese sculptor Annie Eisenmenger created this massive ceramic triptych altar for an international exposition of modern Christian art in Padua, Italy in 1931. Depicting the coronation of the Virgin Mary in its central panel and scenes from the life of Christ at either side, the triptych folds neatly for travel, its closed doors spelling "Credo" in bold, interlocking, wrought-iron letters. A brief mention in a 1932 Viennese publication stated that the work had been universally applauded.

Annie went on to produce work throughout her life. She collaborated with Konrad Lorenz, the Nobel Prize-winning founder of the study of animal behavior, illustrating his book Man Meets Dog. In 1960, she created a mosaic mural of Saint Francis of Assisi at the Schoenbrunn Zoo in Vienna. Despite Annie's many accomplishments, there is little known about her; it is almost as though she didn't exist. Even her date of death had never been correctly recorded, leaving a void in her biographical data. Fortunately, after tracking down her great niece, who was able to provide her actual death date, we updated the Zentralfriedhof Vienna's central cemetery where Annie is buried. The fact that Annie had almost disappeared from the historic record underscores the enormous challenges facing women, especially in the early 20th century, as they struggled to navigate within a patriarchal, gender-biased culture. As The Wolfsonian moves forward in growing its collection, we will continue to seek out women artists, so often overlooked and sometimes even forgotten, and bring their stories to light.
 
Eisenmenger, Anna (I32)
 
94 Chemist Escherich, Ferdinand (I963)
 
95 Chief appeals director in Aschaffenburg  Escherich, Friedrich (I924)
 
96 Citizen member of the council and goldsmith Pfaundler, Mathias (I800)
 
97 Citizen member of the council and goldsmith in Innsbruck Pfaundler, Hanns (I795)
 
98 City and district administrator von Escherich, Baron Franz (I891)
 
99 Claudette Colbert
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Born Émilie Claudette Chauchoin

September 13, 1903
Saint-Mandé, France
Died July 30, 1996 (aged 92)
Speightstown, Barbados

Nationality American
Other names Lily Claudette Chauchoin
Education Art Students League of New York
Occupation Actress
Years active 1925-1965, 1974-1987
Political party Republican
Spouse(s)

Norman Foster
(m. 1928; div. 1935)
Dr. Joel Pressman
(m. 1935; died 1968)

Claudette Colbert, born Émilie Claudette Chauchoin; September 13, 1903 - July 30, 1996) was an American stage and film actress.

Colbert began her career in Broadway productions during the late 1920s and progressed to motion pictures with the advent of Talking pictures. Initially associated with Paramount Pictures, she gradually shifted to working as a freelance actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in It Happened One Night (1934), and received two other Academy Award nominations. Other notable films include Cleopatra (1934) and The Palm Beach Story (1942).

With her round face, big eyes, charming, aristocratic manner, and flair for light comedy, as well as emotional drama, Colbert was known for a versatility that led to her becoming one of the industry's best-paid stars of the 1930s and 1940s and, in 1938 and 1942, the highest-paid star. During her career, Colbert starred in more than 60 movies. Among her frequent co-stars were Fred MacMurray in seven films (1935-49), and Fredric March in four films (1930-33).

By the early 1950s, Colbert had basically retired from the screen in favor of television and stage work, and she earned a Tony Award nomination for The Marriage-Go-Round in 1959. Her career tapered off during the early 1960s, but in the late 1970s she experienced a career resurgence in theater, earning a Sarah Siddons Award for her Chicago theater work in 1980. For her television work in The Two Mrs. Grenvilles (1987), she won a Golden Globe Award and received an Emmy Award nomination.

In 1999, the American Film Institute posthumously voted Colbert the 12th-greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema.  
Colbert, Claudette (I192)
 
100 Colonel and treasurer [treasurer of either a city or town] von Escherich, Hermann (I923)
 

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