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Werfel Family Genealogy

*pictues & some of the information provided by Susan L. Lubow, who also has a genealogy site & more pictures on Picasaweb.com -- Last update: November 19, 2009

  • 1898 - Amalie (nee Elbogen) Werfel - obituary
    (?) WERFEL came to Prague, Bohemia, Czech where he made and lost a fortune, son of a courier in Napoleon's Russian campaign + Amalie ELBOGEN Born: abt 1834 Died: Nov 9, 1898 in Vienna, Austria. NFP Daughter-in-law: Elsa (nee Karpeles) Werfel

    • 1915 - Pauline (nee Werfel) Kary - obituary
      Pauline WERFEL Born: abt 1852 Died: Dec 7, 1915 in Vienna age 63 NFP + Samuel Siegmund (see KARY family) Born: in Hungary Seiden, previously married to Emma Oppenheim (4/6/1847 m. 7/ 9/1868 Vienna - 4/9/1870 Vienna) age 23

    • Rudolf WERFEL Born: Sep 21, 1857 in Prague, Bohemia. Died: Jul 31, 1941 in Marseilles, France + Albine "Albin" (see KUSSI family) Born: Mar 10, 1870 in Pilsen or Žihle, Bohemia. Died: Jul 31, 1964 in New York Father: Bernhart Kussi (1832 Krashowitz or Scheles - 1932) owned a Mill in Pilsen? Mother: Feigel (?) ( - 1906-1908 Pilsen)

      Note: ref-1, ref-2 in 1882, Rudolf started his 1st glove manufacturing business. May 1938, he owned the "Werfel & Böhm" pic. ref-1 factory and empowerd his long standing employee Erich Fürth to register the coompany in his name. Year later Rudolf tried to arrange for the transfer of all his shares in the company, but to no avail.

      • 1909 - Franz Werfel Alma (nee Schindler) Werfel
        Franz Viktor WERFEL Born: Sep 10, 1890 in Prague. Died: Aug 25 or 26, 1945 in Beverly Hills or Los Angeles, CA + Alma Maria SCHINDLER Born: Aug 31, 1879 in Vienna, Austria. Married: Jul 6, 1929 Died: Dec 11, 1964 in New York, NY Father: Emil Jakob Schindler ( -1892) landscape artist Mother: Anna von BERGEN widowed married Carl Julius Rudolf MOLL (1861-1945) prominent painter *1st husband of Alma: Gustav (see MAHLER family) Born: Jul 7, 1860 in Kaliště, Bohemia. Died: May 18, 1911 in Vienna wiki Bohemian-Austrian composer, conductor & distant relative of Fritz Spiegl wiki. on Geiringer page *2nd husband of Alma: Walter GROPIUS Born: May 18, 1883 in Berlin, Germany. Divorced: 1920 Died: Jul 5, 1969 wiki German Architect and founder of Bauhaus *2nd wife: Ise FRANK Married: 1923 Died: 1983

        Note: wiki: Franz Viktor Werfel, an Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright & poet.. ..He served in the Austro-Hungarian army on the Russian front and in the press office in Vienna, where he met and fell in love with Alma Mahler. In 1920 Alma, widow of Gustav Mahler, divorced architect Walter Gropius in order to be with Werfel and the couple lived together from that point on; they finally married in 1929.. ..he published The Forty Days of Musa Dagh.. ..An identified Jew, Werfel left Austria after the Anschluss in 1938 and went to France.. ..he and his wife narrowly escaped the Nazi regime and traveled to the USA. While in France, he vowed to write about the experience and, safe in America, he published The Song of Bernadette in 1941.. ..1958 film Me and the Colonel starring Danny Kaye.. ..his last novel Star of the Unborn /Stern der Ungeborenen published posthumously in 1946.. *see Pragerish Atmosphere or articleGerman OR wiki Alma Maria Mahler-Werfel Viennese-born socialite well known in her youth for her beauty and vivacity.. ..Mahler-Werfel's lively social interactions in her youth included friendships with the artists of the Secession, among them Gustav Klimt. As a young woman Mahler-Werfel had a series of flirtations, including Klimt, theater director Max Burckhard and composer Alexander von Zemlinsky. On Mar 9, 1902 she married Gustav Mahler who was 20 years her senior and the director of the Vienna Court Opera. With him she had two daughters, Maria Anna (1902-1907) who died of scarlet fever or diphtheria and Anna (1904-1988) who later became a sculptor" OR see alma-mahler.at

      • 1925 - Robert Fuchs-Robettin - obituary
        1854 - Robert Fuchs von Robettin + Hermina Posner family
        1887 - Carl von-Posner - obituary
        1895 Sarolta (nee Posner) Czettel - obituary
        1898 - Regine (nee Posner) Herzka - obituary
        Hannah (Hanna) WERFEL Born: Jul 11, 1894 or 1896 in Prague, Bohemia Died: 1964 + Herbert von FUCHS von ROBETTIN Born: Aug 15, 1886 in Prague. Hanna (nee Werfel) Fuchs-RobettinMarried: Mar 21, 1917 Died: Aug 19, 1949 Siblings: Oswald Fuchs von Robettin (1887 -), Karl Fuchs von Robettin Sister-in-law: Anda (?) Nephews: Robert, Franz, Karl Father: Robert Fuchs von Robettin (1854 - 10/10/1925 Vienna) NFP, Prague conscription brother of Ida Fuchs von Robettin & Leopold (see Kary family) (1850 - 11/22/1904) NFP Group-2 Mother: Hermine/a von POSNER (1854 or 12/6/1858 Budapest - ) also on Bauer page sister of Sigmund von Posner (3/18/1848 Budapest - 1849 Budapest), Alfred Ritter von Posner (3/30/1856 Budapest - ) & Ella Bischitz (m. ca. 1885 Budapest - ) "ch. Olga von Posner (8/31/1887 Budapest - )", Ilka von Posner ( - bur. 1916) & Moritz "Mor" Mangold ( - bur. 1/13/1889 Budapest) "ch. Emerich Mangold, Irene Mangold" M-grandfather: Carl Ludwig "Karoly Lajos" von Posner ritter (1822 - 12/7/1887 Budapest Salgótarjáni út cem. sirbolt B-13-1) FS#273 son of Joanna (?), brother of Charlotte "Sarolta" Posner (1812 Budapest - 2/15/1895 Budapest) Pester Lloyd, FS#407 & Ignacz Czettel (Abony /Nagy Abony, Hungary - ) "ch. Gyula Czettel & Szidonia Weisz, Zsigmond Czettel (6/2/1846 -1934 bur Kozma utca Budapest 32-10-11 & Joanna Fanny Mezei (1848-1901) bur. together "ch. Ödön Czettel (1871-1935) bur Kozma utca 10-11-34 & Irén Kõvári ( - 1918) bur. together [parents of Lazlo Czettel same as? the famous gay Jewish costume designer Laci Ladislav Czettel (3/5/1895 Budapest - 3/1949 New York) committed suicide, see magazine ‘das privileg zu sehen’ number 008 and numerous other Internet sources. Some incorrectly give his year of birth as 1904, but his US immigration papers have it as 1895. His costume designs for the Paris Follies, Viennese Opera & Pigmalian are highly collectable, Iren (Nusi =Bunny) Czettel (Budapest - ), Imre Czettel], Izidor (Dori?) Czettel (10/4/1877 Budapest 1910?) death date unlikely as Andrew Aschner in Sydney recalls meeting him & Marguerite (?) of Paris "ch. Gertrude Giselle Hermine Czettel (10/10/1909 Vienna /Budapest? - 8/7/1991) bur Salzburg France & Hubert Ferdinand Charles Herzfelder ( m. 12/24/1935 ) [Austrian coin collector and dealer, without children 1937-1964 residence 77 rue des Saint-Peres, Paris, went into hiding during WW2 and eventually fled to Spain crossing the border illegally. *see CRT claim submitted by their godson Michel Henri Louis Zimmern of Paris] *2nd husband of Marguarite after Izidor’s death Monsieur Le Plays (much younger than her - ca. 1940 WW2)", Daniel Czettel (1850 - 1913 Budapest) & Fanny Frankl (1857-1899) [ch. Alojs (Louis), Guyla, Arpad Czettel], Janka Czettel & Ferncz Spitzer parents of Sándor Spitzer, Jenö Spitzer ", Regine/a Posner (1822 - Daniel Czettel4/6/1898 Vienna) NFP & Samuel Herzka Babette "Jozefin" Posner & Leopold "Lipot" Herzog and brother-in-law of Johanna Reiner, Therese (Terez) Reisinger M-grandmother: Betti "Illes" Linzer (ca. 1827 Budapest m. 11/11/1837 Budapest - 1900 Budapest) *granchildren of Charlotte & Ignacz Czettel: Gizella, Gizella ifj., René, Jollánka "Jolan, Yolande" Czettel (1882 Nagy Abony m. Budapest - 1952 Budapest) & Lipot (Leopold) Aschner (1/271872 Assakurt - 1/18/1952 Budapest grave) industrialist, Gainsclan Ödön, Izidor, Ilonka, Aranka, Lilike, Árpad and Lajos Czettel - *info. also provided by Roy Grant

        Horní Kamenice history: "..The first spinners in the village emerged even before the year 1833 and 1835 gesellte to them, the paper mill, whose late owner Robert Fuchs (1854-1925) in 1915 in the nobility was charged with the expression "von Robettin.." another article OR on wikipedia: Hanna Fuchs-Robettin "..Hanna's father rebuilt the family wealth. Hanna grew up in a stylish house on Marienstrasse in the New Town where the children were nurtured by a Czech Catholic woman named Babi.. ..The Werfels were assimilated Jews with a strong interest in music and theatre, which they attended often.. Hanna and Herbert fled Prague to escape Nazi persecution as Jews and moved to New York City OR Carl Ludwig Ritter von Posner in 1852 founded the largest printing, lithographing, and bookbinding establishment in Hungary. He is listed with "Czettel & Deutsch" as a paper manufacturer and was sent by his government as a commissioner to the expositions of London (1871), Vienna (1878), Paris (1880s) and Triest (1882). In 1884 he was empowered by Trefort, the then minister of education, to introduce the reproduction of maps into Hungary; and Hungary is greatly indebted to him for his work in connection with the graphic arts and the paper industry. King Francis Joseph I ennobled him in 1873, and bestowed upon him the title of royal councilor in 1885. After his death, his printing business passed to his son Alfred

        • Munzo FUCHS Born: private
        • Dorothea "Dodo" "FUCHS Born:: private

      • Marianne (nee Werfel) RieserMarianne "Mizzi" Amalia WERFEL Born: Oct 30, 1899 in Prague, Bohemia. Died: Jan 8, 1965 in Los Angeles, CA + Ferdinand Arthur RIESER Born: Feb 18, 1886 in Zurich, Switzerland. Married: Sep 21 Died: 1947

        • Marguerite A. RIESER Born: Mar 18, 1925 in Zurich, Switzerland. Died: Apr 13, 1965 in San Bernardino, CA + Donald J. PERKINS Born: private

        • 1930 - Car Werfel - obituaryCarl WERFEL Kaiserl. Rat Born: abt 1857 Died: Oct 31, 1930 in Vienna NFP occupation: Präsident de Sana a.-G., Prag + Vilma ABELES

      • Alice WERFEL + Dr. prof. Ernst SIEGEL

        • Annemarie SIEGEL

    • 1919 - Theodor Werfel - obituary 1919 - Theodor Werfel - firm obituary
      Theodor WERFEL Born: abt 1861 Died: May 27, 1919 in Vienna age 58 NFP occupation: Partner (Gesselschafters) of the firm "S. Kary & Comp" + Ida KATSCHER *any relation to the families on Katscher page?

      • Walter WERFEL
      • Richard WERFEL

    • Oscar WERFEL Residence: Zurich

    • Emilie WERFEL Residence: Prague *Vienna has Emma (1857 - Nov 1, 1894 Vienna) + Benedict BÖHM Born: abt Died: Nov 17, 1919 Prague NFP occupation: Kommerzialrates

    • Auguste WERFEL + Moritz SCHEIN *Vienna has (1877 - 4/28/1932 Vienna)

    • Olga WERFEL + Leo ZENTNER*Prague cons. registry has Olga Werfel (1870 -) & Jacob Kohn (1859 -), as well as Ernestine Werfel (1875 -) & Alois Zucker ( 1868 -)

    • Carl WERFEL

1918 - Julius Werfel - obituaryNote: searching for information on Walter P. Werfel who is listed as the depositor on Irene (nee Fischer) Selinko and her daughter Marguerite (nee Selinko) Kary transmigration card OR any relation to Julius Werfel (abt 1877 - Oct 11, 1918 Vienna ) NFP obituary, buried with Samuel Fried (1893 - 2/3/1915), Dr. Heinrich Frachtmann (1867 - bur. 3/13/1921) NFP + Dora Bauer parents of Gerta Frachtmann, Kurt Frachtmann

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