Baroness Maria Christine "Christa" Helene Antonie Groedel Grödel

Maria Christine "Christa" Helene Antonie von GROEDEL GRÖDEL, née von CALLENBERG: b. 17 Jan 1905, Bucharest - d. 1979, ?

Information courtesy of various sources including the following:

Marriage ceremony on 19 Feb 1924 in the Minoritenkirche, Wien, described here:

ANNO, Wiener Salonblatt, 1924-03-01, Seite 6

http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=wsb&datum=19240301&seite...

Society portrait photo here:

ANNO, Wiener Salonblatt, 1927-03-06, Seite 1

http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=wsb&datum=19270306&seite...

However, Christa was not only known as a society lady in high circles but also an accomplished horserider, winning many prizes in various competitions. There are several mentions of this activity in newspapers of the era and also, for example, a photo:

ANNO, Wiener Salonblatt, 1930-05-25, Seite 13

http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=wsb&datum=19300525&seite...

And she was known for her support of women's rights as well.

e.g. coenksmaaskrifter 17 pdf.

"Women's Organisation for World Order.

Anfang der 1930er Jahre begannen die Wiener Frauen sich in Frauenfragen zu organisieren, so zum Beispiel in sogenannten Wiener Call-Club, im Tuchlauben 11, zentral in Wien gelegen, wo man sich ab den 8 Oktober 1935, regelmäßig alle vierzehn Tage traf, und wo sich auch, das Club-Sekretariat befand. Als Ehrenvorsitzende des Wiener Call-Clubs war der Rosa Mayreder gewählt; im Vorstand gab es bekannte Wiener Frauenrechtlerinnen wie Ludovica Hainisch-Marchet, Máda Primavesi, Christa Groedel-Callenberg, Miriam Arrington-Schilder, Anna Helene Askenasy, Irene Harand und Irene Kurz."

Following Rosa MAYREDER's death in 1938, a gathering in her memory was held at the Wiener Call-Club, in which Christa Groedel-Callenberg read from this well-known feminist's book "Kritik der Weiblichkeit".

ANNO, Neues Wiener Tagblatt (Tages-Ausgabe), 1938-02-04, Seite 31

http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=nwg&datum=19380204&query...

And also -

Alvin - Search:

http://www.alvin-portal.org/alvin/resultList.jsf?aq=%5B%5B%5D%5D&p=...

Refers to correspondence with celebrated Swedish writer & feminist Elin WAGNER. Appears to give date of death for Christa GROEDEL-CALLENBERG as 1979:

Plus ...

As for her husband Baron Hans Groedel ... cf:

pse/6/groedel http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/pse-groedel.htm

"Baron Hermann died in 1930 and much of the land was sold off in 1944. However, Baron Albert Groedel's sons, Victor and Hans, and their wives, Anna Dolezal and Marie-Christine Von Callenberg respectively, appear to have had their personal holding confiscated by the Nazis, as well as their lives. After the war, the majority of the family moved to Vienna where they lived out their lives. Only a few remained in Budapest."

and ...

Ökonomie der Arisierung - Ulrike Felber - Google Books http://books.google.de/books?id=8F3JyEOKVmEC&pg=PA54&lpg=PA54&dq=ha...

re. Hans Groedel (died 19th. February 1945) and his wife Christa Groedel (still alive in 1951) and the firm of H. Pollack & Söhne ... (pip)