Friedrich Fritz Wetter

Married Aline Schwarz in Apr-May-Jun 1939 in Kensington (London) (FreeBMD)

Surname First name(s) Spouse District Vol Page Marriages Apr-May-Jun 1939

• Bauer Aline Wetter Kensington 1a 543
• Schwarz Aline Wetter Kensington 1a 543
• Wetter Friedrich Bauer Kensington 1a 543
• Wetter Friedrich Schwarz Kensington 1a 543
• Buckland Sidney C Zühlsdorff Kensington 1a 543
• Zuhlsdorff Emilie B W Buckland Kensington 1a 543

Was his father Jakob Wetter? 1875-1940 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/101012893/jakob-wetter

Burials on Viennese Jewish Cemeteries, No. 91008 (genteam.at)

• Last Name Wetter First Name Jakob, Isrl.
• Profession Privat
• Date of Birth/Age 69
• Date of Death 1940.07.18
• Place of Death Berlin
• Date of Burial 1940.08.25
• Cemetery ZF Tor 1
• Group 52 Row 55 Tomb No 84
• Same grave: Isak [Hirsch, per genteam.at deaths index] Wetter, Kaufmann, buried Sept. 30, 1918 (no age given) and Helene Wetter (same address), buried March 8, 1927 age 76 (born 1851). The only WETTER group listed in Vienna cemeteries database at genteam.at.

On Sept. 17, 1886 at Tempelgasse in Vienna, Isak Hersch Wetter, a typesetter, age 47 (b. 1839; from Winniki-Gal. {Winniki is the name of three towns in Poland, one of which is 5 miles ESE of Lemberg/Lviv}) married Hanna Orenstein r. Sibot[h], age 36 (b. Sept. 16, 1850, from Jaworów (three towns in Poland have this name, one is 33 miles W of Lemberg/Lviv). In ~1875 their son Jakob was born in Jaworów (33 miles W of Lemberg/Lviv, Ukraine; see below). The 1886 Isak-Hanna marriage record has a note referencing a marriage which took place 17 Okt. 1869 in Lemberg (in Galicia=Lviv, Ukraine). Record is in Österreich, Niederösterreich...Kultusgemeinde, 1784-1911 02. Bezirk (Leopoldstadt) Trauungsbücher, Trauungsbuch D 1886 Aug.-1889 Mai, Volume D, 1886, Num. 24. Volumes are indexed at genteam.at and via familysearch.org). Isak's father was Berl; his mother was Sissel Last Name unknown. Hanna's father was Abraham Orenstein; her mother was Lea Siboth. Hanna signed her name "Ornstein."

In Vienna, Isak Hersch and Hanna aka Henna Orenstein r. Siboth had sons

• Leon born 10 Oct. 1886 (Num. 3694)
• Rudolf born 31 Jan. 1889 (Num. 186)
• Ferdinand born 17 March 1891 (Num. 503)-died 30 June 1892

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Jakob Wetter and Maria Wassiczek were married in 1904 in Vienna (genteam.at):

• Last Name Wetter First Name Jakob
• Code 2
• Location Ottakring
• Volume E Date 1904 Number 12
• Last Name Bride Wassicsek
• First Name Bride Marie

Children of Jakob Wetter and Marie Wassiczek:

Index of the Jewish Records of Vienna and Lower Austria (Births), No. 184667 (genteam.at)

• Last Name Wetter, First Name Friedrich
• First Name Father Jakob
• Last Name Mother Wassicsek First Name Mother Maria
• Location Wien
• Book 1907/1 I Volume 1907 Date 16.01.1907
• Number 164

Index of the Jewish Records of Vienna and Lower Austria No. 184668

• Last Name Wetter First Name Karl Code 1 (Birth)
• First Name Father Jakob
• Last Name Mother Wassiczek First Name Mother Maria
• Location Wien
• Book 1908/2 V Volume 1908 Date 16.09.1908
• Number 2122

Karl became a doctor (Medical Doctors from Vienna, genteam.at):

• Last Name Wetter First Name Karl
• Date of Birth 1908.09.16
• Birth Parisch Wien
• Profession Medizinstudent
• Religion j
• Source 134-1122
• Nationalien Date 1930/31

A Karl Wetter was buried in December 18, 1961 at Zentralfriedhof, Wien (no birthdate). Katharina Wetter(died Jan. 5, 1937 per FindAGrave) and Sebastian Wetter (died Sept. 6, 1935 per FindAGrave) in same grave (no birth data). ZFH

"LONDON, Sept 18-Dr. Karl Wetter, the Vienna specialist arrived at Croydon last night by air from Vienna to attend the Marquess of Reading, who lay ill at Walmer Castle, Deal, following a severe attack of cardiac asthma last Wednesday. Lord Reading is 74. Dr. Wetter arrived after an all-day flight across Europe in a gale. For three days members of Lord Reading's household have made telephone calls to places In Austria, Switzerland, Germany and France, in an attempt to trace Dr. Wetter's whereabouts. Late on Monday he was located in Vienna. On arrival at Croydon he was driven to Walmer Castle. -- Kingston (Jamaica) Gleaner Newspaper Archives, Saturday, October 5, 1935, p. 4

In June 1938, Jakob Wetter and Maria Wassiczek were divorced Jewish Community Vienna Divorces 1870-1942

• DB. 9926 Year 1938 No. 333
• Date of Divorce 26.06.1938
• Husband Lastname Wetter Husband Firstname Jakob
• Husband Origin Jaworów (three towns in Poland have this name)
• Wife Lastname Wahsics Wife Firstname Maria
• Wife Origin Wien
• Place of Marriage Wien (Ottakring), 07.02.1904

Just two months earlier, in April 1938, Fritz Wetter had resigned from the Jewish faith a few weeks after Hitler's invasion of Austria: Jewish Resignations 1868-1914, No. 26747. Fritz's mother and brother (below) are in adjacent records.

• Last Name Wetter First Name Friedrich
• Zahl 755 Zahl_Z Age 31 (b. 1907)
• Austrittsdatum 04.04.1938
• Date of Birth 16.01.1907, Wien
• Stand ledig
• Bezirk 9 Strasse Glaserg. Nr. 11/12

Resignations of the Jewish Community in Vienna between 1915 and 1945 (genteam.at) No. 26748

• Last Name Wetter First Name Karl
• Number 575
• Age 30
• Date of Resignation 07.04.1938
• Date of Birth 16.09.1908
• Place of Birth Wien
• Family Status ledig
• Vienna District 9 Vienna Street Glaserg. House No. 11

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Maria in Proselyten und Rückkehr -- der Übertritt zum Judentum in Wien 1868-1914 ("Proselytes and return -- the conversion to Judaism in Vienna"). Published in 2015, Proselytes and Return presents the protocols for proselytists and revertites to enter Judaism ... after the Interconfessional Law of 1868 brought full equality to the Jews in Austria. From that point on, the conversion of a Christian or a non-denominational Jew to Judaism was possible, and prior converts to Christianity could return to Judaism. This required only an official resignation from that religious community, which had previously been heard. The entry into Judaism, however, did not take place at the political authority, but at a religious community, which created the proselyte protocols. The protocols are supplemented by a wealth of other sources, which in many cases reveal that a convert's motivation was love for a member of the Jewish community."

• No. 5954
• Last Name Wassicsek
• Last Name changed Wetter
• First Name Maria
• Date of Birth 1881.01.17

Maria in Jewish Resignations 1868-1914, No. 26749

• Last Name Wetter First Name Maria Birth Name Wassiczek
• Zahl 1941 Zahl_Z Age 57
• Austrittsdatum 11.05.1938
• Date of Birth 17.01.1881
• Place of Birth Wien Pf. St. Brigitta
• Stand verh.
• W-Bezirk 9 Strasse Glaserg. Nr. 11

Maria was most likely born and baptised a Catholic, as there is a large group of Catholics by that name -- spelled Wassiczek, Wassicsek, or Wassicek -- indexed at genteam.at.

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LEMBERG (Lviv), Galicia (Ukraine):

In 1772, following the First Partition of Poland, the region was annexed by the Habsburg Monarchy to the Austrian Partition. Known in German as Lemberg, the city became the capital of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria. Lemberg grew dramatically during 19th century, increasing in population from approximately 30,000 at the time of the Austrian annexation in 1772, to 196,000 by 1910 and to 212,000 three years later; while the poverty in Austrian Galicia was raging. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries a large influx of Austrians and German-speaking Czech bureaucrats gave the city a character that by the 1840s were quite Austrian, in its orderliness and in the appearance and popularity of Austrian coffeehouses.

In 1773, the first newspaper in Lemberg, Gazette de Leopoli, began to be published. In 1784, a German language university was opened; after closing again in 1805, it was reopened in 1817. By 1825 German became the language of instruction.

During the 19th century, the Austrian administration attempted to Germanise the city's educational and governmental institutions. Many cultural organisations which did not have a pro-German orientation were closed. In 1853, Lviv was the first European city to have street lights due to innovations discovered by Lviv inhabitants Ignacy Łukasiewicz and Jan Zeh. In that year kerosene lamps were introduced as street lights. Then in 1858, these were updated to gas lamps, and in 1900 to electric ones.

After the so-called "Ausgleich" of February 1867, the Austrian Empire was reformed into a dualist Austria-Hungary and a slow yet steady process of liberalization of Austrian rule in Galicia started. From 1873, Galicia was 'de facto' an autonomous province of Austria-Hungary with Polish and Ruthenian, as official languages. Germanisation was halted and the censorship lifted as well. Galicia was subject to the Austrian part of the Dual Monarchy, but the Galician Sejm and provincial administration, both established in Lviv, had extensive privileges and prerogatives, especially in education, culture, and local affairs. The city started to grow rapidly, becoming the 4th largest in Austria-Hungary, according to the census of 1910. Many Belle Époque public edifices and tenement houses were erected, the buildings from the Austrian period, such as the Lviv Theatre of Opera and Ballet built in the Viennese neo-Renaissance style, still dominate and characterise much of the centre of the city. During Habsburg rule, Lviv became one of the most important Polish, Ukrainian and Jewish cultural centres.

Vynnyky, called in Polish Winniki, belonged to Ruthenian Voivodeship, Kingdom of Poland. From 1772-1918, it was part of Austrian Galicia, and in the interbellum period, the town returned to Poland, as part of Lwow Voivodeship. It is now in Ukraine.

Yavoriv, called in Polish Jaworów, was an important center of commerce, located along main merchant route from Jarosław to Lwów (Lviv). It was annexed in 1772 by the Habsburg Empire, as part of Austrian Galicia, where it remained until late 1918. In Galicia it was the seat of a county, with the population of almost 11,000 (Poles, Jews, Ukrainians and Czechs). The Jews of the village were merchants or artisans. There was a synagogue.