Hans Groedel

Freiherr Janos Leopold Grödel von Gyulafalva und Bogdán / Baron Hans Jan GROEDEL: b. 27 June 1902, Wien - d. 17 Feb 1945, Prince George, Canada

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...

Hans apparently fled Vienna first to India before travelling to New York and, after about a year and a half there, then moved on to Canada where he started up a logging business with a friend, John FEIGL.

cf. New York passenger listing courtesy of:

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-95N8-SC6J?i=675&cc...

Name: Jan Groedel • Ereignistyp: Immigration Ereignisdatum: 1941 • Ereignisort: New York, New York, United States • Geschlecht: Male Alter: 38 Geburtsjahr (geschätzt): 1903 Geburtsort: Germany • Schiffsname: President Harrison

His profession given as "business manager", his marital status given as "W" - widowed.

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Departure: Fa - Albert Groedel, Covassna, Haranesel, Hungary

Arrival: "Banker" Domenic & Domenic, 115 Broadway, New York

Basic death data courtesy of:

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FL2P-1LB

Name: Albert Groedel Geschlecht: Male Ehefrau: Gisela Juliette Pollak

Sohn: Jan Groedel

Sonstige Angaben im Datensatz zu Jan Groedel aus British Columbia Death Registrations, 1872-1986; 1992-1993 Name: Jan Groedel

Ereignistyp: Death Ereignisdatum: 07 Feb 1945 Ereignisort: Prince George, British Columbia, Canada Geschlecht: Male Alter: 42 Familienstand: Divorced Geburtsdatum: 27 Jun 1902 Geburtsjahr (geschätzt): 1903 Geburtsort: , Austria Name des Vaters: Albert Groedel Name der Mutter: Gisela Juliette Pollak

cf. article about his death by suicide courtesy of:

The Lethbridge Herald, Alberta, Canada, Feb 20, 1945 - Newspapers.com

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4066518/hans-groedel-suicide-the-le...

In which it is said that "the Polish Baron logger" was "despondent" and shot himself. Also that in a letter "he bequeathed his business assets and his personal effects to a sister-in-law in England and a brother in Bucharest".

Whether in fact he was widowed or divorced at this time - his wife Christa is not mentioned as a beneficiary.

And also -

cf. a short article concerning the death & burial of Otto Pollack von Parnegg, which appeared in the Neue Freie Presse on 17th. April 1937, and which notes that his successor to take over the firm is to be his nephew "Baron Hans Groedel".

cf. furthermore ...

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. After the war, the majority of the family moved to Vienna where they lived out their lives. Only a few remained in Budapest."

Hans divorced Marie and escaped to the US and later Canada where he took his own life in 1945.

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)