Käthe Dobbs

"Käthe DOBBS" - Katharina KÜNSTLER, widowed DOBBS, née von KALER zu Lanzenheim: b. 28 Jan 1900, Obdach, Steiermark - d. 1 Dec 1982, St. Gallen, Switz.

Information courtesy of various sources, including the following:

Katharina von Kaler zu Lanzenheim (1900–1980) • FamilySearch

https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LBMC-6L3/katharina-von-kaler-...

And also some interesting information here:

Baldur von Schirach: Nazi Leader and Head of the Hitler Youth - Oliver Rathkolb - Google Books

https://books.google.de/books?id=hZWSEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA98&lpg=PA98&dq=k...

Gives DOB of Katharina DOBBS and notes her relationship with Baldur von SCHIRAC.

Also provides several details on her mother "Käthe DOBBS", father William DOBBS and stepfather Wilhelm KÜNSTLER.

N.B. Surname "zu LANZENHEIM" misspelled as LAURENHEIM ... & surname "KÜNSTNER" misspelled as "KUNSTLER" ...

cf. marriage mention in newspaper of era:

ANNO, Neues Wiener Tagblatt (Tages-Ausgabe), 1934-12-22, Seite 7

https://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=nwg&datum=19341222&seit...

It is said that the the couple married the day before in Aussig and that Wilhelm KÜNSTNER is "Verwaltungsrat der Georg Schicht A.G."

This was a major firm producing soap and related articles such as candles and glycerine etc.

cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Schicht

Reference to this marriage also made here - rather late afterwards:

ANNO, Der Morgen. Wiener Montagblatt, 1935-04-08, Seite 10

https://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=dmo&datum=19350408&seit...

"Käthe Dobbs" was her main stage name. Occcasionally she is named in the press as "Käthe DOBBS-KALER". After her marriage to Wilhelm KUNSTNER she sometimes features as "Käthe KÜNSTNER".

Two photos of her:

ANNO, Prager Tagblatt, 1934-10-07, Seite 21

https://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=ptb&datum=19341007&seit...

And a particularly lovely portrait:

ANNO, Wiener Salonblatt, 1936-01-12, Seite 9

https://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=wsb&datum=19360112&seit...

According to one source Käthe had a sister named Elisabeth who married GÖNITZER.

Katharina Dobbs - Historische Aufzeichnungen Stammbäume - MyHeritage

https://www.myheritage.de/names/katharina_dobbs

And she apparently had a first husband with the surname LAUPER who also died - so she was widowed once already before marrying William DOBBS.

Exact DOB & DOD given as well as middle names "Maria, Polyxenia".

Source also gives first names of DOBBs as "Wilhelm Alois" - suggesting he may not have been of English/American heritage as might otherwise be assumed. Possibly his surname was a corruption of Czech etc. "DUBS" ...=