Constanze Manziarly
By Peter David Orr
Constanze Manziarly was born April 14, 1920, in Innsbruck, Austria. Her father, Andrä, was a well respected structural engineer who joined the NSDAP right after Austria was united with Germany in 1938. Her mother, Anna (nee Hummel), hailed from a family of high social standing. The Hummels were culturally connected and musical talent ran in the family. Anna was a concert pianist, and named her first daughter after Mozart's wife: Maria Constanze Cäcilia Josepha Johanna Aloysia Mozart. Constanze's mother, born Anna Hummel, lived in Baden bei Wien. She was a concert pianist. Andrä and Anna married in 1911 and moved to Innsbruck in 1913.
Constanze showed an early talent for singing an the piano, and gave piano lessons as a teenager.
Her ambition to become a chef first developed at female institute of the Ursuline convent and then at the Innsbruck State Institute of Economic Professions, when her aim was to specialize in dietetic cooking. It was her internship at Professor Werner Zabel's Biologisches Kurheim - a private hospital in Bischofswiesen near Berchtesgaden - when she caught the attention of Adolf Hitler.
Constanze Manziarly was asked to join Hitler's cooking staff in early July 1944. At that time, Hitler's headquarters was at the Wolfsschanze ("Wolf's Lair), tucked away in the dense Masuraian forest near Rastenburg, East Prusssia (now Kętrzyn, Poland).
"Fraulein Martiali (who served as a special chef for Hitler) was a native of Innsbruck. Her father was Greek and her mother Tyrolese. She had studied under Professor Zabel in Berchtesgaden".
-Dr. Karl Brandt, "Women Around Hitler: Lady Secretaries Had Special Part", Chapter III, The Tribune (Scranton, PA) Jan 15, 1947 p. 2
Hours after Adolf Hitler committed suicide on April 30, 1945, his cook, Constanze Manziarly, was ordered to make Hitler an evening meal of fried eggs and mashed potato to help keep his death a secret.
-David Crossland, “Adolf Hitler’s Chef Made Fake Last Meal to Cover up His Suicide”, article in The Times (UK) Nov. 23, 2020.
Ordered? By whom?
Why cover up a suicide if Hitler wanted his death to be known?
"With tears in her eyes, the young Fräulein Manziarly is sitting in a corner. She had to prepare dinner for the Führer this April 30, as usual, so that his death would be kept a secret. But no one ate the fried eggs and mashed potatoes."
-Traudl Junge memoirs.
-Stefan Dietrich, Constanze Manziarly - Hitlers letzte Diätköchin (2020)
Stefan Dietrich wrote an interesting book about Constanze Manziarly based on 18 letter she wrote to her family while she worked for Hitler as his dietician/cook. Dated from April 3, 1943 to December 1944, she details the "very specific" eating habits of the Nazis, the Führer's chronic digestion problems and the stressful situations he experienced daily.
Dietrich response to Junge's story: no one would have noticed whether Constanze was making mashed potatoes or not. If this performance took place it was for those in the bunker, not to deceive the outside world.
Dietrich: there are no letters by Constanze from time of Hitler's purported suicide.
Prior to moving to Vienna, Manziarly's family belonged to a Greek orthodox church in Vienna. Her father's first name was Andreas (Andrä). Her mother's name was Anna.
Constanze's grandmother, Anna Manziarly, lived in Craiova, Romania. Constanze's father, Andrä, and his brothers, Konstantin and Alexander, were born and baptized in accord with Greek Orthodox Rites in Romania.
Anna died of cancer in 1937.
Starb...die Ingenieurs-gattin Frau Anna Manziarly, geb. Hummel.
-"Todesfall", Badener Zeitung Nr. 77/ 29. Sept. 1937
Paternal grandmother was Anna Schoenplug, Freiin von Gamsenberg. she also died in 1937
Albert Schießl/Pensionist/Brennerstraße 5/1964
Albert Schießl/Finanzassistent/Egger-Lienz-Straße 10/1953
Kaufgesuche: Heß-Kochbuch (Wiener Kueche, nur neuere Auflage) zu kaufen ges. C. Manziarly, Brennerstr. Nr. 5/1
Tel. 76034.
-Innsbrucker Nachrichten 8 Aug 1944 p. 5
Constanze Manziarly's father:
Andre Andreas Manziarly/Oberkommissär a. D./Brennerstr. 5 / 1944 ·
Susanne Manziarly/Postangestellte/Brennerstraße 5 / 1944
Susanne Schießl/Hausfrau/Brennerstraße 5/1964
Constanze Manziarly/Haushaltslehrerin/Brennerstraße 5/ 1964
Source:
https://www.innsbruckerinnen.at/suche.php?name=Manziarly&beruf=&strasse=&nummer=&jahr1=1920&jahr2=1976&limit=1000&was=name
Sister of Constanze Manziarly,Susanne Schiessl (Manziarly) was born in Innsbruck (1918) and passed away in Innsbruck (2014)
Note: See Traueranzeige and obituary photo
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Why did Traudl Junge imply that Constanze Manziarly was of Russian extraction? It seems connected to the story Junge told of Constanze's disappearance at the hands of Russian troops that wanted to see her papers. Why wouldn't these same Russians want to see Junge's papers?
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Theory to explain Constanze's mysterious return to Innsbruck in 1964: She was captured in Berlin by the Soviets an became a POW. She was eventually released and quietly returned to Austria. Problem: The last transport of Austrian-German POWs from Russia arrived in Vienna on June 25, 1955. A few individual releases occurred sporadically thereafter until the end of 1956. Why would Constanze wait until 1964 to move in with her father, sister, and brother- in-law in Innsbruck, if she was released in 1955-56? Furthermore there is documentary evidence disproves this theory. In early 1956, Andrä Manziarly read Heinz Linge's series on Hitler's last days, which appeared in Austrian newspapers, and he letter to Linge asking if he had any idea what happened to his daughter.
Walter Unterturner
Haushaltslehrerin
https://www.findbuch.at/lehmanns-vienna-address-directories
Vienna address book
Adolph Lehmann's allgemeiner Wohnungs-Anzeiger: nebst Handels- u. Gewerbe-Adressbuch für d. k.k. Reichshaupt- u. Residenzstadt
https://www.loc.gov/rr/european/phoneau/auphone.html
Grandmother Anny lived at Währinger Str. 147 Vienna.
Herold Bundes-Telefonbuch von Österreich, 1963
In Argentina at the estate of Gorge Slowik, Paul Schreiber dated his beautiful daughter Ursula "Ushy" Slowik, who looked like nobody else in the family.
Alois Manziarly Heinestr. 20 R-44-8-77
-Fernsprechnetzes Wien: Amtliches Teilnehmerverzeichnis des , Ausgabe Wien Mai 1938. (Technischen Museums Wien).
1970 Innsbruck
Dr. Gerd Ebner, Angestellter, Amraser Strasse 41
Dr. Constanze Ebner, Juristin, Amraser Strasse 41
1976
Dr. Constanze Ebner, Hochschulassistentin, Mariahilfpark 1
NO Dr. Gerd Ebner
She was born in 1942 and died in 2016
Constanze Wettstein, Hausfrau
Carl Wettstein, a retired Captain
Kaiserjagerstrasse 18
Her name is first listed in 1964 as Constance. By 1970 it is listed as Constanze
1970
Manz Maria, Sekretärin, Erzherzog-Eugenstraße 17
Manziarly Susanne, Postangestellte, Egger-LienzStraße 10
Maria Manz first appears in 1947 as a secretary at one of the family addresses. This continues until Maria Manz is listed in 1957 as Maria-Antonie Manz, Sekretarin, Josef-Poll-strasse 23
Haupt-schullehrerin i. P. Maria Bruzl-Hummel
Maria geb. Hummel is the sister of Anna Manziarly (nee Hummel). Their father was Franz Hummel and he died in 1936 in Baden, Austria.
