Maria Galka Descendants — Hacken & Galka Families

DESCENDANTS OF MARIA GALKA, 1876-1960

Maria Scheffler (née Galka) --> Bruno Scheffler --> Renate Mandel (née Scheffler) --> Andrea Mosch (née Mandel)

Renate Mandel

Renate Mandel (née Scheffler), center, with her husband Gerhard, left, and their daughter Andrea Mosch (née Mandel) holding young son Jonas -- in 2003.

Get Together in Kassel, Germany, 1999

In a clockwise spiral from top to bottom: Volker Scheffler, Richard Hacken, Renate [Scheffler] Mandel, Petra [Mandel] Böttger, Andrea [Mandel] Mosch, Elke [Knoth] Scheffler, Michael Hacken, Torsten Scheffler [von Mackensen], Kerstin Scheffler.

Renate Mandel & Dick Hacken

Richard Hacken and Renate Mandel (née Scheffler): second cousins.

Scheffler Siblings in Hannoversch-Münden, Germany

From left: Gerhard Mandel, Renate Mandel (née Scheffler), Volker Scheffler and Elke Scheffler (née Knoth). In 2003.

Jonas the Hero

Jonas, son of Andrea [Mandel] Mosch and grandson of Renate [Scheffler] Mandel in 2009..

With Jonas at Wilhelmsthal (2009)

The great uncle (so to speak) from America and Jonas Mosch at Wilhelmsthal, near Kassel, Germany.

Partial Reunion, Essen, Germany (2008)

Gentlemen, left to right: Dieter Hanf, Dick Hacken, Volker Scheffler. Ladies: Charlotte Hanf, Renate Mandel (née Scheffler) and her daughter Andrea Mosch (née Mandel), a great-granddaughter of Maria Galka.

Reunion in Vienna, November 2003

Men from left to right: Gerhard Mandel, (husband of Renate Mandel), Pepi Hlavac (husband of Gerlinde Hlavac), Volker Scheffler. Women from left to right: Renate [Scheffler] Mandel, Elke [Knoth] Scheffler (wife of Volker Scheffler), Gerlinde [Nikl] Hlavac.

Maria Scheffler (née Galka) --> Bruno Scheffler --> Rüdiger-Volker Scheffler --> Scheffler children

Rüdiger-Volker Scheffler in 2008

Volker Scheffler, grandson of Maria Galka, with his wife, Elke, née Knoth.

Get Together in Kassel, Germany, 1999

In a clockwise spiral from top to bottom: Volker Scheffler, Richard Hacken, Renate [Scheffler] Mandel, Petra [Mandel] Böttger, Andrea [Mandel] Mosch, Elke [Knoth] Scheffler, Michael Hacken, Torsten Scheffler [von Mackensen], Kerstin Scheffler.

Volker Scheffler, 2009

Scheffler Siblings in Hannoversch-Münden, Germany

From left in 2003: Gerhard Mandel, Renate Mandel (née Scheffler), Volker Scheffler and Elke Scheffler (née Knoth).

Reunion in Vienna, November 2003

Men from left to right: Gerhard Mandel, (husband of Renate Mandel), Pepi Hlavac (husband of Gerlinde Hlavac), Volker Scheffler. Women from left to right: Renate [Scheffler] Mandel, Elke [Knoth] Scheffler (wife of Volker Scheffler), Gerlinde [Nikl] Hlavac.

On Zwölferhorn Mountain in the Austrian Alps, 2006

With Germany in the background, from left to right: Bob Hacken, Dieter Hanf, Pepi Hlavac, Dick Hacken, Volker Scheffler, Marianne Siegmund, Charlotte Hanf, Elke Scheffler, and Kitsie Hacken.

Five Second Cousins

At Bad Ischl in Austria (2006), from left: Bob Hacken, Gerlinde Hlavac, Volker Scheffler, Charlotte Hanf and Dick Hacken.

Partial Family Reunion, Essen, Germany (2008)

Gentlemen, left to right: Dieter Hanf, Dick Hacken, Volker Scheffler. Ladies: Charlotte Hanf, Renate Mandel (née Scheffler) and her daughter Andrea Mosch (née Mandel), a great-granddaughter of Maria Galka.

Galka Grandchildren

Nearly a century and a half after their births, Wilhelm Galka's and Maria Galka's descendants still look up to them. From left: Dieter and Charlotte Hanf; Volker Scheffler; Gerlinde Hlavac.

Lake Hallstatt, Austria (2006)

Top row from left: Bob and Kitsie Hacken; Elke Scheffler; Seated from left: Marianne Siegmund and Dick Hacken; Charlotte Hanf; Gerlinde Hlavac; Volker Scheffler; Pepi Hlavac, husband of Gerlinde.

Maria Scheffler (née Galka) --> Hilda Nikl (née Scheffler) --> Gerlinde Hlavac (née Nikl) --> Christian Hlavac

Hilda [Scheffler] Nikl and Gerlinde [Nikl] Hlavac

In 1990: Gerlinde Hlavac, née Nikl, at end of table. Left: her mother, Hilda Nikl, (née Scheffler, daughter of Maria [Galka} Scheffler) and her husband, Gustl Nikl. Right: Pepi Hlavac, Gerlinde's husband and their son, Christian Hlavac.

At the Hundertwasser Haus in Vienna, late 1990s

From left: Pepi Hlavac, Gerlinde Hlavac and their son Christian.

Partial Family Reunion in Vienna, November 2003

Men from left to right: Gerhard Mandel, (husband of Renate Mandel), Pepi Hlavac (husband of Gerlinde Hlavac), Volker Scheffler. Women from left to right: Renate [Scheffler] Mandel, Elke [Knoth] Scheffler (wife of Volker Scheffler), Gerlinde [Nikl] Hlavac.

Meeting the Future Bride, 2006

From left: Pepi, Gerlinde, Christa and Christian.

Christa and Christian Hlavac

On their wedding day in 2007.

On a Tour of the Austrian Parliament, 2009

From left: Pepi Hlavac, Gerlinde Hlavac, Marianne Siegmund and Dick Hacken

At Vienna's Graben in 2009

From left: Gerlinde Hlavac, Pepi Hlavac, Marianne Siegmund, Christa Hlavac, Dick Hacken, Christian Hlavac.

Friends of America, 2013

From left: Pepi Hlavac, Christa Hlavac, Gerlinde Hlavac, Christa's mother, Christian Hlavac.

At the Vienna Rathaus Festival, 2014

From left: Gerlinde [Nikl] Hlavac, son Christian, husband Pepi, Marianne Siegmund and second cousin Dick Hacken.

Restaurant of the 3 Hackens

A favorite restaurant name in Vienna: from left, Gerlinde, Dick, Marianne and Christa. (Pepi or Christian must have been the photographer.)

Hotel Empress Elisabeth, 2014

Pepi and Gerlinde show their reverence for the Austrian empress who was the hit of the 19th century social scene. We have stay in Vienna's Hotel Kaiserin Elisabeth a number of times.

Learn more about Elbing (now Elblag, Poland), earlier home of the Galka and Scheffler families.

GALKA FAMILY TREE

First page tells of Maria & Friedrich Scheffler offspring (Ella, Bruno, Gertrud, Hilda, Erich), of which only Bruno and Hilda had children.
Second page tells of Wilhelm Galka and other relatives.