A project of this dimension – meaning the present website – cannot be completed with conceptual know-how, creative strength, willingness to work and perseverance only. It is the soul of a work that forms its perfection – and I had good companions who made it possible for me to accomplish this work with soul. Each […]
Emy Bertele von Grenadenberg (*Vienna 6.3.1932, †Vienna 18.12.2023) was the second of seven children born to Marceline Mautner v. Markhof and Hans Bertele v. Grenadenberg. Together with her parents and her siblings Otto, Marceline “Marcy” (wedded McMichael), Hans, Elisabeth “Lisl” (wedded Naqvi), Ursula “Ucki” (wedded de Allendesalazar) and Ulrich “Uly”, she moved to England in […]
Dipl. Ing., Dr Techn., em. O. Prof. of the Technical University of Vienna Hans Bertele von Grenadenberg (*Görz 2 July 1903 / †Stockton-on-Tees 3 July 1984) was the husband of Marceline Mautner von Markhof (see also ‘Hans and Marceline Bertele v. Grenadenberg – the beginning of a great love’) and son-in-law of Georg II. Anton […]
Alexander Tinti, son of Christiana and grandson of Manfred I Mautner Markhof and Maria Anna “Pussy” Kupelwieser has been walking in Costa Rica since 2016 in the footsteps of his great-great-grandfather Paul, who transformed the islands of Brioni from an uninhabitable swamp into a natural paradise. 24 hectares of drained and trampled marshland have been […]
Emilie “Emy” Edle v. Reininghaus (*Graz 30.5.1881 / † Gaaden 14.5.1974) was the daughter of Gustav I Reininghaus and Maria née Eisl. She married her uncle Georg II Anton Mautner von Markhof and bore him seven children: Marceline, Georg III “Buwa”, Gustav I, Charlotte, Therese, Peter and Karlmann. She outlived her husband by 40 years […]
In 1923, as a very young woman of 22, Nana entered the service of Georg II Anton and Emy Mautner Markhof. Coming from the German noble family of Kittlitz, the Berliner was a trained baby nurse for the Empress Augusta Viktoria family and ended up in the Mautner Markhof household by chance, which she was […]
At the end of the 1920s, Georg II Anton acquired a plot of land of around 80 hectares between Gaaden and Siegenfeld in Lower Austria. As neither electricity nor water connections were available, these had to be installed first and plans for a transformer in the forest and a well were submitted in 1927. From […]
Manfred II Mautner Markhof, also called “Professor” for short, was without doubt one of, if not THE leading founder of the Austrian media and advertising landscape. At a time when the multinational agency networks with multiple name, identity and personnel changes, one thinks back with sadness of the decades successfully managed owner agency, which could […]
With Sophia Marie Castell-Rüdenhausen, daughter of Theodor Heinrich Mautner Markhof and granddaughter of Manfred II Mautner Markhof, the creative potential of her father and grandfather will be continued in the next generation. After trainings and internships in Vienna, Florence, Munich, London and Madrid in the Fashion & Design sector, in 2018 she founded her company […]
Since George III Mautner Markhof always endeavoured to set up companies abroad, he decided in 1937, at the end of the Italo-Ethiopian War, to acquire a dilapidated brewery in Addis Ababa. So the cousins Georg III and Manfred I personally, as equal partners, took over the largest brewery in Africa, which was to be called […]