Document 939199
“Ehrenring der Stadt Wien” (Ring of Honor of the City of Vienna) presented to Kaltenbrunner
on 30 January 1943. (Credit: Hermann-Historica, Auctioneers, München)
Notes:
• Parents:
Dr. jur. Hugo Kaltenbrunner (an attorney, born 22.08.1875 in Grieskirchen, died
00.00.1938; he was himself the son of the attorney Dr. Karl Kaltenbrunner and
his wife Maria Josefa Augustin).
Theresia Elisabeth, née Udwardy (born 07.11.1875 in Eferding / Oberösterreich,
died 00.03.1943 in Linz), daughter of Ferdinand Josef Udwardy and his wife Barbara Listner (from Böhmen).
• Brothers:
Dr. jur. Werner Kaltenbrunner (born 26.07.1905 in Ried, still living as of 25.03.1977).
He became an attorney in Vöcklabruck and was also an SS member ( SS-Nr. 487
762 (V), holding the rank of SS-Untersturmführer with the SS-Hauptamt.
Dr. jur. Roland Kaltenbrunner (born 02.01.1910 in Raab) rose to become Secretary
of Commerce for Gau Oberdonau of the NSDAP in Linz, as well as an SS-Obersturmführer with the Hauptamt SS-Gericht ( SS-Nr. 309 461; Commissioned SSUntersturmführer on 09.11.1938).
• Religion: Catholic; left the church with his wife, and they subsequently declared
themselves “gottgläubig.”
• Married on 14.01.1934 to Elisabeth ("Lisl") Eder (born 20.10.1908 in Linz; NSDAPNr. 301 490; Member of the NS-Frauenschaft), daughter of a grocery store owner.
With his wife he fathered one son (born 28.02.1935) and two daughters (born
25.07.1937 and ca. 1944). In 1943, he became acquainted with his eventual mistress, Gisela Gräfin von Westarp (born 27.06.1920 in Wittenberg an der Elbe, Died
02.06.1983 in Munchen), who was then working in Himmler’s Berlin headquarters. A widow, she had been married on 16.11.1940 to Paul Wolf (born 25.02.1912
in Etterbeek, Belgium; died 07.04.1943 as an Oberfähnrich in Tunis). With his
mistress, he had a son (Wolfgang) and a daughter (Ursula), twins, born on
12.03.1945. In his postwar recollections of the capture of Kaltenbrunner, “The
Last Days of Ernst Kaltenbrunner,” former U.S. Army officer Robert Eliot Matteson writes of von Westarp (whom he met and interrogated in Alt Aussee on
09.05.1945): “On March 12, 1945, she bore [the] twins…, in a cowshed in Alt
Aussee. I still have a letter she wrote to her mother describing the event, declaring that she ‘almost deserved the Mother Cross,’ and pointing out that Mrs.
Kaltenbrunner had taken twelve years to produce only three children. One of the
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