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2. Monarchieforum in der Residenzstadt Hechingen wird zum Treffpunkt für Monarchisten aus vielen Teilen Europas

Zu Fuße des Stammsitzes des Königs- und Kaisergeschlechtes der Hohenzollern veranstaltet die Deutsche Monarchistische Gesellschaft (DMG) dieses Jahr bereits zum zweiten Mal ein „Wissenschaftliches Monarchieforum“ (www.monarchieforum.org). Dabei wird das Schwerpunktthema „Der christliche Konservativismus im Kaiserreich“ sein. Täglich treffen neue Anmeldungen aus dem In- und Ausland ein.

Das Forum findet am Wochenende vom 23. Bis 25. Oktober 2009 statt. Folgende Vorträge stehen auf der Tagungsordnung: Herr Henning von Normann, der Sprecher der DMG, macht in Anlehnung an das Hauptthema dieses Forums den Auftakt mit einer Betrachtung zum „Konservativismus“. Frau Ingrid Seigis (Geschäftsführerin von Christian Solidarity International) spricht über das Thema  “Die Bedeutung des christlichen Erbes für die Identität Europas”. Herr Prof. Dr. Julius Schoeps (Universität Potsdam) fokussiert die „Preußischen Tugenden“, Herr Günther Marklein (Vorsitzender des Bismarckbundes) stellt die Frage, „Was die Geschichte uns sagen kann.“ Eine Führung durch die Burg Hohenzollern ist genauso eingeplant wie auch ein Gottesdienst und genügend Zeit zum Gedankenaustausch zwischen Jung und Alt, zwischen Wissenschaftlern vieler Fakultäten und zwischen Monarchisten aus aller Herren Länder.

Bei diesem Forum geht es in erster Linie nicht um die Wiedereinführung der Monarchie, sondern auf akademischem Niveau werden mittels Vorträgen und Diskussionen die Grundlagen, die Vorzüge oder Nachteile des monarchistischen Gedankens erörtert. Der Deutschen Monarchistischen Gesellschaft, die im Verbund ist mit dem „Bund aufrechter Monarchisten“ (BaM) und der „Kaisertreuen Jugend“ (KJ), geht es schon darum, Wege zu finden, um eines Tages in Deutschland eine parlamentarische Monarchie wieder zu installieren. Dazu gehören selbstverständlich auch solche Foren, auf denen Freunde der monarchistischen Idee aus dem In- und Ausland Kontakte pflegen können. Die zahlreichen Anmeldungen gerade junger Menschen zu dieser Veranstaltung kommentiert Henning von Normann, der Sprecher der DMG, folgendermaßen: „Auch wenn bei uns teilweise der Eindruck vorherrschen mag, dass wir auf diese Jugend unsere Zukunft nicht aufbauen können, so habe ich einen ganz anderen Eindruck. Die Jugend weiß sehr wohl zwischen Gut und Böse zu unterscheiden. Der Jugend kann man sehr wohl großes Vertrauen entgegen bringen, denn sie weiß mit unserer Geschichte und unserer Verantwortung vor der Geschichte sehr gut umzugehen. Sie weiß vor allem, mit wichtigen und unverzichtbaren Werten vor- und umsichtig umzugehen. Es macht mich stolz und glücklich, mit der Jugend – auch im Hinblick auf das kommende 3. Monarchieforum in Berlin – zusammen arbeiten zu dürfen, weiß ich doch, dass unsere Zukunft in den Händen von denen liegt, deren Arbeit geleitet wird von Verstand und Herz.“

Wir wollen und brauchen keine Regierungen/Mächte mehr, keine Unterdrückungen, keine Naturzerstörungen, keine Ausbeutung, keine falschen Entscheidungen, keine Eroberungen, keine Kriege, keine Feindschaften und auch nicht, daß andere (Tier, Mensch) für andere arbeiten und/oder sterben.
Gerechtigkeit, Liebe. Gemeinsam das Richtige tun, damit alle gerecht und glücklich ewig leben können.

Foto: Schloß im Fürstentum Liechtenstein. Vaduz, Fürstentum Liechtenstein. - Castello di Vaduz, ancora oggi residenza dei principi del Liechtenstein. Vaduz, Fürstentum Liechtenstein. 12.06.2009

Mein Kommentar zu einem Artikel bezüglich Prinz und Steuerzahler in der Homepage der Zeitung “BUNTE”

Dr. Christa Pardeller 24.06.2009
Nicht auf Kosten anderer leben. Nicht vom Geld anderer leben und auf Kosten anderer leben. Dr. Christa Pardeller
(Blog: www.christapardeller.wordpress.com)

Foto: Tier und Mensch wollen das Leben genießen und nicht für andere arbeiten und/oder geopfert werden. Fane Alm im Pustertal. - Animale e persona vogliono godere la vita e non lavorare per altri e/o essere sacrificati per altri. Malga Fane in Val Pusteria. 27.06.2009

Articolo sul sito del giornale Corriere della Sera (14 luglio 2009):

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Il mio commento sul sito del giornale Corriere della Sera:

Poco guadagno e tante tasse

14.07.

Christa

La maggior parte della gente guadagna poco e inoltre è obbligata a pagare tante tasse. Dr. Christa Pardeller www.christapardeller.wordpress.com

Another ominous Furst story set just prior to WWII. A Dutch tramp freighter and crew is unable to return to Holland after the Germans take over, and is recruited by the Dutch Navy and then British Intelligence for clandestine activities in the Mediterranean and Baltic. As usual, Furst is able to set the mood so well that you squirm along with the Captain, who navigates the new world that the war demands of him.  It’s a B.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. Gilbert Keith Chesterton

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics. Plato

The thing done avails, and not what is said about it.Emerson

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.  Oscar Wilde 

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation. H. H. Munro

The biggest difference between time and space is that you can’t reuse time. Merrick Furst 

To err is human; to make real mess, you need a computer.

A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. D. Adams 

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle  

Question authority; but, raise your hand first.A. Dershowitz 

The one who insists on never uttering an error must remain silent. W. Heisenberg 

In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering. W. James The best way to predict the future is to invent it. A. Kay 

Chance favors the prepared mind. L. Pasteur

Am 1. April 2009 ist wieder Saisonstart für die Flugvorführungen im Bayerischen Jagdfalkenhof in Schloß Schillingsfürst in Mittelfranken.

Jagdfalke

Schon die relativ kleinen Jagdalken beeindrucken die großen und kleinen Besucher mit ihren Flugkünsten und bewegen manchen Zuschauer, den Kopf einzuziehen. Und erst recht tut das der imposante Star der Vorführung, das Wappentier der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika, der Weißkopfseeadler. Der wird zur Belohnung übrigens nach seiner Show mit – toten – Küken gefüttert.

Amerikanischer Weißkopfseeadler

I enjoy all of Alan Furst’s novels, set in the time leading up to WW II, dark and ominous. With interesting  historical background, this is the story of a French espionage agent trying to untangle Hitler’s intentions; lots of intrigue mixed with a personal story. Keeps your interest, I rate it B+.

Deutschland wurde als die Fürstenhecke Europas bezeichnet, wobei Hecke in diesem Fall von hecken im Sinne von hervorbringen gemeint ist, weil es nach dem Westfälischer Frieden hier viele souveräne Landesherren gab, mit denen für die regierenden Herrscherhäuser standesgemäße Ehen möglich waren. So findet sich in den Ahnentafeln der meisten europäischen Herrscher des 19. Jahrhunderts irgendein deutscher Vorfahr.

Ein Beispiel für den Aufstieg aus einem deutschen Kleinstaat an die Spitze des absolutistisch regierten Russland stellt z. B. Katharina II. von Russland dar, deren Vater als preußischer General diente und die als Sophie Auguste Friederike von Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg^BKL geboren wurde.

Some of the books I read in 2008 and liked.

I will remember 2008 as the year I doubled my efforts to catch up on my literary readings, particularly of the classics. I just finished Irène Némirovsky’s Suite Française and opened the first page of The Brothers Karamazov this afternoon. Meanwhile, the stories in James Joyce’s Dubliners is becoming quite a drag.

We’ll be seeing another year tomorrow night and I don’t think I can add anything else to the more than one hundred books I read during the year. So here are fifteen of the books I particularly liked. I won’t be including any Chekhov since I’m reading his stories most of the time. They are (arranged by year of initial publication):

• A Hero of Our Time (1840) by Mikhail Lermontov
• Madame Bovary (1854) by Gustave Flaubert
• Fathers and Sons (1861) by Ivan Turgenev
• War and Peace (1865-1869) by Leo Tolstoy
• Crime and Punishment (1866) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Demons (1872) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Soul and Other Stories (1936-1946) by Andrey Platonov
• Suite Française (1942) by Irène Némirovsky
• Dune (1965) by Frank Herbert
• Fifth Business (1970) by Robertson Davies
• The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Volume I (1973) by Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
• Famous Last Words (1981) by Timothy Findley
• Night Soldiers (1988) by Alan Furst
• Bartleby and Co. (2000) by Enrique Vila-Matas
• The Blind Assassin (2000) by Margaret Atwood

I’m sorry for the lack of justifications. The titles without links were probably read before I started this blog. Nevertheless, I think it would suffice to say that those are the books that stuck to my head or enjoyed the most. But then, I really can’t stave off the temptation to add some more books which I also found remarkable. So here are more of them, and this time I will try to explain a bit:

Old Goriot (1835) by Honore de Balzac because it was my gift to myself for my birthday and because I loved his description of 19th Century Parisian life. David Copperfield (1849-1850) by Charles Dickens because of the effort I put to finishing it and because it was worth it. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889) by Mark Twain because it’s a witty device to criticize liberal American society.

Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928) by D.H. Lawrence because I finally found out why it was censored and because reading it proved the imbecility of the censors. Cannery Row (1945) by John Steinbeck because I liked it best of the four Steinbeck novellas I read this year. The Fratricides (1964) by Nikos Kazantzakis because of its overtly political and religious overtone. Death in Midsummer and Other Stories (1966) by Yukio Mishima because of the story about the couple committing seppuku. The File on H (1981) by Ismail Kadare because it is hilarious satire of Albanian life in the 1930s.

The Forest for the Trees: An Editor’s Advice to Writers (2000) by Betsey Lerner because it is an inspiring book and because my ninang Olive gave it to me. Shadow of the Wind (2001) by Carlos Ruiz Zafon because I and my  friend Beryl enjoyed this book together. And The Year of Magical Thinking (2005) by Joan Didion because it is a moving account about coming to terms with reality. ■

Eisenstrass, na Boêmia

Da vila de Eisenstrass, na Boêmia, hoje chamada de Hojsova Straz, vieram para São Bento do Sul, ao que se sabe, as seguintes famílias:

Bacherl, Josef

Bayerl, Jacob

Bayerl, Josef

Brandl, Josef (meu tetravô)

Fritsch, Josef

Fürst, Anton

Gregor, Stephan

Grossl, Kasper

Grossl, Laurenz

Kahlhofer, Aloys

Konrad, Jacob

Kuchler, Josef

Linzmeyer, Johann

Linzmeyer, Veit

Marx, Franz

Neppel, Reinhold

Pflanzer, Carl

Pöschl, Franz

Roerl, Johann

Schroeder, Josef

Schroeder, Georg

Stoeberl, Felix  

Sobre a vila de Eisentrass, encontramos informações no mesmo site que fala sobre Hammern. A tradução é a seguinte:

HOJSOVA STRÁŽ (Eisenstrass)

Hojsova Stráž, centro de visitação no inverno, fica na parte ocidental das montanhas Šumava (Floresta Boêmia). Está localizada cerca de 8 km ao norte da cidade Železná Ruda, nas escostas ocidentais da montanha Můstek.

Foi fundada por mineiros, próximos das minas de ferro, no século XVI. Foi também sede, naquela época, do gabinete magistrado. Esse lugar se tornou muito conhecido no século XX, devido ao desenvolvimento do turismo nas montanhas Šumava.

A Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Imaculada Conceição, na vila, foi construída entre 1824-1826.

Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Imaculada Conceição

É muito provável que esses imigrantes citados tenham sido batizado ou tenham se casado nessa Igreja. Meu tetravô nasceu em 1817 – portanto, antes da sua criação. De qualquer forma, deve ter sido lá que se casou com Anna Schweinfurter, esposa com a qual teria três filhos.

Da aldeia de Hammern, na Boêmia, imigraram para Sâo Bento do Sul as famílias Aschenbrenner, Augustin, Dorner, Dums, Eckl,  Ehrl, Fürst, Grossl, Jungback, Kollross, Liebl, alguns Linzmeyer, Oberhofer, Pscheidt, Puschinger, Rank, Rohrbacher, Rückl,  Schreiner, Stiegler, Stoeberl, Stueber, Tauscher, alguns Treml, e provavelmente outras.

Existe um site específico sobre o sul e a floresta da Boêmia. Nele, constam algumas informações sobre a história das vilas daquela região. Entre elas, a vila de Hamry, nome atual de Hammern. De lá, traduzo as seguintes informações sobre a vila:

HAMRY

A pequena vila Hamry é um centro bem conhecido de lazer na parte ocidental das montanhas Sumava (Bôhmerwald) no Rio Uhlava, cerca de 8 km a sudeste da cidade de Nyrsko.

A vila surgiu como um assentamento de ferreiros, próximo das minas de ferro. A primeira menção é de 1429. As fábricas de vidro foram fundadas ali na primeira metade do século XVIII. Hamry foi também uma sede do gabinete magistrado, na Idade Média.

O nome Hamry quer dizer “moinhos de ferro” e se origina do tempo da fundação do original assentamento de ferreiros.

A Igreja de Nossa Senhora das Dores (está “Sorrow”) surgiu da capela original em 1773. A única fonte talhada de um bloco de granito pode ser vista próxima da Igreja. Ela data de 1856 e tem cerca de 4m de comprimento e 1m de largura.

O compositor P. Stuiber nasceu e morreu em Hamry.

Da aldeia de Hammern, na Boêmia, imigraram para Sâo Bento do Sul as famílias Aschenbrenner, Augustin, Dorner, Dums, Eckl,  Ehrl, Fürst, Grossl, Jungback, Kollross, Liebl, alguns Linzmeyer, Oberhofer, Pscheidt, Puschinger, Rank, Rohrbacher, Rückl,  Schreiner, Stiegler, Stoeberl, Stueber, Tauscher, alguns Treml, e provavelmente outras.

Existe um site específico sobre o sul e a floresta da Boêmia. Nele, constam algumas informações sobre a história das vilas daquela região. Entre elas, a vila de Hamry, nome atual de Hammern. De lá, traduzo as seguintes informações sobre a vila:

HAMRY

A pequena vila Hamry é um centro bem conhecido de lazer na parte ocidental das montanhas Sumava (Bôhmerwald) no Rio Uhlava, cerca de 8 km a sudeste da cidade de Nyrsko.

A vila surgiu como um assentamento de ferreiros, próximo das minas de ferro. A primeira menção é de 1429. As fábricas de vidro foram fundadas ali na primeira metade do século XVIII. Hamry foi também uma sede do gabinete magistrado, na Idade Média.

O nome Hamry quer dizer “moinhos de ferro” e se origina do tempo da fundação do original assentamento de ferreiros.

A Igreja de Nossa Senhora das Dores (está “Sorrow”) surgiu da capela original em 1773. A única fonte talhada de um bloco de granito pode ser vista próxima da Igreja. Ela data de 1856 e tem cerca de 4m de comprimento e 1m de largura.

O compositor P. Stuiber nasceu e morreu em Hamry.

I go back and forth about John Irving, sometimes marveling at him, as I did through much of The World According to Garp and, now, The Cider House Rules, and sometimes rolling my eyes, as I did at A Prayer For Owen Meany. He gets at the multifaceted aspects of life and somehow contains a strong, uncertain moral bent without (usually) sermonizing. He has a tendency to delve into character background and explanation at the expense of action, giving overly elaborate details about characters who remain flat anyway. Yet his gift for keeping forward moment despite any obstacles from his own verbosity is amazing, as is his almost Henry James-esque ability to nail an idea, as he does when he writes, “Society is so complex that even Heart’s Haven had a wrong part to it.”

The Cider House Rules moves seamlessly between the narrative action and overarching generalizations with more skill than a 19th Century novel and so much dexterity that they don’t seem unnatural or forced, as such abstractions or general life lessons often can—in, for example, The Spies of Warsaw. Rarely does the novel devolve into Steinbeck-land moralism and sentimentality, as when Wilbur Larch argues that Homer has a duty to help those who cannot help themselves—in this case by performing abortions. Granted, the argument has some logical fallacies for careful readers to see, but it’s nonetheless jarring in a book that’s otherwise carefully evenhanded. Problems exist, such as the aforementioned biographies of minor characters, and Irving is more a fan of the sledge hammer than chisel. Perhaps this rambunctiousness is the subject of some attacks against him: Irving doesn’t have the cool and cutting quality that seems in vogue among many critics today, the aesthetic preference for a single sentence summary of a person rather than paragraphs of background designed to bring a character to the foreground. But whatever faults John Irving has, failing to live is seldom one: his best characters usually have the differentiated roundness that brings them alive. James Wood thinks not: in a recent post, he said:

The review I just wrote about Joseph O’Neill’s superb novel,”Netherland,” in “The New Yorker,” praises the novel both for its deep and wise interest in life and lives, and for its high degree of artifice and style. That doubleness is entirely in keeping with my attacks on people like Tom Wolfe, John Irving, the more formulaic elements of John Updike, and so on.

(Link added by me).

The Cider House Rules might not have the lifeness Wood prefers, but it has the engaging quality I love and too infrequently find. It had long been sitting on my bookshelf, waiting to be read, and so I decided to try it. As this introduction shows, I liked it more than not, even if some parts revealed too heavy a hand and showed, I think, what Wood meant. Still, the whole—with Wilbur and Homer Larch at the center of a novel about the discovery of what it means to assume the terrible weight of responsibility while still laughing at the lunacy of the world—carries any weaknesses along with it in a flood, as Irving’s best novels do. They forge their own eccentric morality and philosophy, but though I think of them often I can’t immediately define those traits that I can feel. One day, maybe, but one mark of a good novelist is, I think, the inability to corral all their themes and ideas without a great deal of study, and by that standard, too, Irving succeeds.

The Spies of Warsaw suffers, probably mortally, from the inherent deficiency of historical fiction that depends on an outcome that has already been decided—and therefore none of the characters can stop or change it. In this novel, Mercier, a French military attaché in pre-World War II Warsaw whose adventures lead him, with the creeping horror of a science fiction protagonist discovering that aliens inhabit the bodies of his friends, toward the startling revelation that Germany intends to attack France through the Ardennes forest. In retrospect, of course, we know this, making the constant references to the mystery—”Just precisely what forest were the Germans thinking about?” (85), “Still, it was—oh, not exactly dangerous, France wasn’t at war with Germany [...]” (135), ” ‘Newspapers on the continent explain every day why there won’t be war. And I assure you there will be, unless the right people determine to stop it.’ ‘I can only hope this meeting is a step in the right direction,’ Mercier said. ‘We shall see.’ ” (225)—grow old with repetition and obviousness. Dramatic irony ends too soon, and the dramatic irritation begins. Invented worlds of fantasy, or the equally fanciful and usually poorly written worlds of Tom Clancy, let us imagine that single individuals can control global destinies, but we don’t have this luxury to prevent or alter the course of World War II in a world that remain in the bounds of history.

For a historical novel to work, it needs to focus on the individuals or on how something came to be. If it relies on a well-known event to generate tension without focusing on how that event touches the people involved, we know the fundamental outcome and that it cannot be changed. The Spies of Warsaw doesn’t transcend its focus on the pre-war atmosphere, and we know the efforts of Mercier to raise the alarm in France have to fail. Sure, a perfunctory romance blooms from nowhere and everywhere between Mercier and Anna, and it happens with as little surprise as the invasion of Poland, but nonetheless tries to generate authentic feeling from too small a base; I’d take the James Bond, anti-Romantic mode of spy romance, in which the characters reflect the cold of international politics instead of acting as counterpoints. I could imagine a great novel with love as that alternative, but The Spies of Warsaw isn’t it.

That isn’t to say The Spies of Warsaw is unredeemed: the beginning and end move with swiftness the middle lacks, and bits of description are wonderful in their accuracy: “From some distant century, an ancient waiter in a swallowtail coat moved toward them, parchment face lit by a beatific smile, parchment hands holding a silver tray, which trembled slightly, bearing two glasses of champagne” (50). The word “ancient” might be overkill, but otherwise the subtle resonance between the elegant but decrepit waiter and the horror of Europe being overtaken by the barbaric young who don’t understand the lessons of past wars is strong, and the theme is well-developed. Others aren’t so carefully done, and when Mercier says, “You work for people, madame, and I work for people. Maybe they’re not so different, the people we work for” (165), the long shadow of John le Carré falls across another spy thriller that could be improved by dropping the now-obvious implication that the methods of the free West are similar to those employed by its authoritarian enemies—a subject that could make a great paper for college sophomores but is by now a standard trope of the spy novel. Whether the equivalent between Western and authoritarian regimes is an intentional or subconscious allusion to current events in Abu Ghraib and other black sites I don’t know, but the point has been made so many times elsewhere that to have it so bluntly reiterated is mere repetition, both from other books to The Spies of Warsaw and within it: “None of us are saints, my friends; we all watch each other, sooner or later” (181).

Elsewhere, the quiet dread and pathos of a letter from Jews elicits this: “Mercier read it more than once, thought about answering the letter, then realized, a sadder thing than the letter itself, that there was nothing to be said” (117). The alliteration of the “t” sound doesn’t give the sentence the musicality it could otherwise have, but the sentiment of a futile desire for decency is nonetheless powerful. Boring parties are well-described, especially given the stultifying rules so often governing them. The spying machinations are clever enough to be worth following but not so clever as to be cartoonish. Somewhere in Alan Furst there is, I think, a better novel gestating, and I hope one day to see it. Night Soldiers showed potential, but I fear that potential has yet to be fulfilled, and I can only hope it will be even as I suspect it won’t.

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Foram duas as famílias Mühlbauer que vieram para São Bento com grande descendência, sendo que houve ainda algumas famílias menores. Uma dessas grandes famílias era da Bavária e a outra da Boêmia, mais precisamente de Flecken, aldeia natal de tantas outras famílias que para cá vieram. Começamos com os Mühlbauer bávaros:

1. Mathias Mühlbauer, que casou com Klara, eram proprietários em Schwarzenberg, e foram pais do imigrante:

1.1 Anton Mühlbauer, sobre o qual não foi encontrado registro de batismo nos arquivos de Eschelkam, na Bavária, sendo portanto a sua origem um mistério, devendo ser natural de outra paróquia. Conforme o registro de navio que temos através do livro de Böbel, era pedreiro e nasceu por volta de 1834. Com a família, imigrou para o Brasil em 1877 a bordo do Navio Rio. Casou-se em Eschelkam no dia 03.10.1868 com Barbara Pfeffer, a qual nasceu em 09.12.1838 às 11h e foi batizada no mesmo dia, tendo por madrinha Barbara, que morava em Kleinagn, e que segundo nos foi possível apurar com a ajuda de pesquisadores bávaros, era fª de Georg Pfeffer e Anna Singer, neta de Josef Pfeffer e Anna Hastreiter, bisneta de Josef Pfeffer e Anna Maria Laurer, trineta de Peter Pfeffer e Margareth Hauser, a qual era fª de Georg e Barbara Hauser, tetraneta de Wolgang e Walburga Pfeffer, pentaneta de Andreas e Anna Pfeffer, e cremos ainda hexaneta de outro Andreas Pfeffer. Pelos registros de batismos dos filhos, sabe-se que Anton estava em 1859 em Schwarzenberg, 1869 em Kleinagn, 1872 em Grossaign e 1873 em Ritzenried. Em 1877 estava em São Bento, onde faleceu em 02.11.1911. Pais de:

1.1.1 Theresia Mühlbauer, que nasceu antes dos pais se casarem, no dia 01.11.1859 em Eschelkam, sendo batizada no dia seguinte, tendo por madrinha Theresia Schwarz, solteira e proprietária em Kleinagn. Imigrando para o Brasil, casou-se em São Bento do Sul no dia 20.09.1881 com Anton Fürst, filho natural de Anna Fürst, natural de Hammern, na Boêmia. Theresia faleceu em 27.03.1939, aos 79 anos. O casal morava na Estrada das Neves e teve ao menos:

1.1.1.1 Bárbara Fürst, nascida em 10.02.1883 e batizada em 09.04.1883, sendo padrinhos José Linzmayer e Bárbara Linzmeyer. Teve:

1.1.1.1.1 Maria, que faleceu com 1 ano e 10 meses no dia 25.10.1910.

1.1.1.2 José Fürst, nascido em 04.04.1884 e batizado no dia 20.04.1884, tendo como padrinhos José Linzmeyer e sua esposa Bárbara Linzmeyer.

1.1.2 Philipp Mühlbauer, nascido em Kleinagn e batizado em Eschelkam. Não foi encontrado seu registro de batismo, mas provavelmente também nasceu antes do casamento de seus pais. Casou-se em São Bento do Sul aos 24 anos no dia 19.10.1889 com Rosalia Kellnner, nascida em “Seigenhof”, e batizada em Eschelkam, filha de Josef Kellner e Barbara Kerscher, por essa neta de Wolfang Kerscher e Barbara Seltner. Como testemunhas, serviram Gaspar Liebl e Ignatz Fischer. Lá por volta de 1900, Phillip pegou tifo e sua situação era preocupante, restando pouca chance de salvação. No entanto, a sua esposa e filhos passaram a orar muito para Deus a fim de que Philippe pudesse sair dessa com vida. Mostrando grande fé, prometeram que caso ele se recuperasse, construiriam uma capela para louvar a Deus. Aos poucos, Philipp foi melhorando. Algum tempo depois, ele conseguiu voltar a trabalhar. Cumprindo a promessa, a família construiu a Capela, que foi inaugurada em 1902 e atendeu a muitos dos moradores da redondeza. Como patrono da igrejinha, a população achou por bem colocar “São Felipe”, pois fora o Philipp Muehlbauer que motivou e liderou a construção da Capela em Banhados I, na atural Rua Conrado Liebl. Philipp faleceu no dia 02.11.1926, com 63 anos. Pais de:

1.1.2.1 João Mühlbauer, casado em São Bento do Sul no dia 15.05.1916 com Margarida Müller, filha de Carlos e Mathilde Müller, com quem teve ao menos:

1.1.2.1.1 João Mühlbauer, casado.
1.1.2.1.2 Ervino Mühlbauer, casado com Renata.
1.1.2.1.3 Ewaldo Mühlbauer, casado com Maria.
1.1.2.1.4 Carlos Mühlbauer, que ainda vive em 2008.
1.1.2.1.5 Willy Mühlbauer
1.1.2.1.6 Maria Mühlbauer, casada com Erico Bail.
1.1.2.1.7 Elly Mühlbauer, casada com Erhardt Weiss.
1.1.2.1.8 Regina Mühlbauer, casada.
1.1.2.1.9 Odete Mühlbauer, casada.
1.1.2.1.10 Iracema Mühlbauer, casada.
1.1.2.1.11 Cristina Mühlbauer, casada.
1.1.2.1.12 Frida Mühlbauer, casada com Erhardt Pauli.

1.1.2.2 Felipe Mühlbauer, que se tornou padre.
1.1.2.3 Francisco Mühlbauer
1.1.2.4 José Mühlbauer, casado com Francisca, e pais de:

1.1.2.4.1 Leonardo Mühlbauer, casado com Wally.

1.1.3 Franziska Mühlbauer, nascida em Kleinagn e batizada Eschelkam no dia 06.05.1868, tendo por madrinha Katharina Pfeffer. Casou-se em São Bento do Sul no dia 23.06.1888 com Johann Augustin, nascido e batizado em Santa Katharina, na Boêmia, e que contava com 26 anos na ocasião, filho de outro Johann Augustin e Theresia Altmann. Pais de ao menos:

1.1.3.1 João Augustin, falecido no dia 21.06.1947, com 53 anos. Casou-se com Francisca Liebl.
1.1.3.2 Carlos Augustin, que faleceu com 5 dias em 11.12.1902, sendo sepultado na sede de São Bento do Sul.
1.1.3.3 Antônio Augustin, que faleceu com 6,5 anos no dia 06.02.1914, na Estrada das Neves.

1.1.4 Ludwig Mühlbauer, que teria nascido em 23.07.1869, às 19h30, e batizado no dia seguinte, tendo por padrinho Ludwig, solteiro, morador de Kleinagn. Como não imigrou, supõe-se que tenha falecido pequeno.

1.1.5 Katharina Mühlbauer, nascida em 14.06.1870 às 19h30 e batizada em seguida, sendo madrinha Katharina Vogl, moradora de Kleinagn. Casou-se aos 22 anos no dia 09.01.1892 com Franz Hannusch, natural de Osseg, na Boêmia, filho de Wenzel Hannusch e Anna Trojan, por essa neto de Anton Trojan e Elisabeth Tausch. Serviram de testemunhas Anton Fürst e Philippe Mühlbauer. Franz faleceu no dia 15.07.1921, aos 55 anos, vítima de influenza. Tiveram ao menos:

1.1.5.1 Francisco Hannusch, nascido em 09.07.1896 e batizado em Bechelbron no dia 26.07.1896, sendo madrinha Barbara Mühlbauer.
1.1.5.2 João Hannusch Sobrinho.
1.1.5.3 Rosália Hannusch, que faleceu com 2 meses no dia 19.12.1905, em Mato Preto, sendo sepultada na sede de São Bento do Sul.

1.1.6 Barbara Mühlbauer, nascida em 29.09.1872 às 16h30, tendo por madrinha Magdalena. Faleceu em Fragosos, onde está sepultada, nno dia 02.07.1943. Se casou no dia 21.12.1895 com Johann Hannusch, filho de Wenzel Hannusch e Anna Trojan, por essa neto de Anton Trojan e Elisabeth Tausch. Como testemunhas, assinaram Anton Fürst e Philipp Mühlbauer. Tiveram ao menos:

1.1.6.1 Francisco Hannusch, batizado na Capela de Nossa Senhora Auxiliadora dos Cristãos, em Lençol, no dia 15.03.1896, tendo como padrinhos seus tios Franz Hannusch e Catharina Mühlbauer.
1.1.6.2 João Hannusch Filho, que nasceu no dia 26.04.1898 e falecido em 22.07.1983, solteiro. Sepultado em Fragosos.
1.1.5.3 Catharina Hannusch, nascida em 26.02.1900 e falecida em 20.11.1982, sendo sepultada em Fragosos. Casou-se com Antônio Basílio da Rocha, e teve:

1.1.6.3.1 Alzira da Rocha
1.1.6.3.2 Lucila da Rocha
1.1.6.3.3 Olinda da Rocha

1.1.6.4 André Hannusch, casado com Sebastiana, e pais de:

1.1.6.4.1 Darci Hannusch

1.1.6.5 Luiz Hannusch, casado com Eloína, com quem teve:

1.1.6.5.1 Jovino Hannusch

1.1.6.6 um filho que faleceu com 5 anos em 1910.
1.1.6.7 Rozina Hannusch, nascida no dia 07.01.1909 e falecida em Fragosos no dia 16.04.1980, sendo sepultada no Cemitério de Fragosos. Casou-se com Luiz Thomé Fragoso, descendente da tradicional família que primeiro ocupou aquela região, filho de Saturnino Fragoso de Oliveira e Joaquina Fragoso Cavalheiro, neto paterno de Generoso Fragoso de Oliveira e Leopoldina Maria de Almeida, e neto materno de Felippe Soares Fragoso e Flora Lina Cavalheira. Pais de:

1.1.6.7.1 Cristina Fragoso, casada com Narciso Ferreira da Silva.
1.1.6.7.2 Adelina Fragoso, casada com Livarte Cordeiro de Meira.
1.1.6.7.3 Carlos Fragoso, casado com Maria Diva Gonçalves.
1.1.6.7.4 Bernardo Fragoso, casado com Benedita de Mello.
1.1.6.7.5 Otília Fragoso, nascida em Fragosos no dia 31.07.1943, casado com Luiz da Silva, nascido em Piên no dia 04.01.1928 e falecido em Fragosos no dia 05.09.2007.

1.1.6.8 Lina Hannusch, falecida com 2 anos no dia 11.08.1914.

1.1.7 Georg Mühlbauer, nascido em 05.12.1873 às 23h e batizado no dia seguinte, tendo como padrinho Georg Rank, proprietário. Faleceu em São Bento do Sul no dia 19.11.1949, aos 75 anos.

On Saturday, Josh Zubkoff and a dedicated few gathered at an alley way on 100 Quincy St., San Francisco to paint the world’s largest lolcat on the side of a 3-story building. Click the picture for the inspiration.

Here’s the result:

When it was all over, we did have cheezburgers. Here’s the full coverage from Laughing Squid.

Thx everyone and it was great meeting all of you! Maybe we’ll meet in another city for a Ceiling Cat mural.

picture: Troy McClure SF (More pix here). lol caption: I-Can-Has-Cheezburger

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Der Bundestag hat am Freitag über die Novellierung des Stammzellgesetzes abgestimmt und konnte sich erfreulicherweise zu einer zwar halbherzigen, jedoch akzeptablem Lösung durchringen.

Die bisherige Stichtagsregelung wurde aktualisiert, so dass jetzt embryonale Stammzellen (ESZ), die bis zum Stichtag 01. Mai 2007 erzeugt wurden, eingeführt und für die Forschung verwendet werden dürfen.
Für die Wissenschaft ergibt sich jetzt endlich die Möglichkeit, in diesem Bereich Anschluss zu halten und mit ausländischen Forschern auf diesem Gebiet zu kooperieren.

Kampf zweiter Ethiken

Natürlich wird dieses Ergebnis nicht von jedem so positiv gewertet. Im Leitartikel der Frankfurter Rundschau schreibt Karl-Heinz Karisch vom “Kampf zweier Ethiken“. Zwar halte ich diese Aussage nicht für realitätsgetreu, weil es zu viele Grauzonen in der Diskussion gibt, aber der Gegriff “Kampf” trifft die durch Lügen und Verleumdung gekennzeichnete Debatte ganz gut. Wie ich bereits hier und hier schrieb, wird von Seiten der Bedenkenträger und “Lebensschützer” mit teils unlauteren Methoden versucht, eine Stimmung in der Bevölkerung zu erzeugen oder zumindest vorzutäuschen, die die Forschung in dieser Form ablehnt.

Kritik seitens der Katholischen Kirche

Die katholischen Glaubensfunktionäre, wie z.B. Hassnichtprediger Kardinal Meisner oder Bischof Gebhard Fürst sind natürlich not-amused davon, dass eine Forschungsministerin der CDU, dazu noch katholische Theologin, offenbar eine wichtige Wegbereiterin für die Gesetzesnovellierung war.

Dafür erhält sie große Schelte und es hat (wie erwartet) auch nicht sehr lange gedauert, bis die Nazi-Keule rausgeholt wurde.

Die CDU habe nun den „ersten Schritt zu einer völligen Liberalisierung“ getan, sagte er. Fürst war von 2001 bis 2005 Mitglied des Nationalen Ethikrates und gilt innerhalb der katholischen Kirche als Fachmann für Fragen der Bioethik. Auch die Nationalsozialisten, so Fürst, hätten Menschenversuche mit der Begründung gerechtfertigt, hiermit die Heilungschancen anderer Menschen zu verbessern. July warnte vor der „Instrumentalisierung menschlichen Lebens“. Die Entscheidung des CDU-Parteitags habe den Weg zu „weiteren Verfügbarkeitsansprüchen“ bereitet.

(siehe auch Godwins-Law)

Diese Art und Weise der Diskussion ist sinnbildlich und macht für mich besonders deutlich, dass es den Gegnern nicht um eine Sachdebatte geht. Dieser Vergleich kann nicht realitätsferner sein und ist eine Frechheit.

In einer AFP-Meldung, die bereits am Donnerstag veröffentlich wurde, ist zu lesen:

Auch der Bioethik-Experte der EVP-Fraktion im Europäischen Parlament, Peter Liese (CDU), wandte sich gegen eine Stichtagsverlegung. Eine Aufweichung des Embryonenschutzes könne “international schwerwiegende Folgen haben”, erklärte Liese in einer vom Bundesverband Lebensrecht verbreiteten Stellungnahme im Rahmen der Initiative www.deine-stammzellen-heilen.de.

Wem der “Bundesverband Lebensrecht” irgendwie bekannt vorkommt:

Das war der Initiator der Umfrage, die ich hier beschrieben habe. Kurzfassung:
Manipulation der Fragestellung, bis man nur noch die “richtige” Antwort geben kann. Dafür darf dann die Wahrheit auch gerne etwas kreativ ausgelegt werden…

Mein Fazit:

Alles in allem ist der aktuelle Gesetzesbeschluss genau das, was man erwarten konnte. Die beiden Extreme (totales Verbot und totale Freigabe) hätten keine parlamentarische Mehrheit zu stande gebracht. Es bleibt zu hoffen, dass sich die Diskussion mehr auf eine Sachebene begibt. Mir fehlt da allerdings ein bisschen die Hoffnung.

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As brought to our attention by NextBillion, Stephen J. Dubner and Steven J. Levitt, authors of Freakanomics, published an article in the NYTimes yesterday entitled, “Bottom Line Philanthropy,” in which they discussed the need for applying business models to philanthropic organizations for the purposes of sustainability and impact.

The article highlights two individuals – Rafe Furst of what is informally called the Cure Cancer Annuity Fund and Brian Mullaney of Smile Train. Furst’s model posits that effectiveness in the social sector lies in the incentivization of innovation through prizes and profits – in this case, for the purposes of curing cancer. As stated in the article, “inspired by the X Prize Foundation’s sponsorship of innovations in space travel and other realms”, Furst conceived of a “charitable business model” – the Cure Cancer Annuity Fund – which employs a two pronged, incentive-based approach to cancer research.  The Fund aims to not only benefit donors in the form of annual returns, but researchers as well, who stand to win a prize of $10 billion for finding a cure for cancer.

The second example mentioned in the article is that of the Smile Train, which employs local resources, social marketing strategies, innovative technology, and cash incentives for the purposes of administering cleft lip or palate operations in developing countries. As stated in the article, “Smile Train works as a charity because it is run like a business”: 

 Fixing a child’s cleft lip or palate is a relatively cheap procedure with outsize payoffs: cleft children in many countries are ostracized and have a hard time going to school, getting jobs and marrying, and the surgery reverses those disadvantages. Indeed, when pitching a reluctant government, Mullaney refers to cleft children as “nonperforming assets” who can soon be returned to the economic mainstream. He fights bad incentives with better ones: when Smile Train learned that midwives in Chennai, India, were being paid off to smother baby girls born with cleft deformities, Mullaney started offering midwives as much as $10 for each girl they instead took to a hospital for surgery.  

 Smile Train has also harnessed technology to create efficiencies in every aspect of its business, from fund-raising to charting patients’ outcomes. It developed surgery-training software that helps educate doctors around the world. There are high-tech quality-control measures: using digital imaging, a Texas cleft expert grades a random sample of operations performed by Smile Train doctors around the world, in order to know which surgeons in, say, Uganda or China need more training. These are the sort of innovations that likely make Smile Train one of most productive charities, dollar for deed, in the world. Over the last eight years, Smile Train has performed more than 280,000 cleft surgeries in 74 of the world’s poorest countries, raising some $84 million last year while employing a worldwide staff of just 30 people.    

Both examples highlight the potential for employing innovative business practices for the purposes of creating sustainable, scalable social organizations. In the end, the purpose of any philanthropic organization is to eventually become purposeless. In the case of Smile Train, which is currently at the “historic break-even point” of “performing more operations each year than the number of children born each year in developing countries with cleft deformities”, this strategy seems to be working.