Christel Schaack

Christel Mattes (2008)

Christel Schaack , married Mattes (* 1925 in Berlin ), was a German beauty queen as well as a mannequin and photo model in the 1950s. In 1953 she was employed in a fashion salon in Berlin.

Act

On June 16, 1953, she was a Miss Berlin in Kurhaus Wiesbaden for Miss Germany crowned. This event was hardly noticed, however, as it was lost in daily politics: only one day after their election, Soviet tanks put down the workers' uprising in the GDR .

In 1953 she took part in the election for Miss Universe on July 17 in Long Beach (California, USA) . She fell below the age limit of 28 years by one month.

On June 20, 1954, she was elected Miss Europe in Vichy . Two days later, the title was revoked because, according to the statutes of the Miss Europe Committee , she should have been unmarried. However, Christel Schaack had been widowed for two years. She had to hand over the crown to the runner-up, Danièle Gerault from France. Since her widowhood was not an obstacle to the Miss Germany election and the committee could not accuse anyone of fraudulent intent, it granted her the unofficial title of "Miss Europa Honoris causa".

From 1958 until his death in 2002 she was married to the Austrian composer, arranger and conductor Willy Mattes . Christel Mattes lives today in Salzburg and Munich. Your son Dr. Frank Schaack lives as a management consultant in Bad Homburg.

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  Christel Schaack as
  Miss Europe 1954

literature

• Veit Didczuneit, Dirk Külow: Miss Germany. The German beauty queen . S & L MedienContor, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-931962-94-6

Web links

Commons : Christel Schaack  - Collection of Images

• DeutschlandRadio Berlin for Miss Europe 1954
• Entry on the Miss Germany website
• Age does not protect against beauty Der Tagesspiegel from May 29, 2004

predecessor	Office	Successor
Renate Hoy	Miss Germany 1953	Regina Ernst