Constanze Manziarly

Constanze Manziarly (born April 14, 1920 in Innsbruck , † probably May 2, 1945 in Berlin ) was an Austrian dietician . During World War II she was from 1944 to 1945, the dietician of Adolf Hitler and was in the spring of 1945 to the last in the Berlin Führerbunker employees present.

Life

Constanze Manziarly was born to Austrian parents in Tyrol. After completing secondary school in Innsbruck, she began training as a home economics teacher, as part of which she also completed an internship as a dietician in the Zabel health resort in Bischofswiesen in Upper Bavaria from September 1943 .

From the spring of 1944 she worked as an employee of the Zabel Sanatorium and was responsible for Adolf Hitler's catering on the Obersalzberg after the previous diet cook Helene von Exner had been dismissed. As a result, she was offered a job as Hitler's diet cook, which she took up at the Fuehrer's headquarters on May 8, 1944. From then on, until the end of the war, she was one of Hitler's closest circle of people in the various headquarters.

From the beginning of 1945 Manziarly was one of the last employees present in the Berlin Führerbunker. A small kitchen was assigned to her in the front bunker of the facility, and she was present at both dinner and tea parties. Alongside Traudl Junge and Gerda Christian , she refused to obey Hitler's instructions to leave the city.

The circumstances of Constanze Manziarly's death are unclear; she is believed to have been lost in Berlin. She was a member of the group led by SS Brigadefuhrer Wilhelm Mohnke , who broke out of the bunker on May 1, 1945 at around 8:30 p.m., and, according to Traudl Junge, was last seen on the evening of May 2 when two Soviet soldiers took theirs ID required. Seem possible suicide by ingesting a cyanide capsule , killing by the said soldiers and the abduction to the Soviet Union.

Cinematic representation

• Phyllida Law in Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1972)
• Pamela Saint-Clement in The Bunker (1981)
• Bettina Redlich in Downfall (2004)

Documents and literature

• Christa Schroeder : He was my boss. 4th edition. Herbig, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-7766-2286-5 , note 260.
• Traudl Junge : Until the last hour. Hitler's secretary tells her life. With the collaboration of Melissa Müller. List, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-5486-0470-6 , p. 234 f.
• Stefan Dietrich: "Nobody senses that politics goes through the stomach like I do". About the short, extraordinary life of the young Innsbruck woman who cooked Hitler's diet meals in the “Führerbunker”. In: Time - Space - Innsbruck. Series of publications from the Innsbruck City Archives. Volume 14 (2017), ISBN 3-7030-0970-5 , [1] .

Web links

• Frank Thadeusz: Hitler's diet cook Constanze Manziarly: "The F. ate well". In: Spiegel Online . 19th November 2017 .