Tonia from Procházka

Tonia Baroness von Procházka née Gundling (also Procházka-Gundling ; born January 4, 1861 in Prague ; † May 16 or 17, 1945 Břevnov Monastery ; full name: Antonia Ludmilla Monika Baroness von Procházka ) was a singer, benefactress and president of the club German artists in Prague.

Life

Antonia Ludmilla Gundling was the third of four children of Eduard Gundling and Pauline Gundling nee. Stupka born. She comes from the Franconian family of scholars Gundling , which includes the famous brothers Jacob Paul von Gundling and Nikolaus Hieronymus Gundling and their uncle Julius Gundling .

After attending the monastery school of the Ursuline Order in Prague from 1867 to 1873, she completed the four years of drawing and painting school for women at the Imperial and Royal Arts and Crafts School in Prague in the winter months of the following years. In the summer months she made trips with her parents to Hungary , Germany , Italy , Switzerland , France , Spain and England , which gave her a great general education. On June 24, 1893 she married the Ministerialrat Rudolf Freiherr von Procházka , to whom she gave birth to a son, Roman von Procházka , on November 20, 1900 .

After the Prague uprising against the German occupiers in May 1945, Tonia Baroness Prochàzka died in the Czech concentration camp for Germans in the Brewnow monastery courtyard of St. Margareth on May 16 or 17, 1945.

Act

As a long-time member of the Austrian Red Cross Society , Tonia Baroness Procházka became its secretary . In 1910 she was elected to the board of the Red Cross Relief Society in the Kingdom of Bohemia . She was committed to this association and to those in need who needed the association's help.

Like her father, she was very keen on art and its promotion, so in 1920 she became president of the German Artists' Club in Prague. She herself worked as a singer and vocal teacher.

Honors

For her social welfare and for her services to the military medical care in the First World War , she received on January 29, 1916 the decoration of the 2nd class for services to the Red Cross with war decorations. On April 4, 1917, Emperor Karl I awarded her the War Cross for Civil Merit, Second Class, “in recognition of particularly meritorious work in the Austrian Society of the Red Cross” .

literature

• Procházka novel : My 32 ancestors and their clan groups . Degener publishing house. Leipzig 1928.
• Lukas C. Gundling: Die Prager Gundlinge , in: Genealogical sheets of the family Gundling and related families No. 4, Schwäbisch Gmünd / Erfurt 2014, p. 2 ff.
• Lukas C. Gundling: The ways of the Gundlings to the east: How the Gundlings came from Württemberg to Danzig, Krakow, Prague and Vienna, together with the connection of the Gundlings to the genealogist novel by Procházka , in: Südwestdeutsche Blätter für Familien- und Wappenkunde (SWDB) Volume 34, Stuttgart 2016, p. 96 f.