Karolina Pfeifer

Brief Life History of Karolina

When Karolina Pfeifer was born on 8 November 1891, in Galicia, Austria, her father, Johann Pfeifer, was 26 and her mother, Katharina Margaretha Mohner, was 24.

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Family Time Line

Johann Pfeifer
1865–1903
Katharina Margaretha Mohner
1866–
Katharina Pfeifer
1890–1890
Karolina Pfeifer
1891–
Johann Pfeifer
1894–
Gustav Pfeifer
1896–1934

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    World Events (8)

    1912

    Italy, Austria, and Germany renew the Triple Alliance. The alliance lasts for three more years.

    1914

    Start of World War I. Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austrian throne, is assassinated. Austria joins Germany in fighting the Allies.

    1938

    German troops seize Austrian lands. Adolf Hitler announces its union with Germany.

    Name Meaning

    German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Pfeiffer ‘piper, whistler’. This form of the surname is also found in Czechia, Slovenia, Poland, Croatia, the Netherlands, and some other European countries; see also 2 below.

    Germanized form of various Slavic adaptations of the German surname (see Pfeiffer 2).

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