KAETE STEINLECHNER (1926- )
Käte [or Kaete], daughter of Otto Walter Mittelstedt, married Hans Steinlechner, an Austrian of Wattenberg (a mountain next to the town of Wattens near Innsbruck).
They had three children, Thomas, Claudia and Norbert, and lived on Wattenberg.
In a telephone discussion Käte mentioned her "Arbeitsdienst" (a compulsory year of work after her schooling finished), which she did on a farm. She said, "I still know how to milk cows." She also mentioned the bombing of Hamburg in July 1943 which she survived with her father and mother in the shelters beneath the Michaelis Church.
In the 1950s, like her father in the 1920s, she took motorbike trips:
This is how I travelled from Hamburg to Innsbruck (Austria) and from there safely to Belgium.
Aunt Kaete
August 1957
Wedding day — 1967 July 21
Hans and Käte outside their house on Wattenberg in1986 with their daughter Claudia
