The well-known Ebenhauser senior Georg Schneider died at the age of 91.
Numerous celebrities came and went in his "Hotel Café Schneider".
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- communions, christenings, weddings, birthdays or anniversaries: the first point of contact in Ebenhausen (district of Munich) was the “Hotel Café Schneider” with its legendary cakes and pies until the 1990s.
It was run by Georg "Gogo" Schneider and his wife Rosi for over 30 years.
Now the hospitable senior has died at the age of 91.
“Hotel Café Schneider” was the go-to person for numerous prominent personalities
The hotel with its café in the converted Pringsheim villa opened its doors in 1961 and quickly became the center of the town.
Anyone with a reputation or a reputation was here: Franz Josef Strauss, Henry Kissinger, Margarete Hauptmann and Richard von Weizsäcker - to name just a fraction.
The popular singer Bally Prell (“Beauty Queen of Schneizlreuth”) immortalized herself in the guest book, as did the guests at the foundation ceremony of the Lion Club Isartal in 1963. “The inauguration of our St. Benedict Church with Joseph Cardinal Döpfner was also celebrated here,” says Schneider's niece Lia Schneider- Stöckl and points to a photograph that shows the clergyman with his companions in the parking lot of the café.
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Even Franz Josef Strauss and the CSU celebrities have immortalized themselves in the guest book.
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The kitchen was a meeting point for visitors and guests
The fact that the hotel and the café enjoyed such an excellent reputation was not only due to the delicious cakes and excellent food, but also to Gogo Schneider himself.
He had nothing against the fact that the large kitchen was declared a meeting place.
And so, standing behind the dough machine, he discussed everything that was happening in the village and in the world with his guests and visitors, and was at the side of “his” Ebenhausers with advice and practical help.
The youngest child of two businessmen
Gogo Schneider was born in 1930 as the youngest child of the merchant servants Hans and Maria Schneider at Lechnerstrasse 8. “The family lived upstairs, downstairs, in the Schneider department store, where groceries and other everyday goods were sold,” Schneider-Stöckl remembers even lives in the house with her family.
Gogo, like the siblings Hannes and Lia, helped out in the business early on, delivered goods to customers in the well-known sanatorium, to guest houses and villa owners, and supported his father in his construction activities.
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The legendary Hotel Café Schneider.
The celebrities came and went here.
It closed its doors in 1992.
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But the Nazi rule quickly destroyed this idyll.
Hans Schneider, who was considered an absolute confidante in Ebenhausen, supported persecuted families.
On Christmas Eve 1937 the Gestapo stood at the door and arrested the businessman.
Due to the general amnesty on Hiltler's birthday in April 1938, Hans Schneider was released - and continued with the support of his family.
“When it became known that the political police were on their way to Ulrich von Hassell”, Schneider-Stöckl knows, “Hannes and Gogo were sent to the von Hassell family.
Here they used the agreed word for danger, namely, 'Greetings from the parents'. "
In 1992 the Hotel Café Schneider closed its doors
Also in 1938 the family suffered a severe blow: a truck hit Gogo's sister Lia on the B11 and fatally injured her.
In 1945 Gogo was drafted himself at the age of 15.
He managed to desert and hide.
After the war he began an apprenticeship as a pastry chef with Wandinger, head of the guild in Munich, and worked on the island of Borkum and on Lake Geneva.
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Cardinal visiting: The inauguration of the Church of Saint Benedict with Joseph Cardinal Döpfner was celebrated in the Hotel Café Schneider.
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But his way always led back to Ebenhausen, where he finally met his future wife Rosi in the butcher's shop of the "Gasthof zur Post" in the heart of Ebenhausen.
The couple married in 1956 and had two children, Rosemarie and Michael.
In 1992 the Hotel Café Schneider closed its doors.
The building was converted into apartments, and Gogo and his wife moved into the newly built attic apartment with a wide view of the Isar valley.
Schneider now had more time to play golf and travel, two hobbies that gave him a lot of pleasure.
He also had a great deal of knowledge about the history of Ebenhausen and the Isar valley, which he liked to share with his niece.
“He was part of the Ebenhausen story himself,” says Schneider-Stöckl.
"He helped shape the place."
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