Married couple with a strong social streak
Created: 09/16/2022, 19:00
By: Friedbert Holz
The happy couple Mathilde and Dr.
Werner Czudnochowsky (front) celebrated with (back row, from left) daughter Sonja, Cornelia Rieder and Bertha Felske from the parish council and Mayor Lorenz Angermaier, among others.
© Friedbert Holz
They were born in the same delivery room at Erdinger Hospital, just a year apart.
They both attended the Oberrealschule in the district town, where they graduated from high school in the same class in 1968.
Otherwise Mathilde and Dr.
Werner Czudnochowsky, who are now celebrating their golden wedding anniversary, come together from very different directions.
One thing they have in common is their distinctive social streak.
Grünbach – The couple has lived in Mathilde's parents' house in Grünbach's center since 1976.
She, now 75, was the only child of the Forster family, who ran a farm with a butcher's shop and inn in the village until 1975.
From a young age she had to help at home, but on the advice of her aunt she chose to become a teacher.
She also studied geography and economics in Munich, where she met her future husband Werner, a medical student.
The 74-year-old comes from an old family of bell founders in Russia, who finally gained a foothold in Erding via Poland, the Palatinate and Baden-Württemberg.
In 1972, towards the end of the Olympic Games in Munich, the couple married and moved into a so-called marriage apartment in the Olympic Village.
After almost the same end of their studies - she was now a trainee teacher, he was a medical assistant - they moved to Neuburg an der Donau, where their daughter Sonja was born in 1975 and is now a nurse.
A year later the family moved to Grünbach.
She had found a job at the grammar school in Dorfen, and he was doing his military service as a medical officer at the Erding Air Base.
He then trained as a general practitioner in Dorfen and Erding, but ultimately decided not to open his own practice and started further training as a gynecologist at the Erding Clinic.
Son Ulrich was born there in 1980,
The couple had always been interested in social projects, and so Mathilde was involved in child sponsorships in schools abroad.
This is how the partnership with a lyceum in Poland came about, and she also organized events on environmental issues.
She and her husband are in the Pax Christi group in Erding and in refugee aid.
Even their house, in which they live with three other parties, was and is open to many: Daughter Sonja lives with her family on the same floor, above them a young family from Eritrea, for many years they also had one from Ethiopia.
In 2008, when they (also almost simultaneously) went into (un)retirement, they founded the educational project "Mekanisa Behebret" for street children in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa.
The Dorfen high school, the Taufkirchen secondary school and the Bockhorn rectory are also involved.
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In 1989, Czudnochowsky helped "Germany's Next Top Model" Sara Nuru into the world in the hospital in Erding.
At that time the Nurus lived in Grünbach.
Mathilde was on the parish council for many years, active as a lecturer and at times as a sacristan in the Grünbacher church, directly opposite her apartment.
And from 2002 to 2008 she was a municipal councilor on the Bockhorn board - "but that wasn't really my destiny, I'm far too concerned about harmony for that".
80 guests came to the celebration - no wonder that many languages were spoken.
The family was there too, which now includes three grandchildren.
Werner Czudnochowsky says: "We can already look back on a very fulfilling life and want to continue to work for peace and social cohesion in the future."
