As of: February 19, 2024, 6:00 p.m
By: Friedbert Holz
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They all met for the big birthday: Mayor Max Kressirer, son-in-law Michael Weiland, daughter Martina with husband Werner Huber, sitting celebrant Brunhild Mayer with great-grandson Antonio, daughter Michaela Weiland with great-granddaughter Annika, and granddaughters Alexandra Straßer and Katharina Huber.
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Neufinsing - Brunhild Mayer, who recently celebrated her 80th birthday, looks back on an eventful life.
It originally comes from a small town in Upper Silesia, now Poland.
But fate ultimately took her to Neufinsing, where she has called home for 60 years and feels very comfortable with her large family.
Schamerau is the name of the village in the Ratibor district where the still sprightly elderly woman was born.
However, just six months old, she had to flee from the advancing Russians with her sister Heidemarie, who was two years older than her, her very young mother Josefa and other relatives, and was transported to Finsing in 1945; her father had died in the war.
However, the family was by no means welcomed warmly in the community.
And so the family decided to return to their Upper Silesian homeland in 1946.
From there, her future stepfather Hans Geyer, whom her mother had met during her short stay, brought her back to Bavaria.
However, in a detour: At first the entire family lived in Burgdorf near Hanover in Lower Saxony, where their first half-brother Richard (76) was also born.
Her mother had meanwhile married Hans Geyer, who had worked as a chauffeur for the British military.
Brunhild also went to school there for three years before her stepfather's father finally brought the family to Eicherloh in 1953, where his family owned a house.
Her stepfather had meanwhile become a butcher, her mother helped in the butcher's shop, which was later expanded into a general store.
Brunhild attended primary school in Eicherloh for a few more years before moving to the Heilig Blut girls' secondary school in Erding.
Her second half-brother Hans-Dieter Geyer was born in 1958, and she herself finally came to the Hotel Bayerischer Hof in Munich in 1960, where she worked as an office clerk for three years and then in an advertising agency for a year.
In 1964 she married her husband Josef Mayer, a trained Wagner, in Finsing.
“But he was also skilled in other crafts and had taught himself carving and painting; there are plenty of examples of this here in my apartment,” explains the celebrator proudly.
After her three children Michaela (59), Martina (58) and Markus (56) were born in quick succession, she worked as a secretary at the local school from 1970 until her retirement in 2003.
“Now my husband and I finally had the time to travel a little more, I remember lovely stays in London, on Crete, in my old homeland Poland and often in South Tyrol,” says the celebrator, mentioning some of the goals she has achieved with her 2022 deceased husband enjoyed.
Her husband was a member of almost every club in town, Brunhild Mayer was also very active and is now still active in the cultural association and with the Trachtlern in Eicherloh as well as with the VdK.
She still does her own housework in her comfortable home, works in the garden, reads a lot and enjoys visits from her grandchildren Stephan, Franziska and Katharina Huber as well as Alexandra Straßer with her two great-grandchildren Annika and Antonio.
And she keeps fit: “I do an hour of gymnastics every morning when I get up, I go for a lot of walks, I love and need exercise.” Finsing's mayor Max Kressirer also congratulated and presented a gift.
FRIEDBERT HOLZ
Ended up in Neufinsing via a detour
Hobbies are reading and gardening