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In October of 2005 I was fortunate to exchange emails with Dr. Ekkehard Redlhammer , who gave me some interesting information about Ida Bangerter and her husband, Eduard Redlhammer .  Dr. Redlhammer was kind enough to grant permission for me to reproduce the information and images he sent to me.
Refering to what I know about Eduard and Ida is the following:

Eduard (1857-1948) maried Ida after the death of his first wife my grand-grandmother  Helene (1861-1918). Ida and Eduard didn´t have children. They lived in Gablonz (www.gablonz.de) and he was the senior CEO of a very well known producer of glass beads (Redlhammer Brothers). The factory had about 2000 employees and was a major economic factor in the region (same as Riedel and Swarowski).

In 1945 the Czechs took over the factory and wanted to keep Eduard and his sons Oskar (my grand father) and Walter (Lena´s father) in Gablonz, because the had the know how on the glass beads production. It was mainly the help of IDA BANGERTER who managed to get Eduard out of Czechoslowakia by the RED CROSS organisation (I think abot 1946) and to get him to Switzerland, where he died in 1948. My grandfather Oskar managed to get out of Czechoslowakia after two long and hard years in Gablonz, where the new czech regime put much pressure on the remaining germans and he got very ill. His wife and her three children (my uncle, my aunt and my father) already flew to their summer house Mondsse/Austria before the end of WW2 and my grandfather died early in 1947 after some months in Mondsee. His brother Walter and Lena were ket by the Czechs until about 1953 and then got the permission to leave Czechoslowakia  - they went to Switzerland to Ida Bangerter who received them very warmly and gave them a new home so , Lena and Walter owe her very much.

Well thats in short the little I know about Ida and Eduards life. The story of the Redlhammer family in Bohemia has been published in 1956 and I attached a copy (german language).

Some additional Information on Ida Bangerter (according to my aunt Lena from switzerland):

Ida worked as servant ("Hausdame") in a sanatorium in Dresden/Germany, where she met Eduard. Due to Ida´s Swiss nationality, both could leave Czechoslowakia with the last red-cross-train in 1945. After the escape from Czechoslowakia Ida became confused and died at her sister (married SPECHT) in Schaffhausen/Switzerland.
Eduard and Ida Bangerter Redlhammer
Eduard Redlhammer
A sample card of beads made by the Redlhammer Brothers company
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