Charlotte Teuber-Weckersdorf

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Charlotte M. Teuber-Weckersdorf (1 November 1923 – 16 February 1998) was one of the most important Girl Guides Leader of Austria and an Austrian university professor.[1]:280

Her father was Wilhelm Teuber-Weckersdorf, an Austro-Hungarian officer and educator. He and his brother Emmerich were Scouting pioneers in Austria. In 1909 Wilhelm started one of the first Scouting activities in Austria in a military school in Straß.[1]:52 He served as Chief Scout of the Österreichischer Pfadfinderbund from 1937 until Scouting was banned after the Anschluss in 1938, after World War II he served as Honorary Chief Scout of the Austrian Boy Scouts from 1949 until his death. He was instrumental in the reorganization of Scouting and Guiding after World War II in Austria. So he also served as President of the Girl Guides in Salzburg.[1]:280–281

Her mother Irma was born a Jagitsch and Charlotte had one brother named Emmerich.[1]:280

Her family was catholic-conservative and against Nazism.[2] Her father[3]:12 and her uncle Emmerich[1]:287were arrested after the Anschluss.

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