Summary of Cooks of Adolf Hitler

[AlainDucasse]

I found the following cooks/chefs/diettian of Hitler from several sources:

1) Margarete Roloefs
2) Constanze Manziarly (* 14.4.20 † 2.5.45) - last cook at the "Führerbunker)
3) Helene Marie (Marlene) von Exner
4) Wilhelm Lange - Cook at the "Führerbunker"
5) Otto Günther "Krümel„ - Cook at the FHQ "Wolfsschanze"
6) Arthur 'Willy' Kannenberg (* 23.02.1896 † 26.01.1963) - "Leibkoch" (Main-cook) at Reichs-Chancellery

Can anybody confirm or complete the list?

[ohrdruf]

"Krümel" was recruited in 1937 as cook on the Führer-train. At Wolfsschanze he prepared 200 meals daily.

Manziarly was a dietician-cook for Hitler's special diets. She was the successor to dietician-cook Frau von Exner, dismissed at the time of the Wolfsschanze reconstruction in 1944 when it was discovered that she was one-quarter Jewish. Martin Bormann was given order to "arianize" her family line and Frau von Exner survived the war.

I can provide personal details and dates of Krümel/Manziarly/von Exner if required.

[AlainDucasse]

Thanks a lot for addtional informations. It´s quite difficult to get detailed informations (e.g. photos) of Hitlers cooks etc. From which source do you get it? I would appreciate any further informations like personal dates and details. Here my update of cooks:

1) Margarete Roloefs (* ? † ? ) - dietician-cook since 1933
2) Constanze Manziarly (* 14.4.20 † 2.5.45) - dietician-cook, last cook at the "Führerbunker
3) Helene Marie (Marlene) von Exner (* ? † ? ) - dietician-cook until 1944
4) Wilhelm Lange (* ? † ? ) - dietician-cook since 1933, - cook at the "Führerbunker"
5) Otto Günther "Krümel„ (* ? † ? ) - dietician-cook since 1933, - cook at the FHQ "Amerika" (Spcial-train) "Wolfsschanze"
6) Arthur 'Willy' Kannenberg (* 23.02.1896 † 26.01.1963) - "Leibkoch" (chef) & director at Reichs-Chancellery
New 7) "Lilli", Cook Berghof, Baked Hitler's preferential flour food, cheese cake, which was forwarded to him regularly to Berlin (I´m not sure, probably she is the same as Helene Marie (Marlene) von Exner?
New 8) Ellen Bluethgen (* ? † ?) personal-cook at Berghof a.o.
New 9) Margarethe „Gretel“ Mittelstrasser (* ? † ?) House-Manager & cook Berghof
New 10) Anny Kramer-Winter (* ? † ?) Housekeeper & cook Munich-Prinzregentenplatz 16 1929-1945

[ohrdruf]

My source is Christa Schroeder: "Er War Mein Chef" (Herbig) 1984.

See "Women in the Reich" for my entry for Constanze Manziarly today.

Otto (or Paul) "Krümel" Günther, employed as chef at Mitropa Hotel from where he was recruited for Führer-train 1937. Cooked at FHQ "Wolfsschanze". His boss was Kannenberg. No further information known.

Helene Maria von Exner b. 16.4.1917 Vienna. Came from Viennese medical family. After Real gymnasium trained at Vienne University as dietician-cook. 22.9.1942-9.7.1943 dietician-cook for Marschal Antonescu, Rumanian Head of State. She was recommended by Antonescu to Hitler, who employed her from 15.7.1943. Hitler wanted his personal adjutant SS-Oberstaurmbannführer Friedrich Darges to marry Eva Braun's sister, but Darges had fallen in love with Fräulein von Exner and the couple wanted to marry. When her Aryan lineage was checked it was discovered that she had a Jewish grandparent, and for this she was dismissed the Führer's service, and replaced by Constanze Manziarly. Martin Bormann was ordered to "aryanise" her lineage. This was easier to do in Austria than Germany and involved switching old birth certificates. Fräulein von Exner married after the war and was still alive in 1984 when the source book was published.

Other details Ellen Blüthgen (8) was a young cook at Berghof 5/1945. Margarethe Mittelstrasser (9) was wife of the house-manager, Berghof, 5/1945.
Anni Winter née Schuler, b. 27.2.1905 Pfakofen/Regensburg m. Georg Winter 1.5.1929, manservant to General Epp, 1.10.1929 housekeeper/cook to Hitler at his Prinzregenten-Platz flat, Munich until 1945. She discovered the body of Geli Raubal (18.9.1931). On 8.6.1945 interned by US Army. Died 17.10.1970 Munich.

Source does not mention (1), (4) or (7).

[ohrdruf]

We seem to be overlooking Hitler's half-sister:
Angela Franziska Johanna Raubal née Hitler
(b. 28.7.1883 Vienna, d. 30.10.1949 Dresden).
Hitler's half-sister by his father. From 3.6.1919 - October 1926 principal at girls' home in Vienna where she also cooked.
3.3.1927 she moved into Haus Wachenfeld on the Obersalzberg as named tenant. Here she acted as housekeeper/cook. Christa Schroeder said that Angela Raubal was an excellent cook, particularly for her apple pies. When Hitler bought the house on 26.6.1933 she remained as housekeeper/cook until the time of the 1935 Nuremberg Rally and conversion work on Haus Wachenfeld to expand it into the Berghof, when Hitler asked her to leave ostensibly for planning an intrigue with other women on the Obersalzberg to have Eva Braun thrown out. She left the Obersalzberg 18.2.1936. She had no further relationship with Hitler except to celebrate his birthdays in Berlin, although in April 1945 she travelled to Berchtesgaden where Schaub made her a present of 100,000 Reichsmarks from Hitler which she managed to keep secret from the Allies.

[Landsberger]

Here is Eva Braun's film of her sister Gretl's wedding to Herman Fegelein.

http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/fv1424

The kitchen at the Berghof and staff shown at 11:47 - 12.07 on the timeline.

A person appearing to be more in charge enters at 11:55.

Can she be identified?

[AlainDucasse]

Thanks for the link, but it´s not the kitchen of the BERGHOF, it´s the kitchen of the Kehlstein Teehouse, where the wedding of Gretl & Fegelein was celebrated.

Sorry, but i don´t know the persons.

[Landsberger]

Hi AD

Thanks for the clarification.
The staff cooking at the Teehouse would be from the Berghof, would they not, since the Teehouse
was rarely used?

[AlainDucasse]

Yes, I think so too. The main cooks at that time whre "Lilli" (AH loved her for the cheese-cake), diet-cook Constanze Manziarly (who later cooked AHs last meal at the "Fuehrerbunker" in Berlin)and the Berghof house-manager (Erste Hausdame) Margarethe „Gretel“ Mittelstrasser. I think that Gretel Mittelstrasser is the person which appears at app. 11:55.

[AlainDucasse]

Summary of Hitlers dining rooms & kitchen (c) by Alain Ducasse, Sept. 2013

Attached a summary of the dining rooms & kitchen

[Martinski]

Hello!
Alain Ducasse! Sorry to disappoint you but the pictures of the dining room FHQu "Wolfschanze" are partially incorrectly labeled in the archives. Both b&w photos were taken in Summer 1942 in the FHQu "Wehrwolf" near Winniza (Ukraine).

The cook Otto Günther (aka "Krümel") was working in the kitchen of the Kasino (House Nr 10 of Sperrkreis I) of FHQu "Wehrwolf" and was there pictured by Walter Frentz.

Just published our Tour Guide to FHQu "Wehrwolf" (Hitler's Military Headquarters in Ukraine) in English - fully illustrated. Also a Russian version is available.

Information about the book at:

http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic. ... 4#p1824214

Kind regards - Martin

[AlainDucasse]

Hello, Martinski,

thanks a lot for your revise. I changed the photos accordingly. Now it´s a photo of the "diet-kitchen" at Wolfsschanze.

Kind regards, Hans-Peter aka Alain Ducasse

[Martinski]

Hallo Hans-Peter!
Thanks for your reply but why you din't add the kitchen of FHQu "Wehrwolf" to your scheme? FHQu "Wehrwolf" was more important than many people do realize! Hitler stayed there for full three months (16. July - 01 November 1942). The debacle in Stalingrad was commanded and controlled from Winniza and led to the catastrophe in January 1943!

So Hitler took his meals partly in the "Kasino" (House Nr 10) and, after the famous clash with the OKW (as Gen. Alfred Jodl came back from the meeting with Gen. List in Stalino on 07. September 1942), he took his meals inside his private house Nr 11.

The cook Otto Günther (aka "Krümel") was working in the kitchen of the Kasino (House Nr 10 of Sperrkreis I) of FHQu "Wehrwolf" and was there pictured by Walter Frentz.

Regards - Martin (aka "Martinski")

[Timafo]

Hi,
seems like the administrators of the forum would like a "first poster" to give Information first than ask a question??? I'm searching for Information about Marlene Exner, one of the dietitian cooks of AH at Wolfsschanze. As there was a book published by Historian Brigitte Hamann 2002 with a correspondence about Hitlers musical taste, it could be possible, that she's still alive maybe in her 90s. Does anyone know if and when where she lives?
Again Regards, Tim

[Volyn]

After reading this thread about Hitler's cooks I found the following articles online about Hitler's vegetarian diet, his only surviving food taster and some of the things that he ate.

1. Does anybody know what he was eating?

2. Are there recipes for the meals that these cooks prepared for him, were they typical German vegetable dishes or specific only to him?

According to Margot Woelk:
http://societyandstruggle.blogspot.com/ ... hrers.html

It was all vegetarian, the most delicious fresh things, from asparagus to peppers and peas, served with rice and salads. It was all arranged on one plate, just as it was served to him. There was no meat and I do not remember any fish.

There is a wiki page about his diet as well:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hit ... Nikkhah-12

All accounts by people familiar with Hitler's diet from 1942 onwards are in agreement that Hitler adhered to a vegetarian diet, but accounts of his diet prior to the Second World War are inconsistent in this regard with some stating he ate meat. Dione Lucas, a chef at a Hamburg hotel patronised by Hitler prior to the war, claimed that her stuffed squab was a favourite of his.
Dione Lucas (1964). The Gourmet Cooking School Cookbook. p. 89