Maria Seraphine Mautner von Markhof / 5.11.1836 – 20.12.1906
In 1855, she married as second daughter from the marriage Mautner-Kadisch the lawyer Dr. Anton Philip Willner (1827 – 1887), born in Gröschlmaut in the parish of Paulitz in South Moravia, where his ancestors had already settled in the 17th century. Anton’s sister, married Stauffer, was the mother of the busy Viennese painter Viktor Stauffer (1852 – 1934). Art historians report on some of his portraits, for example, of members of the imperial family or of Count Hanns Wilczek (1837 – 1922), well known as a patron. The family also keeps a life-size portrait of Editha Mautner von Markhof, née Sunstenau von Schützenthal, painted by Stauffer.
In March of 1848, Anton, as an eloquent young student, was walking at the forefront of his colleagues, leading the memorable revolution that began then. After urgent speeches in front of the Landhaus in Vienna`s Herrengasse, the angry crowd forced the resignation of Chancellor Prince Metternich and the transition to a more democratic government. Soon afterwards Anton began to practice the profession of a lawyer, which he could also combine with advising various banking institutions. At that time, he was entitled to the honorary professional title of court and court lawyer.
Maria and Anton had 3 children: Alfred Maria (1859 – 1929), Konrad (1861 – 1901) and Marceline (1865 – 1962). Alfred not only received his doctorate in law, but also made a name for himself as a libertarian for Karl Goldmark, Heinrich Berté, Franz Lehár, Oskar Nedbal, Giacomo Puccini and Julius Bittner. His only descendant, Dr. Alfred Eugen, died childless in Zurich in 1963. Konrad, also a lawyer, was father of six children (four from his first marriage to the daughter of the industrialist Moritz Faber, two more from a relationship with Englishwoman Laetitia Gibson). His aughter Elisabeth married into the Orel family and son Friedrich married Josephine Princesse de Rohan-Guéméné and left behind sons Frederick and Peter de Rohan-Willner. Finally, daughter Marceline, as the widow of Franz Freiherrn Ritter von Záhony, married Lieutenant Field Marshal Eduard Alois Freiherr Klepsch-Kloth von Roden, who was many times awarded in the First World War.
After the opening of the new central cemetery outside Simmering in 1874, he acquired the crypt for his own family near the magnificent Mautner crypt.
