Galka Family
The Hacken family descendants now living in America come from the line of Carolina Galka, who married John R. Hachen.
Carolina's sister Maria Galka married Friedrich Scheffler and gave rise to generations of relatives in and near Kassel, Germany (with surnames like Scheffler, von Mackensen, Fubel, Mandel, Mosch, Bötgger) and in Vienna, Austria (Nikl, Hlavac).
A brother of Carolina and Maria named Wilhelm Galka is the ancestral forefather of relatives in and near Essen, Germany (with surnames like Altmann, Hanf, Monyezi, Kriegs).
(Click here for pictures of the former Galka home in East Prussia)
Carolina Galka
Maria Galka
Died 1935 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Picture taken around 1920.
After Carolina left for America around 1900, the two sisters never saw each other again.
But their descendants have been more fortunate...
Maria Galka was:
Sister of Carolina Galka HachenSister of Wilhelm Galka
Wife of Friedrich Scheffler
Mother of Bruno Scheffler
and Hilda Scheffler Nikl
Grandmother of:
Gerlinde Nikl Hlavac
Rüdiger-Volker Scheffler
Renate Scheffler Mandel
Wilhelm Galka was:
Sister of Carolina Galka HachenSister of Maria Galka
Husband of Emma Jakowski Galka
Father of Maria Galka Altmann
Grandmother of:
Charlotte Altmann Hanf
Elisabeth Altmann Gehlhaus
Partial Galka Descendant Reunion (1999)
In a clockwise spiral from top to bottom: Volker Scheffler, Richard Hacken, Renate Mandel, Petra [Mandel] Böttger, Andrea [Mandel] Mosch, Elke Knoth Scheffler, Michael Hacken, Torsten Scheffler [von Mackensen], Kerstin Scheffler [Fubel].
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