ABOUT

 

In 1943, Walli Paula Luise Hasse traveled as a Red Cross volunteer to Maracaibo, Trujillo and Barquisimeto, Venezuela, to settle there and help the Germans detained by the Venezuelan government, which was divided by the conflicts of the five colonies in the country during the Second World War. During their first visit with their assistant Mercedes Claire d'Andrimont, they found subhuman conditions in the barracks. As a result of these overcrowded conditions, the predominant diseases were malaria, typhus, and typhoid. For these reasons, there was a shortage of beds, blankets, water, and laundry service. Typhoid, hunger, and diarrhea resulted in a mortality rate of up to 25%. Hasse and d'Andrimont successfully called on the Venezuelan authorities to provide better care for the inmates and the aid organized by the German, Swiss and Austrian Red Cross. The measures were successful: In the Trujillo camps, mortality eventually decreased to 30%.

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After the Second World War she worked as a teacher in Lagunillas and Ciudad Ojeda (Zulia state). From the 1950s onwards she helped with the German sanatorium in Maracaibo, Zulia state, the German repatriates in Venezuela, the children of deceased internees and the prisoners of war who emigrated from Europe to Venezuela. He worked from his home in the municipality of Bolívar, Maracaibero district, where he founded a home for orphaned children; the former German ambassador Dr. Karl-Ludwig Conde de Luxburg Prince of Carolath-Beuthen and Prince of Schoenaich-Carolath (in German: Dr. Karl-Ludwig Graf von Luxburg Fürst zu Carolath-Beuthen und Prinz von Schoenaich-Carolath, was his great support in the development and maintenance of the children's home. In 1960 he completed a short tour of several months of conferences in Germany in which 80,000 DM were raised to build other orphanages in Venezuela. In the same year he married in Maracaibo, Zulia State, the correspondent and “great-nephew of Karl-Ludwig” Jörg Otto Erich Johann Count of Luxburg Prince of Carolath-Beuthen and Prince of Schoenaich-Carolath (in German: Jörg Otto Erich Graf von Luxburg Fürst zu Carolath-Beuthen und Prinz von Schoenaich-Carolath).

 

On August 17, 1963, his first son was born in Germany, Friedrich Ulrich Maximilian Johann Count of Luxburg Prince of Carolath-Beuthen and Prince of Schoenaich-Carolath (in German: Friedrich Ulrich Maximilian Johann Graf von Luxburg Fürst zu Carolath-Beuthen und Prinz von Schoenaich-Carolath). In total he had three sons and one daughter. In 1972 he was followed to conferences throughout Europe and then in 1998 he returned to Germany for health reasons. The non-profit Luxburg-Carolath Foundation operates under the command of the Mallorcan son of Countess Walli to continue the humanitarian work of his mother. Walli Paula Luise Hasse died in Berlin in 2009 of heart failure. Her final resting place is in the Berlin, Germany, cemetery. There are plans to transfer Countess Walli's remains to the El Cuadrado cemetery in Maracaibo, Venezuela.