Born in Berlin, Germany her full name was Ingeborg Rosemarie Ritterin von Grocholski. She is the great-granddaughter
of the Viennese
Architect Otto Friedrich Thienemann.
The family Thienemann Archives
go back in time to the year 1526. Inge's father Dr.-Ing. Alfred Grocholski was an electrical engineer, her mother Marieanne a librarian.
Inge studied architecture in Vienna under
Professor Architekt
Oswald Haerdtl
(
photo)
and
Franz Schuster.
After graduating from the
Universitaet fuer Angewandte Kunst,
also known as Akademie fuer Angewandte Kunbst,
she worked for Architekt Ferdinand Kitt, ARGE Allgemeines Krankenhaus Wien and other well known architects in Vienna Austria.
Inge's son Robert (Bob) Obsieger from her first marriage to Architekt Prof. Gerhard Obsieger graduated as
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from University of Alberta.
Bob is presently hiding behind a computer as a Senior Software Engineer of IBM.
Inge loves classical music, opera, jazz, theatre and haute couture. Rumor has it that she brought four ball gowns to
Canada in anticipation of the winter ball season. What a disappointment it must have been when she learned that Alberta
did not have a ball season!
Inge is an ATM-Silver International Toastmaster.
Inge has quite a pedigree... or do you call it resume?
Her ancestry is spectacular.
She has 1085 relatives all over the world
and many of them living on this continent. In Austria, Inge competed in gymnastics and fencing. Inge's specialties in
track and field were the javelin, the high jump and the hurdles. In Canada, she enjoyed hiking, backpacking and touring
the Canadian Rockies, cross country skiing and downhill skiing. And she was good at it, always showing off below the
lift line! Her favourite mountain was Whistler Mountain North of Vancouver, Canada.
Inge skied Whistler on the day it opened! We still have the clipping from the local newspaper, the Whistler Question.
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When she was younger....
Inge learned scuba diving in Edmonton Alberta. On Vancouver Island,
she was partner in the restoration of the Yangtse, a 1912 Bristol Channel Cutter. Inge sailed the 36 ft Cutter through the
Gulf Islands, the Strait of Georgia and the Juan de Fuca Strait with only her experience from dinghy sailing on the
Old Danube in Vienna.
Inge enjoyed flying her Aircoupe CF-VTB over Alberta and B.C., and she
flew the single engine aircraft all the way to the Oshkosh Airshow in Wiskonsin. Upon arrival in the circuit, Inge lined
up her Aircoupe behind 42 other aircrafts waiting for their turn to land on the Oskosh Airfield. During this largest Airshow in the world
three aircrafts are being cleared for landing at the same time on the same short runway. One aircraft lands at the button,
the second one in the middle, and the third one on the end of the runway.
Inge taught her first boxer to wear a seat belt in her red MGB, and later in her Aircoupe. Inge competed with her boxers
in obedience and tracking. Arrigo earned four titles in his short life, an AKC/CKC TD & CD. He died of a heart attack -
too much stress! Now we have to eat a healthy diet.
Inge is the founder of the Cassidy Tracking Club on Vancouver Island. In 1988, she started breeding boxers under the
CKC registered prefix Camano Boxer. The name Camano is a tribute
to Camano Island in Washington State where Inge and the boxers spent a white Christmas on the campground.
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