The Shadowy Figure of Hydrix Schmidt

Kitty Schmidt was sent as a young woman to England just before the First World War broke out, where she worked apparently as a governess. She settled in Cardiff and had a child by an even more shadowy figure, who we think he was the son of the Spanish Consul in South Wales. Kitty returned from Britain to Berlin soon after the war ended, and set up in business quite quickly as a brothel owner and manager. And when she died in 1954, her daughter, the daughter who had been born in Wales, Kathleen, took over the running of the brothel,. although on a much smaller scale than earlier. It masquerades as a pencilian, a guesthouse for