Title: Maria von Welser
Content:  Maria von Welser (born 26 June 1946 in Munich) is a German TV journalist and the President of UNICEF Germany. She is by marriage a member of the preeminent banking and merchant family Welser. She is also the daughter of Margarete Schüssel, German fashion journalist.
Title: Maria Walter
Content:  Maria Harm was born in Degerloch, by that time a quarter in the city of Stuttgart, the capital of the semi-autonomous Kingdom of Württemberg. She attended school locally between 1901 and 1909, and then undertook factory and office work. She was employed until 1926 by the shoe manufacturer Schuhfabrik Haueisen & Cie AG at their Degerloch and nearby Bad Cannstatt locations. She married Ludwig Walter in 1916 and joined the newly launched Communist Party (KPD) in 1920. She became a member of the regional leadership of the para-military Red Women's and Girls' League ("RFMB-Gauleitung") and was also, for a time, chair of the RFMB in Württemberg. Within the mainstream party, between 1928 and 1933 she was head of the women's department of the regional leadership team ("Bezirksleitung"). Maria Walter was elected a member of the Regional Parliament ("Landtag von Württemberg"), 
Title: Märta Måås-Fjetterström
Content:  Born on 21 June 1873 in Kimstad, Östergötland, Märta Livia Vilhelmina Fjetterström was the daughter of the clergyman Rudolf Fjetterström (1838–1920) and his wife Hedvig Olivia Augusta née Billstén (1849–1932). She was the second of eight children. From 1890 to 1895, she attended the arts and crafts school Högre Konstindustriella Skolan in Stockholm. On completing her training, she spent a few years teaching at the Technical School in Jönköping but also created decorative woven works which she exhibited in 1900. In 1902, she was invited to work as a weaving instructor at the Kulturhistoriska föreningen in Lund where she showed interest in Scanian textile traditions but experienced difficulty in her dealings with its head, Georg Karlin. While in Lund, she changed her name to Märta Måås-Fjetterström. In 1905, she was invited to head the newly created handicrafts establishment in Malmö known as Malmöhus läns 
Title: Maria Wiedmaier
Content:  Maria Siegloch was born in Zuffenhausen, a quarter of Stuttgart on the city's north side. The third of her parents' seven recorded children, she was born into a "railway family". Between 1910 and 1916 she worked at the Salamander shoe factory in nearby Kornwestheim. Meanwhile, war broke out in 1914, and from 1916 she was working at a munitions factory in Feuerbach. It was here that she met Albert Volz, a co-worker whom she married that same year.
Title: Mária Wittner
Content:  Wittner was born in Budapest on 9 June 1937. She did not know her father and her mother sent her to nurses. At the age of two, she was sent to a Carmelite cloister. In 1948, she met with her mother, who was soon sent her to state care. She discontinued her secondary school studies and began to work as a typist and shorthand writer in Szolnok and for the Council of Kiskunhegyes district. She gave birth to a son in 1955 and, half a year later, moved to Budapest. She meanwhile undertook odd jobs.
Title: Maria Erhart
Content:  She was born in Vienna, and in later life lived in Rattenberg. There she studied at the world trade university, which led to a job in market research. She married Peter Erhart, a medical doctor and like herself an international bridge player, in 1987. She worked as his assistant, as well as looking after the commercial aspect of his practice.
Title: Maria Wachter
Content:  Maria Wachter was born in Düsseldorf. Her father had been a Social Democratic activist as a young man, described by his daughter as an "outspoken revolutionary", but in 1914 he was conscripted into the army. He survived the First World War, but with his political spirit broken. To his daughter's growing bewilderment as she grew up, and then to her enduring regret, his priority became to avoid losing his job with the city power supply company. Maria Wachter joined the Communist Party in 1930. By this time she had already trained for office work and become a member of "Dynamo", a workers' sports association which had 
Title: Maria Weiterer
Content:  Maria Tebbe was born in Essen, at the heart of the industrial Ruhr region in north-western Germany. Her father worked as a book keeper: her mother worked as a midwife. She attended school locally between 1906 and 1915, concluding her studies with a half year at a commercially focused "kaufmännisch" school. She then took a series of jobs in the private sector before joining, in 1916, the war victim support service of the city council in nearby Bochum. In 1918 war ended in military defeat for Germany and a period of social and political turmoil ensued. Maria Tebbe married Mathias Weiterer of whom little more is known: their marriage together appears to have been of short duration. In 1921 Maria Weiterer joined the recently formed Communist Party and started work, as volunteer, for the "Ruhr-Echo" newspaper in Essen. One of her jobs involved working as a typist for Adolf "Lex" Ende. She became a member of the women's secretariat with the party's Ruhr regional leadership team ("Bezirksleitung") and later headed up the local branch of the Red Front Struggle League's women's and girls' section ("Rote Frauen und Mädchenbund" / RFMB) till 1927 or 1928.
Title: Maria Wachter
Content:  Maria Wachter  (21 April 1910 – 18 August 2010) was a political activist (KPD) who resisted Nazism both before and after 1933. She spent most of the twelve Nazi years in exile or detained in camps and prisons. She was asked in 2010 if she was proud, on the occasion of her hundredth birthday, to be among the last survivors of those who had resisted the Nazis. Evidently she was not. But she was proud to have been a member of the Communist Party for nearly eighty years.
Title: Maria Lowenstein
Content:  Lowenstein was born Maria Lilli Margarete Baetge in Estonia. In 1914 in Helsinki, she married architect Erich Steinberg, by whom she had a daughter, Karin, (1915-2014). After fleeing from the tumult of the Russian Revolution, Maria moved to Berlin, where her husband, Erich Steinberg, died in 1920. In 1925, Maria married the Jewish German dermatologist Max Loewenstein; their son, Henry, was born that same year. Among the friends of Max and Maria was the composer Kurt Weill. Having previously studied at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Maria refined her artistic talents at the Institute of Fine Arts in Berlin. Although she saw her son to safety in 1938 during the Kindertransport, she and her husband and daughter stayed in Berlin during the war, where she was involved in the Rosenstrasse protests of wives of Jewish men. Lowenstein emigrated to the United States in 1946 and settled first in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, where one of her students was Barrie Karp. Max Loewenstein died in 1948. Later, Maria settled in Denver where her son, Henry (1925-2014), became prominent on the theatre scene as a producer and set designer.

Question: In what city was Maria Wetterstrand born?
Answer: Eskilstuna.