While filming in 1933, Schneider met her Future husband, the Austrian actor Wolf Albach-Retty. The couple married in 1937 and had two children: Rose Marie Magdalena, called Romy, and Wolf-Dieter, later a surgeon, born in 1941. During World War II, Schneider lived in the Bavarian Alps near Hitler's retreat in the Obersalzberg above Berchtesgaden. Schneider was a guest of Hitler's, who declared that she was his favorite Actress. Later she and Albach-Retty separated and the marriage ended in divorce in 1945.