Anna Ottendorfer

Anna Ottendorfer, born Behr and related products. Uhl ( born February 13, 1815 in Würzburg, † April 1, 1884 in New York City ) was a German -American publisher and philanthropist.

She came with her father Edward Behr 1838 in the U.S. and married a year later the printer Jacob Uhl (* 1806 in Würzburg). The took over in 1845 the then German -language weekly "New Yorker Staats-Zeitung " and made it a daily newspaper. When her husband died in 1852, Anna had to carry on alone the newspaper first. Then she married in 1859 the editorial staff Valentin Oswald Ottendorfer and together they made the state newspaper as one of the most respected newspapers in the United States, whose edition with those of the English-speaking New York Tribune and New York Times was comparable in the 1870s.

This Anna Ottendorfer came to great wealth, they began to charity. So she founded on Long Iceland, a retirement home for women, which she named after her prematurely deceased daughter Isabella. 1883 by the German Empress Anna got a gold medal in gratitude for the generous donation, which she had sent to the flood victims of 1882 and 1883.

Anna had with her first husband Jacob Uhl six children, two of whom died before her:

  • Emma Uhl (* 1841, † November 1, 1902 in Freiburg im Breisgau) ∞ brewery entrepreneur Adolf Schalk (* 1826)
  • Hermann Uhl ( born March 8, 1842 in New York City; † February 13, 1881 ibid )
  • Edward Uhl ( born October 12, 1843 in New York City; † August 10, 1906 ibid ), carried on the newspaper publisher
  • Isabelle Uhl (* March 1, 1847, † March 19, 1873 )
  • Mathilde Uhl ( born July 31, 1848 in New York City; † June 4, 1937 in Vienna) ∞ Friedrich Eduard Riedl - Riedenstein ( 1832-1905 )
  • Anna Uhl ( born March 31, 1850 † August 28, 1931 ) ∞ Woerishoffer Charles Frederick ( 1844-1886 )

The marriage with Oswald Ottendorfer remained childless.

Anna Ottendorfer was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn (Lot 4670, Section 91). Carl Schurz held the grave speech.

The art collector and art historian Antoine Seilern and Aspangbahn was a grandson of her youngest daughter Anna.

  • Emigrants from Germany
  • Americans
  • Entrepreneurs (19th Century )
  • Publisher (19th Century )
  • Person (New York City )
  • Born in 1815
  • Died in 1884
  • Woman
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