Edith Andreae

Edith Andreae, born Rathenau ( born January 18, 1883 in Berlin, † 1952 in Zurich, Switzerland ) was a German Salonnière. She received mainly as executor and editor of the works of her brother Walther Rathenau importance.

Life

Edith Andreae came in 1883 as the only daughter of German - Jewish industrialist Emil Rathenau and his wife Mathilde Rathenau, nee Nachman, in Berlin to the world. She was the younger sister of the politician Walther Rathenau and the industrialist Erich Rathenau. On February 10, 1902, she married the banker Fritz Andreae, son of Bertha Salonnière of Arnswaldt. In her youth, Edith Andreae spent much time with the daughter of the " important mathematician Pringsheim " - who later married Katia Mann.

The couple had four daughters, including the later writer Ursula von Mangoldt.

In 1913 the family moved to the Villa Andreae in Grunewald. Here Andreae maintained a " sophisticated socializing with a high level", which she managed one of the few women of the 1920s, " revive the salon socializing [ and ] leading artists, writers and scholars of their time gathering around him ." She was considered " the most intellectual woman in Berlin", was a patron of Max Reinhardt and with numerous intellectuals of her time, including Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Gerhart Hauptmann and Thomas Mann, a friend. Even politicians like Friedrich Ebert were among the guests of her salon, took place in the irregular concerts and lectures were held. The young Ursula Herking found at Edith Andreae supportive, as they had been friends with her ​​dead mother.

After the assassination of Walther Rathenau in 1922, she was manager and editor of his political and literary legacy. She was after Rathenau's assassination owner of Castle Freiwalde they 1926 the then County Oberbarnim presented, so that the castle could be turned into a memorial for Rathenau. In addition, she served as a board member of the Walther -Rathenau Foundation, which was dissolved in 1939.

During the time of National Socialism, the family had to give up initially in 1938 the house in Grunewald and moved into the former home of Walther Rathenau in the King Avenue 65 you got the exit permit and emigrated to Switzerland in 1939. The family settled in Zurich, where Fritz Andreae died in 1950. Edith Andreae died two years later in 1952.