Käte Stresemann

Kate Stresemann, born Kleefeld ( born July 15, 1883 in Berlin- Lankwitz; † July 1970 in New York City ) was the wife of Gustav Stresemann ( 1878-1929 ).

Life

Kate Stresemann was the daughter of wealthy industrialist Adolf Kleefeld in Berlin. Both parents were originally Jews, converted to Protestantism, so Kate and her three siblings Kurt, Elsa Maria and Eve were baptized Protestant. On 20 October 1903 she married the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin, Gustav Stresemann, a fraternity brother of her brother Kurt Kleefeld from the Leipzig fraternity Suevia. Stresemann was working as managing director and lobbyist at the Association of German chocolate manufacturer. From this marriage the sons Wolfgang (1904-1998) and Joachim (1908-1999) emerged.

Kate Stresemann knew how to represent. When her husband in 1923, the State Department took over, her home was a meeting place of diplomacy and society in Tauentzienstraße 12a in Berlin.

At the 25th International Advertising Congress in Berlin from 11 to 15 August 1929, over 5000 delegates, she led as the wife of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Women's program and impressed by their worldliness. TIME Magazine described it on 19 August 1929 as " not a housewife but a young, elegant, cosmopolitan, English-speaking Jew, with the ability to join the conversation on the social stage, saloon equally as in a nightclub. " On November 8, 1926 had TIME Magazines Gustav Stresemann quoted as follows: "A story made last week the rounds in Berlin that my ability to lead with a salary of 6,400 dollars per year, a large house, the friendly promoting my affairs by the multi-millionaire Dr. von Kleefeld owes my unmarried brother. "

In the fall of 1939, Kate Stresemann emigrated together with Wolfgang to her son Joachim in the United States.

In the German feature film Stresemann in 1956 it was presented by Susanne of Almassy.