Stephanie von Hohenlohe
Stéphanie Veronika Maria Juliana Princess of Hohenlohe- Waldenburg - Schillingsfuerst born judge, also called " Hitler's spy " called ( born September 16, 1891 in Vienna, † 13 June 1972 in Geneva) was a spy in the service of Germany with Hungarian nationality.
Life
Stephanie was the daughter of the lawyer Dr. Johann Sebastian Richter and his wife Ludmilla Kuranda in Vienna. My biological father was but apparently Max Wiener, who later became the father of Gina Kaus. She received her first name as a tribute to the Austrian Crown Princess Stephanie, her five year old sister was Ludmilla ( called Milla ).
Stephanie grew up sheltered and home-style cooking. As usual in the time in Vienna she studied, took classes, such as at the Vienna Conservatory (piano), has been for several months to a college to Eastbourne sent ( English conversation ), played tennis, swam, sailed, hunted, biked and rowed. In particular, she was a gifted skater and got to know many of her friends in Vienna Eislaufverein know. The ambitious Stephanie trying to catch up with the Viennese upper class. At the age of 14, she had her first success in this regard, as they 1904 in Gmunden won a beauty contest and immediately got marriage proposals. Among many others they later learned the Archduke Franz Salvator of Tuscany, the husband of the emperor's daughter Marie Valerie, know, from whom she was expecting a child.
However, the already pregnant Stéphanie married in May 1914 Prince Friedrich Franz zu Hohenlohe- Waldenburg - Schillingsfuerst because the paternity Franz Salvator should be covered up. It has made princess. Stéphanie son Franz Josef von Hohenlohe was born on December 5, 1914 in Vienna. Friedrich Franz von Hohenlohe was in 1920 divorced.
With political intrigue she came to influential men like the personal adjutant of Adolf Hitler, Fritz Wiedemann, and the German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. Regardless of their Jewish origin, she managed to get into Hitler's area who called her his " dear princess ". On June 10, 1938, he put her on the Golden Medal of the NSDAP, a process that made her a so-called Ehrenarierin and in Hitler's entourage sparked outrage. Apparently he was with her even by you. In recognition of her mediation to Lord Halifax was provided to her in 1938 by Hitler and Hermann Goering Leopoldskron castle as a residence available where they wanted to build a political salon.
For him, Stephanie von Hohenlohe played their international relations, especially to high-level Nazi sympathizers in England, where she became an honorary member in the English- German camaraderie .. She went in 1940 to the United States and gained contact with the highest political circles, but was nevertheless interned as a German spy. In the postwar period they regained ground in Germany and worked among the sizes of the newly formed newspaper landscape as Henri Nannen and Axel Springer.
Stephanie von Hohenlohe was buried in Geneva.