Anna vom Rath

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Anna vom Rath. Painting by Norbert Schrödl (1868)

Anna vom Rath , b. Jung (born June 2, 1839 in Cologne , † March 31, 1918 in Berlin ), was a German salonnière in Berlin who also worked as a charity and the wife of the banker Adolph vom Rath .

Life

Anna vom Rath, daughter of the national liberal politician Georg Gottlieb Jung (1814–1886) and Pauline, b. Stein (1816–?) Married the banker Adolph vom Rath (1832–1907) in 1869, a member of the sugar manufacturer's family, which is very respected in Cologne. Her husband became chairman of the board of directors of Deutsche Bank, which he co-founded in 1889 . Since then she has played an important role in the society of Wilhelmine Berlin . Although she came from a liberal family tradition and was herself liberally minded, she came into close contact with the imperial court and court society, which in part earned her the reputation of " snobbery ". Nonetheless, her salon, although not entirely political, attracted many liberal politicians of the time.

In addition to her salon life, Anna vom Rath was heavily involved in charitable matters. She founded the first “sick kitchen” at Brüderstraße 10 in Berlin, collected donations to finance tuberculosis research and also founded a foundation dedicated to caring for tuberculosis sufferers.

Widowed since 1907, Anna vom Rath died six months before the end of the First World War in Berlin.

Awards

Anna vom Rath has received many awards. Among other things, she wore the following medals:

family

Anna Jung and Adolph vom Rath married on April 18, 1869 in Cologne. Her husband was raised to the Prussian nobility on August 21, 1901 by Kaiser Wilhelm II , but kept his old (not aristocratic) name. They had no biological children, but two adopted children:

  • Ilse vom Rath (1870-1884)
  • Adela "Adi" von Papen , called vom Rath (1885– ?; married three times)

salon

Anna vom Rath, in the Prussian hereditary nobility since 1901, opened her salon in 1880 when her husband moved to Berlin, where she was soon able to establish herself socially. Other politically oriented Salonnièren, with whom she was partly in connection, were Hildegard von Spitzemberg and Helene von Lebbin . In later years the focus of their sociability shifted to artists and scholars. In contrast to Countess Schleinitz or Anna von Helmholtz , she herself was rather mediocre educated and was not a great artist either; nevertheless it offered science and the arts a respected forum in the German capital.

Well-known habitués

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Wilhelmy, p. 800.
personal data
SURNAME vom Rath, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Young, Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Salonière in Berlin
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1918
Place of death Berlin