Charlotte Grimm

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Lotte Hassenpflug by Ludwig Emil Grimm , 1820.

Charlotte Amalie Grimm , married Hassenpflug (also Lotte or Malchen called) (* 10. March 1793 in Steinau ; † 15. June 1833 in Kassel ), the only sister who was the Brothers Grimm and wife of the Hessian State Minister Ludwig Hassenpflug .

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origin

Charlotte Grimm's parents were Philipp Wilhelm Grimm (1751–1796) and Dorothea Zimmer (1755–1808). She was the couple's only daughter and was idolized by her father and brothers Jacob and Wilhelm .

Relationship with the brothers

After the death of her mother, Charlotte Grimm, who had just turned 15, was the only female member of the family to run the household until she married. The suddenly associated tasks initially overwhelmed her. In the first time after death, the siblings only managed to keep the family solidarity very rudimentary. Jacob Grimm once wrote in a letter to Wilhelm that “the household had become uncomfortable because none (that is, the siblings) are tied to the other and there is no longer any order, neither with regard to food nor otherwise”.

Charlotte Grimm received written advice and financial support in running the household from her aunt Henriette Philippine Zimmer from Gotha. She was always an important, loyal contact person for the brothers when one of the brothers had to leave the household family for professional reasons. She was able to comfort Wilhelm in particular when his brother Jacob was on long trips abroad.

In later years, Charlotte proved to be a skillful and attentive hostess. B. when the lawyer Friedrich Carl von Savigny visited Kassel in October 1815. In 1818 Charlotte Grimm met the poet Annette von Droste-Hülshoff , a childhood friend of the Brothers Grimm, personally in Kassel . After the visit was over, courtesy letters were exchanged between the two women. There was no further deepening of the contact in the period that followed, probably due to the different characters of the two women.

From then on, Charlotte, Jacob, Wilhelm and Ludwig Emil Grimm formed a harmonious household that only ended when Charlotte left their household when they married in the summer of 1822. It was only when their sister left that Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm evidently started thinking about their own marriage.

Own family

Grave of Charlotte Grimm in the old town cemetery in Kassel

On July 2, 1822, she married Ludwig Hassenpflug (1794–1862). Lotte and Ludwig Hassenpflug had six children together:

  • Karl Hassenpflug (January 5, 1824 - February 18, 1890), sculptor, died childless
  • Agnes (born December 11, 1825 - † October 29, 1829)
  • Bertha (April 27, 1829 - June 9, 1830)
  • Friedrich (born September 10, 1827 - † January 23, 1892 in Breslau ). Higher regional judge in Breslau, married to Anna Volmar, daughter of a ministerial colleague of his father
  • Luis (born December 1, 1831, † October 11, 1878 in Malta ), officer in the Austrian Navy , married, childless
  • Dorothea (born May 23, 1833; † 1898 Munich )

Lotte did not recover from the birth of her youngest daughter and died shortly afterwards. Wilhelm Grimm had looked after the sister to the end. For Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the death of their sister Charlotte, with whom they had lived a large part of their lives in a close domestic community, was the most painful loss since their mother's death in 1808.

Relationship with the Grimms

Hans Daniel Ludwig Friedrich Hassenpflug was twice the leading minister in Kurhessen . Politically, the Grimms and Hassenpflug had opposing views, but on a private level they initially got along with each other until the mid-1830s. The relationship between the Grimms and Hassenpflug, who followed a reactionary policy, cooled off after Lotte's death, especially after the declaration of the Göttinger Seven in 1837. During Hassenpflug's second ministerial period after 1850, it came about - almost two decades after Lotte's death - to the final break.

meaning

The Brothers Grimm (left Wilhelm Grimm , right Jacob Grimm )

Grimm research attaches great importance to the milieu-specific and family environment of the Brothers Grimm. So z. For example, the correspondence between Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm and their older relatives (mother, grandfather Zimmer, aunt Zimmer, father, aunt Schlemmer) has been compiled, edited and published by the Grimm Correspondence Office at Berlin's Humboldt University since 1986 . This correspondence covers the years 1787 to 1813, during which the Grimm brothers experienced their decisive influence.

The extensive correspondence between the Brothers Grimm and their sister Charlotte and her husband, which has already been published in recent years, is not only an important part of Grimm research, it is also one of the most remarkable documents for the political, social-historical and literary-historical developments in the Period of the pre-march .

literature

  • Eckhart G. Franz :  Hassenpflug, Hans Daniel Ludwig Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 46 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Robert Friderici: Ludwig Hassenpflug (1794–1862) / Minister of State of Hesse . In: Ingeborg Schnack (Ed.): Life pictures from Kurhessen and Waldeck 1830–1930. Vol. 5, Marburg: Elwert, 1955 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse , 20.5), pp. 101–121.
  • Hermann Gerstner : Brothers Grimm . Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1994.
  • Ewald Grothe (Ed.): Brothers Grimm. Correspondence with Ludwig Hassenpflug (including the correspondence between Ludwig Hassenpflug and Dorothea Grimm, née Wild, Charlotte Hassenpflug, née Grimm, their children and Amalie Hassenpflug) (= Brothers Grimm. Works and correspondence. Kassel edition. Letters , 2). Kassel / Berlin: Brothers Grimm Society eV, 2000. ISBN 3-929633-64-7
  • Ewald Grothe: Personal sympathy and political dissent. Ludwig Hassenpflug and the Brothers Grimm . In: Hessisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte 51 (2001), pp. 149–167.
  • Ewald Grothe: Ludwig Hassenpflug. Memories from the time of the second ministry, 1850–1855. (= Publications of the Historical Commission for Hessen , 48/11), Marburg: Historical Commission for Hessen, 2008. ISBN 978-3-7708-1317-9 .
  • Rüdiger Ham: Federal intervention and constitutional revision. The German Confederation and the Hessian constitutional question 1850/52 . Darmstadt and Marburg: Self-published by the Hessian Historical Commission Darmstadt and the Historical Commission for Hesse, 2004 (= sources and research on Hessian history , 138). ISBN 3-88443-092-0 .
  • Rüdiger Ham: Ludwig Hassenpflug. Statesman and lawyer between revolution and reaction. A political biography (= studies on historical research of the modern age , 50). Hamburg: Kovac, 2007. ISBN 978-3-8300-2764-5
  • Sabine Hock : Grimms Hessen. A literary travel guide on the trail of the Brothers Grimm . Frankfurt: Societäts-Verlag, 2007. ISBN 978-3-7973-0952-5 .
  • Martin Hoppe: Hanau and the Brothers Grimm . Hanau: Hanau History Association 1844, 2007.
  • Philipp Losch: Ludwig Hassenpflug, a statesman of the 19th century (from romantic to mystic) . In: Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies 62 (1940), pp. 59–159.
  • Hans-Georg Schede: The Brothers Grimm . Munich: dtv, 2004, ISBN 3-423-31076-6 . Extended new edition. Hanau: CoCon, 2009, ISBN 978-3-937774-69-5 .
  • Heinrich v. Sybel: Hans Daniel Hassenpflug . In: Historische Zeitschrift 71 (1893), pp. 48–67.

Web links

Commons : Charlotte Grimm  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hock, p. 31.
  2. ^ Jörg Adrian Huber: The Brothers Grimm in Kassel. Wartberg Verlag, Kassel 2007, p. 19.
  3. ^ Letter from Jacob Grimm to Wilhelm Grimm, quoted from Schede 2004, p. 44.
  4. ↑ Hock, p. 77.
  5. ↑ Schede 2004, p. 69.
  6. ↑ Schede 2004, p. 81.
  7. ↑ Before the personal acquaintance, the women had been in loose correspondence since April 1816.
  8. ↑ Annette von Droste-Hülshoff in letters
  9. ↑ Jörg Adrian Huber, pp. 43–45.
  10. ↑ Schede 2004, p. 99 f.
  11. ↑ Gerstner, p. 76 f.
  12. ↑ Gerstner, p. 76 f .; Schede 2004, p. 128.
  13. ↑ For a long time, historical- biographical research concentrated mostly on recording, considering and evaluating the historical context and the factual life story of the people it “examined” , mostly important personalities. In the meantime, she is increasingly taking the family, social and intellectual environment into account. The relational networks and the lifestyles of immediate reference persons as well as of "companions" (cf. Bettina Völter et al. (Ed.): Biographieforschung im Diskurs . VS Verlag , Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-531-14241-0 ), such as B. more distant relatives, teachers, sponsors and patrons, meanwhile a far greater importance than previously acknowledged for the personal development of the research subjects. Among other things, research developments in sociology, in which the fields of biography research and life course sociology deal with it, have contributed to this; see. Reinhold Sackmann: CV analysis and biography research. An introduction . VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-531-14805-2 , p. 9 ff.
  14. ↑ Research Center Humboldt University Berlin ( Memento of the original dated November 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.grimmbriefwechsel.de
  15. ^ Christian Jansen : Review by Ewald Grothe (ed.), Correspondence with Ludwig Hassenpflug .
personal data
SURNAME Grimm, Charlotte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grimm, Charlotte Amalie; Hassenpflug, Charlotte Amalie (later name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sister of the Brothers Grimm
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH Steinau an der Straße
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 1833
Place of death kassel