Helene von Lebbin

Helene von Lebbin (born January 4, 1849 in Stralsund , † January 1, 1915 in Berlin ) was a German salonnière .

Life

Her father was the Prussian artillery officer and later General Staff officer Heinrich von Brandt (1823-1882), her mother Louise Helene Caroline, née von Seydewitz (1828-1898). General Heinrich von Brandt was her grandfather. In 1875, Helene married the lecturing council in the Ministry of the Interior Hermann von Lebbin (1819–1884), who later was the secret senior government and ministerial advisor in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was held down by Bismarck and died early. Through her husband she met the diplomat Friedrich von Holstein .

As a widow, she ran a political salon in her Berlin apartment at Wilhelmstrasse 76 from around 1890 , which was mainly attended by politicians and diplomats from the Foreign Office. She was also friends with the later Chancellor Leo von Caprivi . In 1909 she inherited the main written estate of Holstein , but kept it under lock and key because of its explosive content, before she passed it on to her banker friend Paul von Schwabach shortly before her death . Holstein had collected compromising facts - including from their private lives - from superiors and colleagues in the Foreign Office as well as from other people - including the Kaiser. Schwabach later claimed to have burned the papers before the 1918 revolution , but they reappeared. It was not published until half a century later, under the book title The Secret Papers of Friedrich von Holstein (four volumes, Göttingen 1956–1963).

literature

• German Biographical Encyclopedia .
• Erich Ekkehard (Ed.): Sigilla veri. 2nd edition, (by Philipp Stauff : Semi-Kürschner. Erfurt 1929, Volume 2, p. 984. Anti-Semitic publication).
• Petra Wilhelmy-Dollinger: The Berlin Salon in the 19th Century (1780-1914). (= Publications of the Historical Commission in Berlin. Volume 73). Berlin / New York 2000, p. 709.

Web links

• Literature about Helene von Lebbin in the state bibliography MV