Hildegard Kwandt
Hildegard Kwandt (also: Hildegard Quandt, * 1906 in East Prussia ; † 2000 in Berlin ) was a German beauty queen and model in the late 1920s.
Life
On 5 March 1927, the 21-year-old from East Prussia who still do not live long in Berlin, in a noisy "Night of Women" was part of the annual masks redoute in Berlin Sports Palace with a flower crown to the first Miss Germany crowned.
At the time, critics complained that the nationwide title was too high because the candidates mainly came from the Berlin working-class districts around the Sportpalast. This became clear immediately after the election: Among the non-elected there were many participants who vented their displeasure with the defeat with such coarse words that the Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger demanded the character evaluation of the candidates: Even if their appearance had triumphed, they would never have the inner justification to represent their fatherland as an ideal figure.
After her election, the first Miss Germany received not only congratulatory telegrams from all over Germany, but also over 200 offers for engagements. After its examination by the event committee, the East Prussian Mint Palace in Königsberg emerged victorious from the contract negotiations for the beauty queen .
It was also worthwhile for Kwandt. For example, she received a fee of 250 Reichsmarks for an evening fashion show on the occasion of the German Theater Exhibition in Magdeburg in 1927 (for comparison: the average weekly wage of a metalworker in Germany was 50 marks). Her photo adorned many front pages, from the Jung-Mädchenpost to the Deutsche Radio-Illustrierte . It was also modeled by the well-known Berlin sculptor Ernesto de Fiori , who was on the jury alongside boxing idol Max Schmeling on the day of the election .
Winning the title took Hildegard Kwandt throughout Germany and America in 1927/28. At the beginning of 2000, her son found his mother's suitcase - filled with many mementos of her choice - in the attic in Berlin. Below was a cockade with an attached bow. This bears the inscription MISS GERMANY - a later proof that she already received this title back then (and not Miss Germany or Miss Germany , as she was dubbed in the press at the time).
literature
- Veit Didczuneit, Dirk Külow: Miss Germany. The German beauty queen . S & L MedienContor, Hamburg, 1998; ISBN 3-931962-94-6
Web links
- Hildegard Quandt in the Miss Germany exhibition in the House of German History, Bonn
- Entry on the Miss Germany website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Landsmannschaftliche work regional groups. In: Preußische Allgemeine Zeitung of July 4, 2015, p. 16.
| predecessor | Office | Successor |
|---|---|---|
| -.- |
Miss Germany 1927 |
Hella Hoffmann , Margarete Grow |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kwandt, Hildegard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Quandt, Hildegard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German beauty queen and photo model |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | East Prussia |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2000 |
| Place of death | Berlin |