Katharina von Kardorff-Oheimb

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Katharina von Oheimb

Katharina Franziska Paula Maria "Kathinka" von Kardorff-Oheimb , born. van Endert (born January 2, 1879 in Neuss ; † March 22, 1962 in Düsseldorf ) was a German politician ( DVP ), entrepreneur and salon lady .

Life

Katharina von Kardorff-Oheimb was the daughter of the furniture and silk goods manufacturer Rudolf van Endert (1835–1881) and his wife Elisabeth (1847–1928). She had nine siblings, three of whom died in childhood; her older sister was the opera singer Elisabeth Böhm van Endert . After the early death of her father, she grew up with her mother, who continued the company in Neuss.

Katharina received private tuition from senior teachers and Catholic clergy in her parents' house up to secondary school , passed the final examination at a grammar school in Münster in 1894 and attended the Ursuline convent school in Lyon from 1895 to 1897 . Educational trips that she undertook with her mother and two sisters took her to Italy and France.

At the age of 19 she married Felix Daelen , who has a doctorate in engineering and who acquired Glyco-Metallgesellschaft in 1915 . In 1905 she left Felix Daelen, went to Noordwijk for some time and worked, among other things, as a saleswoman in Ostend . The marriage with Daelen was culpably divorced in 1906 because of the relationship with Ernst Albert (1877–1911) - who was already the father of her son Paul Felix. Daelen received custody of all four children born in the marriage.

Kardorff-Oheimb entered into a second marriage with Ernst Albert, a son of the industrialist Heinrich Albert and Antonie Anthes , with the disapproval of his parents and their mother, from which a son and a daughter came. After her husband had a fatal accident while mountain climbing in the Dolomites (Tyrol) in 1911 , after intense inheritance disputes with the Albert family, she took over the management of the ceramic factories of the chemical works H. & E. Albert in Klingenberg am Main , Worms and Offstein .

A year later she married the manor owner Hans Joachim von Oheimb , a friend of her late husband. The marriage was divorced in 1921. Her fourth marriage was in 1927 with her former parliamentary group colleague in the Reichstag, Siegfried von Kardorff (1873-1945), who served as second vice-president of the Reichstag in the later 1920s.

Kardorff-Oheimb was politically active, founded the Association for Maternity Protection with Helene Stöcker , organized political courses for women and successfully ran for the DVP in the Reichstag. She traveled through German cities as a sought-after speaker, completed the airship exam and explored African countries, China and India. She was an avid hunter throughout her life.

Katharina von Kardorff-Oheimb lived in Berlin and Goslar for many years . She died in Düsseldorf in 1962 and was buried in the main cemetery in Neuss.

Political activities

Katharina von Kardorff-Oheimb was active in the bourgeois women's movement and joined the national liberal German People's Party (DVP) founded in 1918 after the First World War . A year later she participated in the founding of the National Association of German Women and Men , which she later chaired. In addition, she led political training courses in her villa at Oberer Triftweg 30 in Goslar . Her courses served the political emancipation of women. In addition, she worked as a lecturer at the Lessing University in Berlin .

Kardorff-Oheimb was a member of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic from 1920 to 1924 - as one of 36 women among a total of 466 members . In parliament she represented constituency 11 (Magdeburg). For the Reich presidential election in 1925 , she advocated the nomination of Reich Defense Minister Otto Geßler as a joint candidate for the SPD, DDP, Zentrum and DVP. However, after the party leadership of the DVP around Gustav Stresemann had voted for Paul von Hindenburg as a candidate, they resigned from the party and became a member of the economic party . Her membership there ended in 1927. Three years later she took over the chairmanship of the National Working Group. In 1931 she was employed as secretary for the Pro Palestine Committee .

Kardorff-Oheimb did essential political work from 1919 until a writing ban was imposed on her, including articles for the Magdeburgische Zeitung and the lively correspondence she maintained with political leaders such as Stresemann, Ebert and Löbe. In 1924 she founded the Allgemeine Bildzeitung , which she acted as editor and publisher. In the German Reichstag she appeared with clear statements of opinion and was the only one of her faction to vote for criminal prosecution of the putschist Ludendorff or for the acceptance of the London ultimatum in 1923.

During the years of the Weimar Republic, she ran one of the most important political salons in Berlin society, which was first run in her house on Kurfürstendamm 181 (1919–1926) and later moved to her new apartment at 32 Matthäikirchstrasse . Kardorff-Oheimb's wide-ranging social and political activity - including being on the prominent board of the East Prussian Aid - prompted Kurt Tucholsky in 1930 to write the satirical poem To Frau von Oheimb . In addition, the salon business enabled her to make contact with leading personalities from industry, politics and the military. In 1937 she gave a large reception to which the Soviet ambassador and prominent Jewish bankers such as Dreyfus , Schwabach and Arnhold were invited.

After the National Socialists came to power , Kardorff-Oheimb's political activity ended for twelve years. After the Second World War , she was appointed mayor of Ahrensdorf for a short time in 1945 by the Soviet occupation authorities . She joined the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and was chairwoman of the women's working group of the Berlin LDP regional association. In 1947 she left the party. Two years later she moved to Düsseldorf.

Children and offspring

Kardorff's uncle had a total of six children. In her marriage to Felix Daelen, the children Vital (* 1900), Katja (* 1901), Maria (* 1903) and Paul Felix (* 1905) were born, Paul Felix was already a son of Ernst Albert. The children Heinz (* 1908) and Elisabeth (1910–2013), who later married the conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler , came from her marriage to Albert . Kardorff-Oheimb is therefore the grandmother of actress Kathrin Ackermann and great-grandmother of actress Maria Furtwängler .

Fonts

  • Politics and life confession. Edited by Ilse Reicke. Paul Georg Hopfer-Verlag, Tübingen undated (1962).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Cornelia Baddack: Katharina von Kardorff-Oheimb (1879–1962) in the Weimar Republic: company heir , member of the Reichstag, founder of a society , political salon and journalist . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2016, ISBN 978-3-8470-0614-5 ( google.de [accessed June 19, 2020]).
  2. ^ Catalog of the German National Library
  3. ↑ Katharina von Kardorff-Oheimb - Munzinger biography. Retrieved June 19, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Hessian Wirtschaftsarchiv - glyco-ferrous metal works. Retrieved June 19, 2020 .
  5. ^ Hannelore Giesecke: Emilie. A quiet farewell. Norderstedt 2009, p. 99 ff., Online ; Klaus Lang: Elisabeth Furtwängler. 95 years old girl? Neckenmarkt 2007, p. 18 ff. Elisabeth Furtwängler states in her book that her mother left her first husband for financial reasons because Albert was a millionaire. Later there was a legal dispute between Katharina von Kardorff-Oheimb and her children over the grandmother's inheritance, which lasted for years.
  6. ↑ Petra Wilhelmy: The Berlin Salon in the 19th Century (1789-1914). Berlin / New York 1989, p. 700, online .
  7. ^ Kurt Tucholsky: To Frau von Oheimb.
personal data
SURNAME Kardorff-Oheimb, Katharina von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kardorff, Kathinka von; Kardorff, Katharina von; Oheimb, Katharina von; Daelen, Katharina; Albert, Katharina; Endert, Katharina van (maiden name); Kardorff-Oheimb, Katharina Franziska Paula Maria von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (DVP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuss
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1962
Place of death Dusseldorf