Magdalene Countess of Stolberg-Wernigerode

Magdalene Countess zu Stolberg-Wernigerode (born May 5, 1875 in Rohrlach , Hirschberg district in the Riesengebirge , † October 14, 1955 in Wernigerode ) was the last abbess of the Drübeck Monastery .

Life

Grave site at the Drübeck cemetery

She was the second eldest daughter of Count Constantin zu Stolberg-Wernigerode , who worked for a certain time as President of the Prussian Province of Hanover . She remained unmarried and took over the management of the Protestant women's monastery in Drübeck. According to the list of party comrades who are members of princely houses, which emerged in the Second World War , she had been a member of the NSDAP since May 1, 1937 and was registered under the number 5.519.716 in the Gau Magdeburg-Anhalt . Even after the expropriation of the Fürst zu Stolberg-Wernigerode family in 1945, it remained in the Soviet occupation zone and later GDR . With the transition of the Drübeck monastery to a church foundation in 1946, her function as abbess ended. She stayed until her death on her retirement part in the monastery used as a church rest home.

literature

Margit Scholz: Stolberg-Wernigerode, Magdalene Countess too . In: Eva Labouvie (Ed.): Women in Saxony-Anhalt, Vol. 2: A biographical-bibliographical lexicon from the 19th century to 1945. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2019, ISBN 978-3-412-51145-6 , p. 431-433.

Individual evidence

^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 596.

personal data
SURNAME	Stolberg-Wernigerode, Magdalene Countess too
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Abbess of the Drübeck Monastery
DATE OF BIRTH	May 5, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rohrlach
DATE OF DEATH	October 14, 1955
Place of death	Wernigerode

[1] Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 596.