Margarete Winter
Anna Margarete Winter (family name according to Spiegel: Winter-Wachenfeld ), née Wachenfeld (born January 22, 1857 in Buxtehude ; † March 7, 1934 ibid) was a German leather manufacturer , one of the first women automobiles, and the author and saleswoman of what would later become the Berghof on the Obersalzberg to Adolf Hitler .
Life
Born in 1857 in Buxtehude as Margarete Wachenfeld, the future entrepreneur married the leather manufacturer Otto Asmus Winter (born March 22, 1855 in Altkloster ; † August 31, 1920 in Buxtehude).
Even at the time of the German Empire , Margarete Winter - one of the first women ever to drive her own car - took a trip through Europe in her 18/24 hp Opel motor vehicle in 1905 . In the same year she published her illustrated report on this tour, 5000 kilometers without a chauffeur .
After the death of her husband, who had previously been appointed commercial councilor, the widow, now known as Margarete Winter-Wachenfeld, offered her Landhaus Wachenfeld on Obersalzberg plus two days of land from Jakobsbichlfeld to the Jakobsbichlfeld under the cover name "Wolf" for years present Adolf Hitler . As a precaution, your notarial offer to sell to him on September 17, 1932 in the amount of 40,000 Reichsmarks , drawn up in front of the Prussian notary Heinrich Drewes in Stade , was based on a multiple value protection clause based on the gold price (1 mark equals 1/2790 kg of fine gold ) and stable currencies such as the US dollar , the Swiss franc or the Dutch guilder . Hitler only accepted the option after the National Socialists seized power on January 30, 1933 and after he was appointed German Chancellor. He expanded the country house in several stages into his second residence, the Berghof .
Margarete Winter died a good year after the sale, on March 7, 1934, in her hometown of Buxtehude.
Fonts
- Margarete Winter: 5000 kilometers by car without a chauffeur . Uhland'sche Buchdruckerei, Buxtehude / Stuttgart 1905 (The volume is only marked with the author's monogram MW on the cover and title page. A statement by the author is missing in both places.).
literature
- Bernd Utermöhlen : Margarete Winter - a motorist from Buxtehude , in: Heimatliches Buxtehude , ed. on behalf of the Heimatverein, Vol. 6 (2003), Buxtehude, ISSN 0437-1860 , pp. 217-230
- Bernd Utermöhlen: Margarete Winter - a motorist from Buxtehude , in Gert Schmidt (Ed.): Automobil und Automobilismus (= technology and society , year book 10), Frankfurt am Main; New York City: Campus-Verlag, 1999, ISBN 978-3-593-36366-0 and ISBN 3-593-36366-6 , pp. 271-280; Preview over google books
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Y: Nazi heritage / cover name Wolf / In these weeks the future of Hitler's Obersalzberg will be decided: Bonn and Washington argue about the renovation costs , in: Der Spiegel , edition 49/1994 of December 5, 1994; on-line
- ↑ a b c d e o.V. : Winter, Anna Margarete in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library (GWLB) in the version of July 11, 2006, last accessed on December 29, 2017
- ↑ above: Winter, Otto Asmus in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the GWLB in the version of October 6, 2005, last accessed on December 29, 2017
- ↑ Ulrich Chaussy : Neighbor Hitler: Führer Cult and Destruction of Home on Obersalzberg. 7. revised and updated edition, Ch. Links, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86153-704-5 , pp. 45 f., 81; limited preview in Google Book search
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Winter, Margarete |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Winter, Anna Margarete; Wachenfeld, Margarete; Wachenfeld, Anna Margarete; Winter Wachenfeld; Margarete |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German leather manufacturer, automobile pioneer and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 22, 1857 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Buxtehude |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 7, 1934 |
| Place of death | Buxtehude |