Maria Fehling

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Maria Fehling's grave in Fehling's hereditary burial

Maria Fehling (born February 15, 1890 in Lübeck , † April 9, 1929 in Munich ) was a German historian and author.

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Maria was the daughter of the Lübeck mayor Emil Ferdinand Fehling and his wife Ada Marie Caroline (1853–1906), the only daughter of the poet Emanuel Geibel . The actor and director Jürgen Fehling was her brother. She studied from 1919 History at the University of Hamburg and was established in 1922 at the University of Tübingen with a dissertation on Bismarck's knowledge of history Dr. phil. PhD.

Through the mediation of Ida Boy-Ed , she got a job as a publishing editor at Cotta-Verlag . In 1925 she published a volume of the letters to Cotta here .

She lived in simple circumstances in Munich and was close to the circle around Stefan George ; Renata von Scheliha , with whom she was a long-term friend, and the brothers Berthold and Claus von Stauffenberg were introduced to the group through Albrecht von Blumenthal , their “friend and spiritual advisor”.

Like her mother, who died in a sanatorium , and her brother Jürgen, Maria Fehling suffered from clinical depression . She died in 1929 by suicide and was buried in the family grave at the Lübeck Burgtorfriedhof .

According to Wolfgang Frommel , Maria Fehling was one of "those forgotten to whom her surviving friends should erect a stele of remembrance before it is too late".

Fonts

  • Bismarck's knowledge of history. Stuttgart; Berlin: JG Cotta'sche Buchh. Nachf. 1922 Zugl .: Tübingen, Phil. Diss.
  • (Ed.) Letters to Cotta. Volume 1: The Age of Goethe and Napoleon 1794–1815 Stuttgart: JG Cotta'sche Buchh. Followed up in 1925 ( dedicated to Adolf Kröner on the centenary of the Börsenverein )

literature

  • Momme Mommsen (Ed.): Renata von Scheliha, 1901–1967: Memorial Book (=  Castrum Peregrini . Volume 104-105 ). 2nd Edition. Wallstein Verlag, Amsterdam / Göttingen 1972, ISBN 978-3-8353-0386-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Hamburg matriculation portal, accessed on August 7, 2019
  2. ↑ a b Momme Mommsen (Ed.): Renata von Scheliha, 1901–1967: Memorial Book (=  Castrum Peregrini . Volume 104-105 ). 2nd Edition. Wallstein Verlag, Amsterdam / Göttingen 1972, ISBN 978-3-8353-0386-7 , p. 116 .
  3. ^ Peter Hoffmann: Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg and his brothers. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 1992, ISBN 978-3-421-06533-9 , p. 50
personal data
SURNAME Fehling, Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and author
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 1929
Place of death Munich