Marianne Strauss
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Marianne Strauss (born April 21, 1930 in Rott am Inn ; † June 22, 1984 near Kreuth ) was a German economist and investor. She was married to the politician Franz Josef Strauss .
Life
Born as the daughter of the entrepreneur and politician Max Zwicknagl , a founding member of the CSU , and his wife Ilse (née Klöckner), Marianne Strauss attended Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich .
On June 4, 1957, the graduate economist with English and French interpreting exams married the 41-year-old Federal Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss.
In 1959 the first son Maximilian Josef was born, in 1961 the second son Franz Georg and in 1962 the daughter Monika .
As the wife of the Bavarian Prime Minister , Strauss was primarily involved in the social field. To commemorate this commitment, the Marianne Strauss Foundation was set up by her children after her death , which works primarily for people with multiple sclerosis , people with disabilities and the elderly. The Marianne Strauss Clinic on Lake Starnberg came into being through this commitment .
Marianne Strauss also managed the family fortune. She invested in real estate in southern France, Rottach-Egern and Munich. In the 1970s, in addition to shares in a department store chain, it held a 16 percent stake in the Pegulan subsidiary Dyna-Plastik-Werke, founded by Fritz Ries . With a friend of her husband's, Karlheinz Schreiber , she also invested money in real estate speculative deals in Edmonton , Canada.
In addition to her family asset management, she also looked after donations from the CSU . She found support from a friend from her student days, the lawyer and later CSU member of the Bundestag Reinhold Kreile , and the financial advisor Wolfgang Pohle . With the help of the two of them, she acquired donations from companies in which the Free State of Bavaria had shares or which were related to the CSU.
Marianne Strauss died on the evening of June 22, 1984 after a car accident between Rottach-Egern and Kreuth , near the hamlet of Scharling. Why she got off the road with her vehicle that night could never be explained.
Awards
- Bavarian Order of Merit (posthumous)
- 1983: Bavarian State Medal for Social Merit
Movies
- The leader - Franz Josef Strauss. TV docudrama , ARD 2015. Script: Werner Biermann; with Edith Konrad as Marianne Strauss
literature
- Bernt Engelmann: Black Book Helmut Kohl, How it all began. , Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3-882-43728-6
- Bernt Engelmann: Great Federal Cross of Merit . , AutorEdition, Darmstadt 1974, ISBN 3-570-02259-5
Web links
- Website of the Marianne Strauss Foundation
- “It was completely different for me”, In: Die Zeit , June 25, 2011 (Interview by Tina Hildebrandt and Tanja Stelzer with Monika Hohlmeier ).
- Marianne Strauss in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ millions abroad . In: Der Spiegel . No. 15 , 1976, p. 99-104 ( online - April 5, 1976 ). See e.g. B. Bernt Engelmann: Great Federal Cross of Merit. Authors Edition, Darmstadt 1974, ISBN 3-570-02259-5 . Werner Biermann: Strauss. The rise and fall of a family. Rowohlt Verlag 2006, p. 219ff.
- ↑ Werner Biermann: Strauss. The rise and fall of a family. Rowohlt Verlag 2006, p. 230ff.
- ↑ Marianne Strauss . In: Der Spiegel . No. 27 , 1984, pp. 172 ( online ). The death of the mother of the country. In: Münchner Merkur , June 22, 2009.
- ↑ https://www.merkur.de/lokales/region-tegernsee/kreuth-ort65894/franz-josef-strauss-tegernsee-litzer-besuch-5492946.html
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Strauss, Marianne |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zwicknagl, Marianne (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German economist, wife of Franz Josef Strauss |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 21, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rott am Inn |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 22, 1984 |
| Place of death | at Kreuth |