Marianne von Weizsäcker

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Marianne von Weizsäcker receives a donation check from a representative of the Lions Club for the benefit of the Integration Aid Foundation for Formerly Addicts, 1990

Marianne Margarete Freifrau von Weizsäcker (born May 17, 1932 in Essen as von Kretschmann ) is the widow of the sixth German Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker .

Life

Marianne Freifrau von Weizsäcker is a descendant of Theodor von Kretschmann , who came from the Brandenburg Principality of Bayreuth and was ennobled by Prussia in 1801 , who was the leading minister and headed the administration of the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg-Saalfeld . Her father Hans-Oskar von Kretschmann (1903–1962) was a businessman and director of the Benzol Association in Hamburg . Her mother Asta von Kretschmann, b. Mohr (1908–1971), was an adopted daughter of Fritz von Waldthausen . Marianne von Weizsäcker is also a great niece of the social democratic women's rights activist Lily Braun . Marianne and Richard von Weizsäcker had been married since October 8, 1953.

After her husband became the governing mayor of Berlin in 1981 and Federal President in 1984 , she avoided conspicuous media presentations and concentrated on voluntary work , for example for the mothers' convalescence organization , which she took over as patron . Her skepticism was expressed, among other things, when Nancy Reagan organized a “drug summit” of 16 first ladies in 1986 and von Weizsäcker refused to market meetings with drug-addicted youngsters in a media-appropriate manner in such a way that cameras should be continuously held at the youngsters concerned.

Von Weizsäcker is an honorary member of the German committee for UNICEF . From 1985, she was the patron of the Federal Association of Parents' Groups of Young People at Risk and Addiction for ten years . In 1989 she founded the Marianne von Weizsäcker Foundation for Integration Aid for Former Addicts e. V. into life. Since 1973 she had been a member of the selection committee of the German National Academic Foundation and since 1979 its board of trustees. She was a member of the board of trustees of the Berlin Evangelical Johannesstift , the Association of Friends of the Prussian Palaces and Gardens and, from 1988, the National AIDS Foundation.

Since her husband left the office of Federal President in 1994, she has concentrated on her work for the Marianne von Weizsäcker Foundation for Integration Aid for Formerly Addicts. V. , of which she is the patron.

Her private interests are in the art, literature and painting of the 20th century. She lives in Berlin.

Marianne von Weizsäcker is the mother of four children:

Web links

Commons : Marianne von Weizsäcker  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Heike Specht: “Your side of the story. Germany and its First Ladies from 1949 until today ”, Piper-Verlag, Munich 2019. ISBN 978-3-492-05819-3

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag 1949–2002 . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-11-096905-X , p. 1091.
  2. ^ Marianne Margarete Kretschmann, * 1932. In: geneall.net. Retrieved May 1, 2017 .
  3. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume VII, Volume 97 of the complete series, Limburg an der Lahn, p. 9 f.
  4. ↑ Klaus Freiherr von Andrian-Werburg , "Kretschmann, Theodor von" in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 13 (1982), p. 12 f. ( Online version )
  5. ↑ family database NLF Family report Friedrich Wilhelm Hans Oskar OF Kretschmann
  6. ^ Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility, Freiherrliche Häuser B , Volume VI, Volume 62 of the complete series, Limburg an der Lahn 1976, p. 448
  7. ↑ Family data of the Martinszellerchen Family Foundation, by Kretschmann Hans-Oskar ( Memento of the original from February 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.martinszeller-verband.de archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on February 12, 2015)
personal data
SURNAME Weizsäcker, Marianne von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weizsäcker, Marianne Viktoria Armgard Helene Doria Freifrau von (full name); Kretschmann, Marianne Viktoria Armgard Helene Doria von (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician's wife, wife of the sixth German Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH eat