Mathilde von Keller

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Mathilde von Keller

Mathilde Amalie Ida Countess von Keller (born January 1, 1853 in Erfurt , † November 4, 1945 in Potsdam ) was court lady of the German Empress and Queen of Prussia , Auguste Viktoria .

Mathilde von Keller was the daughter of Gustav Graf von Keller , a member of the Paulskirchenparlaments 1848/49, and his second wife Mathilde von Grolman. The unmarried countess began her service in February 1881 for the wedding of Prince Wilhelm, later Emperor Wilhelm II , with Princess Auguste Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein. Together with the court ladies Therese Countess von Brockdorff and Claire Countess von Gersdorff , she belonged to the closest circle of the imperial family for decades. Scoffers secretly called these three women "the three Hallelujah aunts", probably because of their religiously conservative attitude.

Mathilde von Keller followed the Empress as the only lady in court on November 10, 1918, into exile in Holland . Her service ended there when Auguste Viktoria died in April 1921. Countess Keller returned to Germany, lived in the Hofdamenhaus in Potsdam and wrote her memoirs for 40 years in the service of the Empress . Her grave is in the Bornstedter Friedhof in Potsdam and can still be visited today.

literature

  • Mathilde Countess von Keller: Forty Years in the Service of the Empress: A cultural picture from the years 1881–1921 . Koehler & Amelang, Leipzig 1935.
  • From the life of a lady of the court: Countess Mathilde von Keller on the 65th year of death: New Erfurter Stadtbote No. 2/2010 Hans-Peter Brachmanski & Freundeskreis Schloss Stedten

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://merkelstiftung.de/Familie/Familiendaten/getperson.php?personID=I46145&tree=PWMerkel
  2. ↑ cf. John Röhl : Emperor, Court and State. Wilhelm II and German politics . Munich 1988, p. 90.
personal data
SURNAME Keller, Mathilde von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Keller, Mathilde Countess of (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lady-in-waiting of Empress Auguste Viktoria, Queen of Prussia
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt
DATE OF DEATH November 4, 1945
Place of death Potsdam