Nina von Maltzahn

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Nina Freifrau von Maltzahn , b. Nina-Maria Gorrissen (born January 30, 1941 in New York City ) is an American patroness.

Life

Nina von Maltzahn comes from the German banking family Arnhold ( banking house Gebrüder Arnhold ). Her mother, the journalist Ellen Maria (1916–1996) was a daughter of Hans Arnhold and sister of Anna-Maria Kellen . After the National Socialists came to power, the family emigrated to Paris and in 1939 to the USA . Her father was the businessman Johann Friedrich Carpzov Gorrissen (* 1909 in Hamburg ; † 1967 there). Her parents married in London in April 1937.

She attended school up to the Baccalaureate in Geneva , where she studied English, French and German with the aim of becoming a simultaneous interpreter .

In 1970 she married and moved to Montevideo in Uruguay with her husband, a Berliner . After 13 years there and divorce, she returned to Switzerland, but kept a property on the Laguna del Sauce in Uruguay. She worked in marketing for Leading Hotels of the World . In 1990 she married Lothar von Maltzahn (* 1939 in Pinnow ), the brother of Hans Albrecht von Maltzahn, in Geneva .

Nina von Maltzahn is engaged in philanthropy in the USA and in Germany through the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation , whose foundation capital in 2017 was 1.5 billion US dollars. She is a member of the foundation board (trustee) of the American Academy in Berlin in the house of her grandparents, which she supported with a donation of 10 million US dollars and the financing of two scholarships ( Nina Maria Gorrissen Fellow in History ).

Since 2010 she has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia . At the end of her two-year term as Chair of the Board of Trustees, she announced her donation of US $ 55 million to the Curtis Institute in early 2016. This is the largest single donation since it was founded by Mary Louise Curtis Bok. The Curtis Institute of Music named the Nina von Maltzahn String Quartet Program and Curtis on Tour, the Nina von Maltzahn Global Touring Initiative, in her honor .

In Uruguay she supports schools through her Fundación Retoño .

Nina von Maltzahn lives in Klosterheide , New York City , Zurich and Uruguay.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility 1989 ISBN 9783798007000 , p. 231
  2. ↑ Biographical stations according to Nina von Maltzahn and the American Academy: The Generous Granddaughter , Tagesspiegel from July 9, 2016, accessed on July 30, 2019
  3. ↑ See flower carpets back in Schloss Kummerow , Nordkurier from August 13, 2018, accessed on July 30, 2019
  4. ↑ Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation , accessed July 30, 2019
  5. ^ Curtis Institute receives $ 55 million gift from departing board chair
  6. ↑ La baronesa de corazón charrúa , accessed July 30, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Maltzahn, Nina von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maltzahn, Nina Freifrau von (full name); Gorrissen, Nina-Maria (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American patroness
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City