Ria Maternus

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Entrance to the Maternus wine house (with the initials RM )

Ria Maternus (born October 13, 1914 in Neuwied ; † November 24, 2001 in Bonn ) was an innkeeper and owner of the celebrity restaurant Weinhaus Maternus in Bad Godesberg .

Life

The former convent student had a temperamental nature: in 1945 she once danced on the table with US General Patton . Patton had confiscated what was then the Binger Loch wine bar diagonally across from Bad Godesberg train station in 1945 and set up an officers' mess there. Her father, the innkeeper Gerhard Maternus, who had moved into the house in what was then Poststrasse (today Paul-Löbe-Strasse 2) with his family in 1931, initially rented the restaurant to the University of Bonn as a cafeteria branch after it was returned . At the beginning of the 1950s, daughter Maria took over the management of the restaurant.

In Maternus (also known as Bei Ria for short ), not only the people of Bonn met, but also many international politicians - including the then French President Charles de Gaulle and almost all American presidents of the post-war period. Political greats such as the CSU Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss (who had a regular seat under her mother's picture), Willy Brandt (whose wife Rut she preferred to him after the divorce) or Helmut Kohl (whom she personally did not like) gave up on her Latch in hand. Rainer Barzel , Kurt Biedenkopf , Hans-Dietrich Genscher and also Norbert Blüm , who wrote her a short obituary in the FAZ , were welcome guests.

After Bonn handed over the function of the capital to Berlin, this unique institution of the old Federal Republic continued to flourish for a while. Childless, she adopted her head chef Erwin Drescher in the last years of her life, who had remained loyal to her for decades and who ran the wine house in her favor until the end of October 2012. On November 16, 2012, the restaurant was reopened under new management, the interior largely unchanged.

Ria Maternus was buried on November 30, 2001 at the Elisabethstrasse cemetery in Neuwied.

Honors

Ria Maternus was knighted at the Confrérie des Chevaliers du Tastevin in Autun, France .

On September 3, 1974, she received the Federal Cross of Merit 1st class from the then Federal President Walter Scheel .

In 2003 the Godesberg station forecourt (formerly part of Moltkestrasse) was renamed Ria-Maternus-Platz .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary for Ria Maternus in DER SPIEGEL , 49/2001 (accessed December 6, 2011)
  2. ↑ Annemarie Hassenkamp: Women stand by their husbands. Portraits of German women entrepreneurs , Diederichs, Düsseldorf / Cologne 1966 (p. 107)
  3. ↑ Norbert Blüm: Obituary on the death of Ria Maternus in the FAZ (accessed on December 6, 2011)
  4. ↑ Informative article on history and closure
  5. ↑ The traditional restaurant in Bad Godesberg lives on , Bonner General-Anzeiger , accessed November 16, 2012, 9.45 p.m.
  6. ↑ Living room of the Bonn celebrities , Spiegel Online , accessed December 27, 2012, 8.45 p.m.
  7. ↑ Annemarie Hassenkamp: Women stand by their husbands. Portraits of German women entrepreneurs , Diederichs, Düsseldorf / Cologne 1966 (p. 109)
  8. ↑ Answer of the Office of the Federal President of April 19, 2012 on request ( memento of February 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on April 21, 2012
  9. ^ Ria-Maternus-Platz in the Bonn street cadastre

literature

  • Annemarie Hassenkamp: women stand by their husbands. Portraits of German women entrepreneurs. , Diederichs Verlag, Düsseldorf / Cologne 1966 (section: Ria Alzen-Maternus , pp. 105–114)

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personal data
SURNAME Maternus, Ria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maternus, Maria (real name); Alzen-Maternus, Ria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German innkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuwied
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 2001
Place of death Bonn