Agnes von Zahn-Harnack
Agnes von Zahn-Harnack | |
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Gießen, German Empire | |
| Died | 22 May 1950 (aged 65) |
| Nationality | German |
| Occupation(s) | Teacher Writer Women's rights activist |
| Parent | (father) |
Agnes von Zahn-Harnack (19 June, 1884,
German
teacher, writer and bourgeois women's rights activist.
Early life
She was the daughter of the
theologian Adolf von Harnack (1851–1930) and Amalie Thiersch (1858–1937). She was born Agnes Harnack as it was only in 1914 that her father was awarded the hereditary title of nobility. She attended two girls' high schools in Berlin-Charlottenburg between 1890 and 1900. She earned a doctorate in 1912 with a thesis on German romanticism.[1]
Career
As a young woman, von Harnack was principal of a girls' high school. She wrote about German women in wartime for Current History in 1916.[1]
Zahn-Harnack was chairwoman of the
Nazi regime
.
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Personal life
On 8 December 1919, Zahn-Harnack married Karl von Zahn (1877-1944) in Berlin, Germany. Zahn-Harnack's husband was a civil servant in the Weimar Republic's Ministry of the Interior.
References
- ^ a b von Harnack, Agnes, "The Civil Work of German Women in War Times" Current History 5(October 1916): 97.
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