Edith Andreae

Edith Andreae, born Rathenau (18 January 1883–1952) was a German salonière. She was a literary executor and editor of the works of her brother Walther Rathenau. Edith Rathenau was born in 1883 in Berlin, only daughter of German-Jewish industrialist Emil Rathenau and his wife Mathilde Rathenau (born Nachmann), who belonged to a family descended from the rabbi Moses ben Nachmann - a mystic of the 12th century. She was the younger sister of politician Walther Rathenau and the industrialist Erich Rathenau. On 10 February 1902, she married banker Fritz Andreae, the son of the salonière Bertha von Arnswaldt and Karl Louis Andreae (1839–1878), whose family were descended from both Protestant theologian Jakob Andreae and his grandson, the Rosicrucian, Johann Valentin Andreae. In her youth Edith Andreae was a friend of Katia Mann.