Mathilde Ludendorff
Mathilde Ludendorff | |
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Dr. med. Mathilde Ludendorff, 1933 (portrait by Ada von Pagenhardt) | |
| Born | Mathilde Spieß 4 October 1877 |
| Died | 24 June 1966 (aged 88) |
| Occupation | Psychiatrist |
| Spouses | Gustav Adolf von Kemnitz
(m. 1904; died 1917)Edmund Georg Kleine
(m. 1919; div. 1921) |
| Children | 3 |
Mathilde Friederike Karoline Ludendorff (born Mathilde Spieß; 4 October 1877 – 24 June 1966) was a German psychiatrist and author on several subjects such as philosophy, politics, and religion. She was a leading figure in the Völkisch movement known for her unorthodox (esoteric) and conspiratorial ideas. Her third husband was General Erich Ludendorff. Together with Ludendorff, she founded the Bund für Gotteserkenntnis (Society for the Knowledge of God), a small and rather obscure esoterical society of theists, which was banned from 1961 to 1977.