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alt="" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" /> <p>Hedwig (H盲schen) Potthast, the daughter of a sergeant-major in the German Army, was born in Cologne聽on 5th February, 1912. After high school she left home and trained in Mannheim聽as a bilingual secretary.</p> <p>Potthast <img decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-38293" src="https://ww2gravestone.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Bundesarchiv_Bild_N_1126_Bild-38-002_Hedwig_Potthast.jpg" alt="" width="142" height="171" />聽worked for SS Brigadef眉hrer <img decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-38294" src="https://ww2gravestone.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/330px-Anon.Schroeder-219x300.jpg" alt="" width="131" height="180" srcset="https://ww2gravestone.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/330px-Anon.Schroeder-219x300.jpg 219w, https://ww2gravestone.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/330px-Anon.Schroeder.jpg 330w" sizes="(max-width: 131px) 100vw, 131px" />聽Kurt von Schr枚der 聽before being employed by the Schutzstaffel聽(SS) in Berlin.</p> <p>After the war, Schr枚der was arrested and was tried by a German court for crimes against humanity. He was found guilty and was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment.聽Kurt von Schr枚der died on November 4, 1966, age 76.</p> <p>In 1934 Hedwig met <a href="https://ww2gravestone.com/people/himmler-heinrich-luitpold/"><strong>Heinrich Himmler</strong></a> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-36762" src="https://ww2gravestone.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/IMG_20150512_0005-300x281-300x281.jpg" alt="" width="127" height="119" /> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-79924" src="https://ww2gravestone.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/himmler-graf-met-foto-2.0-291x300.jpg" alt="" width="114" height="118" srcset="https://ww2gravestone.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/himmler-graf-met-foto-2.0-291x300.jpg 291w, https://ww2gravestone.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/himmler-graf-met-foto-2.0.jpg 342w" sizes="(max-width: 114px) 100vw, 114px" />12 years younger than him and she was 26 years old in 1938.and two years later he became his private secretary. Himmler confessed his love for her in 1938 but she did not become his mistress until the following year.</p> <p>Himmler’s wife, Magarete Himmler <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-38298" src="https://ww2gravestone.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Margaret_and_Gudrun_Himmler.jpg" alt="" width="197" height="157" />聽<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-38299" src="https://ww2gravestone.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/593148305d8dc1ca946ce6d11ec389d9-200x300.jpg" alt="" width="105" height="158" srcset="https://ww2gravestone.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/593148305d8dc1ca946ce6d11ec389d9-200x300.jpg 200w, https://ww2gravestone.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/593148305d8dc1ca946ce6d11ec389d9.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 105px) 100vw, 105px" />, and their daughter, Gudrun Himmler, and adopted son, Gerhard von Ahe <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-38300" src="https://ww2gravestone.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/himmler-1.jpg" alt="" width="105" height="103" />, lived in a large villa at Gmund聽on the Tegensee, a lake south-east of Munich聽enclosed by mountains. Himmler remained close to his daughter, who he phoned every few days and wrote to her at least once a week. Himmler adored his young, blue-eyed, blonde-haired daughter <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="300" height="158" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-38302" src="https://ww2gravestone.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/download-47-1-300x158.jpg" alt="" srcset="https://ww2gravestone.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/download-47-1-300x158.jpg 300w, https://ww2gravestone.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/download-47-1.jpg 310w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />聽and would often take her to official state functions.</p> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-38291" src="https://ww2gravestone.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/himmler-209x300.jpg" alt="" width="158" height="227" srcset="https://ww2gravestone.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/himmler-209x300.jpg 209w, https://ww2gravestone.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/himmler.jpg 239w" sizes="(max-width: 158px) 100vw, 158px" />聽聽<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-38304" src="https://ww2gravestone.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/hedrun-300x297.jpg" alt="" width="229" height="226" srcset="https://ww2gravestone.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/hedrun-300x297.jpg 300w, https://ww2gravestone.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/hedrun.jpg 462w" sizes="(max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px" /> <p>Himmler and Hedwig set up home in Mecklenburg. Hedwig gave birth to a son, Helge (born 1942) <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-38319" src="https://ww2gravestone.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Potthast_Helge_corr.jpg" alt="" width="86" height="125" />聽and a daughter, Nanette Dorothea (born 1944). <a href="https://ww2gravestone.com/people/heydrich-von-osten-lina-manninen/"><strong>Lina Heydrich</strong></a>聽<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-60046" src="https://ww2gravestone.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/0_0-300x267.jpg" alt="" width="105" height="93" srcset="https://ww2gravestone.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/0_0-300x267.jpg 300w, https://ww2gravestone.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/0_0.jpg 356w" sizes="(max-width: 105px) 100vw, 105px" /> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-82240" src="https://ww2gravestone.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/heydrich-osten-lina-graf-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="128" height="96" srcset="https://ww2gravestone.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/heydrich-osten-lina-graf-300x225.jpg 300w, https://ww2gravestone.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/heydrich-osten-lina-graf.jpg 640w" sizes="(max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px" />commented that Himmler become more relaxed and human as a result of his relationship with Hedwig. A girl who joined Himmler’s secretarial staff two years later and lived for long periods in his special train noticed that he kept H盲schen’s photograph in his desk and often, when he was working, took it out to look at it…. At one time, she said, he had wanted to divorce Marga to marry her. H盲schen had stopped him for Marga’s sake. It is more likely perhaps that he stopped himself for the reasons he had refused his adjutant <a href="https://ww2gravestone.com/people/wolff-karl-friedrich-otto-karele-wolffie/"><strong>Karl Wolff</strong></a>聽<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-63652" src="https://ww2gravestone.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/44fac62a80734452f357a191db5d4959-226x300-226x300.jpg" alt="" width="90" height="119" /> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-80860" src="https://ww2gravestone.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/wolff-Karl-graf-300x226.jpg" alt="" width="158" height="119" srcset="https://ww2gravestone.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/wolff-Karl-graf-300x226.jpg 300w, https://ww2gravestone.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/wolff-Karl-graf.jpg 632w" sizes="(max-width: 158px) 100vw, 158px" />permission to divorce. There must be no malicious gossip around the person of the Reichsfuhrer; he above all had to set an example of decency.”</p> <p>After the death of Heinrich Himmler聽on 22nd May 1945, Himmler’s mistress Hedwig Potthast聽lived in Rosenheim with Elonore Pohl <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-38306" src="https://ww2gravestone.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/media.media_.65ece61f-475a-48c7-973e-2ace6acdf7c4.normalized-300x198.jpg" alt="" width="180" height="119" srcset="https://ww2gravestone.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/media.media_.65ece61f-475a-48c7-973e-2ace6acdf7c4.normalized-300x198.jpg 300w, https://ww2gravestone.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/media.media_.65ece61f-475a-48c7-973e-2ace6acdf7c4.normalized.jpg 510w" sizes="(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px" />, the wife of SS Obergruppenf眉hrer Oswald Pohl<b>.聽Eleonore von Br眉ning, early widowed with a daughter and a convinced member of the NSDAP. Disgraceful and undesirable: in 1938, a girl was born in the Lebensbornheim Steinh枚ring: Heilwig Weger <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-38325" src="https://ww2gravestone.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/7b901fb022effd9e2db50d83758ca380-300x169.jpg" alt="" width="224" height="126" srcset="https://ww2gravestone.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/7b901fb022effd9e2db50d83758ca380-300x169.jpg 300w, https://ww2gravestone.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/7b901fb022effd9e2db50d83758ca380.jpg 460w" sizes="(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px" />聽 Four years later the mother Eleonore von Br眉ning married SS Obergruppenf眉her Oswahl Pohl</b></p> <p>According to Katrin Himmler <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-38308" src="https://ww2gravestone.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Katrin_Himmler_1.jpg" alt="" width="133" height="140" />, the granddaughter of Himmler’s brother Ernst <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-38315" src="https://ww2gravestone.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/tumblr_inline_ner7t02baq1sw25eu_original-210x300.jpg" alt="" width="106" height="151" srcset="https://ww2gravestone.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/tumblr_inline_ner7t02baq1sw25eu_original-210x300.jpg 210w, https://ww2gravestone.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/tumblr_inline_ner7t02baq1sw25eu_original.jpg 489w" sizes="(max-width: 106px) 100vw, 106px" />聽, the author of 聽<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-38309" src="https://ww2gravestone.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/51IXD82hUL._SX325_BO1204203200_-197x300.jpg" alt="" width="96" height="145" srcset="https://ww2gravestone.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/51IXD82hUL._SX325_BO1204203200_-197x300.jpg 197w, https://ww2gravestone.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/51IXD82hUL._SX325_BO1204203200_.jpg 327w" sizes="(max-width: 96px) 100vw, 96px" />聽The Himmler Brothers聽(2007) , Hedwig Potthast, did marry soon after the war but her husband died soon afterwards. His name gave her a new identity for her and her children. Her son was apparently in a poor state of health and remained with his mother. Her daughter trained and later practiced as a doctor. She remained friends with those Nazis who remained alive. This included Karl Wolff. Lina Heydrich and <a href="https://ww2gravestone.com/martin-bormanns-wife-gerda-buch/"><strong>Gerda Bormann</strong></a>聽<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-65073" src="https://ww2gravestone.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/5d1d24c77709136ed3925eb2806ed4b7-229x300.jpg" alt="" width="90" height="118" /> Hedwig Potthast died on 22 September 1994, age 82, in Baden-Baden..</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> </article>  <div class="left-content col-md-4"> <a href="https://ww2gravestone.com/category/blog/">gestapo</a> <a class="facebookbtn-link" href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https://ww2gravestone.com/heinrich-himmlers-mistress-hedwig-potthast/' target="blank"> <img src="https://ww2gravestone.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/ico-fb.jpg" alt=""> </a> <a class="twitterbtn-link" href='http://twitter.com/home?status=https://ww2gravestone.com/heinrich-himmlers-mistress-hedwig-potthast/' target="blank"> <img 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