Biography
Aenne Burda was born in Offenburg, German Empire. She chose her name after the popular song Änchen von Tharau. She was daughter of a train locomotive driver. She left her convent high school at the age of 17 and became a cashier at the Offenburg electricity company. In 1930 she befriended with printer and publisher Franz Burda II, son of Franz Burda I, the founder of the Burda Group. She married him a year later, on 9 July 1931. The couple had three sons, Franz (1932), Frieder (1936) and Hubert (1940). She was the mother-in-law of actress Maria Furtwängler.
She was strongly committed to charity work. The two foundations she established support young academics and seniors in her hometown of Offenburg respectively.
Aenne Burda died in her native Offenburg, Germany, at the age of 96 from natural causes.
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