Family
In 1895, Hugo Stinnes married Cläre Wagenknecht; the couple had seven children: Edmund (1896–1980), Hugo Hermann (1897–1982), Clärenore (1901–1990), Otto (1903–1983), Hilde (1904–1975), Ernst (1911–1986), and Else (1913–1997). Their daughter Clärenore was the first person to circumnavigate the world with an automobile in 1929. Hugo's oldest son, Edmund, married into a cultured, upper-class German family from Freibourg. Edmund's wife was Margianna Von Schulz Gaevertnitz, whose father, Gerhard Von Schulz Gaevertnitz, was a teacher and close personal friend of the eminent sociologist Max Weber. Gerhard's wife, Johanna, was an artist who played the piano with Brahms. Johanna's mother, Bertha Hirsch, was known as "Frau Kultur" (Madame Culture) and opened the first public library in Germany; Bertha's friends included Schiller and Goethe (Bertha had manuscript versions of some of Goethe's works). Edmund and Margiana had two daughters.
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