Background
Mathilde Spiess was born in Hesse in central Germany, the daughter of Bernhard Spiess, a Lutheran minister. After initially training as a girls' school teacher she went on to achieve a PhD degree in neurology and became a strong critic of the religions in existence in the Germany of her time. She officially left Lutheranism in 1913. She married lecturer Gustav Adolf von Kemnitz in 1904 before graduating in 1913 with a thesis examining the hereditary nature of mental differences between the sexes. Widowed in 1917, she married Edmund Georg Kleine in 1919 and divorced him two years later. She got to know Erich Ludendorff through Gottfried Feder before marrying him in Tutzing.
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