Anna von Schlieffen

Anna von Schlieffen (1840-1942) was the wife of legendary German military leader Alfred von Schlieffen. Despite her husband's status and her own long life, very little recorded information about her survives. She and Alfred were married in 1868, and the marriage produced no children. Her husband predeceassed her in 1913.

Anna von Schlieffen in Southern Victory
Anna von Schlieffen (1840-1872) was the wife of Alfred von Schlieffen. The two were married for only four years before Anna died giving childbirth. While serving as German military attache in Washington, D.C. during the 1880s, Alfred von Schlieffen kept pictures of Helmuth von Moltke, Kaiser Wilhelm I, and Anna, the last of which was his one bit of sentiment he permitted himself.