Hauptmann, Anna (1898–1994)
Hauptmann, Anna (1898–1994)
German-born American wife. Born Anna Schoeffler, 1898, in Markgröningen, near Stuttgart, Germany; died in New Holland, Pennsylvania, Oct 10, 1994; came to US, 1923; married Bruno Richard Hauptmann (executed April 1936 as the murderer of the Lindbergh baby); children: son, Manfred.
For almost 6 decades, fought to clear husband's name in what was called by contemporaries "the crime of the century." By the time of her death, some doubts about his guilt had been raised by a number of well-researched and soberly argued books.
See also Ludovic Kennedy. The Airman and the Carpenter: The Lindbergh Kidnapping and the Framing of Richard Hauptmann (Penguin, 1986).
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