Anna Katharina Schönkopf

Anna Katharina Schönkopf (; 22 August 1746 – 20 May 1810) was the daughter of the pewterer and wine merchant Christian Gottlieb Schönkopf (; 1716–1791) and his wife Katharina Sibylla (; ; 1714–1790).

Käthchen Schönkopf as a figure in Goethe's life

Anna Katharina, who moved to her parents' hotel in 1766, was three years older than Goethe. She reacted rather reservedly to his declarations of love in the beginning. Her parents were kept in the dark about the unfolding love-affair, because a liaison of a girl of Anna Katharina's plain origin and the son of a patrician family might be seen as unsuitable to Goethe's station. Goethe communicated his wishes and feelings to his friend Ernst Wolfgang Behrisch (1738–1809 ), and sought Behrisch's advice in the issue. Goethe visited Anna Katharina in 1776, when he had moved to Weimar.