Annie Höfken-Hempel

Anna "Annie" Else Helene Lisbeth Höfken-Hempel (; 18 May 1899 – 9 October 1965) was a German sculptor who specialised in wood and metal sculptures. An active participant in the visual culture of the Nazi regime, Höfken-Hempel created busts of key Nazi officials including Hitler, Göring and Goebbels.

Early life and education Anna Else Helene Lisbeth Hempel was born 18 May 1899 (Also cited as 1900.) In autumn 1940, Höfken-Hempel contacted Emil Georg Bührle and offered to create busts of him and his wife, Charlotte Schalk. Staying with the Bührle family for a number of months, the busts where later exhibited at the Kunsthaus Zürich in 1942. The project, which involved the destruction of the Thingspiele situated in the Palace's gardens and the creation of fountain by Höfken-Hempel, was scrapped by autumn 1943 due to intense bombing.

Personal life On 22 April 1922, Höfken-Hempel married Erich Julius Höfken, a physician, with whom she had one child.

In the late 1930s, Höfken-Hempel had an affair with Hjalmar Schacht. The affair contributed to Schacht's separation from his wife, Luise Sowa, in late 1938.