Charlotte Amalie Grimm

Charlotte Amalie "Lotte" Hassenpflug, née Grimm

Biography Charlotte Amalie Grimm, nicknamed Lotte, was the eighth of nine children born to Philipp and Dorothea Grimm; she was born 10 March 1793 in Steinau an der Straße. She was their only daughter and shared a close bond with her brothers Jacob and Wilhelm from a young age. making her the only remaining female family member. She had to run the household for the family until her marriage. The sudden responsibilities this entailed initially overwhelmed her, and during the immediate period after her mother's death, the siblings only managed to maintain family unity to a very limited extent. She would later receive written advice and financial support for running the household from her aunt, Henriette Philippine Zimmer, from Gotha.

Charlotte, Jacob, Wilhelm and Ludwig Emil Grimm formed a harmonious household from then on, which only ended when Charlotte left the shared household on the occasion of her marriage to Ludwig Hassenpflug in the summer of 1822. Only the departure of their sister apparently prompted Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm to consider their own marriage. She never recovered and died on 15 June 1833 aged 40.

Personal life On 2 July 1822, she married Ludwig Hassenpflug. They had six children together: Karl (5 January 1824 ‐ 18 February 1890), sculptor, died childless Agnes (11 December 1825 – 29 October 1829) Friedrich (10 September 1827 – 23 January 1892). Higher Regional Court Councillor in Breslau, married to Anna Volmar, daughter of a ministerial colleague of his father Bertha (27 April 1829 – 9 June 1830) Ludwig Werner (1 December 1831 – 11 October 1878), officer in the Austrian Navy, married, childless Dorothea (23 May 1833 – 1898)