Elsa Bruckmann

Elsa Bruckmann (23 February 1865 – 7 June 1946), born Princess Cantacuzène of Romania was the Munich publisher of Houston Stewart Chamberlain. She held the "Salon Bruckmann" and made it her mission to introduce Adolf Hitler to leading industrialists.

Biography

She was born in Traundorf near Gmunden in Upper Austria. Her father was Prince Theodore Cantacuzène, a Royal Bavarian Ulan officer. They were descendants of an old Greek Byzantine princely dynasty. Her mother was Countess Caroline Deym von Střitež, from a Bohemian-Austrian noble family. She married Hugo Bruckmann, a Munich art book publisher in 1898.

The Bruckmanns joined the Nazi Party in 1932, but this was back-dated to 1925 with honorary membership numbers 91 (Elsa) and 92 (Hugo).