16 Facts About Agnes Miegel

Agnes Miegel was a German author, journalist and poet.

Agnes Miegel is best known for her poems and short stories about East Prussia, but for the support she gave to the Nazi Party.

Agnes Miegel was born on 9 March 1879 in Konigsberg into a Protestant family.

Agnes Miegel's parents were the merchant Gustav Adolf Miegel and Helene Hofer.

Agnes Miegel did not complete a course at an agricultural college for girls near Munich.

Agnes Miegel's mother died in 1913, her father in 1917.

Agnes Miegel lived in Konigsberg until just before it was captured in 1945, and wrote poems, short stories and journalistic reports.

Agnes Miegel signed the Gelobnis treuester Gefolgschaft, the 1933 declaration in which 88 German authors vowed faithful allegiance to Adolf Hitler.

Agnes Miegel was considered the voice of the Heimatvertriebene, the German-speaking people who had lived before the war in Czechoslovakia and Poland and in parts of Germany annexed by Poland and the Soviet Union after the war, who had to leave when Nazi Germany was defeated.

Agnes Miegel died on 26 October 1964 in a hospital in Bad Salzuflen.

Agnes Miegel regularly wrote for newspapers and magazines.

Agnes Miegel's best known stories and poems are melancholic reflections on her Heimat that had been destroyed and was now forever out of reach.

Agnes Miegel was not vindictive towards the Russians and Poles who had taken possession of East Prussia.

Agnes Miegel refused to account for her doings during the Nazi era.

Agnes Miegel was ranked as one of the six greatest German writers.

Agnes Miegel's reputation was badly damaged when her poems to Hitler were rediscovered and published on the internet in the 1990s.