3 Quotes & Sayings By Agnes Meyer

Agnes Meyer was born in 1892 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She married Hugo Ebeling, a German agricultural engineer, who was the son of the famous Austrian poet, Heinrich Ebeling. Mrs. Ebeling had three children, two of whom died in childhood Read more

After their marriage in 1913, the couple began living in Berlin where Mr. Ebeling worked as an agricultural engineer for the government of Austria-Hungary. During World War I, Mr.

Ebeling served on the Eastern Front with the Austro-Hungarian army and was captured by the Russians and transported to Siberia. Mrs. Ebeling's husband died of typhus while imprisoned at Krasnoyarsk.

Mrs. Meyer continued to live in Berlin after her husband's death and was active in charitable work around the city until 1938 when Hitler came to power and she was forced to escape with her children to Frankfurt am Main where they lived for six months before moving to Switzerland where she worked as translator for the American Embassy during World War II.

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There is a need for heroism in American life today. Agnes Meyer
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Fortunate are the people whose roots are deep. Agnes Meyer