Wilhelmine Luise Mencken
(1789–1839)
BIRTH
February 24, 1789
PLACE
Potsdam, Prussia
DEATH
January 1, 1839
PLACE
Berlin, Prussia
FAMILY
MOTHER
Otto von Bismarck
(1815-1898)
HUSBAND
Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand von Bismarck
(1771–1845)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Wilhelmine Luise Mencken was the mother of Otto von Bismarck and wife of the landowner Ferdinand von Bismarck. She came from a family of Prussian civil servants.
EARLY LIFE
Deutsche Biographie names her father as Anastasius Ludwig Mencken, a Prussian cabinet councillor.
CAREER
DEATH
Wilhelmine Luise Mencken von Bismarck died in Berlin on January 1, 1839, aged 49. The Otto von Bismarck Foundation notes that her husband had transferred management of the Pomeranian estates to their sons shortly before her death. Later accounts report cancer, but the consulted archival record does not establish a diagnosis.
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