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4 unusual facts about Margret Boveri


Boveri

Margret Boveri (1900-1975), German journalist and publicist, daughter of Marcella O'Grady and Theodor Boveri

Marcella Boveri

Their daughter Margret Boveri (1900–1975) became one of the best-known post-war German journalists.

Margret Boveri

From 1934 she worked in the Foreign Affairs section of the Berliner Tageblatt newspaper, where she was promoted by the editor, Paul Scheffer.

She then took took up work as a report writer in the German embassy in Madrid before returning to Berlin in 1944 to work as a freelance writer with the National Socialist weekly Das Reich (newspaper).


Annemarie Schwarzenbach

In May 1942 in Lisbon she met the German journalist Margret Boveri, who had been deported from the USA (her mother, Marcella O'Grady, was American).


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