Agnes von Zahn-Harnack
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Memorial plaque, 24 Dorotheenstrasse, Berlin
Agnes von Zahn-Harnack (19 June, 1884, Gießen – 22 May 1950, Berlin) was German teacher, writer and bourgeois women's rights activist.
She was the daughter of the theologian Adolf von Harnack (1851–1930) and Amalie Thiersch (1858–1937). On 8 December 1919 she married Karl von Zahn (1877-1944) in Berlin. Her husband was a senior civil servant in the Weimar Republic's Ministry of the Interior.
She was chairwoman of the Bund Deutscher Frauenvereine from 1931 to its dissolution in 1933, when they chose to break the organisation up rather than continue under the supervision of the Nazi regime.
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