Adele Osterloh

The writer had three daughters: Edith,[10] Paula and Ada (Adele).[11] Her eldest daughter Edith (1878-1922), married Benn, 14 years after the accidental death of her first husband,[12] Fritz Brosin († 1900) and her work as a theatre actress, the physician, poet and essayist Gottfried Benn. The journalist Nele Benn was her granddaughter.

The middle daughter Paula (1882–1968) married Carl Julius Stübel (1877–1974), a lawyer with a doctorate, in 1906 and was an artist under the name Stübel-Osterloh who took part in exhibitions of the Berlin Secession.[13]

The youngest daughter Ada (Adele) lived temporarily with her two sisters in the garden city Hellerau.[14] Her husband since 1910 was Georg Alfred Stübel (1880–1915), a doctor of law. He was killed in action in the First World War on 20 June 1915 in Lorraine. He is commemorated by a memorial plaque at the Johannis Cemetery in Dresden.[15] After taking up her studies at the Veterinary College in Dresden in 1916, Ada Stübel switched to human medicine at the universities in Freiburg, Leipzig and Jena. There she passed the medical state examination in 1920 and was awarded her doctorate at the Thuringian State University in 1921 with a dissertation on varicose veins and pregnancy.[16] Ada Stübel had obtained her research results by evaluating 48 varicose vein cases in the University Surgical Clinic under Director Professor Nicolai Guleke (1878-1958). When she submitted her doctoral thesis, A. Stübel had been employed at the Jena "Physiological Institute" as an assistant doctor since May 1921.[17] She looked after her seven-year-old niece Nele Benn, especially when Edith Benn, née Osterloh, widowed Brosin, was taken in by the senior physician at the Jena University Surgical Clinic, Professor Georg Magnus (1883-1942), for a bilious complaint in November 1922. After the operation, however, Edith Benn died.[18] In the second half of the 1920s, A. Stübel moved to Mainz and worked there as an ophthalmologist[19] and in between, due to the war, in Lichtenberg (Fischbachtal).[20] In the 1960s, her nephew, Christian Stübel (1906-1983), a doctor of law, the son of her sister Paula and grandson of Adele Osterloh, also lived in Mainz.[21]

A brother-in-law of the poet, a brother of her husband Paul, was Gustav Eduard Osterloh (1842–1903), Major General at disposition[22] since 1902 and previously lieutenant-colonel in the 2nd Field Artillery Regiment No. 28 from 1890. He lived with his wife Therese and daughter Hildegard in Leipzig, the birthplace of Osterloh's husband.

The burial of the poet took place on 10 January 1946 at the Johannisfriedhof in Dresden.[23] She was 89 years old.