In her autobiography Bilder meines Lebens (Pictures of My Life), Marianne Breslauer wrote of Saulmann that he was "an extraordinarily cultivated, successful man" who also possessed "a great sense of wit and comedy."

[2] In 1927, Agathe and Ernst Saulmann acquired from Louis Laiblin the "Erlenhof" estate on the outskirts of Pfullingen, which had previously served as an artists' colony and had been designed and built by the architect Theodor Fischer in 1904.

[1] They gradually furnished it with late Gothic sculptures, Renaissance paintings, 18th-century furniture, historic majolica vessels and other handicraft pieces.

Flying was considered an extravagant hobby for a woman and in the rural environment she also attracted attention with her appearance: she liked to wear pants and smoke a pipe.

After the adoption of the "Nuremberg Race Laws" of September 1935, which disenfranchised and discriminated against all Jews in Germany, the Nazi district leader of Reutlingen, Otto Sponer, incited the employees of the cotton weaving mill against Saulmann.

A few days before their escape, Agathe Saulmann wrote to the Munich art dealer Julius Harry Böhler: "We are currently in the process of selling our factory and dissolving our household.

[5] Under Italian fascism, various press organs, such as the anti-Semitic journal La difesa della razza, fomented anti-Jewish sentiment beginning in 1936.

According to the report of Felix de Marez Oyens, her daughter Nina survived in Switzerland, where her father took her when the Wehrmacht occupied the Netherlands in 1940.

[13] In appeal proceedings, Agathe Saulmann renounced her shares in the company in return for a settlement of 100,000 D-marks and moved to Baden-Baden.

[14] Agathe Saulmann's daughter, Nina de Marez Oyens, took up her mother's restitution claims and researched the art collection until the 1960s.

Now, through the illustrations of some objects in the Weinmüller catalog of 1936, it was possible to identify and find works of art that clearly came from the "Erlenhof": the Franconian alabaster sculpture of a Mother of God in the Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung;[16] the group of figures made of lime wood "Three Angels with the Christ Child", created around 1430/1340 in the circle of the Ulm painter-sculptor Hans Multscher, in the Bode-Museum[17] and a Renaissance chest in the Landesmuseum Münster.