Rosie Goldschmidt Waldeck (August 24, 1898[1] – August 8, 1982[2]) born Rosa Goldschmidt, also known as Rosie Waldeck and by several other variants of her name, was a German-born American author of several works including Prelude to the past; the autobiography of a woman and Athene Palace.
[3] The former narrates, among other things, the 1930 spy trial involving Berlin publisher Ullstein-Verlag (she was married at the time to Dr. Franz Ullstein, a son of Leopold Ullstein); the latter narrates events in elite diplomatic circles in Bucharest, Romania during World War II.
[5][6] She was born into a banking family, and in 1920 received a doctorate in sociology from the University of Heidelberg, where she studied under Alfred Weber.
She was in Bucharest from June 1940 to January 1941 as a correspondent for Newsweek:[7] Her book Athene Palace narrates this sojourn; the title refers to the Athénée Palace hotel, "short of one 'e' and of accents for no other reason than simplicity and readability.
She was earlier married to German-born medical doctor and scientist Ernst Gräfenberg[9] and to the aforementioned Dr. Franz Ullstein.