Her father died during World War I in Verdun, shortly before her younger brother Rudolf August Oetker was born.
From her father, she received a relatively meager inheritance in comparison to her brother.
[2][3] Most notably she inherited the Schwartauer Werke (jam manufacturing) which was financially destitute.
Her son, Arend Oetker, ultimately saved Schwartauer Werke from bankruptcy and developed it to market leader in Germany in the 1960s.
[4] They had five children: Oetker died in 2005 aged 90 in Lübeck.