Thursday, March 27
Director of Checkpoint Charlie museum gives birth to her 10th child at 66 years old
Alexandra Hildebrandt is the director of one of Berlin’s most-visited memorials, the Checkpoint Charlie Museum, which reportedly attracts 600,000 visitors each year and has been described as among the most commercially successful museums in Europe, earning seven-figure profits. Its director is also a new mother. Hildebrandt has recently welcomed her 10th child at the age of 66.
This is Hildebrandt’s eighth child since her 53rd birthday. All of these late pregnancies have come during her second marriage, to the former CDU politician Daniel Dormann, with whom she has recently bought a new house in Zehlendorf. Talking to Tagesspiegel, Hildebrandt commented that the new home is large enough for each child to have their own room.
Perhaps understandably, her doctor seems quite proud of himself. “She is the oldest pregnant woman I have cared for at the Charité,” said Wolfgang Henrich, director of the Charité’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, who knows Hildebrandt well, having performed all eight of her caesarean sections.
