Edith von Coler

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Edith Von Coler
Born	Edith Heinemann 9 July 1895 Charlottenburg
Died	14 May 1949 Pyrmont
Other names	Edit Von Coler
Occupation	Journalist
Known for	"Salon spying"
Spouse	Ulrich von Coler
Children	Jutta Schröder
Parent(s)	Fritz Heinemann, Alice Heinemann
Espionage activity
Country	Germany, Romania
Allegiance	Nazi Germany
Agency	Gestapo, German Foreign Office, Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle
Service years	1933–41

Edith von Coler (also: Edit Von Coler; née Edith Heinemann, 9 July 1895 – 14 May 1949) was a German propagandist and embassy employee who acted as an unofficial diplomatic conduit in the Kingdom of Romania before and during World War II.

Family connections brought Von Coler to the attention of the Nazi Party, leading to the German Foreign Office sending her to Romania. There, she helped to resolve infighting in the German community and helped to negotiate the 1939 German–Romanian Economic Treaty which subjugated Romania to Nazi Germany.

Later, after Von Coler incurred the displeasure of Joachim von Ribbentrop, he recalled her to Germany, ending her career as a Nazi agent. The Allies briefly interned her at the end of World War II, and she died in 1949.

Described in the Anglo-American press as a "femme fatale" and a "German Mata Hari", Von Coler's work for Germany was more complex – one journalist who knew her said she was "as remote from Mata Hari as a panzer division of 1942 is from the cavalry of 1914".