Mata Hari - Wikipedia Mata Hari Dutch exotic dancer and spy For other uses, see Mata Hari ( disambiguation ). Mata Hari Mata Hari in 1906 Margaretha Geertruida Zelle ( 1876 - 08 - 07 ) 7 August 1876 Leeuwarden, Netherlands 15 October 1917 ( 1917 - 10 - 15 ) ( aged 41 ) Vincennes, Paris, France Cause of death Execution by firing squad Nationality Dutch Occupation Exotic Dancer Courtesan Spy Height 5 ft 10 in ( 1.78 m ) Spouse ( s ) Rudolf John MacLeod ( m. 1895 ; div. 1906 ) Children Norman - John MacLeod ( son ) ( 30 January 1897 -- 27 June 1899 ) Louise Jeanne MacLeod ( daughter ) ( 2 May 1898 -- 10 August 1919 ) Parent ( s ) Adam Zelle ( father ) Antje van der Meulen ( mother ) Spying career Allegiance France Service Deuxième Bureau Active 1916 -- 1917 Margaretha Geertruida `` Margreet '' MacLeod ( née Zelle ; 7 August 1876 -- 15 October 1917 ), better known by the stage name Mata Hari ( / ˈmɑːtə ˈhɑːri / ), was a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who was convicted of being a spy for Germany during World War I and executed by firing squad in France. Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2.1 Dutch East Indies 2.2 Paris 2.3 Espionage 2.4 Trial and execution 2.5 Remains and 2017 French declassification 3 Legacy 3.1 Museum Exhibition 3.2 In popular culture 4 See also 5 References 6 External links Early life Margaretha Zelle was born 7 August 1876, in Leeuwarden, Netherlands. She was the eldest of four children of Adam Zelle ( 2 October 1840 -- 13 March 1910 ) and his first wife Antje van der Meulen ( 21 April 1842 -- 9 May 1891 ). She had three brothers. Her father owned a hat shop, made successful investments in the oil industry, and became affluent enough to give Margaretha a lavish early childhood that included exclusive schools until the age of 13. Despite traditional assertions that Mata Hari was partly of Javanese, i.e. Indonesian, descent, scholars conclude she had no Asian or Middle Eastern ancestry and both her parents were Dutch. Soon after Margaretha 's father went bankrupt in 1889, her parents divorced, and then her mother died in 1891. Her father remarried in Amsterdam on 9 February 1893 to Susanna Catharina ten Hoove ( 11 March 1844 -- 1 December 1913 ), by whom he had no children. The family fell apart, and Margaretha moved to live with her godfather, Mr. Visser, in Sneek. Subsequently, she studied to be a kindergarten teacher in Leiden, but when the headmaster began to flirt with her conspicuously, she was removed from the institution by her offended godfather. A few months later, she fled to her uncle 's home in The Hague. Career Dutch East Indies At 18, Zelle answered an advertisement in a Dutch newspaper placed by Dutch Colonial Army Captain Rudolf MacLeod ( 1 March 1856 -- 9 January 1928 ), who was living in what was then the Dutch East Indies ( now Indonesia ) and was looking for a wife. Zelle married MacLeod in Amsterdam on 11 July 1895. He was the son of Captain John Brienen MacLeod ( a descendant of the Gesto branch of the MacLeods of Skye, hence his Scottish name ) and Dina Louisa, Baroness Sweerts de Landas. The marriage enabled her to move into the Dutch upper class, and her finances were placed on a sound footing. They moved to Malang on the east side of the island of Java, traveling out on SS Prinses Amalia in May 1897, and had two children, Norman - John MacLeod ( 30 January 1897 -- 27 June 1899 ) and Louise Jeanne MacLeod ( 2 May 1898 -- 10 August 1919 ). Her children Louise Jeanne and Norman - John, with his father The marriage was an overall disappointment. MacLeod was an alcoholic and regularly beat his wife, who was twenty years younger and whom he blamed for his lack of promotion. He also openly kept a concubine, a socially accepted practice in the Dutch East Indies at that time. The disenchanted Zelle abandoned him temporarily, moving in with Van Rheedes, another Dutch officer. She studied the Indonesian traditions intensively for several months and joined a local dance company during that time. In correspondence to her relatives in the Netherlands in 1897, she revealed her artistic name of Mata Hari, the word for `` sun '' in the local Malay language ( literally, `` eye of the day '' ). At MacLeod 's urging, Zelle returned to him, but his behavior did not change. She escaped her circumstances by studying the local culture. In 1899, their children fell violently ill from complications relating to the treatment of syphilis contracted from their parents, though the family claimed they were poisoned by an irate servant. Jeanne survived, but Norman died. Some sources maintain that one of MacLeod 's enemies may have poisoned a supper to kill both of their children. After moving back to the Netherlands, the couple officially separated on 30 August 1902. The divorce became final in 1906. Zelle was awarded custody of Jeanne. MacLeod was legally required to pay support, which he never did, making life very difficult for Zelle and her daughter. During a visit of Jeanne with her father, MacLeod decided not to return Jeanne to her mother. Zelle did not have resources to fight the situation and accepted it, believing that while McLeod had been an abusive husband, he had always been a good father. Jeanne later died at the age of 21, also possibly from complications relating to syphilis. Paris Performing in 1905 In 1903, Zelle moved to Paris, where she performed as a circus horse rider using the name Lady MacLeod, much to the disapproval of the Dutch MacLeods. Struggling to earn a living, she also posed as an artist 's model. By 1905, Mata Hari began to win fame as an exotic dancer. She was a contemporary of dancers Isadora Duncan and Ruth St. Denis, leaders in the early modern dance movement, which around the turn of the 20th century looked to Asia and Egypt for artistic inspiration. Critics would later write about this and other such movements within the context of Orientalism. Gabriel Astruc became her personal booking agent. Promiscuous, flirtatious, and openly flaunting her body, Mata Hari captivated her audiences and was an overnight success from the debut of her act at the Musée Guimet on 13 March 1905. She became the long - time mistress of the millionaire Lyon industrialist Émile Étienne Guimet, who had founded the Musée. She posed as a Javanese princess of priestly Hindu birth, pretending to have been immersed in the art of sacred Indian dance since childhood. She was photographed numerous times during this period, nude or nearly so. Some of these pictures were obtained by MacLeod and strengthened his case in keeping custody of their daughter. Mata Hari brought a carefree provocative style to the stage in her act, which garnered wide acclaim. The most celebrated segment of her act was her progressive shedding of clothing until she wore just a jeweled bra and some ornaments upon her arms and head. She was seldom seen without a bra as she was self - conscious about being small - breasted. She wore a bodystocking for her performances that was similar in color to her own skin. Although Mata Hari 's claims about her origins were fictitious, it was very common for entertainers of her era to invent colorful stories about their origins as part of the show. Her act was successful because it elevated exotic dance to a more respectable status and so broke new ground in a style of entertainment for which Paris was later to become world - famous. Her style and free - willed attitude made her a popular woman, as did her eagerness to perform in exotic and revealing clothing. She posed for provocative photos and mingled in wealthy circles. Since most Europeans at the time were unfamiliar with the Dutch East Indies, Mata Hari was thought of as exotic, and it was assumed her claims were genuine. One evidently enthused French journalist wrote in a Paris newspaper that Mata Hari was `` so feline, extremely feminine, majestically tragic, the thousand curves and movements of her body trembling in a thousand rhythms. '' One journalist in Vienna wrote after seeing one of her performances that Mata Hari was `` slender and tall with the flexible grace of a wild animal, and with blue - black hair '' and that her face `` makes a strange foreign impression. '' Mata Hari in 1906, wearing only a gold bejeweled bra and jewellery By about 1910, myriad imitators had arisen. Critics began to opine that the success and dazzling features of the popular Mata Hari were due to cheap exhibitionism and lacked artistic merit. Although she continued to schedule important social events throughout Europe, she was held in disdain by serious cultural institutions as a dancer who did not know how to dance. In 1910 wearing a bejewelled head - dress Mata Hari 's career went into decline after 1912. On 13 March 1915, she performed in what would be the last show of her career. She had begun her career relatively late for a dancer, and had started putting on weight. However, by this time she had become a successful courtesan, known more for her sensuality and eroticism than for her beauty. She had relationships with high - ranking military officers, politicians, and others in influential positions in many countries. Her relationships and liaisons with powerful men frequently took her across international borders. Prior to World War I, she was generally viewed as an artist and a free - spirited bohemian, but as war approached, she began to be seen by some as a wanton and promiscuous woman, and perhaps a dangerous seductress. Espionage In Amsterdam, 1915 During World War I, the Netherlands remained neutral. As a Dutch subject, Zelle was thus able to cross national borders freely. To avoid the battlefields, she travelled between France and the Netherlands via Spain and Britain, and her movements inevitably attracted attention. During the war, Zelle was involved in what was described as a very intense romantic - sexual relationship with a Russian pilot serving with the French, the twenty - five year old Captain Vadim Maslov, whom she called the love of her life. Maslov was part of the 50,000 strong Russian Expeditionary Force sent to the Western Front in the spring of 1916. In the summer of 1916, Maslov was shot down and badly wounded during a dogfight with the Germans, losing his sight in both eyes, which led Zelle to ask for permission to visit her wounded lover at the hospital where he was staying near the front. As a citizen of a neutral country, Zelle would not normally be allowed near the front. Zelle was met by agents from the Deuxième Bureau who told her that she would only be allowed to see Maslov if she agreed to spy on Germany. Before the war, Zelle had performed as Mata Hari several times before the Crown Prince Wilhelm, eldest son of Kaiser Wilhelm II and nominally a senior German general on the Western Front. The Deuxième Bureau believed she might be able to obtain information by seducing the Crown Prince for military secrets. In fact, his involvement was minimal and it was German government propaganda that promoted the image of the Crown Prince as a great warrior, the worthy successor to the august Hohenzollern monarchs who had made Prussia strong and powerful. They wanted to avoid publicizing that the man expected to be the next Kaiser was a playboy noted for womanizing, partying, and indulging in alcohol, who spent another portion of his time intriguing with far right - wing politicians, with the intent to have his father declared insane and deposed. Unaware that the Crown Prince did not have much to do with the running of Army Group Crown Prince or the 5th Army, the Deuxième Bureau offered Zelle one million francs if she could seduce him and provide France with good intelligence about German plans. The fact that the Crown Prince had, before 1914, never commanded a unit larger than a regiment, and was now supposedly commanding both an army and an army group at the same time should have been a clue that his role in German decision - making was mostly nominal. Zelle 's contact with the Deuxième Bureau was Captain Georges Ladoux, who was later to emerge as one of her principal accusers. In November 1916, she was travelling by steamer from Spain when her ship called at the British port of Falmouth. There she was arrested and brought to London where she was interrogated at length by Sir Basil Thomson, Assistant Commissioner at New Scotland Yard in charge of counter-espionage. He gave an account of this in his 1922 book Queer People, saying that she eventually admitted to working for the Deuxième Bureau. Initially detained in Cannon Street police station, she was then released and stayed at the Savoy Hotel. A full transcript of the interview is in Britain 's National Archives and was broadcast, with Mata Hari played by Eleanor Bron, on the independent station LBC in 1980. It is unclear if she lied on this occasion, believing the story made her sound more intriguing, or if French authorities were using her in such a way but would not acknowledge her due to the embarrassment and international backlash it could cause. In late 1916, Zelle travelled to Madrid, where she met with the German military attaché, Major Arnold Kalle, and asked if he could arrange a meeting with the Crown Prince. During this period, Zelle apparently offered to share French secrets with Germany in exchange for money, though whether this was because of greed or an attempt to set up a meeting with Crown Prince Wilhelm remains unclear. In January 1917, Major Kalle transmitted radio messages to Berlin describing the helpful activities of a German spy code - named H - 21, whose biography so closely matched Zelle 's that it was patently obvious that Agent H - 21 could only be Mata Hari. The Deuxième Bureau intercepted the messages and, from the information they contained, identified H - 21 as Mata Hari. The messages were in a code that German intelligence knew had already been broken by the French, suggesting that the messages were contrived to have Zelle arrested by the French. General Walter Nicolai, the chief IC ( intelligence officer ) of the German Army, had grown very annoyed that Mata Hari had provided him with no intelligence worthy of the name, instead selling the Germans mere Paris gossip about the sex lives of French politicians and generals, and decided to terminate her employment by exposing her as a German spy to the French. Trial and execution At her arrest In December 1916, the Second Bureau of the French War Ministry let Mata Hari obtain the names of six Belgian agents. Five were suspected of submitting fake material and working for the Germans, while the sixth was suspected of being a double agent for Germany and France. Two weeks after Mata Hari had left Paris for a trip to Madrid, the double agent was executed by the Germans, while the five others continued their operations. This development served as proof to the Second Bureau that the names of the six spies had been communicated by Mata Hari to the Germans. On 13 February 1917, Mata Hari was arrested in her room at the Hotel Elysée Palace on the Champs Elysées in Paris. She was put on trial on 24 July, accused of spying for Germany, and consequently causing the deaths of at least 50,000 soldiers. Although the French and British intelligence suspected her of spying for Germany, neither could produce definite evidence against her. Supposedly, secret ink was found in her room, which was incriminating evidence in that period. She contended that it was part of her makeup. A harlot ? Yes, but a traitor, never ! -- Phrase attributed to Mata Hari during the trial. Zelle 's principal interrogator, who grilled her relentlessly, was Captain Pierre Bouchardon ; he was later to prosecute her at trial. Bouchardon was able to establish that much of the Mata Hari persona was invented, and far from being a Javanese princess, Zelle was actually Dutch, which he was to use as evidence of her dubious and dishonest character at her trial. Zelle admitted to Bouchardon that she had accepted 20,000 francs from a German diplomat in the Netherlands to spy on France, but insisted she only passed on to the Germans trivial information as her loyalty was entirely to her adopted nation, France. In the meantime, Ladoux had been preparing a case against his former agent by casting all of her activities in the worst possible light, going so far as to engage in evidence tampering. In 1917, France had been badly shaken by the Great Mutinies of the French Army in the spring of 1917 following the failure of the Nivelle Offensive together with a huge strike wave, and at the time, many believed that France might simply collapse as a result of war exhaustion. In July 1917, a new government under Georges Clemenceau, aka `` le tigre '', had come into power, utterly committed to winning the war. In this context, having one German spy for whom everything that went wrong with the war so far could be blamed was most convenient for the French government, making Mata Hari the perfect scapegoat, which explains why the case against her received maximum publicity in the French press, and led to her importance in the war being greatly exaggerated. The Canadian historian Wesley Wark stated in a 2014 interview that Mata Hari was never an important spy and just made a scapegoat for French military failures which she had nothing to do with, stating : `` They needed a scapegoat and she was a notable target for scapegoating ''. Likewise, the British historian Julie Wheelwright stated : `` She really did not pass on anything that you could n't find in the local newspapers in Spain ''. Wheelwright went on to describe Zelle as ``... an independent woman, a divorcee, a citizen of a neutral country, a courtesan and a dancer, which made her a perfect scapegoat for the French, who were then losing the war. She was kind of held up as an example of what might happen if your morals were too loose ''. Zelle wrote several letters to the Dutch Ambassador in Paris, claiming her innocence. `` My international connections are due of my work as a dancer, nothing else... Because I really did not spy, it is terrible that I can not defend myself ''. The most terrible and heart - breaking moment for Mata Hari during the trial occurred when her lover Maslov -- by now a deeply embittered man as a result of losing his eyes in combat -- declined to testify for her, telling her he could n't care less if she were convicted or not. It was reported that Zelle fainted when she learned that Maslov had abandoned her. Her defence attorney, veteran international lawyer Édouard Clunet, faced impossible odds ; he was denied permission either to cross-examine the prosecution 's witnesses or to examine his own witnesses directly. Bouchardon used the very fact that Zelle was a woman as evidence of her guilt, saying : `` Without scruples, accustomed to make use of men, she is the type of woman who is born to be a spy. '' Mata Hari herself admitted under interrogation to taking money to work as a German spy. It is contended by some historians that Mata Hari may have merely accepted money from the Germans without actually carrying out any spy duties. At her trial, Zelle vehemently insisted that her sympathies were with the Allies and declared her passionate love of France, her adopted homeland. In October 2001, documents released from the archives of MI5 ( British counter-intelligence ) were used by a Dutch group, the Mata Hari Foundation, to ask the French government to exonerate Zelle as they argued that the MI5 files proved she was not guilty of the charges she was convicted of. A spokesman from the Mata Hari Foundation argued that at most Zelle was a low - level spy who provided no secrets to either side, stating : `` We believe that there are sufficient doubts concerning the dossier of information that was used to convict her to warrant re-opening the case. Maybe she was n't entirely innocent, but it seems clear she was n't the master - spy whose information sent thousands of soldiers to their deaths, as has been claimed ''. This image depicts Mata Hari awaiting death by firing squad. It is not known whether this is actually an image from the execution or if it is a recreation. Zelle was executed by a firing squad of 12 French Soldiers just before dawn on 15 October 1917. She was 41. According to an eyewitness account by British reporter Henry Wales, she was not bound and refused a blindfold. She defiantly blew a kiss to the firing squad. Zelle has often been portrayed as a femme fatale, the dangerous, seductive woman who uses her sexuality to effortlessly manipulate men, but others view her differently : in the words of the American historians Norman Polmer and Thomas Allen she was `` naïve and easily duped '', a victim of men rather than a victimizer. A 1934 New Yorker article reported that at her execution she wore `` a neat Amazonian tailored suit, especially made for the occasion, and a pair of new white gloves '' though another account indicates she wore the same suit, low - cut blouse and tricorn hat ensemble which had been picked out by her accusers for her to wear at trial, and which was still the only full, clean outfit which she had in prison. Neither description matches photographic evidence. Wales recorded her death, saying that after the volley of shots rang out, `` Slowly, inertly, she settled to her knees, her head up always, and without the slightest change of expression on her face. For the fraction of a second it seemed she tottered there, on her knees, gazing directly at those who had taken her life. Then she fell backward, bending at the waist, with her legs doubled up beneath her. '' A non-commissioned officer then walked up to her body, pulled out his revolver, and shot her in the head to make sure she was dead. Remains and 2017 French declassification Wikisource has original text related to this article : Death Comes to Mata Hari Mata Hari 's body was not claimed by any family members and was accordingly used for medical study. Her head was embalmed and kept in the Museum of Anatomy in Paris. In 2000, archivists discovered that it had disappeared, possibly as early as 1954, according to curator Roger Saban, when the museum had been relocated. It remains missing. Records dated from 1918 show that the museum also received the rest of the body, but none of the remains could later be accounted for. Mata Hari 's sealed trial and related other documents were scheduled to be declassified by the French Army in 2017, one hundred years after her execution. Legacy Museum exhibition Scrapbook of Mata Hari in the Frisian Museum in Leeuwarden, Netherlands Statue of Mata Hari in Leeuwarden, Netherlands The Frisian museum ( Dutch : Fries Museum ) in Leeuwarden, Netherlands, contains a `` Mata Hari Room ''. Included in the exhibit are two of her personal scrapbooks and an oriental rug embroidered with the footsteps of her fan dance. Located in Mata Hari 's native town, the museum is well known for research into the life and career of Leeuwarden 's world - famous citizen. The largest ever Mata Hari exhibition has been opened in the Museum of Friesland on 14 October 2017, one hundred years after her death. Mata Hari 's birthplace is located in the building at Kelders 33. The building suffered smoke and water damage during a fire in 2013, but was later restored. Architect Silvester Adema studied old drawings of the storefront in order to reconstruct it as it appeared when Abraham Zelle, the father of Mata Hari, had a hat shop there. In 2016, an information centre ( belevingscentrum ) was created in the building displaying mementos of Mata Hari. In popular culture The idea of an exotic dancer working as a lethal double agent using her powers of seduction to extract military secrets from her many lovers made Mata Hari an enduring archetype of the femme fatale. Her life inspired a number of films, including Mata Hari ( 1927 ), a German production ; and Mata Hari ( 1931 ), a Hollywood motion picture starring Greta Garbo ; as well as Mata Hari, Agent H21 ( 1964 ) and Mata Hari ( 1985 ). Mata Hari 's life also inspired at least five stage musicals : Mata Hari in 1967, starring Pernell Roberts and Marisa Mell ; the second by Lene Lovich, Judge Smith, and Les Chappell, premiered in 1982 at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith ; Mata !, with words and music by Stuart Brayson, received its World Premiere at Blackpool Grand Theatre in June 1995 ; Mata Hari at the Moulin Rouge, by Frank Wildhorn, which debuted in Seoul, South Korea in March 2016 ; and One Last Night with Mata Hari, written by Craig Walker with music by John Burge, debuted at the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts, in Kingston, Ontario, in January 2017. In 2017, the opera Mata Hari by librettist Peter Peers and composer Matt Marks premiered at New York 's Prototype Festival. In August 2018, it was also produced by West Edge Opera, with Tina Mitchell reprising her starring role. Mata Hari 's tale was the subject of a short story in the first issue of American Comic Group 's golden age title `` Spy Counterspy. '' In the early 1970s children 's series Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp, one of the female agents was named Mata Hairi. See also Women in dance Yoshiko Kawashima -- sometimes known in fiction under the pseudonym `` Eastern Mata Hari '' Biography portal Netherlands portal Theatre portal Dance portal References Notes Jump up ^ Howe, Russel Warren ( 1986 ). Mata Hari : The True Story. New York : Dodd, Mead and Company. pp. x -- xi, 285. Jump up ^ `` Mata Hari ''. Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 21 August 2007. The daughter of a prosperous hatter, she attended a teachers ' college in Leiden. In 1895 she married an officer whose family was of Scottish origin, Captain Rudolph MacLeod, in the Dutch colonial army, and from 1897 to 1902 they lived in Java and Sumatra. The couple returned to Europe but later separated, and she began to dance professionally in Paris in 1905 under the name of Lady MacLeod. She soon called herself Mata Hari, said to be a Malay expression for the sun ( literally, `` eye of the day '' ). Tall, extremely attractive, superficially acquainted with East Indian dances, and willing to appear virtually nude in public, she was an instant success in Paris and other large cities. Jump up ^ Her birth house, at Kelders 33, survived a big fire that destroyed the three houses immediately next to it on 19 October 2013. Jump up ^ Ancestors of Margaretha Geertruida ZELLE. www.praamsma.org ^ Jump up to : Jennifer Rosenberg Mata Hari. About.com ^ Jump up to : `` Mata Hari ''. Archived from the original on 15 September 2010. Retrieved 2010 - 07 - 05. CS1 maint : BOT : original - url status unknown ( link ). World of Biography Jump up ^ Cohen, M. ( 27 October 2010 ). Performing Otherness : Java and Bali on International Stages, 1905 - 1952. 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Question: dancer who was a german spy in ww1
Answer: Margaretha Geertruida "Margreet" MacLeod