Flensburg Government
Her maternal grandfather was Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, who served as finance minister since 1932 in the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich in Germany. After the death of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels he additionally served as the "Leading Minister" and foreign minister of the short-lived Flensburg Government of Karl Dönitz – and as the so de facto last head of government of the Third Reich announced on May 7, 1945 via radio "Reichssender Flensburg" the unconditional surrender of the German "Wehrmacht", thus ending the war in Europe.