Ava von Klopp

Ava was born Ava von Weiz, the daughter of the Baron of Garbsen Alexander von Weiz and Sabrina von Strauch. She was their third and final child after two sons, Wilfried and Joshua von Weiz. Her father was an early industrialist and quickly supported the industrial movement that was growing in England. He invested quite early into the industries on the Isle and made quite a fortune there which carried back to the family in Hannover. Ava never truly took an interest in business at an early age, and spent most of her earliest childhood years with her mother and grandmother, Tina von Strauch. Ava’s grandmother passed away shortly before Ava’s sixth birthday.
After Ava’s sixth birthday, she began her studies under the same man who tutored both of her brothers, a certain Reverend Henry Drescher. Ava received a very religious education, and she learned many sections of the Bible by heart. She came to believe that it was a responsibility of those in power to lead the people towards the religious truth, and that not doing so was a disservice to the people. Beyond her religious studies, she developed moderate views on a number of issues, as well as becoming a believer in the potential of a unified German state.

From the time that her tutoring ended at the age of 16 she became the constant subject of her mother’s attempts to make her a suitable candidate for future marriage. This was something Ava very much enjoyed; she took a liking to tradition and enjoyed the lavish parties that her family often hosted in these years. Her two brothers at this point had joined the army and left from home to make names for themselves, and so her parents were left with only a single child at home to pay their attention to, and especially her mother doted on her.

   Ava watched the Saxony war from afar, but her family approved the actions of Prussia as a path to united Germany, and when Hannover joined the NGF Ava saw that her dream was very much within reach, though she could not participate in it’s creation. Both of her brothers who were part of Hannover’s army were brought into the I. Korps under Wilhelm von Hoth. Ava recalled them as excitable, wishing to prove themselves on the field of battle. Soon enough they got their chance when the NGF declared war on France in February 1855. Both of Ava’s brothers fought at the battle of Lons, and both fell there alongside 31,737 other casualties. Ava and her family were devastated by the loss, but she was proud of her brothers for fighting so proud in the service of Germany. Ava became disillusioned with war between the powers of Europe after seeing the toll of such things personally.

The next few years were largely uneventful for the von Weiz family, until 1859. Ava had become somewhat disinterested in her suitors around the same time that her father was pushing for her to marry before he died. At a ball in the spring of that year which Ava attended, she was introduced to a certain Ludwig von Klopp by his brother, with whom she was immediately smitten. She had an obligatory dance with Ludwig before quickly blowing him off and spending the rest of the ball with his brother, who introduced himself as Hans von Klopp.

The two would court over the next year, and were engaged and married in 1860. Ava’s father unfortunately died a few months before the wedding, due to a severe case of pneumonia. The loss of her father devastated Ava once more, who was now left with her mother as her only remaining close family. However, Ava would still be married to Hans in November of 1860, before traveling to Sweden for the remainder of the year where they stayed in a rented home outside Stockholm. The two would have many children: Wilhem Magnus in April 1862, Tina in October 1864 (died January 1865), twins Judith and Franz in December 1865, and Amalie in November 1866.