Gerda Maria von Kothek

Born: 26 July, 1896 in Dresden, Germany.

Died:   4 December, 1967 in Jena, Thüringen, German.

Born Gerda Schumann on 26 July 1896 in Dresden, Germany. She immigrated in 1908 and was Aleister Crowley's lover from 12 April 1916 through October 1916. She spent several days practicing sex magic with him when he was at Adams Cottage. He nicknamed her "the Owl" and called her 'a bright young Angel of Revolution". She was a German prostitute and Crowley practiced sex magick with her. She was around nineteen when she meet Crowley.

She married German immigrant Dr. Karl Heinrich Rudolf Gebauer on 23 May 1917 and the pair took up residence in Passaic, New Jersey. He was a chemist employed at a nearby plant. He shared his wife's radical sympathies, but he had other interesting connections. First he had ties to the main German radical organ in Manhattan, the New Yorker Volkszeitung, which was run by veteran socialist Ludwig Lore. Chandestine threads tied Lore's anti-war publication to the Propaganda Kabinett and the German Consulate.

Gerda died on 4 December 1967 in Jena, Thüringen, Germany.