Drath Marriage Featured in NYT Magazine

Viola Drath, an OPC member, was found dead in her Georgetown home on August 11, 2011. Her husband, Albrecht Gero Muth, was charged with the murder. The Washington Post reported that the death “was the end of a difficult and sometimes violent marriage.” Their marriage is chronicled in this week’s New York Times Magazine.

Drath, 91, was born in Germany and moved to the United States after marrying U.S. Army Col. Francis S. Drath, who died in 1986. In 1989, she married Muth, who was 44 years her junior.

Drath was a journalist, author and prominent figure in German-American relations. She worked for Handelsblatt, a German paper; The Washington Times; and wrote a 1975 biography of former German Chancellor Willy Brandt, Willy Brandt: Prisoner of His Past. In 1988, she published a detailed proposal for East and West German unification in “The Reemergence of the German Question.”