Magda Goebbels was born in 1901 in Berlin, Germany. At the age of 17, while returning to school on a train, Magda met Günther Quandt, a rich German industrialist twice her age. She and Quandt married in 1921, and her first child, Harald, was born the same year. Magda and Quandt divorced in 1929. Soon after the divorce, she attended a Nazi party meeting where she met one of the speakers, Joseph Goebbels, then known as the Gauleiter of Berlin. She joined the Nazi party on September first of 1930 and for a short time became secretary to Hans Meinshausen, Goebbels’ deputy, before taking charge of Goebbels’ own private archives. Hitler encouraged the relationship between Magda and Goebbels, he was impressed by her and it was suggested that as the
