in the 1950s she again became a political hostess. her grandson gottfried wagner later recalled that "my aunt friedelind was outraged when my grandmother again slowly blossomed as the first lady of right-wing groups and received political friends such as emmy göring, ilse hess, the former npd adolf von thadden, gerdy troost, the wife of the nazi architect and friend of hitler paul ludwig troost, the british fascist leader oswald mosley, the german ns-movie director karl ritter and the racist author and former senator of the reich hans severus ziegler".