Place of Birth: Mexico City, Mexico
Date of Birth: 13 January, 1969
Ethnicity:
*Mexican (father)
*German, small amount of English (mother)
Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller is a Mexican writer and journalist.
Her father, Juan Gutiérrez Canet, was Mexican. Her mother, Nora Beatriz Müller Bentjerodt, is Chilean, from Valdivia.
Beatriz is married to the President-elect of Mexico Andrés Manuel López Obrador, with whom she has a son.
Beatriz’s maternal grandfather was Adolfo Marcelo Müller Oliphant (the son of Walther Carl Müller and Nora Oliphant). Adolfo was born in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, and lived in Valdivia until his death. Walther was a German emigrant, from Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, and was the son of Rudolph Carl Müller and Ida Johanna Luise Henriette Türk. Nora was an American emigrant, from Baltimore, Maryland, and was the daughter of Joseph W. Oliphant and Georgeanna Tidings.
Beatriz’s maternal grandmother was Berta Elvira Bentjerodt Becker (the daughter of Ernesto Bentjerodt Machmar and Olga Herminia Becker Wiswede). Berta was born in Valdivia. Ernesto was the son of German emigrants, Gottlieb Eduard Bentjerodt, of Osterode am Harz, Lower Saxony, and Wilhelmine Machmar, of Kassel, Hesse. Herminia was the daughter of a German emigrant, Otto Becker, and of Elvira Wiswede Bentjerodt, whose own parents, Hermann Wiswede and Friederike Mathilde Bentjerodt, were German emigrants, from Haldensleben, Saxony-Anhalt. Eduard and Mathilde were siblings.
Beatriz’s matrilineal ancestry can be traced back to her fifth great-grandmother, Johanna Dorothea Maria Wollwege.
Sources: Genealogy of Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller (focusing on her mother’s side) – https://historiadevaldivia-chile.blogspot.com
News article about Beatriz’s maternal grandparents, Adolfo Marcelo Müller Oliphant and Berta Elvira Bentjerodt Becker – https://www.cooperativa.cl
Birth record of Beatriz’s maternal grandaunt, Beatriz Marianela Müller Oliphant – https://www.familysearch.org
Baptismal record of Beatriz’s maternal great-grandfather, Walter Carl Müller – https://www.familysearch.org