Viola Herms Drath

Viola Herms Drath
Born
Viola Herms

February 8, 1920
Died (aged 91)
Cause of deathHomicide
EducationM.A. in philosophy and Germanic literature
Alma materUniversity of Nebraska
OccupationsJournalist, writer
Known forAuthored eight textbooks read in over 150 colleges and universities
Spouses
Francis S. Drath
(m. 1947; died 1986)
Albrecht Gero Muth
(m. 1990)
Children2
AwardsWilliam J. Flynn Initiative for Peace Award from the National Committee on American Foreign Policy (2005)

Viola Herms Drath (February 8, 1920 – August 11, 2011) was a Washington, D.C., author, socialite and a German-American member of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy for over thirty years. She was murdered, at age 91, by her second husband, Albrecht Gero Muth.