When Christiane Friederike Demshäuser genannt: Leister was born on 16 May 1876, in Kassel, Kassel, Hessen, Germany, her father, Johann Heinrich Demmshäuser genannt Leister, was 27 and her mother, Maria Katharina Henriette Wilhelmina Köhler, genannt Leister, was 27. She died on 26 February 1955, at the age of 78, and was buried in Kassel, Hessen, Germany.