When Maria Katharina Lutz was born on 13 April 1894, in Pfalzgrafenweiler, Freudenstadt, Württemberg, Germany, her father, Christian Luz, was 28 and her mother, Anna Maria Dieterle, was 29. She married Johann Georg Braun on 3 April 1920, in Pfalzgrafenweiler, Freudenstadt, Württemberg, Germany. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She died on 15 August 1973, in her hometown, at the age of 79.