The two children were close during their childhood and early adult years, but grew apart when Elisabeth in 1885 married Bernhard Förster, a former high school teacher who had become a fanatic anti-Semitic agitator.
The two children were close during their childhood and early adult years, but grew apart as Elisabeth increasingly disapproved of Friedrich's philosophy, and Friedrich disapproved of Elisabeth's anti-Semitism. On May 22,1885, Elisabeth married Bernhard Förster, a former teacher who had become an anti-Semitic agitator.