Annika was born in the family of shipyard worker Henry Schneider and a nurse Mary Schneider. The father was the one, who developed an interesting to engineering and her mother gave her such traits, as empathy and mercifulness. In general, the family was rather poor, but warm. The family member almost never argued with each other, children loved their parents, and parents loved them back.

Both parents are dead now. Henry was killed during the Alster gas attack and Mary passed out a bit later, due to her impossibility to move on after the death of her husband. It was one of the reason, which forced Annika to join the movement.

She also has the older brother - Falke Schneider, who decided to become the soldier of Bundestag Republic. Despite the fact, that brother and sister were used to love each other, political struggle crossed the line between them. Falke doesn't enjoy the choice of Annika and she does the same. Her decision to change her second name only made situation worse.