Alfred Seyffertitz

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Alfred Seyffertitz (born October 6, 1884 in Munich ; † May 10, 1944 in Linz ) was the founder and commander of the right-wing " Republican Protection Force " during the fighting for the Munich Soviet Republic 1918/19.

Life

origin

The family coat of arms belonging to the noble title claimed by Seyffertitz

Alfred came from the old Uckermark noble family von Seyffertitz , which in 1711 with his great-great-great-great-grandfather, the wealthy Polish-Electoral Saxon Major General Hans Adam von Seyffertitz (1666–1736), was raised to the imperial baron status by August the Strong as vicar . Alfred's grandfather, the former Hüttenwerk - Kommis , since 1859 Syndikus Adolf Freiherr von Seyffertitz (* 1812 on the family estate in Ahlsdorf ), founded the Luxembourg line of the family, married the mother of his son, Elisabeth, born on March 2nd, 1848. Peffer (* 1826), but not until 1850.

Alfred Seyffertitz was the son of that very son, the former sergeant in the Luxembourg Jäger Battalion , then editor and publisher Johann Baptist (Freiherr) von Seyffertitz (* 1848 in Bereldingen ) and Wilhelmine Pauline, née Mühleder (* 1858 in Roth ), who had returned to Germany he married on March 25, 1884 in Fürth , just six months before Alfred was born. Alfred Seyffertitz resulted due to the descent repeats the nobility of what to him on August 29, 1914 for violation of applicable Adel law (possibly in view of the needle legally problematic, unconventional marriage practice of father and grandfather) under threat of punishment was banned by the authorities.

Volunteer in World War I

On October 2, 1914, he reported as a war volunteer to the 3rd recruiting depot of the replacement battalion of the Royal Bavarian Infantry Body Regiment . On December 14, 1914, he was dismissed as "unusable". On March 25, 1915 he reported again as a war volunteer at the 1st recruiting depot of the 11th replacement division of the Royal Bavarian 4th Field Artillery Regiment "König" . On January 20, 1916, he became a surplus private . He was sent to the hospital on various occasions and assigned to changing units. On December 9, 1916 and May 15, 1917, he was released from military service to “take up work”.

Commander of the "Republican Protection Force"

As of July 3, 1918, he again had the title "from" and lived at Stachus . In December 1918, with funding from the Anti-Bolshevik League, he founded the " Republican Protection Force " made up of military service soldiers. On January 30, 1919, he moved to the primary school on Schwindstrasse in Munich as their commander. On April 13, 1919 during the “ Palm Sunday coup”, the “Republican Protection Force”, in agreement with the deposed Bavarian Prime Minister Johannes Hoffmann , who had evaded to Bamberg, and his military minister Ernst Schneppenhorst , intended to depose and capture the Revolutionary Central Council of the Soviet Republic based in the Wittelsbacher Palais . They deported 13 people to Eichstätt , including eight members of the Central Council, including the anarchist writer Erich Mühsam , until then one of the main spokesmen for the Soviet republic:

  1. Erich Mühsam
  2. Franz Lipp , People's Representative for External Affairs
  3. Fritz Soldmann , People's Representative for the Interior
  4. August Hagemeister , People's Representative for People's Welfare
  5. Otto Killer, temporary people's representative for the military
  6. Arnold Wadler ( USPD ), People's Representative for Housing
  7. Josef Baison (1888–1945), locksmith at the JA Maffei Hirschau locomotive and machine factory in the English Garden , briefly with the "Revolutionary Central Council"
  8. Georg Kandlbinder ( MSPD )
  9. Anton Hofmann ( KPD )
  10. Rudolf Reimund Ballabene
  11. Hans Bastian, Advisory Member of the "Revolutionary Central Council"
  12. Anton Kurth Chairman of the USPD Sendling
  13. Alfons Braig
  14. Leopold Ballabene

However, important decision-makers were able to evade arrest, including Ernst Toller , Gustav Landauer and leading KPD politicians. They called on the population to demonstrate against the attempted coup. Seyffertitz's expectation that other Munich troops would join his action was not fulfilled. In the hope of receiving reinforcements from outside, the Republican Protection Force occupied Munich Central Station as a place of retreat. After a total of 21 fatal battles with the newly established Red Army under the command of Rudolf Egelhofer , Seyffertitz gave up around 9 p.m. and finally escaped by train to Eichstätt with the remaining members of his “protection force”. His attempted coup against the Munich Soviet Republic, which was able to hold out for another two weeks, failed.

As a result, there was massive deployment of Freikorps and Reichswehr troops against the Soviet Republic, which was ultimately subject to their superior military strength until May 2, 1919.

On October 24, 1919, Alfred Seyffertitz was released from his military duties.

Next life

Seyffertitz lived in Fürstenfeldbruck and Augsburg until 1929 . From 1929 to June 15, 1939 he was an employee in Munich. After that he lived in Linz .

literature

  • "Republican Schutztruppe von Seyffertitz" - events in Munich during the time of the council, report by Heinz Bohner in the Federal Archives (archival signature: BArch, NS 26/72, holdings in the main archive of the NSDAP )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In terms of nobility law , this was actually unproblematic for the premarital child due to the right of legitimatio per matrimonium subsequenz . By subsequently marrying the parents, the child was given full equality with a nobility born in wedlock. (Insofar as it was actually the child of the aristocratic presumed father or, if applicable, the actual mother in the case of the married woman.) See online lexicon of the German Nobility Law Committee .
  2. ↑ Contrary to the family history records of the family genealogist Heribert Seyffertitz in Graz , in which he still mentions Alfred's father as an imperial baron, was already in the decree of the Dutch King Wilhelm III. , in personal union of the Grand Duke of Luxembourg, dated February 29, 1872, with which he bestowed the naturalization on Alfred's father in Luxembourg, who no longer referred to him with the title of baron , but only from “Mr. [= Mr.] Johann Baptist von Seyffertitz "was written in the law or in the second official language French instead of the baron title of" sieur [= Mr.] Jean-Baptiste de Seyffertitz ".
  3. ↑ People's representatives and commissioners elected by the Revolutionary Central Council .
  4. ↑ Otto Killer
  5. ↑ Josef Baison
  6. ↑ Georg Kandlbinder Executive Council and Central Council for the Military.
  7. ^ Anton Hofmann (* 1897), KPD member, baker, member of the arrest commission of the Central Council in Munich, arrested in the Palm Sunday coup, fellow prisoner in Ebrach, co-defendant in the high treason trial against Mühsam and Comrades, transferred to the People's Court. May 15, 1919, May 30, 1919, July 3, 1919, July 12, 1919 [1]
  8. ^ Rudolf Raimund Ballabene in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna [2]
  9. ^ Kurth, Anton (* 1889) painter, chairman of the USPD local group in Munich-Sendling, arrested during the Palm Sunday coup, prisoner on remand in Ebrach. May 24, 1919, June 15, 1919 [3]
  10. ↑ Alfons Braig (* 1889) technician, KPD member, member of the Action Committee of the Council Congress as a representative of the unemployed and in the Revolutionary Central Council, arrested at the Palm Sunday coup. June 15, 1919 [4]
  11. ^ Anton Joachimsthaler : Hitler's path began in Munich 1913–1923, Herbig, 2000, p. 356
personal data
SURNAME Seyffertitz, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seyffertitz, Alfred von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Munich student, dental assistant, painter, impostor and condottiere
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1944
Place of death Linz