Alfred von Olberg

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Eduard Felix Ferdinand Alfred von Olberg (born April 1, 1872 in Darmstadt ; † 1947 ) was a Prussian officer and author of war reports.

Life

Eduard Felix Ferdinand Alfred von Olberg was born as the son of Felix von Olberg and his grandfather was Eduard von Olberg . He spent his school days at the Knight Academy in Brandenburg and studied at the Prussian War Academy from 1902 to 1905 . From 1912 to 1914 he was a teacher of tactics at the Potsdam War School . He fought in World War I and was seriously wounded in 1914.

In 1914 he met Walter Rathenau through the German Society and entered into an exchange of letters with him.

In 1915 he became head of the newly established senior censorship office in the war press office in Berlin and was later head of the war press office with groups of journalists at the front. He was thus largely responsible for the communication of the events at the front and so a proclamation of the war press office is handed down: “ Now it is less about the accuracy of a message than about its effect. “In this function he became a close confidante of Erich Ludendorff .

He summarized his experiences in Romania in a book and documented his negative attitude towards the Romanian people. Until 1918 he was a lieutenant colonel in the war press office . He then worked in the German National People's Party . He also expressed himself clearly anti-Semitic .

After the First World War , from 1932 he was Reich Press Chief of the Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten .

Alfred von Olberg was married and had a daughter.

Works (selection)

  • The triumphal march through Romania: on the trail of our army. Hillger, Berlin 1918.
  • Three strokes of our great offensive. Karl Siegismund, Berlin 1918.
  • The submarine warfare as part of the overall warfare . In: Die Woche, Volume 20, Issue 1–25, Scherl, 2018, pp. 260 ff.
  • From the secrets of war censorship. In: Friedrich Felder: What we don't know about the world war. Berlin 1929.
  • On the nature of press censorship in war. In: Wolfgang Foerster : Fighters on forgotten fronts ... Colonial, sea, air war, espionage. Berlin 1931.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Olberg . In: Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses . 17th year. Justus Perthes, Gotha 1913, p. 603 ( online [accessed September 16, 2019]).
  2. ^ Ritter-Akademie zu Brandenburg (ed.): D. Student directory (from February 1, 1865) . March 1885, p. 19 ( online [accessed on September 16, 2019] invitation to the school event in the auditorium on March 21, 1885).
  3. ^ A b Wilhelm Schwaner, Walther Rathenau: Friendship in contradiction: the correspondence 1913-1922 . Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, 2008, ISBN 978-3-86650-271-0 , pp. 226 ( Books [accessed July 20, 2019]).
  4. ↑ Dr Gerhard Hecker: Walther Rathenau and his relationship to the military and war . H. Boldt, 1983, ISBN 978-3-7646-1836-0 , pp. 445 ( Books [accessed July 28, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Florian Altenhöner: Communication and control: rumors and urban publics in Berlin and London 1914/1918 . Walter de Gruyter, 2011, ISBN 978-3-486-70745-8 , p. 54 ( Books [accessed July 20, 2019]).
  6. ↑ Charlotte Heymel: Tourists at the Front: The War Experience 1914-1918 as Travel Experience in Contemporary Travel Reports . LIT Verlag Münster, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8258-9973-8 , p. 179 ( Books [accessed July 20, 2019]).
  7. ↑ Hellmut von Gerlach: From right to left . FISCHER Digital, 2015, ISBN 978-3-10-560568-4 ( Google Books [accessed July 20, 2019]).
  8. ^ Newspaper World and Advertising Review . Newspaper world, 1944, p. 10 ( Books [accessed July 20, 2019]).
  9. ^ Peter J. Brenner: The travel report in German literature: a research overview as a preliminary study for a genre history . M. Niemeyer, 1990, ISBN 978-3-484-60365-3 , pp. 591 ( Books [accessed July 20, 2019]).
  10. ^ David Hamlin: Germany's Empire in the East . Cambridge University Press, 2017, ISBN 978-1-107-19819-7 , pp. 245 ( Books [accessed July 20, 2019]).
  11. ^ Wilhelm Schwaner, Walther Rathenau, friendship in contradiction: the exchange of letters 1913-1922, Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, 2008 - 305 p., Google Books , p. 226
  12. ↑ Max Weiss: The National Will: Becoming and Working of the German National People's Party 1918-1928 . W. Kamp, 1928, p. 387 ( Books [accessed July 28, 2019]).
  13. ↑ a b Association for Defense against Antisemitism: Messages from the Association for Defense against Antisemitism . 1919, p. 2 ff . ( Books [accessed July 28, 2019]).
  14. ↑ a b military weekly paper . ES Mittler., 1919, p. 1305 ( Books [accessed July 28, 2019]).
  15. ↑ Federal Archives (Germany) , [1]
  16. ↑ Three strokes of our big offensive - OpenDigi. Retrieved July 20, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Olberg, Alfred von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Olberg, Eduard Felix Ferdinand Alfred von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian officer and author of war reports
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH 1947