Arthur Berg

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Arthur Berg (also erroneously identified in literature as Albrecht Berg ; born August 9, 1889 in Jedwilleiten, Niederung district, East Prussia; † July 7, 1947 in Potsdam ) was a German court official.

Life

After attending school, Berg worked in his parents' horse breeding business. From about 1912 he was a member of the Prussian Army.

Since the summer of 1918 (according to other sources since 1914) he was in the service of the last Prussian and Imperial German Crown Prince Wilhelm of Prussia as private secretary . When the Crown Prince left Germany in November 1918, at the end of the First World War , to go into exile in the Netherlands, Berg, who at the time held the title of private secretary to the heir to the throne, was one of five men (the others were the adjutants Louis Müldner von Mülnheim and Müller, the servant Wölk and a driver) who accompanied him as personal faithful.

In 1923, Berg played a key role in the negotiations that led to the Stresemann government allowing the Crown Prince to return to Germany. From autumn 1923 at the latest he worked under the name of a Privy Councilor in the general administration of the Hohenzollern in the Palais Unter den Linden 36 in Berlin. In the following fifteen years he continued to rise in the hierarchy of this institution, so that during the Second World War he headed the general administration together with Kurt von Plettenberg and Louis Müldner von Mülnheim. In this position, he was in charge of the administration of the Hohenzollern property , which at that time was divided into the areas of asset and property management, foundation management and administration of the crown prince .

In connection with the involvement of his friend and colleague Kurt von Plettenberg - his son's godfather - in the attempted coup of July 20, 1944 , Berg himself was briefly detained and interrogated. In March 1945, Plettenberg Berg's death was brought to the attention of the Gestapo .

Berg died in Soviet detention in Potsdam.

Archival tradition

Berg's estate was handed over by his son to the Secret State Archives in Berlin in the 1980s, where it is kept under the signature "Rep. 192" ("GStA PK: Brandenburg-Preußisches Hausarchiv: Rep. 192 (Nl Arthur Berg)") . The estate comprises 21 volumes that primarily collect documents related to his official work.

literature

  • Klaus Werner Jonas : The Crown Prince Wilhelm . Scheffler Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1962.
  • Jonathan Petroppulos: Royals and the Reich. The Princes of Hessen in Nazi Germany . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2006, ISBN 0-19-920377-6 .
  • Eberhard Schmidt : Kurt von Plettenberg. In the circle of the conspirators around Stauffenberg. A way of life . Herbig, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-7766-2735-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reprint of the letter through which Berg informed the Crown Prince of Plettenberg's death. In: Gottfried Kunzendorf, Manfred Richter: Bornstedt, Friedhof, Kirche. Märkischer memorial of Prussian history and resistance . Verlag Hentrich & Hentrich, Teetz 2001, ISBN 3-933471-23-0 , p. 213.
personal data
SURNAME Berg, Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berg, Albrecht
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German court official
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Jedwilleiten, East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1947
Place of death Potsdam