Arthur Boehm-Tettelbach

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Arthur Boehm-Tettelbach , until 1925 Georg Arthur Boehm (born May 21, 1875 in Erstein , † August 15, 1952 in Lübeck ) was a German officer , right-wing extremist and honorary professor at the University of Rostock .

Life

Boehm passed his Abitur in Colmar and in 1893 joined the Infantry Regiment No. 132 of the Prussian Army in Strasbourg . There he was promoted to battalion adjutant in 1899 and graduated from the War Academy in Berlin in 1903/06 . He was then assigned to the Great General Staff and was from 1908 to 1913 a training and court officer and adjutant in Strasbourg. From 1912 to 1913 he studied philosophy and art history as a guest student at the University of Strasbourg . As from 1913 to 1914 captain chief of the 7th Company in Infantry Regiment "Duke Friedrich Wilhelm von Braunschweig" (Ostfriesisches) no. 78 in Osnabrück . From 1914 to 1918 he took part in the First World War. Boehm held various positions at the front, after being wounded in the Deputy General Staff and in military surveying, most recently as a lieutenant colonel in occupied Lithuania .

After the war he settled in Gotha because he suspected a center of hostile, pacifist tendencies here, and began to work as a national speaker and writer. He resigned from the German National People's Party because it was too undecided on the “Jewish question”. He headed the Thuringian regional association in the Kyffhäuser Federation . Furthermore, he was in the " Deutschbund " as Federal Chancellor, in the Fichte Society , in the " Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund " and later in the " Deutschvölkische Freedom Movement ". In 1920 he was officially released from military service. For the Militant League for German Culture of Alfred Rosenberg , he published 1,927 brochures ( Scheduled demoralization. Also, a revue ).

In 1922 he moved to Lübeck, where he set up a branch of his father-in-law's company for inheritance regulation until 1927. At the same time, he continued to give anti-Semitic and ethnic lectures. The Lübeck Senate named him Boehm-Tettelbach in 1925. Then he moved to Rostock. From 1932 to 1943 he had lectureships in military history and defense at the University of Rostock and from 1932 to 1933 at the University of Hamburg . He joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1933, and the SA in 1934 . He also belonged to other Nazi organizations such as the Nazi teachers 'association and the Nazi lecturers' association . In 1938 he became an honorary professor in Rostock . He extended his speeches to strengthen the will to defend themselves over the entire state of Mecklenburg . From 1939 to 1943 he served in the Wehrmacht , most recently as a lieutenant colonel, with the General Staff of the Air Force , 8th Department of War Studies.

In August 1950, the author handed over his written memories, which deal mainly with the military, National Socialism, the politics of the Weimar Republic and the history of Lübeck (1923–1950) to the archive of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck .

His brother was General Alfred Boehm-Tettelbach .

Fonts

  • The baiting of officers as a political weapon and a cultural phenomenon. Munich 1922.
  • together with Reinhold Gadow (1882–1946): Germany’s military geographic situation in its development from 1914 to 1941. Knapsack of the High Command of the Wehrmacht, 1942.

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  1. a b Harald Lönnecker: Between esotericism and science - the circles of the völkisch German scientist Wilhelm Teudt , Frankfurt / M. 2004, p. 7, note 18 (PDF; 175 kB).