Bernhard Ludwig von Mutius

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Bernhard Ludwig von Mutius (born January 12, 1913 in Beirut , Lebanon , † May 24, 1979 in Basel ) was secretary of the German People's Congress .

Life

His father was the consul general Ludwig von Mutius (1870–1941), Luitpold Steidle was his cousin. Von Mutius began studying law at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . After a semester at the University of Cologne in 1933, he was a research assistant at the chair of the Prussian State Councilor Carl Schmitt from 1934 to 1935 . In 1935 he studied on a scholarship at the University of Cambridge .

Von Mutius was a member of the NSDAP and the SA . In the SS he achieved the rank of SS-Obersturmführer , in the Wehrmacht that of a lieutenant . As a first-year student, von Mutius was already involved in the German Aristocratic Association , and he was appointed deputy head of the department for youth issues in May 1932. In October of the same year he took over the editing of a supplement to the German Adelsblatt entitled Adlige Jugend . He also published in the weekly newspaper Die Kommenden, which was particularly popular with young people . Newspaper of Young Germany . In his contributions he showed closeness to the Conservative Revolution and its representatives Arthur Moeller van den Bruck , Oswald Spengler and Othmar Spann . He rejected the “approaching collectivism”, but he still placed his hopes in the NSDAP and its “national resistance forces”, which would bring about “national regeneration”.

In December 1947, von Mutius became secretary of the German People's Congress . After the establishment of the German Democratic Republic , von Mutius was the German People's Council in the press and information department of the GDR Foreign Ministry (MfAA). As the personal advisor to Foreign Minister Georg Dertinger , von Mutius was to take over the provisional management of Department IV (Legal Affairs) at the MfAA on October 8, 1949. This proposal was rejected by the GDR Council of Ministers and Gerhard Reintanz (CDU) was appointed to this office in May 1950. Dertinger, von Mutius and his secretary were arrested by employees of the Interior Ministry of the USSR in early February 1950 on suspicion of espionage and subsequently sentenced to forced labor in a camp near Vorkuta in 1953 .

In November 1955 von Mutius came to the Federal Republic of Germany with other prisoners of war , whose release Konrad Adenauer had obtained during his visit to Moscow in September 1955 . In 1956 he became a member of the Senate Department for National Education in West Berlin and in 1959 took over the general department for all matters of the Conference of Ministers of Education . From 1967 to 1978 he was then Chef de Division in the Council of Europe . Under the pseudonym Bernhard Roeder , von Mutius published his work “Der Katorgan. A treatise on modern slavery ”, published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch through the mediation of Carl Schmitt . The book had a second edition that same year and was also published in English in 1958. He corresponded with Carl Schmitt from 1938 to 1964.

Von Mutius was temporarily engaged to the actress Irene von Meyendorff .

Works

  • (Pseud. Bernhard Roeder): The Katorgan. A treatise on modern slavery. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1956.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelige Häuser B Volume XIII, Volume 73 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1980, ISSN  0435-2408 , p. 293. There he is drawn as " Bernhard Edmund Wilhelm von Mutius".
  2. ^ A b Ingrid Muth: The GDR foreign policy 1949–1972: Contents, structures, mechanisms. P. 156.
  3. ^ Muth: p. 158.
  4. ^ A b Stefan Breuer : Carl Schmitt in context. Intellectual policy in the Weimar Republic , De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2012, ISBN 978-3-05-010223-8 , p. 251.
  5. ^ A b EAST CITIZENS Pigs for Walter Ulbricht . In: Der Spiegel . No. 23 , 1951 ( online ).
  6. ^ Stefan Breuer: Carl Schmitt in context. Intellectual policy in the Weimar Republic , De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2012, ISBN 978-3-05-010223-8 , p. 254.
  7. ↑ a b voles . In: Der Spiegel . No. 8 , 1950 ( online ).
  8. ^ Stefan Breuer: Carl Schmitt in context. Intellectual policy in the Weimar Republic , De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2012, ISBN 978-3-05-010223-8 , pp. 251 ff.
  9. ↑ Many places for the people . In: Der Spiegel . No. 2 , 1948 ( online ).
  10. ^ Muth: p. 162.
  11. ↑ Happy . In: Der Spiegel . No. 7 , 1950 ( online ).
  12. ^ Ernst Forsthoff , Carl Schmitt: Correspondence between Ernst Forsthoff and Carl Schmitt (1926–1974). P. 215.
  13. ^ A b Stefan Breuer: Carl Schmitt in context. Intellectual policy in the Weimar Republic , De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2012, ISBN 978-3-05-010223-8 , p. 256.
  14. ^ Reinhard Mehring : Carl Schmitt. Rise and fall. A biography. CH Beck , Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-59224-9 , p. 695.
  15. ↑ Forsthoff: p. 416.
personal data
SURNAME Mutius, Bernhard Ludwig von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mutius, Bernhard Edmund Wilhelm von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and secretary of the German People's Congress
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Beirut
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1979
Place of death Basel