Bogislav von Selchow

Bogislav von Selchow (born July 4, 1877 in Köslin , † February 6, 1943 in Berlin ) was a German writer , naval officer and leader of the Marburg student corps , a temporary volunteer association of the Reichswehr.

biography

youth

Bogislav von Selchow was a grandson of Werner von Selchow and the only son of the Prussian officer Friedrich Wilhelm Otto von Selchow and his wife Hedwig Johanna Wilhelmine, nee. Scratch. His sister Anna Klementine Elsbeth Hedwig (Anni) , born in 1885 , was later involved in the Confessing Church in Potsdam during the National Socialist era . At the age of almost 10, Selchow came to the Quinta of the Royal High School in Köslin at Easter 1887 . In 1895 he moved to the Kaiserin-Augusta-Gymnasium (today Ludwig-Cauer-Grundschule) in Charlottenburg as a subpriman .

marine

After graduating from high school on March 16, 1897, Selchow joined the Imperial Navy and was trained as an officer. He was involved in numerous sea voyages (including on board the SMS Hertha ). On September 6, 1902, he was on board SMS Panther in Gonaïves , Haiti, involved in the sinking of the Haitian gunboat Crête-à-Pierrot ( Markomannia incident ). He took an active part in the First World War: on April 1, 1913, he went as first officer on the midshipman and cabin boy training ship SMS Victoria Louise , at the beginning of the war on a voyage against Russia , but without coming into contact with the enemy. In 1914 he was appointed corvette captain. His father died as a volunteer in the early days of the war and was buried on October 27, 1914 in the Invalidenfriedhof in Berlin. In November 1914 Selchow was transferred to Flanders as battalion commander at his own request . From August 1, 1917 to November 1918, he worked for the Admiralty in Berlin, and from December 1918 in the press department of the Reichsmarineamt . In 1919 he was adopted as a frigate captain and resigned from the navy.

Study and leadership of a student corps

After leaving the Reichswehr , Selchow began studying history in Marburg in 1919 . On the orders of the Reichswehr Brigade in Kassel, Selchow was asked to form a volunteer formation in September 1919. In Marburg he founded the "Student Corps Marburg" (StuKoMa), a temporary volunteer association of the Reichswehr. Bogislav von Selchow, frigate captain ret. D. had the command of the StuKoMa. The student corps was equipped by the Kassel Brigade of the Reichswehr and was also affiliated with it. The battalion consisted of six companies , each of these companies was certain of students Students connection formed species.

Even before the Kapp Putsch , Selchow assigned his student corps to confiscate public funds for the putschists and to occupy Jewish banks in Marburg.

In addition Selchow in western Germany was the leader of the Organization Escherich (Orgesch) , an illegal anti-republican and paramilitary organization, the political assassinations committed and arms caches for alleged "fight against Bolshevism docked".

Selchow was a central figure in the investigation after the " Mechterstädt murders ": After members of the student corps had killed rebel workers, the latter were charged following media and political outrages, but were ultimately acquitted. After the acquittals, Selchow continued studying history and philosophy and received his doctorate on January 24, 1923.

time of the nationalsocialism

Although anti-Semite and politically attached to National Socialism , Selchow was not a party member. But he was one of the 48 "well-known personalities" who did not belong to the NSDAP and who in 1933 publicly and media-effectively called for the election of Adolf Hitler . He was also one of the founding members of the Academy for German Law . In 1936 he was named after the NS student comradeship “B. von Selchow ”of the former Marburg fraternity Germania. On June 9, 1939, Selchow was made an honorary senator of the Philipps University of Marburg . In Meyers Lexikon 1942 Selchow was characterized as "carried by nationalistic convictions".

aftermath

After the end of the Second World War, his writings Wächter der Schwelle (1932), Von spite and Treue (1932), Der Deutschen Mensch (1933), Der bürgerliche und der Heroischen Mensch (1934) and Hundert Tage aus mein Leben (1943) were published in the Soviet occupation zone placed on the list of literature to be segregated.

In 1943 Selchow was buried in the Invalidenfriedhof in Berlin. The tomb has not been preserved.

Today Selchows poems are mainly published by right-wing extremists .

Works (in selection)

World War and Fleet. 1918.
German thoughts. Poems 1920.
Of defiance and loyalty. Poems 1921.
The Call of the Day ( Of Defiance and Loyalty. Part 2), poems 1922.
Our spiritual ancestors. A worldview. 1927.
Guardian of the Threshold Collected Poems, 1930.
On the threshold of the fourth age. 1931.
The distress of our law 1932.
Faith in the German I-Time. A picture of time. 1933.
The German man. Two millennia of German history. 1933.
The bourgeois and the heroic man. 1934.
The name book. 1934.
The infinite circle. Life novel by Nikolaus von Cues. A time-turning picture. 1935.
German heads in the age of Frederick the Great. 1936.
A hundred days from my life. Memories. 1936.
Words and Works / Bogislav von Selchow. Edited and with an afterword by Hans Weicker, 1938.
Wives of great soldiers. 1939.

literature

Michael Epkenhans : “We as the German people cannot be cut down. ... ". From the diaries of the frigate captain Bogislav von Selchow. 1918/19. In: Military history messages. Munich, 55, 1996, pp. 165-224.
Michael Lemling: Völkisch-national poetry between the world wars. A study of the relationship between literary traditionalism and political radicalism based on Bogislav von Selchow's poetry and prose. Univ. Mag.-Arb., Marburg 1991.
Jeanette Toussaint: I am the red rag for Potsdam. Anni von Gottberg and the Confessing Church. Wilhelmshorst 2011.

Literature about his participation in the Kapp Putsch

H. Duderstadt: The cry for justice. "The tragedy of Mechterstädt". Marburg 1920.
Gustav Heinemann : We have to be democrats. Diary of the academic years 1919–1922. Edited by Brigitte u. Hellmut Gollwitzer . With an introduction by Eberhard Jäckel . Munich 1980.
Peter Krüger u. Anne Christine Nagel (Ed.): Mechterstädt - 25.3.1920. Scandal and crisis in the early phase of the Weimar Republic. Munster 1997.
Ernst Lemmer : Some things were different. Memories of a German Democrat. Frankfurt a. M. 1968.
H. Poppelbaum, W. Brüning, W. Vogt, Ph. Schütz: The events of Mechterstädt in their contemporary historical context. In: then and now. 38, 1993, pp. 155-200.
K. Skimmer: The Marburg Student Corps in Thuringia. A war diary in peace, written and compiled by the staff sergeant of the student corps. Marburg 1920.
Hellmut Seier : Radicalization and Reform as Problems of the University of Marburg 1918-1933. In: Academia Marburgensis. Volume 1. Marburg 1977, pp. 303-352.
F. Hammer: Free State of Gotha in the Kapp Putsch. East Berlin 1960.

Movies

Shot on the run (Deutscher Fernsehfunk DFF, 1962, director: Wolfgang Luderer , with Adolf Peter Hoffmann in the role of Bogislaw von Selchow)

Web links

Literature by and about Bogislav von Selchow in the catalog of the German National Library
Bogislav von Selchow. In: Project historical novel database. University of Innsbruck, archived from the original on June 25, 2007 .; accessed on March 25, 2020
Estate in the Federal Archives Department MA - Military Archives: Military history / subject matter collections, traditional and comradeship associations
Memorial to those who fell in March. In: mechterstaedt.de. Retrieved March 25, 2020

Individual evidence

^ Friedrich Wilhelm Otto Konstantin [von Selchow] . In: Marcelli Janecki , Deutsche Adelsgenossenschaft (Hrsg.): Yearbook of the German nobility . Third volume. WT Bruer's Verlag, Berlin 1899, p. 477-478 ( dlib.rsl.ru ).
↑ Jeanette Toussaint: I am the red rag for Potsdam. Anni von Gottberg and the Confessing Church. Wilhelmshorst 2011.
Jeanette Toussaint: Anni von Gottberg. In: FemBio . Retrieved March 25, 2020 .
^ Peter Krüger and Anne Christine Nagel: Mechterstädt-25.3.1920: Scandal and crisis in the early phase of the Weimar Republic. Münster: LIT Verlag 1997, p. 58.
↑ Irmtrud Wojak and Peter Hayes: "Aryanization" in National Socialism: Volksgemeinschaft, Raub und Gedächtnis , Campus Verlag 2000, p. 39.
^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 566, with reference to the 1934/35 National Socialist Leader Lexicon .
↑ Klaus Franken, From black-white-red to black-red-gold: The transition from naval officers of the Imperial Navy to the Navy of the Weimar Republic, Berlin 2018, p. 52.
^ Yearbook of the Academy for German Law. 1st year 1933/34. Edited by Hans Frank. (Munich, Berlin, Leipzig: Schweitzer Verlag), p. 257.
^ Quotation from Ernst Klee: Das Kulturlexikon zum Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 566.
^ German administration for popular education in the Soviet occupation zone: List of the literature to be sorted out: First supplement. Zentralverlag, Berlin, 1947, pp. 127–148 , accessed on March 25, 2020 (title 3773).
^ German administration for popular education in the Soviet zone of occupation: List of the literature to be separated: Second supplement. Zentralverlag, Berlin, 1948, pp. 245–290 , accessed on March 25, 2020 (title 7276).
^ German administration for popular education in the Soviet zone of occupation: List of the literature to be sorted out. Zentralverlag, Berlin, 1946, pp. 347-414 , accessed on March 25, 2020 (title 11031).
^ German administration for popular education in the Soviet occupation zone: List of the literature to be sorted out: First supplement. Zentralverlag, Berlin, 1947, pp. 127–148 , accessed on March 25, 2020 (title 3772).
^ German administration for popular education in the Soviet zone of occupation: List of the literature to be separated: Second supplement. Zentralverlag, Berlin, 1948, pp. 245–290 , accessed on March 25, 2020 (title 7275).

personal data
SURNAME	Selchow, Bogislav von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer, naval officer and leader of the Marburg student corps
DATE OF BIRTH	4th July 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH	Koslin , Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH	February 6, 1943
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Friedrich Wilhelm Otto Konstantin [von Selchow] . In: Marcelli Janecki , Deutsche Adelsgenossenschaft (Hrsg.): Yearbook of the German nobility . Third volume. WT Bruer's Verlag, Berlin 1899, p. 477-478 ( dlib.rsl.ru ).

[2] Jeanette Toussaint: I am the red rag for Potsdam. Anni von Gottberg and the Confessing Church. Wilhelmshorst 2011.
Jeanette Toussaint: Anni von Gottberg. In: FemBio . Retrieved March 25, 2020 .

[3] Peter Krüger and Anne Christine Nagel: Mechterstädt-25.3.1920: Scandal and crisis in the early phase of the Weimar Republic. Münster: LIT Verlag 1997, p. 58.

[4] Irmtrud Wojak and Peter Hayes: "Aryanization" in National Socialism: Volksgemeinschaft, Raub und Gedächtnis , Campus Verlag 2000, p. 39.

[5] Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 566, with reference to the 1934/35 National Socialist Leader Lexicon .

[6] Klaus Franken, From black-white-red to black-red-gold: The transition from naval officers of the Imperial Navy to the Navy of the Weimar Republic, Berlin 2018, p. 52.

[7] Yearbook of the Academy for German Law. 1st year 1933/34. Edited by Hans Frank. (Munich, Berlin, Leipzig: Schweitzer Verlag), p. 257.

[8] Quotation from Ernst Klee: Das Kulturlexikon zum Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 566.

[9] German administration for popular education in the Soviet occupation zone: List of the literature to be sorted out: First supplement. Zentralverlag, Berlin, 1947, pp. 127–148 , accessed on March 25, 2020 (title 3773).

[10] German administration for popular education in the Soviet zone of occupation: List of the literature to be separated: Second supplement. Zentralverlag, Berlin, 1948, pp. 245–290 , accessed on March 25, 2020 (title 7276).

[11] German administration for popular education in the Soviet zone of occupation: List of the literature to be sorted out. Zentralverlag, Berlin, 1946, pp. 347-414 , accessed on March 25, 2020 (title 11031).

[12] German administration for popular education in the Soviet occupation zone: List of the literature to be sorted out: First supplement. Zentralverlag, Berlin, 1947, pp. 127–148 , accessed on March 25, 2020 (title 3772).

[13] German administration for popular education in the Soviet zone of occupation: List of the literature to be separated: Second supplement. Zentralverlag, Berlin, 1948, pp. 245–290 , accessed on March 25, 2020 (title 7275).