Botho-Wendt zu Eulenburg

Karl Ludwig Arthur Botho-Wendt Graf zu Eulenburg (born March 27, 1883 in Gallingen , Friedland district , † March 1945 south of Moscow ) was a German landowner and politician ( DNVP ).

Live and act

Gallingen manor around 1860 ( Duncker collection )

Eulenburg came from the old East Prussian noble family of the Eulenburgs . He attended the Friedrichskollegium grammar school in Königsberg in Prussia. He then studied law at the Universities of Lausanne , Heidelberg (member of the Corps Saxo-Borussia ) and Königsberg and agriculture at the University of Berlin . In 1912 Eulenburg took over the management of his family's manor, a Fideikommissanes in Gallingen.

From 1914 to 1918 Eulenburg took part in the First World War as first lieutenant in the reserve, from 1915 as Rittmeister of the reserve in the 2nd Guards Uhlan Regiment , and later as a squadron leader in Hussar Regiment No. 16 . During the war, Eulenburg was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Hohenzollern House Order with Swords and the Iron Cross of both classes. In 1919 he became a detachment leader in the Baltic State Army . In 1919/1920 he was involved in the preparations for the Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch .

After the war Eulenburg joined the German National People's Party (DNVP). In his analysis of the party, the historian Horst Bartel explicitly names Eulenburg as one of those “ Junkers and large landowners” who had “significant influence” in the party. Eulenburg was a member of the Reichstag for the DNVP from 1924 to 1930 . In parliament, Eulenburg stood out as one of the most prominent advocates of the stab in the back and as a representative of the interests of the Imperial Navy . As a supporter of the Hugenberg wing, Eulenburg pleaded for the last-mentioned option to be chosen in the internal party dispute over the direction of the party in 1928, when it came to whether one should support the government or stand in fundamental opposition to it. In addition, since 1919 he was a member of the district council of the East Prussian district of Friedland.

In 1931 Eulenburg left the DNVP and joined the NSDAP . Eulenburg, who had been married since 1936, died in March 1945.

Web links

Botho-Wendt zu Eulenburg in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

↑ Date of birth according to the handbook of the Reichstag, year of death according to Martin Schumacher: MDR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism , p. 208.
↑ Hein Reif: Adel und Bürgerertum in Deutschland , 2000, p. 121.
↑ Horst Bartel: Dictionary of History , 1984, p. 226.
^ Keith M. Wilson: Forging the Collective Memory , 1996, p. 112.
↑ Gerhard Schulz: Germany on the eve of the Great Crisis , 1992, p. 116.

personal data
SURNAME	Eulenburg, Botho-Wendt to
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Eulenburg, Karl Ludwig Arthur Botho-Wendt Graf zu (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German landowners and politicians (DNVP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	March 27, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gallingen , Friedland district
DATE OF DEATH	March 1945
Place of death	south of Moscow

[1] Date of birth according to the handbook of the Reichstag, year of death according to Martin Schumacher: MDR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism , p. 208.

[2] Hein Reif: Adel und Bürgerertum in Deutschland , 2000, p. 121.

[3] Horst Bartel: Dictionary of History , 1984, p. 226.

[4] Keith M. Wilson: Forging the Collective Memory , 1996, p. 112.

[5] Gerhard Schulz: Germany on the eve of the Great Crisis , 1992, p. 116.