Eberhard Graf Wolffskeel von Reichenberg

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Eberhard Wolffskeel von Reichenberg as first lieutenant; 1910

Eberhard Graf Wolffskeel von Reichenberg (born as Freiherr Wolfskeel von Reichenberg); (* August 17, 1875 in Uettingen ; † December 26, 1954 in Würzburg ) was a German major and chief of staff of the deputy commander of the IV Ottoman Army , Fahri Pascha, actively involved in the genocide of the Armenians , in which he deployed German artillery in 1915 Monastery in Zeitun (Süleymanlı) and the Armenian quarter of Urfa destroyed. He wrote to his wife on October 16, 1915:

“The fight is over. Urfa is taken. In the end, it happened much faster than I expected. [...] Today you couldn't hear a shot anymore. The city is still being searched for people in hiding, but generally everything that has not been slain is already in captivity. So far it was very interesting and pretty. In any case, now the unpleasant part begins again. The evacuation of the population and the courts-martial. Thank God I don't have to deal with either of these, these are internal Turkish affairs that do not concern me, but in the end you can't avoid seeing them, and that's not pleasant. "

- Letter to Sofie-Henriette Countess Wolffskeel von Reichenberg, October 16, 1915

His name was removed from the reports of Johannes Lepsius , who founded the Armenian Aid Organization after the massacre in Germany in 1896/1897 . His estate is in the Federal Archives in Freiburg .

Private life

Wolffskeel von Reichenberg was a son of Karl Wolffskeel von Reichenberg . In 1894 he graduated from the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich . He married the actress Marietta Olly on June 30, 1903, against the wishes of his family . The wedding had to take place in England. As a member of the army, he was transferred to the Far East as punishment for his marriage, where he attended the siege of Port Arthur .

The marriage was divorced and he married Sophie-Henriette Edle Herrin von Berger for the second time (February 4, 1893 to May 25, 1975). This marriage also remained childless. The SS officer Karl Freiherr Michel von Tüßling was his nephew.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Gottschlich: Aiding and abetting genocide: Germany's role in the annihilation of the Armenians . Links, Ch, 13 March 2015, ISBN 978-3-86284-299-5 .
  2. ↑ Von Reichenberg: Zeitoun, Mousa Dagh, Ourfa: Letters on the Armenian Genocide , edited and introduced by Hilmar Kaiser, Princeton, 2001, pp. 52-55. Quoted here from: Internet
  3. ↑ Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz: Armenian horrors 1915/16: Military II - Ottoman-German entanglements and the Armenian horrors in the First World War . September 10, 1916. Retrieved May 2, 2018.
  4. ↑ http://www.nachlassdatenbank.de/viewsingle.php?category=W&person_id=15581&asset_id=16891&sid=668497085140824376870 .
  5. ^ Annual report on the K. Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Munich 1993/94.
  6. ^ New York Times , December 22, 1904

literature

  • Eberhard Count Wolffskeel von Reichenberg: Zeitoun, Mousa Dagh, Ourfa. Letters on the American genocide . Edited by Hilmar Kaiser. Gomidas Institute, Princeton, NJ 2001 (2nd ed. 2004), ISBN 1-903656-43-5 .
  • Wolfdieter Bihl : The Armenian Question in the First World War. In: 1915-1985: Thoughts on Genocide. (Ed. By Artem Ohandjanian). Vienna 1985, pp. 14-15.
  • Jürgen Gottschlich : Aiding and abetting genocide. Germany's role in the annihilation of the Armenians. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Wolffskeel von Reichenberg, Eberhard Graf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolfskeel von Reichenberg, Eberhard Franz Albert Wolfgang Theodor Heinrich Ernst Graf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artillery officer in World War I, involved in the Armenian genocide
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Uettingen
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 1954
Place of death Wurzburg