Edgar von Schmidt-Pauli (writer)

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Fiath Florentin Richard Edgar von Schmidt-Pauli (born March 3, 1881 in Hamburg , † September 16, 1955 in Tutzing ) was a German writer , journalist and literary functionary .

Life

Youth and First World War

Edgar von Schmidt-Pauli was the son of the Hamburg merchant of the same name, Edgar von Schmidt-Pauli (1853–1920). Through his mother Josepha Freiin Fiath von Eörményes and Karansébes (1855-1945) he was a descendant of Hungarian barons. In his youth Schmidt-Pauli attended the Knight Academy in Liegnitz , where he first attracted attention as a writer through lyrical attempts. After attending school, he studied law in Cambridge , Munich , Göttingen and Leipzig , where he qualified as a Dr jur. PhD. After passing the Great State Examination in Law, however, he did not practice the profession he had learned, but instead turned to journalism. From 1910 he worked as a music and theater critic for the Hamburger Fremdblatt . From 1912 to 1914 he was employed as a director at the Hamburg City Theater and the Wiesbaden Court Theater .

From 1914, Schmidt-Pauli took part in the First World War as Rittmeister of the Reserve . During the war he began to emerge as a writer: in 1916 he published his first book War Rides . From 1916 to 1918 he was also the editor-in-chief of the Belgian Couriers in Brussels .

Weimar Republic

After the end of the First World War, Schmidt-Pauli became press delegate of the German delegation led by Kurt Freiherr von Lersner at the peace negotiations in Versailles.

Around 1920 Schmidt-Pauli married Edith von Krogh Tiedemann Beyer , Bergen, Norway. The marriage resulted in the son Rolf von Schmidt-Pauli and the diplomat named after his father Edgar von Schmidt-Pauli , who among other things became ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Laos and Thailand.

In 1923 Schmidt-Pauli became editor-in-chief of the Eca news agency in Berlin and continued to be editor-in-chief of the magazines Roland von Berlin und Jugend . On the occasion of the Hitler-Ludendorff putsch of November 1923, Schmidt-Pauli rushed to Munich to support the coup d'état, but only arrived there the day after the project failed. The day after the failed march to the Feldherrnhalle , he went to Erich Ludendorff's villa to pass on his reports to the Berlin press.

From 1927 to 1934 Schmidt-Pauli acted as editor of the monthly magazine Politik und Gesellschaft . At times he also worked as press officer for the State Commissioner for Public Order in Berlin. At the time, Schmidt-Pauli ideologically represented predominantly monarchist views. In a biography of Wilhelm II in 1928 he tried to rehabilitate the former emperor, whose share of the blame for the catastrophes of the outbreak of war in 1914 and defeat in 1918 he tried to put into perspective in favor of emphasizing the fate of the larger historical lines of development.

At the end of the 1920s, Schmidt-Pauli joined the conservative circles around Heinrich von Gleichen as a member of the German gentlemen's club .

time of the nationalsocialism

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in 1933, Schmidt-Pauli quickly adapted to the new political conditions. As early as the summer of 1933, he was enforced by the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda at the Press Club as a member of the board of the Reich Association of German Writers (RDS), which was brought into line. In the same year he was appointed representative of the German section on the International Executive Committee of the PEN Club. After the International PEN passed a resolution on November 8, 1933, condemning the repression of writers who did not conform to the official policy of the German Reich , Schmidt-Pauli announced the withdrawal of the German section from the international PEN organization in the same month .

In addition to the biographies of Hans von Seecke and Nikolaus Horthy , his literary production during the Nazi years also included several writings glorifying Adolf Hitler and other Nazi leaders. Accordingly, Schmidt-Pauli ideologically acknowledged several times at this time expressly for the National Socialist worldview . For example, he explained: "Anyone who doubts me as a National Socialist writer does not know my works."

During the wave of political cleansing on June 30, 1934 , Schmidt-Pauli initially escaped arrest because he was in Paris that day . Der Spiegel later suggested that he, like many others, was slated to be murdered that day. After his return to Berlin, however, he was temporarily detained and locked in the Columbia House .

From October to November 1949 Schmidt-Pauli stayed in Paris for six weeks to form a committee there to prepare the Franco-German understanding conference. At the insistence of French politicians, who addressed the Bavarian Prime Minister Hans Ehard - in which they referred to Schmidt-Pauli's journalistic activities close to the Nazis - he was withdrawn from the Honorary Presidium of the Understanding Conference.

In the Soviet occupation zone , Schmidt-Pauli's writings Die Männer um Hitler (Verlag für Kulturpolitik, Berlin 1933), Hitler's Struggle for Power (Stilke, Berlin 1933), Adolf Hitler (Young Generation, Berlin 1935), History of the Freikorps 1918–1924 (Lutz, Stuttgart 1936), General von Seeckt ( Reimar Hobbing , Berlin 1937) and Nikolaus von Horthy (Toth, Hamburg 1944) placed on the list of literature to be discarded.

Fonts

As an author:

  • Non-marriage and void marriage in the narrower sense , 1913. (Dissertation)
  • War rides. Experiences of a cavalry officer , Berlin 1916.
  • From Galicia , Mönchengladbach s. a. [1916].
  • The emperor. The real face of Wilhelm II , Berlin 1928.
  • We Indians , Berlin 1929.
  • Diplomats in Berlin , Berlin 1930.
  • The other Casanova , Berlin 1930.
  • Count Stefan Bethlen , Berlin 1931.
  • Prince Bülow's unworthiness of thinking , Berlin 1931.
  • The men around Hitler , Berlin 1932.
  • Hitler's struggle for power , Berlin 1933.
  • Adolf Hitler , Berlin 1933.
  • History of the Freikorps 1918–1924 , Stuttgart 1936.
  • Nikolaus von Horthy, admiral, folk hero a. Reichsverweser , Berlin s. a. [1937]
  • General von Seeckt , Berlin 1937.
  • Europe's Dynasties and World War I , 1938.
  • History of the Freikorps 1918–1924 , Stuttgart 1939.
  • Friedrich Bergius , Berlin 1943.
  • Nikolaus von Horthy , Hamburg s. a. [1944].
  • 60 years of the Cologne Racing Club , Cologne 1957.

As translator:

  • David Lloyd George : The Truth About Reparations and War Debts , 1932. (Translated from the English)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Warn against misrepresentation , article of March 9, 1950 on Spiegel Online
  2. ↑ polunbi.de 1946
  3. ↑ polunbi.de 1948
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt-Pauli, Edgar von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt-Pauli, Fiath Florentin Richard Edgar von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, journalist and literary functionary
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 1955
Place of death Tutzing