Edgar von Uexkull

Edgar Baron von Uexküll (born May 23, 1884 in Reval , † May 27, 1952 in Bad Nauheim ) was a German diplomat and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Edgar Baron von Uexküll comes from the Baltic noble family Uexküll and grew up on his family's large estate in Vigala , Estonia . After studying in Switzerland and Germany, he went to Saint Petersburg, where he entered the Russian diplomatic service. After stays in the embassies in Washington, Tokyo, Rome, Berlin and Paris, he moved to Berlin when the Russian Revolution broke out in 1905 . From 1925 he worked on the recommendation of Herbert M. Gutmann for the insurance company Allianz , from 1926 as a kind of PR boss and head of the newly established press department. In 1926 he married Nadine von Radowitz . Edgar von Uexküll sympathized with the SPD during the Weimar Republic and took sides against the NSDAP and Adolf Hitler early on .

In the Third Reich he was close to the resistance against National Socialism . He was good friends with several members of the Kreisau Circle resistance group and had connections to the resistance around Carl Goerdeler and Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg . From 1941 to 1943 he tried to enable Martha Liebermann , the wife of the painter Max Liebermann , to flee the German Reich . In November 1942, at the risk of his life, he tried to smuggle two portraits from the property of Martha Liebermann to Sweden in order to get the currency required by the National Socialists for Martha Liebermann's departure.

After the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 , Edgar von Uexküll was arrested. Thanks to his wife and the support of the chief of protocol in the Foreign Office , Alexander von Dörnberg , Edgar von Uexküll was released at the end of September 1944. According to his son, he has been a "broken man" ever since.

After the war he went to Sweden with his family and called himself Yxkull. Martha Liebermann's daughter, Käthe Liebermann, gave him the two smuggled portraits as thanks for her mother's support, which he then sold to the Zorn Museum in Mora.

literature

Martin Fass: Martha Liebermann (1857-1943). Life pictures. Max-Liebermann-Veranstaltungs GmbH, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-9811952-0-0 .

Individual evidence

↑ Cecelia Lengefeld / Annette Roeloffs-Haup: "The situation has become unbearable for me." Martha Liebermann's desperate hope of leaving for Sweden 1941-1943 . In: Martin Fass (Ed.): Martha Liebermann (1857-1943). Life pictures . Max-Liebermann-Veranstaltungs GmbH, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-9811952-0-0 , p. 92 .
↑ Gerald D. Feldman : Allianz and the German insurance industry 1933-1945 . CH Beck, Munich 2001, pp. 67, 199.
↑ Cecelia Lengefeld / Annette Roeloffs-Haup: "The situation has become unbearable for me." Martha Liebermann's desperate hope of leaving for Sweden 1941-1943 . In: Martin Fass (Ed.): Martha Liebermann (1857-1943). Life pictures . Max-Liebermann-Veranstaltungs GmbH, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-9811952-0-0 , p. 93 .
^ Petra Wandrey: Chronology . In: Martin Faass (Ed.): Martha Liebermann (1857-1943). Life pictures . Max-Liebermann-Veranstaltungs GmbH, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-9811952-0-0 , p. 122 .
↑ Cecelia Lengefeld / Annette Roeloffs-Haup: "The situation has become unbearable for me." Martha Liebermann's desperate hope of leaving for Sweden 1941-1943 . In: Martin Fass (Ed.): Martha Liebermann (1857-1943). Life pictures . Max-Liebermann-Veranstaltungs GmbH, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-9811952-0-0 , p. 93 .
↑ Cecelia Lengefeld / Annette Roeloffs-Haup: "The situation has become unbearable for me." Martha Liebermann's desperate hope of leaving for Sweden 1941-1943 . In: Martin Fass (Ed.): Martha Liebermann (1857-1943). Life pictures . Max-Liebermann-Veranstaltungs GmbH, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-9811952-0-0 , p. 100-101 .

personal data
SURNAME	Uexkull, Edgar von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German diplomat and resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH	May 23, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH	Reval
DATE OF DEATH	May 27, 1952
Place of death	Bad Nauheim

[1] Cecelia Lengefeld / Annette Roeloffs-Haup: "The situation has become unbearable for me." Martha Liebermann's desperate hope of leaving for Sweden 1941-1943 . In: Martin Fass (Ed.): Martha Liebermann (1857-1943). Life pictures . Max-Liebermann-Veranstaltungs GmbH, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-9811952-0-0 , p. 92 .

[2] Gerald D. Feldman : Allianz and the German insurance industry 1933-1945 . CH Beck, Munich 2001, pp. 67, 199.

[3] Cecelia Lengefeld / Annette Roeloffs-Haup: "The situation has become unbearable for me." Martha Liebermann's desperate hope of leaving for Sweden 1941-1943 . In: Martin Fass (Ed.): Martha Liebermann (1857-1943). Life pictures . Max-Liebermann-Veranstaltungs GmbH, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-9811952-0-0 , p. 93 .

[:1-4] Petra Wandrey: Chronology . In: Martin Faass (Ed.): Martha Liebermann (1857-1943). Life pictures . Max-Liebermann-Veranstaltungs GmbH, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-9811952-0-0 , p. 122 .

[5] Cecelia Lengefeld / Annette Roeloffs-Haup: "The situation has become unbearable for me." Martha Liebermann's desperate hope of leaving for Sweden 1941-1943 . In: Martin Fass (Ed.): Martha Liebermann (1857-1943). Life pictures . Max-Liebermann-Veranstaltungs GmbH, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-9811952-0-0 , p. 93 .

[6] Cecelia Lengefeld / Annette Roeloffs-Haup: "The situation has become unbearable for me." Martha Liebermann's desperate hope of leaving for Sweden 1941-1943 . In: Martin Fass (Ed.): Martha Liebermann (1857-1943). Life pictures . Max-Liebermann-Veranstaltungs GmbH, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-9811952-0-0 , p. 100-101 .