Ernst Eduard von Mensenkampff

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Ernst Eduard von Mensenkampff , better known as Ernst von Mensenkampff (born May 16, 1896 in Pernau , † January 1945 near Posen (missing)), was a Baltic journalist and Estonian district administrator .

Life

In his youth, Ernst von Mensenkampff received home lessons on the Königshof family estate . After the revolution in 1905 he received lessons at a Munich elementary school and from 1906 enjoyed private lessons in Reval . From 1907 to 1914 he attended the German grammar school in Fellin and from 1915 to 1918 he underwent agricultural training in Sweden . He then became private secretary to Heinrich von Stryk (1873-1938) in Berlin. Stryk was active there as a representative of the Livonian knighthood and strove to join the German Empire . From 1919 to 1920 von Mensenkampff served in the Baltic Landwehr . This was followed by correspondence abroad from 1925 to 1928 with the Telegraph Union in Copenhagen and then a job as a journalist in Paris for the Rigaschen Rundschau . From 1933 to 1939 he was editor-in-chief there . His family was relocated to Warthegau in 1939 by the Nazi regime , where he worked as a farmer from 1940 to 1941 . Since 1941 he had taken on some tasks in the German Wehrmacht and from 1941 to 1944 he was a consultant at the headquarters of the Reich Commissioner for the East in Riga , whose head was Hinrich Lohse (1896–1964) and who was under the Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories Alfred Rosenberg ( 1893 - 1946 death penalty in Nuremberg ). In 1945 he was drafted into the Volkssturm and has been missing since 1945.

Origin and family

Ernst Eduard von Mensenkampff was the son of Max Karl von Mensenkampff (1871-1922) and his wife Emma Sophie von Mensenkampff nee Behse (1871-1937). The Mensenkampff family originally came from Hameln and had settled in the Baltic States at the end of the 17th century . Ernst married (1) 1918 Irene Matthias from Aschersleben , (2) 1934 Barbara Mertens and (3) Helga Irene Uhrmann

Works

  • People and fates from old Livonia. Tilsit / Leipzig / Riga 1943. (2nd edition 1944) (digar.ee)
  • The hundred ruble note. In: We Balts. 1951, p. 100. (Memories of the last editor-in-chief of the Rigaschen Rundschau)
  • The Great Guild of Riga. In: Ostland. Monthly publication of the Reich Commissioner for the East. Volume 2, No. 10, April 1944, pp. 12-21. (booklooker.de)

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Heinrich von Stryk. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
  2. 8. Directory of the Baltic Germans in the German civil administration in Latvia, 1. Reichskommissariat Ostland. In: Baltic German, Weimar Republic and Third Reich. (= Baltic States in the past and present. Volume 2). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar 2001, ISBN 3-412-12299-8 .