Erwein from Aretin

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Erwein Freiherr von Aretin (born September 19, 1887 in Bad Kissingen , † February 25, 1952 in Munich ) was a German journalist and monarchist and functionary of the Bavarian Party .

Live and act

He came from the Aretin family and was a great-grand-nephew of the historian Johann Christoph Freiherr von Aretin . His parents were Baron Anton von Aretin (1847–1921) and Princess Maria Anna von der Leyen and Hohengeroldseck (1857–1936). He had three older siblings: Karl (1884–1945), Adelheid Countess von Arco auf Valley (1883–1957) and Elisabeth Countess von Bissingen and Nippenburg (1886–1957).

After graduating from high school in 1906, von Aretin studied astronomy and art history at the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich and was an assistant at the Kuffner observatory in Vienna-Ottakring before the First World War .

In the war year 1914 he married the Countess Maria Anna von Belcredi (1888–1968). From this marriage four sons were born.

From 1924 he worked for the Münchner Neuesten Nachrichten , which was the daily newspaper with the highest circulation in southern Germany at the beginning of the 1930s , most recently as head of internal politics . At the same time, Erwein Freiherr von Aretin was a member of the supervisory board of the Kreuzzeitung until 1927 . He used his positions to fight against both National Socialism and the Weimar Republic .

In his programmatic work The Bavarian Problem , published in 1924, Aretin demands that a Kingdom of Bavaria, instead of the Austrian Empire, which was smashed in 1919, should step “on the desolate eastern bastion of the German people”, “should not let the evil mixture of the Balkan-Jewish spirit continue to eat its corrosive poison the healthy German body ”. The metaphor used by Aretin of the Jewish spirit as a corrosive poison was widespread at the time, both in anti-Jewish Catholic circles and in the emerging National Socialist movement, and is an essential part of anti-Semitic ideologies.

Politically, he was chairman of the Bavarian Homeland and Royal Association (BHKB) until it was banned in 1933.

Aretin was arrested on March 13, 1933 and was imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp . After his release on May 17, 1934, for which Reichsstatthalter Epp and Rupprecht von Bayern had advocated, a publication ban and a residence ban for Bavaria was imposed on him. He lived in the Black Forest until the end of the war . Despite the ban, he published articles critical of the Nazi regime in Switzerland under various pseudonyms and in various newspapers.

From September 1949, von Aretin was editor of the weekly newspaper Münchner Allgemeine , which was close to the Bavarian party . He himself was district chairman of BP in Lower Bavaria and a member of the board of the re-established BHKB.

children

His eldest son, Anton Freiherr von Aretin, was a member of the Bundestag and Landtag for the Bavarian party , while his third son, Karl Otmar von Aretin, was a well-known historian.

The second son (1921–1945) died in World War II . The youngest son Richard (1926-2006) was a Jesuit priest in Munich and a postulator in the beatification proceedings for Father Rupert Mayer SJ.

Works (selection)

  • The Bavarian problem . J. Lindauersche Universitätsbuchhandlung (Schöpping), Munich 1924.
  • Wittelsbacher in the concentration camp. Münchener Dom Verlag, Munich 1946?
  • Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria - His life and work. In: White and blue booklets , part 4, 1948.
  • The atonement soul of Konnersreuth. 2., considerably exp. Ed., 6-10. Thousand Publishing House Hacker, Groebenzell near Munich 1956.
  • Crown and chains. Memories of a Bavarian nobleman , publisher Karl Buchheim , Karl Otmar von Aretin, Munich 1955

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Remarks

  1. ^ Annual report from the K. Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Munich. ZDB ID 12448436 , 1905/06
  2. ↑ Peter Langer: Paul Reusch and the synchronization of the “Münchner Neuesten Nachrichten” in 1933. In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 2005, Issue 2, pp. 203–240, here: p. 203 ( online ; PDF; 1.7 MB)
  3. ↑ Larry Eugene Jones, Wolfram Pyta: I am the last Prussian: the political life of the conservative politician Kuno Graf von Westarp. Cologne 2006. p. 29.
  4. ↑ Erwein von Aretin: The Bavarian Problem. 1924, p. 26.
  5. ↑ S. Wiguläus Dräxelmayr: Erwein von Aretin and the "too strong dose of alien venom" , 2013 (report on haGalil, last accessed February 2013).
  6. ↑ Christof Dipper : The contemporary historian Aretin or: Who was Aretin when he was appointed in 1964. In: Christof Dipper, Jens Ivo Engels (ed.): Karl Otmar von Aretin. Historian and contemporary. Frankfurt am Main 2015, pp. 9–29, here p. 12. Karl Otmar von Aretin writes in his autobiographical sketch that his father was arrested on March 9th. However, his father mentions the 13th as the day of the arrest.
  7. ↑ Elisabeth Chowaniec: The "Dohnanyi Case" 1943–1945. Resistance, military justice, SS arbitrariness. Munich 1991, p. 559.
personal data
SURNAME Aretin, Erwein of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aretin, Erwein Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and politician (BP)
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Kissingen
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1952
Place of death Munich