Eugene Mossakowsky

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Eugen Mossakowski (born November 1, 1898 in Neidenburg , † 1969 in Minden ) was a German National Socialist , national revolutionary , editor and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime .

Life

Early childhood

Mossakowski was the first child of the businessman Emil Wilhelm Michael Mossakowski (born October 30, 1868 in Sbylutten ; † July 17, 1937 in Königsberg ) and his wife, the businessman's daughter Gertrud Mossakowski, born. Friday (* May 8, 1870 in Neidenburg; † December 13, 1945 there). Eugen Mossakowski spent his early youth in Neidenburg until the family moved to Königsberg.

family

Eugen Mossakowski married the teacher's daughter Dorothea Maria Weiß in Königsberg . The couple had two children. The daughter Rosemarie Mossakowski was born on May 29, 1922 in Königsberg and the son Ulrich Mossakowski was born on January 14, 1927 in Berlin . Ulrich Mossakowski fell at the end of World War II . Rosemarie Mossakowski married Captain Reinhard Hänsch on July 11, 1942 in Königsberg.

Professional career

Beginning of career

Mossakowski was a member of the SPD from 1919 . From 1922 to 1926 he was a member of the federal country , after which he became a leading member of Niekischs and Winnig s Old-Socialist Party (ASP). At that time he worked as an editor for the “National Sozialistische Liefe” and the magazine “Der Nationale Sozialist”, two magazines of the Strasser brothers . Mossakowski worked particularly closely with Otto Strasser and worked in Berlin for his Kampfverlag , whose publications were intended to reflect the political ideas of the Strasser brothers.

Change to the NSDAP

The ASP gradually dissolved in 1929, after which some prominent members, such as Mossakowski and Richard Schapke , joined the NSDAP . Mossakowski met Joseph Goebbels for the first time on April 3, 1929 , with whom he later had several arguments. Mossakowski continued to appreciate the close cooperation with Otto Strasser and with him headed the "Left Wing" of the NSDAP. Gradually strong political differences arose within the NSDAP. These were based in particular on Hitler's program and his economic and foreign policy . The "left" wing of the NSDAP turned against Hitler and his ideologies and tried to prevent his growing influence. In 1929 the left wing took action against the Berlin Gauleiter . In his diary entry from August 1st, Goebbels described this event:

“The latest: I'm supposed to resign in Berlin and move to Munich as head of propaganda. Mossakowski is to be my successor in Berlin. This is Otto Strasser's floor. And it would hit if it wasn't aimed at me. They want to take away my real power and give it a sham power. "

- Ralf Georg Reuth: Joseph Goebbels Tagebücher , 3rd edition Munich 2003, ISBN 3-492-21414-2 , vol. 1, p. 392

Mossakowski's skills as an editor were also in great demand with the NSDAP. In 1929 he was the editor of the “National Socialist Press Conference” and from 1930 the parliamentary manager of the Reichstag faction of the NSDAP.

The black front

When the Strasser wing was unable to achieve any important victories in the power struggle with Hitler in 1930, Strasser and Mossakowski founded the national Bolshevik small party Kampfgemeinschaft Revolutionär Nazis (KGRNS), which later became known as the Black Front. Strasser and Mossakowski thus forced a split from the NSDAP.

Exclusion from the NSDAP

Mossakowski spoke on October 24, 1930 in Stettin to a gathering of high-ranking Nazi officials and described them as a "group of petty bourgeoisie and a sex of the castrati". He was charged with libel as a result of this gathering . Goebbels initiated proceedings to expel his opponents from the party. However, Strasser and Mossakowski took the initiative. At the Gauleiter meetings in Berlin, Mossakowski accused Goebbels of lying. According to Mossakowski, Goebbels had falsely posed as a Ruhr fighter and forged certificates in order to be accepted into the party and to appear as a member of the Old Guard . Mossakowski then tried to put Goebbels before the party's investigative and arbitration committee. Since Goebbels was in danger of being exposed publicly, Hitler gave the order to proceed against Mossakowski and to "purge" the party. The purges led to the exclusion of everyone whom Hitler viewed as harmful to the party. These included Otto Strasser, Mossakowski and the members of the Black Front.

Next life

1933 Mossakowski was after the seizure of power of the Nazis temporarily arrested. He was imprisoned together with Richard Schapke for high treason in the Oranienburg concentration camp . Otto Strasser fled to Prague at the same time . Gregor Strasser was the only one of the former Black Front members to remain in the NSDAP and was murdered in the Röhm Putsch the following year . After his release, Mossakowski was in the Wehrmacht . There he worked for the Abwehr , the German military secret service that focused on the defense against espionage and sabotage . After the end of the Second World War Eugen Mossakowski moved to Minden and published several books on Prussian stories.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. Documentation: On the domestic political situation in Germany 1929. In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 8 (1960), issue 3, p. 285.