Fridolin from Spaun
Fridolin von Spaun (born July 4, 1901 in Anacapri , Italy ; † March 20, 2004 in Geretsried , Germany ) was a German political activist, archive founder and family researcher.
Life
Spaun came as the son of Stella geb. Diefenbach and the Diefenbach disciple and painter Paul von Spaun on the Neapolitan island of Capri and had two sisters (Vera, * 1899 and Genovefa, * 1906) and three younger brothers, Wahnfried (* 1904), Siegfried (* 1908) and Wieland (* 1911). Due to the restless life of his parents due to internal family conflicts and the difficult network of relationships between parents and grandparents, he grew up in Italy, Austria ( Gratwein , Böheimkirchen ) and Bavaria, where he still got to know his grandfather Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach and numerous members of his community. His paternal great-grandfather was Max Gandolf von Spaun (1797–1844) from the von Spaun family .
Fridolin von Spaun initially joined the Wandervogel and in 1920 was a participant in the procession of the Neue Schar with Gustav Gräser and Friedrich Muck-Lamberty . When the Freikorps Oberland in Upper Silesia fought against the Poles after the referendum to remain with the German Reich or the annexation to Poland in 1921, Spaun took part in the " Storm on Annaberg " and captured the Polish flag there. In the 1920s he met Adolf Hitler , whose movement he unreservedly joined, about which he gave information in a 1996 interview with the BBC . Throughout his life he kept in contact with networks of the youth movement and the associations of expellees .
After 1945 he established the Spaun Foundation for Family Research at a temporary location of his grandfather's artist colony in Dorfen near Wolfratshausen and carried the Diefenbach estate († 1913), which was considered inaccessible for decades and which was not kept according to conservation criteria during the two world wars, back together and also set up a Paul von Spaun archive. Von Spaun recognized the cultural and historical importance of his grandfather early on, through his origins, childhood experiences with Diefenbach, encounters with various propagandists of the life reform and participation in the Wandervogel movement . He strongly supported the creation of the public museums for Diefenbach's works in his hometown Hadamar and on Capri.
Through Fridolin von Spaun, Diefenbach's written estate came to the archive of the German youth movement at Ludwigstein Castle in Hesse.
literature
- Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume XIII, Volume 128 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2002, ISSN 0435-2408
- Erich Mende : The Annaberg and the German-Polish relationship . Association of Expellees, Bonn 1991, ISBN 3-925103-48-1 .
- Robert Thoms: The storm on Annaberg 1921 in historical documents. Documents on the history of the German Freikorps . Books on Demand, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-8311-1792-6 .
- Marita Krauss : Right careers in Munich: from the Weimar period to the post-war years . Volk Verlag, 2010. 416 pp.
- Laurence Rees: The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler: Leading Millions into the Abyss . Ebury Press. 2012. ISBN 978-0091917630 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Spaun's brother Friedrich von Spaun (1870–1950) can also be considered as the biological father of Fridolin and his siblings.
- ↑ As a member of the Freikorps Oberland, he still signed the obituary notice for Eleonore Baur in 1981 ; see. Hans Holzhaider : Nazi icon blood sister Pia. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. November 9, 2007.
- ↑ Reinhold Friedrich: Traces of National Socialism in the Bavarian Oberland: Schliersee and Hausham between 1933 and 1945 , Norderstedt 2011, p. 99.
- ↑ Laurence Rees: Nazis: a Warning from History (1997).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Spaun, Fridolin from |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German political activist, archivist and genealogist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th July 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Anacapri |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 20, 2004 |
| Place of death | Geretsried |