Friedrich Christian zu Schaumburg-Lippe

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Friedrich Christian Prince zu Schaumburg-Lippe (born June 5, 1906 in Bückeburg , † September 20, 1983 in Wasserburg am Inn ) was a German nobleman , high-ranking Nazi functionary and publicist of National Socialist writings.

Before the National Socialists came to power , he served the National Socialist movement as one of their first imperial speakers . From 1933 he acted as an adjutant to Joseph Goebbels and was therefore one of his closest collaborators in the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda . After the end of World War II , he became known as a history revisionist .

Life

Friedrich Christian Wilhelm Alexander Prince zu Schaumburg-Lippe was the fourth and youngest son of Prince Georg zu Schaumburg-Lippe (1846–1911) and Marie Anna von Sachsen-Altenburg (1864–1918). It was named after Count Friedrich Christian .

Orphaned at an early age, he grew up under the tutelage of his eldest brother Adolf , the last ruling prince, together with his sister in the Palais am Harrl. He studied law in Bonn , where the Palais Schaumburg belonged to the family. He continued his studies in Cologne. Objectively wealthy, he may have felt the fall in power and wealth of his family drastically.

Just married and not pursuing any employment, but financed by his brother, he sought the closeness of Hitler in 1928, but Hitler initially advised him not to join the NSDAP . Finally, Friedrich Christian was accepted into the party in September 1929 and was thus one of the first party comrades from the circle of the German party alongside his second cousin Josias zu Waldeck and Pyrmont and the later but more popular August Wilhelm von Prussia (1887-1949) High nobility.

Friedrich Christian Prince zu Schaumburg-Lippe was initially an employee of Robert Leys , the Gauleiter for Cologne-Koblenz. Together with Ley he founded the SA daily press; then in 1930 a limited liability company to publish National Socialist daily newspapers. From 1931 to 1933 he was the external organizer of the Dietrich u. Co. in Cologne, a rotary printing company. Furthermore, Prince zu Schaumburg-Lippe served his party as one of the first imperial speakers and was also active in the SA .

Coat of arms of the house of Schaumburg-Lippe

Immediately after the establishment of the Propaganda Ministry on April 1, 1933, he became Goebbels' adjutant and thus had permanent access to one of the most powerful politicians in the German Reich. On May 9, 1933, Prince zu Schaumburg-Lippe declared his readiness to hold the “fire speech” on the burning of books on May 10 in Berlin . On November 1, 1934 he became a consultant in the foreign department of the ministry. Furthermore, in his publications he attacked the German aristocracy, which initially did not support National Socialism enough and instead fell into "reaction" and "monarchism".

In the summer of 1934, Prince zu Schaumburg-Lippe took part with a four-page curriculum vitae in a bogus competition for the award of the best personal life story of a supporter of the Hitler movement , which the US scientist Theodore Abel had launched to gain knowledge about "old fighters" to collect. In his biogram, Prince zu Schaumburg-Lippe presented his curriculum vitae as a National Socialist success story, leaving out a number of personal defeats and annoyances within the National Socialist movement.

On February 13, 1937, Goebbels noted in his diary about his close colleague: "These princes are used to doing nothing and parading."

During the reign of the Nazis, Prince zu Schaumburg-Lippe quickly made a career. He became a ministerial advisor in the Propaganda Ministry and was also head of the Reich leadership of the NSDAP as well as the main head of the staff of the Gauleiter of the foreign organization of the NSDAP . "For his long service to the party" he was awarded the golden badge of honor of the NSDAP by Hitler.

In 1939, Prince zu Schaumburg-Lippe was allegedly offered the royal crown by pro-German Icelanders. After he forwarded the request to Goebbels, the candidacy for the throne ultimately failed to go to Reich Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop .

From 1943 he served as a tank grenadier in World War II . In the same year he reached the rank of SA standard leader in the SA .

After the end of the war, Prince zu Schaumburg-Lippe was interned from 1945 to 1948. In the Soviet occupation zone his writings Against a World of Prejudices (1937) and Fahnen gegen Fetzen (1938) as well as the works published by him, Where was the nobility? (1934) and German socialists at work. A socialist avowal of German men (1935) as glorifying the Nazi dictatorship was placed on the list of literature to be segregated. Although Prince zu Schaumburg-Lippe was suspected of having denounced other officials during his time in the Propaganda Ministry as a contributor to Goebbels, he was denazified on September 12, 1950 due to a lack of evidence by decision of the Munich Main Chamber pursuant to Section 1 of the Act to conclude the Political liberation of July 27, 1950 classified only as a suspect of group IV (" fellow travelers "), as he claimed to have fallen out of favor with the party leadership due to alleged support for another member of the nobility.

Even after the end of National Socialism , Prince zu Schaumburg-Lippe remained active as a journalist and published various books, including in the right-wing extremist publishers Druffel and Arndt , in which he reported, among other things, about his trusting relationship with Goebbels and other Nazi figures. As early as 1951, Die Zeit accused him of the fact that the historical value of his memories was low and that he wanted to restore himself financially through the sensationalism of his readers. He never distanced himself from the Nazi ideology and championed it until the end of his life. His writings are still circulating today in neo-Nazi circles.

family

Friedrich Christian Prince zu Schaumburg-Lippe was married three times. First he married on September 25, 1927 in Seeläsgen Alexandra Hedwig Johanna Bertha Marie Countess zu Castell-Rüdenhausen . After the death of his wife on September 9, 1961 in Linz on the Danube , he married his second cousin, the 53-year-old Princess Marie Luise of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg , divorced Baroness von Stengel, and a daughter at Schloss Glücksburg the following year from Albert of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg . Marie Luise died on December 29, 1969 in Wiesbaden . On March 6, 1971, Prince zu Schaumburg-Lippe married 57-year-old Hélène Mayr (1913-2006), the daughter of Antonie Barth , for the third time .

The first marriage had the following children:

  • Marie Elisabeth (born December 19, 1928 in Göttingen, † December 4, 1945 in Nuremberg)
  • Albrecht-Wolfgang (born August 5, 1934 in Berlin)
⚭ 1961–1962 Katharina Whitenack-Hurt (born December 13, 1941)
⚭ 1964–1974 Heidemarie Gunther (born August 31, 1945)
⚭ 1983 Gertrude Friedhuber (born November 5, 1951)
  • Christine (born October 16, 1936 in Berlin)
⚭ 1958 Albrecht Freiherr von Süßkind-Schwendi (* February 20, 1937)

ancestors

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Georg Wilhelm (Schaumburg-Lippe) (1784–1860)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Adolf I. Georg (Schaumburg-Lippe) (1817–1893)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Ida zu Waldeck-Pyrmont (1796–1869)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Georg (Schaumburg-Lippe) (1846–1911)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 George II (Waldeck-Pyrmont) (1789–1845)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Hermine zu Waldeck-Pyrmont (1827–1910)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Emma von Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym (1802-1858)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Friedrich Christian zu Schaumburg-Lippe
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Georg (Saxony-Altenburg) (1796-1853)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Moritz von Sachsen-Altenburg (1829–1907)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Marie of Mecklenburg (1803-1862)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Marie Anna of Sachsen-Altenburg (1864–1918)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Bernhard II (Saxony-Meiningen) (1800–1882)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Auguste von Sachsen-Meiningen (1843-1919)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Marie of Hessen-Kassel (1804–1888)
 
 
 
 
 
 

Works

  • Where was the nobility? Zentralverlag, Berlin 1934
  • German socialists at work. A socialist confession of German men , Zentral, Berlin 1935, 2nd edition 1936
  • Against a world of prejudices , series: Hirts German collection 1937
  • Flags against shreds , Riegler, Berlin 1938, 2nd edition 1938
  • Between crown and dungeon , Limes, Wiesbaden 1952
  • Sovereign people. Small rules of life, capitalized , Druffel , Leonie am Starnberger See 1955, 1962
  • "Dr. G.". A portrait of the Propaganda Minister , Limes, Wiesbaden 1964; License for Arndt Kiel 1990, ISBN 3-88741-140-4
  • Damn duty and responsibility. Path and experience 1914–1933. Druffel, Leonie 1966
  • That was when the new began. Experiences and thoughts of a prisoner 1945–1948. Pfeiffer, Hanover 1969
  • Sun in the fog. Described from my own experiences as proof against chance and for the order of all being , HF Kathagen, Witten 1970
  • "As the golden evening sun ..." From my diaries for the years 1933–1937. Limes, Wiesbaden 1971
  • King of Iceland? Refo Verlag, Bommerholz. 1973
  • Was Hitler a Dictator? Naturpolitschr Verlag Witten, 1976
  • I stand and fall with my German people. This is my socialism! , circa 1985

literature

  • Helge bei der Wieden: Schaumburg-Lippische Genealogy. Family tables of the counts - later princes - of Schaumburg-Lippe until the abdication of the throne in 1918 , 2nd exp. Melle 1995 edition.
  • Genealogical Handbook of the Princely Houses * Vol. 1, 1951, pp. 160-161, Vol. 1 of the complete series * Genealogical Manual of the Adels *, published by CA Starke, Glücksburg.
  • Philipp T. Haase: Friedrich Christian Prince zu Schaumburg Lippe and his curriculum vitae in the Theodore Abel Collection - a braggart in the Propaganda Ministry , online: Officials of the National Socialist Reich Ministries , March 19, 2018.
  • Alexander vom Hofe: Four princes of Schaumburg-Lippe and the parallel system of injustice , Vierprinzen SL, Madrid 2006, ISBN 84-609-8523-7 ( online version ).
  • Alexander vom Hofe: Four Princes zu Schaumburg-Lippe, Kammler and von Behr. Vierprinzen SL, Madrid, 2013, ISBN 978-84-615-5450-8 .
  • Stephan Malinowski : From King to Leader. Social decline and political radicalization in the German nobility between the German Empire and the Nazi state , Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-05-003554-4 ; Short biography of Prince zu Schaumburg-Lippes on p. 565 f.
  • Thomas Riechmann: From Herrenreiter to Adjutant von Goebbels. Friedrich Christian zu Schaumburg-Lippe - Career in the Propaganda Ministry , in: Frank Werner (Hrsg.): Schaumburg National Socialists. Perpetrators, accomplices, profiteers . Bielefeld 2009, pp. 445-478.
  • Heinrich Prinz zu Schaumburg-Lippe: "Reparation must be ...". Diary 1938 / 1945-1947 , MatrixMedia GmbH Verlag - Göttingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-932313-90-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ At the Wieden: Genealogy .
  2. ↑ Malinowski: König , p. 565.
  3. ↑ Malinowski: König , p. 565 and note 390.
  4. ↑ A comprehensive self-description of the investments in printing companies can be found in his letter to his lawyer Ganske of June 15, 1939, see vom Hofe: Prinzen , pp. 89–92.
  5. ↑ Digital Collections, Hoover Institution Archives: FC Prinz v. Schaumburg-Lippe (1934) . Retrieved February 11, 2018.
  6. ↑ Philipp T. Haase: Friedrich Christian Prince zu Schaumburg Lippe and his curriculum vitae in the Theodore Abel Collection - a braggart in the Propaganda Ministry . Ed .: Officials of the National Socialist Reich Ministries. March 19, 2018, ISSN  2569-6440 ( ns-reichsministerien.de ).
  7. ↑ Quoted from Ernst Klee : Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-596-16048-0 , p. 527.
  8. ↑ a b c A very strange denial. The own nest - Prince Schaumburg-Lippe took offense . In: Die Zeit , No. 19/1951.
  9. ↑ Heinrich Thies: Your Highness lets ask . (No longer available online.) In: Hannoversche Allgemeine. Archived from the original on September 8, 2009 ; Retrieved February 15, 2008 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.haz.de
  10. ↑ polunbi.de
  11. ↑ polunbi.de
  12. ↑ polunbi.de
  13. ^ Lionel Gossman: Brown Shirt Princess: A Study of the “Nazi Conscience” . Open Book, Cambridge 2009, p. 158.
  14. ↑ Family tree of the House of Oldenburg - Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg branch2 ( genealogy.euweb.cz )
  15. ↑ Family tree of the Lippe family - Schaumburg-Lippe-Alverdissen branch ( genealogy.euweb.cz )
personal data
SURNAME Schaumburg-Lippe, Friedrich Christian zu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schaumburg-Lippe, Friedrich Christian Prinz zu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nobleman, adjutant to Joseph Goebbels and imperial speaker of the NSDAP
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Buckeburg
DATE OF DEATH 20th September 1983
Place of death Wasserburg am Inn