Friedrich Grabowski
Friedrich "Fritz" Grabowski , partly also Grabowsky (* 1886 ; † 1957 ) was a German right-wing, anti-republican activist and publicist during the Weimar Republic . He was involved in the murder of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht and was one of the conspirators of the Kapp Putsch .
Life
He studied law and was awarded a Dr. jur. PhD. Then he worked as a businessman. After the war his profession was listed as a writer.
He did military service during the First World War and in 1918 was press chief of the Guard Cavalry Rifle Division . At the beginning of 1919 he was a close confidante of Waldemar Pabst in the murder of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg and responsible for the downplaying tone of the official communiques after the crime. He should also help the actual perpetrators to escape.
He was then significantly involved in the organization of the "technical department" from which the technical emergency aid later emerged. He was also a leading member of the National Association , which is considered the organizational core of the Kapp Putsch.
In 1920, just before the outbreak of the Kapp Putsch , Gustav Noske signed an arrest warrant against him and other conspirators. While most of the others were warned, he was arrested. In the course of the putsch, Grabowski, a confidante of Wolfgang Kapp , was freed from his like-minded people.
Between 1931 and 1932 he was the head of Hermann Ehrhardt's Monday newspaper .
There is no information about the first few years of the National Socialist era . In 1938 he was arrested by the National Socialist regime, probably because of his Jewish origin, and imprisoned in the Oranienburg concentration camp . Abwehr chief Wilhelm Canaris, whom he had known since the murder of Liebknecht and Luxemburg, arranged for his release. After that, Grabowski lived in Denmark .
During the Second World War he stayed in Paris between 1942 and 1944 and was probably active in the intelligence service there. After the war he lived in Aachen .
Movie
In Bernd Fischerauer's two-part documentary play Violent Peace (2010), the person of Grabowski is embodied by Robert Viktor Minich .
Web links
- Friedrich Grabowski in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Edition Files. Weimar Republic
Individual evidence
- ^ Report on "The Activities of the State Commissioner for Public Order on the Occasion of the Coup on March 13, 1920" of April 16, 1920
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grabowski, Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Grabowski, Fritz (nickname); Grabowsky, Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German right-wing activist and publicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1886 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1957 |