Georg de Pottere

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Georg Anton de Pottere (born July 1, 1875 in Germán (Banat) , Austria-Hungary ; died February 27, 1951 in Graz ), was an Austro-Hungarian diplomat and anti-Semitic publicist.

Life

Georg de Pottere was the son of the Rittmeister in the 2nd Hanoverian Dragoon Regiment No. 16 Anton de Pottere and the Serbian noblewoman Anna Konstantinović. Pottere graduated from the Oriental Academy in Vienna and joined the diplomatic service of Austria-Hungary as an attaché in 1899 . He was deployed in Sofia and Tangier and Casablanca , served in the rank of consul in the Foreign Ministry in 1909 and was chargé d' affaires of the embassy in Mexico in 1912/13 . During the First World War he was active again in Vienna and represented imperial war aims of a Greater Austria. From July to November 1918 he was the Austro-Hungarian Consul General in Russia and an observer of the Red Terror .

In 1919 he was retired in the Republic of Austria and was unemployed until 1928 when he found a subordinate and only temporary job at the Austrian Consulate General in Paris. In 1935 he was an assistant official at the Hungarian Consulate General in Munich.

At the beginning of the 1920s, Pottere was a member of the "Party of Austrian Monarchists" and founded the self-protection organization Ostara . Between 1918 and 1939, Pottere was a versatile organizer of anti-Semitic activities in the Republic of Austria and throughout Europe. Since 1921 he was one of the organizers of the “International Vienna Anti-Semitic Congress” and maintained contacts in Europe to create an “International of Antisemitism”. He founded the “Arisch-Christian Kulturbund” in Vienna and the “Alliance Chrétienne Arienne” in Paris in 1928. With Ulrich Fleischhauer , he founded after the transfer of power to the Nazis in Erfurt , 1933, the news agency world service , during the Bernese process he supported Fleischhauer editorial. The two separated in 1935, and in 1936 Pottere tried to do a rival service with Boris Tödtli in Switzerland, but he was expelled from Switzerland in 1936. During the Second World War he lived in Budapest.

Fonts (selection)

  • under the pseudonym Egon van Winghene: Aryan race, Christian culture and the Jewish problem . Erfurt: U. Bodung, 1931, three further editions until 1938
  • The Austrian idea . Graz, 1950

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SURNAME Pottere, Georg de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pottere, Georg Anton de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-Hungarian diplomat and anti-Semitic publicist
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Germán (Banat)
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1951
Place of death Graz