Gerhard von Janson

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Gerhard von Janson (born January 23, 1881 in Berlin , † January 19, 1961 at the Warthausen Castle near Biberach an der Riss ) was a German naval officer and political activist .

Janson was a son of General August von Janson . In his youth he entered the imperial navy , in which he made a steep career and finally achieved the rank of corvette captain .

During the First World War - at the beginning of the war he was first officer of the SMS Hamburg - Janson was sent to Turkey by the Great General Staff of the German Army, where he was the commander of a German department sent there by the German General Staff to support the Ottoman defense troops on the Dardanelles Marine came into use. In this capacity he was a member of the staff of the German special command in the Ottoman Empire, commanded by Erich von Falkenhayn .

After the First World War, Janson became involved on the part of the arch-conservative, monarchist political right. A candidacy for the Reichstag on his part failed. However, he gained influence as a board member of the Chamber of Agriculture and in the employers' association, as an advisor to the Stinnes family of industrialists and through his activities on the journalistic level: In the 1920s and 1930s, for example, he published numerous political commentary essays in the by his close personal friend Karl Ludwig Freiherr von and zu Guttenberg , one of the leading monarchists in Germany in the interwar period, published magazine Die Monarchie or in the White Papers published since 1934 as the successor magazine to the monarchy . There were also contributions by Janson in the Stinnes-controlled Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung .

Janson was also in close contact with the philosopher Oswald Spengler .

Fonts

  • Tsuschima: Lecture given at the Military Society in Berlin on January 10, 1913 by Gerhard v. Janson. 1913.
  • State authority and economic life. In: monarchy. 1933, p. 23
  • The monarchical thought and the political present. In: monarchy. II, 5, p. 67
  • Political present. In: monarchy. May 1933
  • East Prussia. In: DAZ. January 29, 1922

literature

  • Ludwig Richter: The German People's Party 1918-1933. Düsseldorf 2002.
  • Anton Ritthaler: Karl Ludwig Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg: A political picture of life. 1970.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Janson, Gerhard von  in the German Digital Library . Retrieved August 20, 2015.
  2. ^ Obituary in the Ostpreußenblatt dated February 4, 1961, p. 17. Retrieved on August 20, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Janson, Gerhard von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and political activist
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 1961
Place of death Warthausen Castle near Biberach an der Riss