Gottfried von Bismarck-Schönhausen
Gottfried Graf von Bismarck-Schönhausen (born March 29, 1901 in Berlin , † September 14, 1949 in Verden / Aller ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).
Life
Gottfried came from the von Bismarck family . He is the second son of Herbert Fürst von Bismarck and a grandson of the first Reich Chancellor Otto von Bismarck . His brothers are the former CDU member of the Bundestag Otto Fürst von Bismarck and Albrecht von Bismarck (1903–1970), his sister is Hannah von Bredow . In 1890 his father gave him the Reinfeld estate , which had come into the family through Johanna von Puttkamer .
After graduating from high school in Plön , Bismarck joined the Eastern Border Guard in 1919 . He then completed a law degree in Heidelberg , Munich and Kiel from 1921 , which he completed in 1924 with the first state examination in law. After study trips through Europe in 1925 and 1926, Bismarck worked for the Hamburg-America Line in Hamburg and New York from 1927 to 1928 . From 1928 to 1929, Bismarck was a member of the management of the Reich Association of German Industry in the trade policy department. He then worked as a farmer in Reinfeld from 1930 to 1933 . In 1930 he became a corps bow bearer for Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg .
From 1933 to 1934 Bismarck was district administrator and NSDAP district leader on Rügen ( NSDAP membership number 1.290.912). In 1935 he moved to Stettin as regional president and in 1938 to Potsdam in the same function . From March 1933 to 1945 he was a member of the Reichstag .
He married his cousin Melanie Countess Hoyos in Vienna in 1937 .
Bismarck belonged to the Freundeskreis der Wirtschaft and was 1943 oberführer for and early 1944 SS brigade commander appointed (SS no. 231947).
After the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler on July 20, 1944 , Bismarck was imprisoned in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp on suspicion of involvement . From intercepted radio messages it emerges that he was temporarily also in the Flossenbürg concentration camp and in the Ravensbrück concentration camp near Fürstenberg.
Count von Bismarck-Schönhausen died on September 14, 1949 together with his wife in a car accident. They left the three children Vendeline (* 1937), Barbara (1939–1986) and Andreas (1941–2013), the father of Stephanie zu Guttenberg .
literature
- Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform. The members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the ethnic and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924. Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .
- Erich Stockhorst : 5000 people. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . 2nd Edition. Arndt, Kiel 1985, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 .
Web links
- Gottfried von Bismarck-Schönhausen in the database of members of the Reichstag
- Gottfried von Bismarck-Schönhausen in the family tree wiki
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 140 , 1469
- ^ Flossenbürg's Secret Prisoner: Gottfried Graf von Bismarck-Schönhausen? ( English ) cryptocellar.org. Retrieved October 1, 2019.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bismarck-Schönhausen, Gottfried von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bismarck-Schönhausen, Gottfried Graf von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (NSDAP), MdR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 29, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 14, 1949 |
| Place of death | Verden / Aller |