Hans von Manteuffel-Szoege

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Hans Baron Manteuffel-Szoege (1919)

Baron Hans von Manteuffel-Szoege (born January 19, 1894 on Gut Kapseden (Kapsēdes), Courland Governorate ; † May 22, 1919 near Riga ) was a German-Baltic officer . He was a district marshal in Courland and fell as an officer in the Baltic State Army .

Life

He was the son of Georg von Manteuffel-Szoege (1862-1919) and his wife Sophie, née Countess von Rüdiger. His older brothers were Georg Baron Manteuffel-Szoege and Heinrich Baron Manteuffel-Szoege (1893-1946).

After graduating from high school, Hans studied law at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . Active in the Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg since 1913 , he was an excellent consenior . As cand. Iur. and volunteer , he joined the 2nd Uhlan Regiment "King" of the Bavarian Army during the First World War . He served on the western and eastern fronts and was promoted to lieutenant in 1915 . After the end of the war and the November Revolution of 1918, he returned to Courland. At the beginning of 1919 he joined the Baltic State Army as first general staff officer (Ia) . He became the commander of a battalion that saw itself as an elite unit and had a high proportion of combatants.

Baltic State Army with structure from May 20, 1919

On April 16, 1919, he led a coup in Libau against the Latvian government of Kārlis Ulmanis , but managed to escape. The overthrow was not supported by the Entente and the German General Command of General Goltz . A new German-friendly government was formed under Andrievs Niedra , in which Latvians had a majority, but Baltic Germans were strongly represented. Manteuffel-Szoege fell during the coup of the Baltic State Armed Forces to liberate Riga from the Red Army . He was considered by many to be the most capable political and military leader of the Baltic Germans.

literature

  • Siegfried Boström: We were Balts . Türmer, Berg (Starnberger See) 1983, ISBN 3-87829-077-2 , p. 212 f .
  • Carlos Caballero Jurado, Ramiro Bujeiro: The German Freikorps. 1918-23. Osprey Publishing 2001, ISBN 1-84176-184-2 .
  • Gertrud von den Brincken : Lieutenant Baron Manteuffel. Poem in: Rigasche Zeitung. No. 11 of 6 June 1919, p. 5 (supplement).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 71 , 1288
  2. ↑ Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv IV , 12337. War ranking list
  3. ↑ Siegfried Boström: We were Balts . Türmer, Berg (Starnberger See) 1983, ISBN 3-87829-077-2 , p. 211 f .
personal data
SURNAME Manteuffel-Szoege, Hans von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Baltic officer
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH on Gut Kapseden (Kapsēdes), Courland Governorate
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 1919
Place of death before Riga