Hans Günther von Dincklage

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Hans Günther Freiherr von Dincklage (born December 15, 1896 in Hanover ; † 1974 in Mallorca ) was a German lawyer and Nazi functionary who worked as a secret agent and special representative in the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda (RMVP).

Life

Von Dincklage was born the son of a Prussian major and the daughter of a German merchant who was naturalized in England in 1870. In 1918 he was a member of the Guard Cavalry Rifle Division . In 1919 he led the investigation into Kurt Vogel, suspected of the murder of Rosa Luxemburg, as public prosecutor “Spatz” . Vogel had been illegally taken from the Moabit prison by secret agent Wilhelm Canaris and fled to the Netherlands. Von Dincklage hushed up Canaris' involvement and thus prevented Vogel's extradition by recognizing the false alibi that Canaris had become engaged to Erika Waag in Pforzheim on November 17, 1919, against his better judgment. From 1922 to 1923 von Dincklage was Attorney General at the Gotha Regional Court .

On May 12, 1927 Dincklage married Maximiliane Henriette Ida von Schoenebeck (born July 19, 1899 in Düsseldorf , † September 12, 1978 in Nice ) in Berlin , the eldest daughter of Maximilian von Schoenebeck and his first wife Melanie, who was of Jewish origin. Her half-sister from her father's second marriage was the writer Sybille Bedford .

Together with the family of his wife Maximiliane - her mother Elisabeth Marchesani with her second husband Norberto Marchesani and half-sister Sybille Bedford - the Dincklage couple stayed in Sanary-sur-Mer between 1928 and 1939 . Since Maximiliane was a so - called half - Jewish woman in Nazi German , the couple presented themselves as Nazi victims and mingled with the German exile community seeking refuge from the Nazis. "In papers of the French espionage armament it is claimed that Maximiliane entered into love affairs with naval officers and in this way received information not only about Toulon , but also about the port of Bizerta in the French protectorate of Tunisia . Her husband also had some useful affairs; Above all, he was responsible for forwarding the collected knowledge. "

In the spring of 1933, Hans Günther von Dincklage was appointed to the German Embassy in Paris as “Confidante of Chancellor Hitler” to head the press and propaganda department. Through targeted funding, he sponsored the National Socialist and anti-Semitic French press, such as B. the daily newspaper Le Jour, which was founded in 1933 by Leon Bailby .

Dincklage's methods are documented in the files of the German Foreign Office that were not destroyed by the Nazis . In addition to the propaganda work, he organized financial and logistical support both specifically for NSDAP members and for organizations and associations supporting the NSDAP in order to establish them in France. Dincklage also initiated the recruitment of German engineers in French factories and eventually manipulated students and professors at the Sorbonne to interest them in German culture and German studies .

“Even before the Nuremberg Laws came into force in 1935 , the career-conscious man in Germany officially divorced his 'Jewish-like' wife Maximiliane. In Sanary, however, he continued to live with her and both continued their work. "

On Goebbels' orders, Dincklage was to establish Nazi propaganda on French soil and set up a security service to control the French opposition. Dincklage coded his correspondence with the ministry and the security service of the Reichsführer SS . He had direct telephone lines, telegraphs, and "encryption machines " like the famous Enigma at his disposal. His espionage assignment was known both to the French Abwehr and to the exiles, but at first it was considered better not to expose him, because it was not known who would succeed him. Von Dincklage's superiors in the Reich Security Main Office were Walter Schellenberg and Alexander Waag .

After Dincklage's diplomatic cover in France was finally blown, he first looked for a mission in North Africa, for which he recruited Baroness Hélène Dessoffy. Later, too, Dincklage appeared at every new action with a new lover from high society, who was most likely also a sponsor.

From 1940 to 1950 von Dincklage was in a relationship with Coco Chanel . He lived with her, who was arrested as a collaborator after the war, until 1944 at the Hôtel Ritz, Paris . In 1943, with the aim of Aryanizing it , she had it declared ownerless as the property of Pierre Wertheimer. But in vain, because Wertheimer had sold his shares in the joint company to the collaborator Félix Amiot . In the summer of 1943, von Dincklage introduced Chanel to Theodor Momm, a regimental comrade from the First World War who, as an occupation officer, oversaw French textile production for the German Reich. With Walter Schellenberg's approval , Momm sought to use Chanel's contacts with Winston Churchill and Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster, for the German plan for a separate peace with England , but this failed as a secret mission under the code name "Operation Model Hat".

In 1944, Dincklage fled to Lausanne , where, after her surprise release in 1945, she was followed by Chanel, who only returned to France in 1954. As the former American secret service officer Hal W. Vaughan reports in his biography, she continued to support von Dincklage and also the SS man Walter Schellenberg, who was convicted in the Nuremberg trials, financially after he was released from prison in 1951, and thus silenced both . In 1952 she also took over the costs of Schellenberg's funeral in Turin .

Chanel lived with von Dincklage in Switzerland until 1954; In 1951 the two were photographed together in Villars sur Ollon, Canton of Vaud, Switzerland. Von Dincklage lived there in the usual luxury. Like many other German Nazis, he was drawn to fascist Spain under the Franco dictatorship; there he settled in Mallorca. Dincklage died there "in his golden retirement" in 1974.

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ On naturalization: The National Archives; Kew, Surrey, England; Duplicate Certificates of Naturalization, Declarations of British Nationality, and Declarations of Alienage; Class: HO 334; Part number: 70; The Entire Family at the 1871 Census: The National Archives; Kew, London, England; 1871 England Census; Class: RG10; Part number: 4300; Page: 28; Page: 49; HSE role: 846975. Both documents can be researched online via ancestry.
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  12. ↑ Lt. In spite of her Jewish origins, Maximiliane von Dincklage survived the German occupation years in Paris unmolested.
  13. ↑ Flügge, Manfred: Muse des Exils: The life of the painter Eva Herrmann , Berlin, Insel 2012, p. 136, ISBN 9783458175506
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  16. ↑ "Cruel in a nice way": An interview with the historian Manfred Flügge
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  22. ↑ The Times : Chanel and the Nazis: what Coco Avant Chanel and other films don't tell you , April 4, 2009
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  25. ↑ Anke Schipp: The agent with the pearl necklace. August 22, 2011, p. 2 , accessed October 8, 2018 .
  26. ↑ Der Spiegel , November 2, 1992, Mode, Frau ohne Grace PDF
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personal data
SURNAME Dincklage, Hans Günther von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES sparrow
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Press attache
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH 1974
Place of death Mallorca