Hans Henning von Grote

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Hans Henning Alfred August Freiherr von Grote (born September 7, 1896 in Charlottenburg , † May 18, 1946 in Braunschweig ) was a German officer and writer.

Life

After attending school, Grote joined the Prussian Army as an officer and took part in the First World War with the 2nd Lorraine Field Artillery Regiment No. 34 . At the end of the war he was a major and then retired from active service. In the 1920s, Grote was involved in steel helmets .

In the 1930s and in the first half of the 1940s, Grote went public with numerous book publications. Most of his works deal with military history topics such as the Wars of Liberation and, above all, the First World War and the post-war period. In addition to overview works that attempt, for example, to trace development paths “from Hermann the Cherusker to Hindenburg”, Grote published in particular specialized studies and biographical writings. The object of his biographies are primarily personalities from Prussian-German military history, such as Hans von Seeckt and August von Mackensen , but also Nazi politicians such as Konstantin Hierl .

In the monographs and anthologies published by Grote, narrowly defined areas are described in more detail. So the anthology deals with Caution! Enemy hears with! from 1930, for example, with war espionage in the First World War. In addition, Grote produced several novels and autobiographical reports of his own war experiences. In their ideological tendencies and in their linguistic style, Grote's works are consistently characterized by a pronounced nationalism and militarism on the one hand and by anti-parliamentarianism and hostility to democracy on the other. Kurt Tucholsky characterized the above-mentioned anthology on World War II espionage, for example, as "a document of patriotic frenzy, a treat for every psychiatrist who is not a patriot."

In the further course of the 1930s, Grote also contributed radio plays, such as B. the audio sequence broadcast by the Reichssender Berlin “Infantry - Advancing!”.

On January 1, 1938, Grote was reactivated as a supplementary officer in the army and assigned to the Göttingen military district command. At the end of 1939 he was used as a press officer in the staff of the General Command of the Wehrmacht .

After the end of the Second World War, Grote received little attention as a writer. Armin Mohler classified him as a subordinate author of the Conservative Revolution as early as 1950 ; otherwise, political or literary disputes with his work that go beyond peripheral mentions can hardly be found in West Germany.

Fonts

  • Holy seeds. A seal from 1806/07 , Schlingloff, Essen 1924
  • Beauregard's cave. Experience of the Western Front 1917 , Brunnen-Verlag K. Winckler, Berlin 1930.
  • What shall we do with the boy? A war book from 1914 for German youth , Brunnen-Verlag K. Winckler, Berlin 1930.
  • Attention! Enemy hears with! A history of world war and post war espionage , Berlin 1930.
  • The captain , 1932.
  • The March on Berlin , 1932. (with Fritz Carl Roegels and Curt Hotzel )
  • 2000 years of the German Empire. From Hermann the Cheruscan to Hindenburg , Berlin 1932.
  • The book of fate of the German people. From Hermann the Cheruscan to Adolf Hitler , 1933.
  • Konstantin Hierl , Berlin: Brunnen-Verlag Willi Bischof 1934. (with Herbert Erb)
  • In the cauldron of the grenades , 1934.
  • Albert Leo Schlageter. The German youth model and slogan of German freedom , Cologne 1934.
  • Germany's awakening. The book of the decline and rise of the German people 1918–1933 , Essen 1934. (together with Arnold Schley )
  • Leader ahead ...! , 1934. (novel)
  • The steel helmet must be. From soldier at the front to people's warfare , 1934.
  • Stone. A drama , 1934.
  • A call went out. The novel Albert Leo Schlageter , 1935.
  • The Great Duke , 1935. (novel)
  • Flaming Years , 1936. (novel)
  • Somme. The hero song of the world war , Hamburg 1937.
  • Seeckt. The wonderful way of an army , Stuttgart 1938.
  • Three men in a funnel With drawings by Karl Mühlmeister, Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1939.
  • The traitor. From my field-gray diary , Berlin 1939.
  • Konstantin Hierl. The man and his work , Munich 1939.
  • The hussar field marshal. Life and fate of August von Mackensen , 1941.
  • Langemarck , 1942.
  • Incomparable German infantry. Fate of a Gun , 1942.
  • Secret emperor of the empire. Karl Freiherr vom and zum Stein , Munich: Zinnen-Verl. 1943.

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 (= The time of National Socialism. Vol. 17153). Completely revised edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-17153-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Panther [d. i. Kurt Tucholsky]: “Review of Hans Henning Freiherr von Grote: Caution! The enemy is listening! ”, In: Die Weltbühne, May 5, 1931, No. 18, p. 656.
  2. ↑ Jutta Sywottek: Mobilization for total war , 1976 p. 172.
  3. ↑ Armin Mohler: The Conservative Revolution in Germany , 1950, pp. 84 and 224. Detailed in the 1972 edition, p. 455.
  4. ↑ Digitized version , online at archive.org
personal data
SURNAME Grote, Hans Henning from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grote, Hans Henning Alfred August von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Charlottenburg
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1946
Place of death Braunschweig