Hans Joachim von Brockhusen

Hans-Joachim Adalbert Gotthilf von Brockhusen-Justin (born March 20, 1869 in Hanover , † October 16, 1928 in Bad Reichenhall ) was a German politician, squire and officer .

Life

He came from the old Pomeranian aristocratic family Brockhusen . His father, Gotthilf von Brockhusen, was a Prussian cavalry captain and manor owner on Groß-Justin in the Cammin district near Stettin . After graduating from the Bugenhagianum in Treptow at Rega , Brockhusen studied law at the Universities of Göttingen , Heidelberg and Berlin . In Göttingen he joined the Corps Saxonia in 1887 and in Heidelberg in 1888 the Corps Saxo-Borussia . He also joined the Christian social movement around the Berlin court preacher and anti-Semitic propagandist Adolf Stoecker . After receiving his doctorate , Brockhusen entered the Prussian administrative service in 1891.

As a one-year volunteer and second lieutenant in the reserve, he belonged to the 1st Guards Regiment on foot in Potsdam .

On January 5, 1902, Brockhusen married Irmengard von Hindenburg (1880–1948), a daughter of Paul von Hindenburg , later Field Marshal General and Reich President, in Karlsruhe .

In 1903 he was appointed district administrator of the Grünberg district in Grünberg in what was then the Prussian province of Silesia . He held this office for eight years until 1911.

In 1908, after the death of his father, he inherited the Pomeranian Fideikommiss estate Groß-Justin and the Schrubtow estate in the Greifenberg district in Pomerania, and since then has been the owner of the manor and "rural".

From 1911 Brockhusen officiated as district administrator for the Colberg-Cörlin district in Western Pomerania. After the outbreak of World War I , he initially took part in the fighting in France as a reserve captain in the 1st Guards Regiment and was awarded both classes of the Iron Cross . In the autumn of 1914 he joined the staff of his father-in-law Hindenburg as 3rd adjutant, who is now Commander in Chief of the German armed forces in the east. As an employee of Erich Ludendorff , the head of Hindenburg's staff, Brockhusen organized the development of the administrative system for the Baltic States occupied by Germany ("Land Ober Ost ", consisting of Courland , Lithuania and Białystok - Grodno ). After a trip through Kurland in July 1915, Brockhusen wrote a memorandum to support the annexation of the area to the German Empire for settlement purposes, a plan that was finally taken up by Ludendorff. At this time Brockhusen also made friends with the Swedish writer and naturalist Sven Hedin .

Brockhusen was promoted to head of the political department of the Upper East staff and had to return home in 1916 due to a serious illness. After his recovery he became deputy head of administration in the German-occupied Baltic region. At the end of 1918, after the German defeat in the war and the November Revolution, he settled on his Groß-Justin estate.

Politically a staunch monarchist and proponent of a social order based on estates , he founded the "Association of German Men and Women for the Protection of Personal Freedom and the Life of Wilhelm II. " The aim of this association was to prevent the resignation of the resigned former German emperor, who was living in exile in the Netherlands, to the victorious powers of the First World War - who at that time publicly declared that they wanted to bring him to justice as a war criminal. The association was soon disbanded, however, as Brockhusen had been linked to a bribery scandal.

Now he became chairman of the working committee “The Upright”, which operated the re-establishment of the monarchy. In the same year he became the first chairman of the “ Confederation of the Upright ”, whose slogan was: “With God for King and Fatherland, with God for Emperor and Empire!” And tried to reach all people's groups. However, it did not become a mass movement. The hopes of his supporters, through the election of Brockhusen's father-in-law Hindenburg as Reich President of the Weimar Republic, to gain greater influence over German government policy, were not fulfilled either.

Brockhusen also expressed his political convictions in numerous publications.

He died in 1928 at the age of fifty-nine during a cure in Bavaria.

Brockhusen was a devout Protestant and a member of the Order of St. John and a "well - known anti-Semite ".

In a book of anecdotes published during the Second World War , he was praised as "a very splendid and extremely versatile person [...] lively and witty, poet, writer, singer and district administrator".

Works

• The Imperial. A political story. Owl publishing house, Berlin-Lichterfelde 1919, DNB 572772858 .
• Carl Christian Friedrich von Brockhausen, a Prussian statesman at the turn of the 18th century. L. Bamberg, Greifswald 1927, DNB 579256855 .
• The world war and a simple human life. L. Bamberg, Greifswald 1928, DNB 572772866 .
• For a united Germany. A warning to the great right. Stilke, Berlin 1928, DNB 579256863 .

Footnotes

1. ↑ Life data according to Wilhelm Kosch, Eugen Kuri: Biographisches Staatshandbuch. Lexicon of politics, press and journalism. 1963, p. 166.
2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 45 , 393
3. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 66 , 957
4. ^ Walter Görlitz : Hindenburg. Ein Lebensbild , 1953, p. 107.
5. ↑ Jürgen von Hehn , Hans von Rimscha: From the Baltic Provinces to the Baltic States. 1971, p. 223.
6. ^ Ortwin Pelc, Norbert Angermann, Gertrud Pickhan : Between Lübeck and Novgorod. Economy, politics and culture in the Baltic Sea region. 1996, p. 401.
7. ↑ Sven Hedin : Great men I met. 1951.
8. ↑ Ibid.
9. ↑ Almog, Shemuel et al .: בין ישראל לאומות; Festschrift for Samuel Ettinger ; Jerusalem 1987, ISBN 965-227-047-4
10. ↑ The Berlin Bear. A greeting from the capital of the Reich to our comrades in the field , 1942, p. 89.