Hans Max von Aufseß

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Hans Max Freiherr von Aufseß (born on August 4, 1906 in Berchtesgaden ; died on November 22, 1993 ) was a writer who preferred to publish on topics of Franconian cultural history. He lived and wrote at his castle in Oberaufseß in Upper Franconia and was a great-nephew of Hans Freiherr von und zu Aufseß , the founder of the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg .

Von Aufseß studied law and forestry and settled in Naila in 1934 as a lawyer . During the Second World War , von Aufseß, who spoke good French and English, worked for the German counterintelligence in occupied Paris before he was transferred to the British Channel Islands in 1942, first as deputy, then as head of the German civil administration . The British Channel Islands had been occupied by the Wehrmacht since the summer of 1940 . In the course of his work there are indications of a moderating role of Aufseß ', who tried to mediate between the British civilian population and the German occupation and to avoid attacks. Nevertheless, it cannot be concealed that von Aufseß was part of an occupation regime that was contrary to international law and that also employed forced laborers on the islands under inhumane conditions.

His wife Marilies von Aufseß was arrested by the Gestapo in August 1944 for criticizing the government .

In the cutting sharpness of Ulrich von Hutten's diction , von Aufseß wrote in his essay Nürnbergs Aufstieg aus Sand - und Assche about the city: “It can only be regretted as one of Hitler's many fatal errors that this arrogant, greatest charlatan and half-educated of all times, in violation of the hospitality that was once granted to the German emperors in Nuremberg, relocated his parades and mammoth buildings of excessive hubris there. ”Such statements made after 1945 are in contrast to the baron's membership of the NSDAP . Hans Max von Aufseß joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1933 with membership number 2524705. The baron was not a staunch National Socialist , but up until 1945 he shared some basic assumptions of the Nazi ideology. The party entry probably followed out of opportunism . As a newly admitted attorney at the beginning of a career, Aufseß's entry into the party will have been necessary. From 1945 to 1947 he was interned in the NS re-education camp Camp 18 (Featherstone Park) in northern England . The re-education there was successful in the case of the baron. After 1945 von Aufseß convincingly turned away from National Socialism. A critical appraisal of the baron's work on the Channel Islands was published in 2020.

Hans Max von Aufseß, who himself often called himself HMA, settled after his return from captivity as a lawyer in a firm joint first in Bamberg , later in Naila down and was last in Coburg General of the Ducal family management House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha . No essayist of the 20th century has known, written and presented so much about Nuremberg, Fürth , Erlangen , Bamberg, Bayreuth , about every center, town and village in Franconia as Hans Max von Aufseß, “a lawyer with great Franconian character ".

In 1972 he was awarded the culture prize of the Upper Franconian economy . The Franconian cube , the highest award for Franconian humor given by the three Franconian administrative districts, goes back to his 1983 book The Franconian is a dice . In 1986 he received the Bavarian Poet Thaler from the Munich tower writers . On November 11, 1997, he was awarded the Franconian cube posthumously.

An annotated edition of the diaries that von Aufseß kept during his time on the Channel Islands was published by Osburg-Verlag Hamburg in 2020.

Works

  • British Channel Islands picture sheet. 1942.
  • Diary from the occupation time of the British Channel Islands 1943-1945 , Osburg Verlag, Hamburg 2020, ISBN 978-3-95510-217-3
  • Aufseß Castle - life picture of a Franconian knight's castle. 1956.
  • The winds are caught in Franconia. 1960.
  • ... something is roaring here. 1962.
  • Nuremberg. in English; 1962.
  • Nuremberg no longer looks through slug panes. 1963.
  • Don Quixote in Franconia. 1965.
  • Spell of gesture. 1965.
  • Franconian impressions. 1966.
  • Erlangen - the drawing board in Franconia. 1966.
  • Nuremberg. 1967.
  • A Franconian wins Weimar. 1967.
  • The spiral staircase: 20 essays. 1968.
  • Ulrich von Hutten - publicist and partisan. 1970.
  • Main Franconia in colors and contours. Co-author; 1970.
  • Francs in colors. Co-author; 1971, ISBN 3-7991-5671-2 .
  • The diversity of Franconia. 1971, ISBN 3-920701-36-4 .
  • The empire's first conservator: Hans von Aufseß. 1972.
  • Wunsiedel's big appearance in Biedermeier. 1976.
  • Castles 1976, ISBN 3-7991-5888-X
  • Franconia's open doors: 14 essays. 1977, ISBN 3-920701-49-6 .
  • Franconian impressions. 1980, ISBN 3-920701-59-3 .
  • The district of Kronach. Co-author; 1981, ISBN 3-921615-43-7 .
  • The Franconian is a die roll. 1983, ISBN 3-921615-52-6 .
  • Romance at the door: With a pen and brush through Franconian Switzerland. 1983, ISBN 3-922716-12-1 .
  • Colorful diced Upper Franconia or the constitution of a confusion. Co-author 1984.
  • Affair. 1984.
  • The von Aufsess occupation diary , Chichester: Phillimore, 1985, ISBN 0-85033-543-4
  • Franconian Switzerland. Co-author, 1989.
  • Castles. 1990, ISBN 3-7991-5888-X .
  • My Franconian Switzerland. 1991.
  • Impressions of the channel Islands. 1991, ISBN 0-86120-034-9 .
  • Diary from the occupation of the British Channel Islands 1943-1945 , ed. v. Tobias Arand. Hamburg: Osburg 2020. ISBN 978-3-95510-217-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://fraenkische-schweiz.bayern-online.de/die-region/staedte-gemeinden/aufsess/ fraenkische-schweiz.bayern-online.de
  2. ↑ Arand, Tobias: The good German from Jersey? Hans Max Freiherr von Aufseß and his diaries from the Channel Islands. In: Arand, Tobias (Ed.): Hans Max von Aufseß. Diary from the occupation of the British Channel Islands 1943-1945 . 1st edition. Osburg, Hamburg 2020, ISBN 978-3-95510-217-3 , pp. 27 .
  3. ↑ http://www.mqmagazine.co.uk/issue-15/p-37.php
  4. ↑ a b c - ( Memento of the original from March 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lyrikwelt.de
  5. ↑ Arand, p. 26.
  6. ↑ Arand, p. 38 f.
  7. ↑ Arand, p. 24 ff.
  8. ↑ https://www.osburg-verlag.de/catalogsearch/result/?q=Aufse%C3%9F
personal data
SURNAME Aufseß, Hans Max von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Berchtesgaden
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 1993