Hans Mend

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Hans Mend (born March 16, 1888 near Rothenburg ob der Tauber , † February 13, 1942 in the Osterstein prison in Zwickau ) was a German farmer . He made a name for himself through dubious rumors and publications .

Life

The son of a small farmer's family with many children had to look after himself after leaving elementary school and hired himself out as a runner and stable boy in manorial houses. From 1908 to 1911 he served with the 2nd Bavarian Uhlan Regiment , after which he went to the Waldfried Stud near Frankfurt as a so-called “rider”. During the First World War he was a rider in the List Regiment from October 1914 to August 1916 . He is said to have carried the name "Schimmelreiter" with the troops. Since 1930 he was the administrator of the Schloss Elsholz estate near Berg . In 1931 he tried to participate in Hitler's success by publishing a book about Hitler in World War I. In 1932 he tried to blackmail Hitler. After he did not react, he turned against Hitler in several press releases. He accused the publisher of having beautified his 1931 book in favor of Hitler. In 1933, his application for party membership was rejected and, because of the insult to Hitler, he was held in protective custody in Dachau concentration camp for one month in April 1933 . In 1938 the Gestapo and the Fiihrer's office mutually confiscated the book and destroyed it. Mend had several previous convictions for fraud, theft, forgery and moral offenses (imprisonment 5½ years) when he was sentenced to two years imprisonment by the special court in Munich on December 13, 1940 for defamation of Hitler while he was immoral. He died of head erysipelas and heart failure in prison.

The Mend Protocol was recorded in 1939 by circles of the military resistance under circumstances that were not entirely clear. The former reporter Hitler did not get away well with it. The protocol serves as proof of Hitler's homosexuality in Lothar Machtan's . Mend presented the award of his Iron Cross as highly doubtful, probably with false information. By Hans Mommsen , Ian Kershaw and Brigitte Hamann Mend is as untrustworthy rejected on the basis of research by Anton Joachimsthalerstrasse .

Fonts

  • Adolf Hitler in the field: 1914–1918 ; Dießen am Ammersee : Verlag Jos. C. Huber , 1931; 3rd edition 1937.
  • The Schimmelreiter reports: , in " The Right Way " No. 49 of 9 October 1,932th.
  • The Schimmelreiter from the List Regiment reports , press release of December 1, 1932, in: "Der Straight Weg" No. 41 of December 4, 1932.
  • Minutes taken on December 22nd, 1939 with Hans Mend, riding instructor and administrator at Eltzholz Berg Castle near Starnberg a / See, formerly Ulan in Royal Bavaria. x. Uhlan regiment assigned as Ordonnanzreiter in October 1914 to Inf. Rgt. 'List.' Since June 1916 promoted to deputy officer and assigned to the 4th bayer. Field artillery regiment, ammunition column 143 (tank defense). Known to the troops as the 'Schimmelreiter', Bavarian Main State Archives / Department IV War Archives, manuscript collection number 3231.

literature

  • Anton Joachimsthaler : Hitler's path began in Munich. 1913–1923, Munich 2000.
  • Lothar Machtan : Hitler's Secret. The double life of a dictator. A. Fest Verlag, Berlin 2001.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Mommsen: Much Ado About Nothing , Die Zeit from October 11, 2001, accessed on April 25, 2011.
  2. ↑ Ian Kershaw: The Odd Way , The World October 13, 2001, accessed April 25, 2011.
  3. ↑ It is wrong back and forth , interview in: Die Welt of October 12, 2001, accessed on April 25, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Mend, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mend, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH near Rothenburg ob der Tauber
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1942
Place of death Osterstein prison , Zwickau