Hans Ormund Bringolf

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Hans Ormund Bringolf

Hans Ormund Bringolf (born January 11, 1876 in Baden-Baden , † March 4, 1951 in Hallau ) was a Swiss adventurer.

Life

Tomb at the Hallau mountain church

Bringolf came as the son of the Swiss colonel of cavalry born and later entrepreneur Johann Bringolf and his Russian wife Katherina Starikoff to the world. After childhood and his first school visit in Schaffhausen , he took his school leaving examination in Neuchâtel . He then studied from the summer of 1894, first in Heidelberg and then in Innsbruck, Vienna, Rome and Berlin, until he was awarded a doctorate in Greifswald in 1899. iur. PhD .

He interrupted his studies several times for military service and military exercises in the Swiss army . He was nicknamed Lieutenant B. blessed by his comrades , as he was pronounced dead several times during maneuvers. After completing his studies, Bringolf was in the Swiss diplomatic service until 1904, but was dismissed when he forged checks because of debts. Because of this incident, his student union from the Heidelberg time, the Corps Guestphalia Heidelberg , excluded him. To avoid imprisonment, he fled Switzerland to the USA and then commanded a US police force contingent in the Philippines from 1906 to 1908 . Bringolf was later imprisoned for fraud in Lima, Peru. After returning to Europe, he impersonated Baron von Tscharner and old man of the Corps Guestphalia in Heidelberg and was thereupon sentenced to imprisonment, which he served in Mannheim . After the beginning of the First World War , he became an officer in the French army and was nicknamed the Lion of Manastir because of his special daring on the Serbian front . He was inducted into the Legion of Honor in 1923 . Shortly afterwards, he was again exposed as a fraud. In the Hallau community center he wrote the "Leutnant Bringolf's novel of life" (1927).

Works

  • International treaties as a source of intervention in international entanglements. Greifswald (dissertation) 1899.
  • The life novel of Lieutenant Bringolf blessed. Heidelberg 1927. 2nd edition Zurich 1928.
  • Feu le Lieutenant Bringolf. Paris, Editions du Sans Pareil, "Les Têtes brûlées" collection n ° 1, 1930. Translated by Paul Budry, edited by Blaise Cendrars .
  • I have no regrets. Translated from German and with a foreword by Blaise Cendrars . New York 1932.
  • A Swiss adventurer in foreign service. Solothurn 1942. Reprinted by Rorschach 1950.
  • Un Aventurier suisse sous les drapeaux de l'étranger. L'Abbaye du Livre, Lausanne 1943. Translation by Jean Buhler .

literature

  • Kurt Bächtold: Dr. jur. Erich Hans Ormund Bringolf, called Lieutenant Bringolf blessed . In. Schaffhausen Contributions to History. Biographies Volume III . 46th year 1969, pp. 61–72 ( PDF; 198 kB )
  • R. Specht: Lieutenant B. blessed. In: Schaffhauser portfolio. Vol. 69 (2001), pp. 55 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Bringolf, Hans Ormund
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lieutenant Bringolf Blessed (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss adventurer
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Baden-Baden
DATE OF DEATH March 4th 1951
Place of death Hallau