Heinrich von Einsiedel

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Heinrich Graf von Einsiedel (born July 26, 1921 in Potsdam , † July 18, 2007 in Munich ) was a German politician and author.

Meeting of the NKFD; Einsiedel 2nd from left

Life

He was the youngest of three children of Count Herbert von Einsiedel (1885–1945) and Countess Irene von Bismarck -Schönhausen (1888–1982). His great-grandfather was Otto von Bismarck . His siblings were Gisela Freifrau von Richthofen Gesch. Von Nostitz-Wallwitz born. Countess von Einsiedel (1909–2005) and Gisbert Graf von Einsiedel (1917–1940). The parents' marriage in 1908 was divorced again in 1931. Both parents remarried - the father married Irma von Tresckow (1901–1976) and the mother married the officer Horst von Petersdorff (1892–1962).

In his youth Graf von Einsiedel was a group leader in 1933 after illegally continuing church youth active. During World War II he was a fighter pilot in Jagdgeschwader 2 "Richthofen" and most recently in Jagdgeschwader 3 "Udet" on the Eastern Front, was shot down on August 30, 1942 near Stalingrad and was taken prisoner by the Soviets . He attended an anti- fascist school , became a member of an anti-fascist group and co-founder, vice-president and “ Front Commissioner for Propaganda” of the National Committee for Free Germany . He was a founding member of the Association of German Officers (BDO).

After his release from captivity in June 1947, he joined the SED in July 1947 and worked as a journalist for the Daily Rundschau in East Berlin . Arrested in the American zone in May 1948 while visiting his mother, returned to East Berlin after six months in prison for a passport violation, feared arrest by the Soviet secret police and fled to West Berlin . He now openly described the “dictatorship of the SED” lying behind him as “inhuman” and resigned from the SED. In the following years he worked in West Germany as a translator, screenwriter and essayist. From 1957 to 1992 he was a member of the SPD .

Elected via the state list of the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) in Saxony , Einsiedel was a member of the German Bundestag from 1994 to 1998 .

Heinrich Graf von Einsiedel was married to the actress and later Green politician Barbara Rütting (1927-2020) from 1955 to 1964 . In 1972 he married Helga Lechtape geb. Grüter (1938-2018), with whom he had two sons.

Fonts (selection)

  • Frank Schumann (ed.): The red count. Heinrich Count von Einsiedel. Historical considerations. Frankfurter Oder Editions, Frankfurt (Oder) 1994, ISBN 3-930842-06-8 (anthology with a selection of Einsiedel's publications and a short biographical accompanying text).
  • With Joachim Wieder: Stalingrad and the responsibility of the soldier. Herbig, 4th, revised new edition 1993, ISBN 3-7766-1778-0 .
  • Diary of Temptation. 1942-1950. 1950; as Ullstein TB (1985): ISBN 3-548-33046-0 .
  • The raid. Hoffmann and Campe 1984, ISBN 3-455-08677-2 .

literature

  • Ferdinand Krings: Heinrich Graf von Einsiedel. A case-by-case study on the “Free Germany” National Committee . University of Bamberg Press, Bamberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-86309-373-0 .

Television documentary

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Köpfchen 3/05, p. 45 (PDF; 1.2 MB)
  2. ^ Nicolaus Sombart: Youth in Berlin, 1933-1943 - a report . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt am Main 1986, pp. 19–27, 209–221 ( Memento from December 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Spiegel.de Comrade Graf's dilemma
  4. ^ Ferdinand Krings: Heinrich Graf von Einsiedel. A case-by-case study on the “Free Germany” National Committee . University of Bamberg Press, Bamberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-86309-373-0 , p. 166 ff., Cit. P. 171.
personal data
SURNAME Einsiedel, Heinrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Einsiedel, Heinrich Graf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED, PDS), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 2007
Place of death Munich