Herbert Volck

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Herbert Volck (born April 4, 1894 in Dorpat , Estonia Governorate , Russian Empire ; † August 24, 1944 in Buchenwald concentration camp ) was a German writer and adventurer.

Life

Volck was the son of the lawyer and national activist Dr. Adalbert Volck and grandson of the theologian Wilhelm Volck . In 1905, after anti-German riots, the family moved to Blankenburg / Harz , where Volck also attended high school. In 1908 the family moved to Weimar . After studying briefly in Jena and attending a French school in Geneva , Volck returned to the Baltic States .

In 1913/14 he completed his military training as a one-year volunteer with the Dragoon Regiment 16 in Lüneburg . During the First World War, initially deployed to the infantry on the Marne , among others , Volck completed an aviation training in Hanover . After a crash near Pinsk, Volck fell into Russian captivity in Siberia as a lieutenant pilot on October 29, 1915 . After several attempts to flee to Mongolia, among others, he managed to escape through the Caucasus in an adventurous way in 1916/17 . In 1918 he was assigned to the Imperial German delegation in the Caucasus as an intelligence officer.

After the end of the war, Volck set up the Lüneburg-Volck Freikorps in January 1919 with the support of his father . As part of the Iron Division , it fought against Soviet troops in the Baltic States. Volck himself was wounded in the upper arm near Mitau and did not return to the troops afterwards.

In the 1920s he worked as a detective and writer and in 1922 traveled to the United States as a lecturer , where he stood against the Treaty of Versailles . In 1923 Volck had first contacts with the NSDAP . In the following years he earned his living as a representative, seller of agricultural machinery and editor. In 1928/29 he was involved in the terrorist actions of the rural people's movement in northern Germany, which is why he was sentenced to seven years in prison in 1930 . The date of his release is unclear.

After his imprisonment he continued to write his half reportage, half novel-like books. Volck lived in Kolberg in the 1930s . Volck is said to have had close contact with Göring since 1933 at the latest and worked for the Gestapo . This is said to have led to a conflict with Heydrich , which led to Volck's first arrest in the summer of 1934. After that, however, he continued to work in the intelligence community. At the beginning of the war he worked as a war correspondent . In 1942 his books were banned. Volck was arrested for criticizing the conduct of the war at the instigation of the party chancellery. He died in Buchenwald concentration camp in 1944 .

Works

  • The Wolves. My Siberian-Caucasian adventure book . Ullstein, Berlin 1918 (new edition in 1936 as Die Wölfe. 33,000 kilometers of war adventure in Asia ).
  • Resett. A strong man's tragedy . Th. Weicher, Leipzig 1922.
  • Rebels for honor . Brunnen-Verlag Bischoff, Berlin 1931 (reprint edition 1996).
  • Black threat , Kolberg 1932.
  • I was the Negus's cook. 3 years at the Kaiserhof v. Addis Ababa . Hallwag-Verlag, Stuttgart 1936 (with Erwin Faller).
  • Soldier in Africa . 1936
  • Oil and muhammad. 'The Officer of Hindenburg' in the Caucasus . Wroclaw 1938
  • The dream of death. The fantastic life of the famous German world reporter Roland Strunk . 1938
  • Odyssey for Germany. A struggle in three continents . Breslau 1939 (new edition 1941 as Mein Leben für Deutschland )
  • Black flags and The Freikorps as the nucleus of the national revolution appeared in the standard work Revolutionen der Weltgeschichte .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joseph Goebbels: The Diaries of Joseph Goebbels, Vol. 3: January – March 1942 . KG Saur, Munich 1994, p. 267 .


personal data
SURNAME Volck, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Dorpat
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1944
Place of death Buchenwald concentration camp