Horst von Einsiedel

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Horst Karl von Einsiedel (born June 7, 1905 in Dresden ; † February 25, 1947 in the Sachsenhausen special camp ) was a German lawyer , economist , resistance fighter against National Socialism and member of the Kreisau Circle .

family

He came from the old Meissnian noble family Einsiedel and was the son of the government and medical councilor Dr. med. Gotthard von Einsiedel (1869–1928), head of the state lymphatic institute and chief medical officer of the Landwehr , and Henriette Hippe (1878–1950). The father was entered on November 28, 1913 under the number 487 in the royal Saxon nobility register.

Einsiedel was unmarried.

Life

Einsiedel grew up in a Protestant family of doctors in Dresden. From 1924 he studied law in Breslau. Together with Carl Dietrich von Trotha , he was a member of the Silesian Young Team as part of the Bundische Deutschen Freischar . He was one of the co-founders of the Löwenberger Arbeitsgemeinschaft . His professor Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy had a major share in his later social visions with his ideas about education and the "labor camp movement", later during his studies at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Professor Adolf Löwe with his economic research and thoughts on social theory. In 1930 he became a member of the SPD . Further studies took him to the USA from 1930 to 1932 after his law exams . In 1933 he received his doctorate from Löwe with a thesis on Roosevelt's loan-financed job creation measures against the consequences of the Great Depression .

The National Socialists made it difficult for the Social Democrat Einsiedel to build up a professional existence . At the end of 1934 he found a job in the Reich Chemicals Office, where he rose to head of the planning department.

As early as the 1930s he tried to build an opposition to the National Socialists together with his college friend Carl Dietrich von Trotha and Arvid Harnack ( Rote Kapelle ). Einsiedel had belonged to the Kreisau district since 1940 . He came to the district through Trotha and his wife Margarete Bartelt . His interest in the district was the social market economy and an economic order. He was added to the assassins of July 20, 1944 . However, the Gestapo was unable to provide any evidence .

From May 1945 he worked in the economic administration of the newly formed magistrate of Berlin, then from August in the planning department for industry at the German central administrations of the Soviet occupation zone . After contacts with American offices, which he had with Trotha to discuss new economic regulations, he was arrested in 1945 by the Soviet secret police as an "American spy" in Berlin and in 1947 came to the Soviet special camp No. 7 on the site of the former Sachsenhausen concentration camp under unexplained Circumstances killed.

Einsiedel's visions of Europe and the renunciation of national sovereignty were presented in detail several times in his remarks on a post-war economic order and have basically not lost their relevance.

Quotes

  • “The wisdom of the statesman is not more important for any area than for running the economy. ... I believe that the attitude of the peoples to this question of responsible economic management is of decisive importance for the peaceful future of the world. ” - Last sentences from Einsiedel's résumé.

bibliography

  • Are public works a means of economic policy? Represented on the basis of experiences in the United States , economic and social science dissertation from June 27, 1933, Triltsch Verlag, Würzburg 1933.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günter Brakelmann: Helmuth James von Moltke: 1907–1945. A biography. CH Beck, Munich 2009, p. 39 .
personal data
SURNAME Einsiedel, Horst von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Einsiedel, Horst Karl von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, economist and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1947
Place of death Sachsenhausen (Oranienburg)