Ignaz Trebitsch-Lincoln

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Ignaz Trebitsch-Lincoln (born April 4, 1879 in Paks , Austria-Hungary , † October 7, 1943 in Shanghai ) was a member of the British House of Commons, impostor , spy for Germany and Great Britain, worked for the US defense and was in China for ordained Buddhist monk. He spent three years in prison for serious fraud. Trebitsch-Lincoln was involved in utopian plans for Tibet and, like Gurdjieff , Blavatsky and Roerich, was convinced of the existence of powerful Tibetan masters with superhuman abilities.

Life

Ignaz Trebitsch-Lincoln (actually Abraham Schwarz , also: Ignaz Thimoteus Trebitzsch , also known under the name of Moses Pinkeles ) was born in the small Hungarian town of Paks into a Jewish-Orthodox family. After studying Protestant theology in 1898, he was baptized as a Lutheran in Hamburg . The next stop was Canada , where he became a Presbyterian preacher and married a woman of German origin; the son from this marriage passed himself off as a Jew all his life. He then went to Great Britain, where he was first an Anglican priest, then became a Quaker and was elected as a Liberal member of the House of Commons for Borough Darlington in 1910 . During the First World War he was an oil entrepreneur in the Balkans and a military censor.

After being accused of espionage for Germany, he fled to New York in 1916 , from where he was extradited to Great Britain, convicted of serious fraud and forgery of documents, and spent three years in prison in London .

After his release in 1919 he went to the continent, tried to interview Kaiser Wilhelm II in Amerongen , was then a participant in the Kapp Putsch and "press chief" of the putschists in 1920 , fled to Vienna after the failure of the putsch and came through the Balkans to China in November 1921, where he spent most of the remainder of his life.

In China he was an advisor to the Chinese warlord Wu Peifu . In 1925 he was allowed to return to Britain to bid farewell to his son, who had been sentenced to death as a soldier for murder. However, when his ship landed in Marseille , he learned that his son had already been executed.

Trebitsch-Lincoln studied Buddhism in Ceylon ( Sri Lanka ) and was ordained a Buddhist monk in China , whereupon he gathered a group of thirteen Western Buddhists, to whom he presented himself as abbot. In the winter of 1939 he called on the governments of England, France, Germany and Russia to resign. Meanwhile, he was active in China for the German defense . If his demands were not heeded, Tibetan gentlemen close to him would unleash previously unknown powers and forces of still unknown proportions without prejudice or prior notice, against which they would be completely powerless. The basis of these demands was Trebitsch-Lincoln's participation in fantastic Tibet plans. Like Georges I. Gurdjieff , Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and Nicholas Roerich, he believed in the existence of powerful Tibetan masters who had superhuman abilities.

Trebitsch-Lincoln claimed to have acquired secret occult knowledge in a Tibetan monastery, although it is certain that he never traveled to Tibet.

At the beginning of 1932 he became an employee of the Japanese secret service Kempeitai in Shanghai, China, and the ultra-nationalist Japanese Kokuryūkai . Until his death in a hospital in Shanghai, he worked for the Japanese in China.

Fonts (selection)

  • Revelations of an International Spy. New York: Robert McBride, 1916.
  • JT Trebitsch-Lincoln: The greatest adventurer of the XX. Century !? The truth about my life. Leipzig / Zurich / Vienna Amalthea-Vlg. 1931

literature

  • Endre Gömöri: The truth about Trebitsch. Publishing house Das Neue Berlin, Berlin (East) 1988
  • Imré Gyomai: Trebitsch Lincoln. Les plus grand aventurier de siécle. Paris, 1939 (Les Éditions de France)
  • Joseph Nedava: Trebitsch-Lincoln. The life of the great spy and adventurer. Translated from the Hebrew by Meir Faerber. Union Verlag Tel-Aviv 1957
  • Bernard Wasserstein: The Secret Lives of Trebitsch Lincoln. Yale University Press 1988. ISBN 0-300-04076-8 .
  • Henryk Kesler: Ignatius Trebitsch-Lincoln or From Talmudic student to Buddha-priest. Fulda: Verlag freelance authors, 1989; ISBN 3-88611-063-X

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Martin Brauen : dream world Tibet: western illusions. Publishing house Paul Haupt Berne, Bern; Stuttgart; Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-258-05639-0 , p. 63 .
  2. ^ Friedbert Aspetsberger: Arnolt Bronnen: Biography . Böhlau, Vienna, Cologne, Weimar 1995, ISBN 3-205-98367-X , pp. 22 ( Google Books ).
personal data
SURNAME Trebitsch-Lincoln, Ignaz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Trebitsch, Ignaz Thimoteus; Pinkeles, Moses; Black, Abraham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Buddhist monk, Christian priest and politician, member of the House of Commons, military adviser, spy
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Paks , Hungary
DATE OF DEATH October 7, 1943
Place of death Shanghai