Julius-Karl von Engelbrechten

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Julius-Karl Hermann von Engelbrechten , also Julek Karl von Engelbrechten (born November 14, 1900 in Culm on the Vistula , † February 12, 1971 in Überlingen ) was a German writer and member of the Sturmabteilung (SA).

Life and activity

Earlier career

Engelbrechten was a son of Major George von Engelbrechten and his wife Clara, née Sieg. From 1907 to 1913 he attended pre-school in Danzig and then from 1913 to 1918 the grammar school in Graudenz.

On August 1, 1918, Engelbrechten joined the 1st Leib-Hussar Regiment No. 1 in Danzig-Langfuhr as a flag boy . After working briefly in border protection, he passed the Abitur and then studied at the universities of Berlin, Munich and Innsbruck.

From summer 1920 to spring 1922 Engelbrechten was a member of the DNVP local group in Oberswalde. On November 3, 1922, he joined the NSDAP in Munich . In October 1923 he became a member of Hitler's Stosstrupps in the Munich SA regiment, with whom he took part in the Hitler putsch on November 8 and 9, 1923. In the 1930s he received the NSDAP blood medal for this .

On December 1, 1930, Engelbrechten joined the NSDAP for the second time. From July 1931 he was active in the local group Eberswalde as political leader and SA reserve man.

Activity in the SA

In September 1932 Engelbrechten was transferred to the SA group Berlin-Brandenburg as Berlin editor of the SA-Mann magazine , the official organ of the SA. In this he was then appointed press officer and head of the press office.

In the summer of 1933 Engelbrechten published his first book, the political novel The Broken World . In the years 1934 to 1938 three works were published that were created as part of his work as press officer for the Berlin SA: The book Mit Gruppenführer Ernst on the move , published in 1934 , a collection of speeches by the then Berlin SA chief Karl Ernst , which were held together with homage texts by Engelbrecht were withdrawn shortly after their appearance and destroyed with the exception of a few copies. The reason for this was that Ernst fell out of favor with the Nazi leadership group around Adolf Hitler in the summer of 1934 and was declared an enemy of the state and murdered on June 30, 1934 in the course of the Röhm affair . In August 1934, Engelbrechten received the order from Dietrich von Jagow, who was appointed the new Berlin SA chief at that time, to work out an official history of the Berlin SA. In 1936 he published the work ' A brown army is created' , which traces the history of the SA from 1925 to 1935.

In February 1937 Engelbrechten's third SA book, Wir wandern durch das National Socialist Berlin , appeared, which he wrote together with Hans Volz on behalf of the Supreme SA leadership . According to Daniel Siemens' labeling, this work represented "an unusual mixture of hiking guide and political history book". Viewed from the context of the time, he interprets the work as a "history of the SA" disguised as a travel guide "" which provides information about this Self-image of the SA after its political disempowerment: Susanne Müller calls the book a “pilgrim guide” whose main concern is to make the “places of martyrdom” accessible to the devout National Socialists.

On March 5, 1934 Engelbrechten was appointed deputy assessor of the Press Court in Berlin. In the summer of 1935 he was appointed as a teacher at the seminar for SA leaders at the Berlin School of Politics. Since January 1, 1937, he held the position of an assistant to the seminar and from April 1, 1939 to March 31, 1940 as deputy seminar leader. On February 23, 1939 Engelbrechten was appointed by Viktor Lutze to the SA working group for art and science. During the Second World War , Engelbrechten was a verbal reporter in a propaganda company.

In 1947 Engelbrechten settled in Überlingen on Lake Constance. In the 1950s and 1960s, Engelbrechten published a few more works with esoteric-mystical content.

Fonts

  • The Broken World , Dom-Verlag, Bonn 1933.

Publications as press officer of the Berliner SA :

  • On the way with group leader Ernst , A. Nauck & Comp., Berlin 1934.
  • A brown army emerges. The history of the Berlin-Brandenburger SA , Rather , Munich 1937. (2nd edition 1940) (On behalf of Dietrich von Jagow )
  • We wander through National Socialist Berlin. A guide through the memorials of the struggle for the Reich capital , Eher, Munich 1937. (On behalf of the Supreme SA leadership ; with Hans Volz )

Post war publications :

  • The great spell. To solve the German problem , self-published, Überlingen / Bodensee, 1955. The 2nd, supplemented edition in 1956 with the new subtitle The problem of the magical appeared.
  • The Magus and the Girl , self-published, Überlingen / Bodensee, 1959. (Novella)
  • We invent time , self-published, Überlingen / Bodensee, 1959.
  • Psychic clock Fantastika. Clock for setting and evaluating over 1700 emotional relationships , self-published, Überlingen / Bodensee, 1960.

literature

Essays :

  • Daniel Siemens : On the trail of the SA man. National Socialist Remembrance Policy in Berlin in the 1930s . In: Stefan Hördler (Hrsg.): SA terror as security of rule. “Köpenicker Blood Week” and public violence under National Socialism . Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2013, pp. 147–163.

Entries in reference works:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daniel Siemens: On the trail of the SA man. National Socialist Remembrance Policy in Berlin in the 1930s . In: Stefan Hördler (Hrsg.): SA terror as security of rule. “Köpenicker Blood Week” and public violence under National Socialism . Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2013, p. 149.
  2. ↑ Susanne Müller: The world of Baedeker. A media culture history of the travel guide 1830-1945 , Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2012, p. 241.
personal data
SURNAME Engelbrechten, Julius-Karl von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and member of the SA
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Culm on the Vistula
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1971
Place of death Überlingen