Karl August von Laffert

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Karl August von Laffert (born June 1, 1872 in Dannenbüttel , † October 19, 1938 in Garlitz ), a member of the Laffert family , was a German officer, writer and National Socialist.

Life

Von Laffert was born in Dannenbüttel near Gifhorn . His sister was Viktoria von Dirksen . He attended schools in Wolfenbüttel and Schwerin and kicked at the end of his school days as a cadet in the Hessian Dragoons. 23 in Darmstadt , where he became lieutenant was promoted. In 1910 he became head of the squadron in Fürstenwalde . He quickly rose to the position of general staff officer and was sent on diplomatic missions. He became Germany's representative at the Border Regulation Commission for the final determination of the bordersAlbania . He was also a temporary liaison officer to the Bulgarian army and head of the field railroad in Romania . In 1913 von Laffert was sent to Constantinople in what was then the Ottoman Empire as a military attaché . His successor to the post of military attaché was Erich von Leipzig (1860-1915). After the outbreak of World War I , von Laffert initially stayed in Constantinople; Because of a brochure he had written, in which he was skeptical about the German chances of success in the expanding war, he was transferred to Cottbus in 1915 and with an infantry regiment to Verdun . After the end of the war he said goodbye to the military, in which he had last held the rank of lieutenant colonel , and moved to an estate in Garlitz that he had inherited in 1915 . There he worked as a writer. In 1930 he joined the NSDAP (membership number 352.319). He had been a member of the German Men's Club since December 1932 at the latest . In 1935 he became a member of the People's Court . He was also a member of the SS and had the rank of Obersturmbannführer there . Von Laffert died in October 1938.

Writing activity

From 1919 onwards, von Laffert wrote several novels, most of which belong to the early science fiction genre and which were also successful abroad. They were reprinted - also in extracts - in youth publications.

  • Kospoli, Roman , 1919 for Stilke
  • Dangerous science, novel from d. Areas d. Hypnosis , 1919 with Stilke
  • Mrs. Irma's Adventure, detective novel , 1921 for Moewig & Höffner
  • Fall of the Luna , 1921 by Stilke (excerpts as The End of our Moon in Das Neue Universum , Stuttgart, Union , 1925)
  • Fanale in the sky , 1925 E. Keil's successor (A. Scherl)
  • Gold, political novel from d. Present , 1922 with Hermann Paetel
  • Fire at the North Pole, technical-polit. Novel from d. Present , 1924 at E. Keils Nachf., Spanish: Fuego en el Polo Norte , Editoria International, with Francisco Villanueva
  • Flames from Space, A Future Novel , 1927 by Kyffhäuser
  • Buddha in the Occident, A Book of Luck and Suffering , 1928 by Kyffhäuser
  • Poison kitchen , 1929 at August Scherl's
  • Crimes at Wörth Castle, novel , 1929 for August Scherl
  • The shot on the Bardanjol , an ore from Albania , 1934 by C. Fr. Fleischer

literature

  • Kühlmann, Wilhelm (Ed.): Killy Literature Lexicon, Edition 2, 2010, p. 163f, ISBN 978-3-11-022049-0 ( digitized version )
  • Sehlke, Stefan: Pädagogen - Pastoren - Patrioten: Biographical manual on printed matter for children and young people by authors and illustrators from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania from the beginnings up to and including 1945, p. 217, ISBN 978-3-837-09497-8 ( digitized version )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Kühlmann (Ed.): Killy Literaturlexikon, Edition 2. 2010, accessed on March 30, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Stefan Sehlke: teachers - pastors - Patriots: Biographical manual. Retrieved March 14, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Laffert, Karl August von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, writer and National Socialist
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Dannenbüttel
DATE OF DEATH October 19, 1938
Place of death Garlitz