Karl Ludwig Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg

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Karl Ludwig Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg

Karl Ludwig Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg (born May 22, 1902 on the Salzburg river near Bad Neustadt ; † April 23 or April 24, 1945 in Berlin ) was a German landowner, historian, monarchist publicist and member of the conservative resistance group from July 20, 1944 .

Front page of the White Papers, September 1938 issue

Life

Freiherr von Guttenberg came from the old Franconian noble family of Guttenberg . He first studied law in Munich , but soon moved to Würzburg and Erlangen , where he studied history up to his doctorate in 1929. His doctoral supervisor was Max Buchner . As a student he became an active member of the Catholic student association Rheno-Bavaria in the KV . Guttenberg was also a member of the right-wing aristocratic-bourgeois interest group Gäa . In 1929 he married Princess Therese zu Schwarzenberg . The marriage had three children.

The Catholic-conservative-minded Franconian monarchist Guttenberg published the magazine Monarchie - magazine for German tradition for the agency for conservative literature during the Weimar Republic , and after it was banned in 1934, the magazine Weiße Blätter. Journal of history, tradition and the state . The barely noticeable quite conservative-historical criticism of the White leaves on Nazism took Guttenberg for making connections and networking of the "German opposition to Hitler" ( Hans Rothfels ). In August 1939 he was able to arrange the first contact between Carl Goerdeler and the diplomat Ulrich von Hassell . He had refused the admission into the NSDAP that he had been offered in September 1937, referring to the "manner and form in which religious and ecclesiastical questions are temporarily dealt with and attempted to be resolved within the party".

From 1941 Guttenberg worked in the military defense for Admiral Wilhelm Canaris in Berlin . From 1943 he was observed more closely by the Gestapo . He had connections to Josef Römer and the Kreisau Circle , but was not directly involved in the preparation for the July 20, 1944 assassination attempt . A few days after the attack, he was arrested by the Gestapo and murdered on the night of April 23-24, 1945 together with Ernst Schneppenhorst and Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff in the Lehrter Strasse cell prison . There was no charge before the People's Court. The decision to murder Guttenberg was made by Gestapo chief Heinrich Müller , and SS leader Kurt Stawizki was commissioned .

The most important publications about Guttenberg come from his daughter Maria von dem Bottlenberg-Landsberg.

Appreciation

The Catholic Church accepted Karl Ludwig Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg as a witness of faith in the German martyrology of the 20th century .

literature

Works

  • The contemporary German press on Lenin , 122 pp., Würzburg 1931

TV documentary

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bottlenberg 2003 , p. 115.
  2. ^ A b Sven Felix Kellerhoff : State police done , in Die Welt from April 21, 2010.
  3. ↑ Bottlenberg 1990 .
  4. ↑ His doctoral thesis (Sebastian Fischer: Politics in the Blue Blood , in the Cicero of February 27, 2009).
personal data
SURNAME Guttenberg, Karl Ludwig Freiherr from and to
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landowner, magazine editor and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH on the Salzburg near Bad Neustadt
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1945 or April 24, 1945
Place of death unsure: Berlin