Karl von Wiegand
Karl Henry von Wiegand (* 1874 in Hesse ( Alsace-Lorraine ), † 1961 in Zurich ) was an American journalist and war correspondent .
Life
Von Wiegand worked for United Press from 1911 to 1917 and for Hearst Newspapers from 1917 . He participated as war correspondent on the German side in the battle of Wirballen (Virbalis) (October 8, 1914). He was also the first American journalist allowed to interview Crown Prince Wilhelm during World War I.
Wiegand conducted an interview with Hitler as early as 1921 , whom he described as a "magnetizing speaker" and organizational genius; his report on the “Bavarian fascists” ended with the remark that there was a fear that Hitler might one day declare himself dictator of Bavaria. In 1929 he took part in the world voyage of the airship Graf Zeppelin together with Lady Grace Hay Drummond-Hay as a correspondent . With Grace Drummond-Hay he also worked later on missions as a reporter in war zones.
On 11 June 1940 he interviewed Hitler in the castle Lausprelle near the Führerhauptquartier Wolfschlucht I .
During the Second World War , he and Grace Hay Drummond-Hay were interned by the Japanese in a camp in Manila , Philippines . Grace Hay Drummond-Hay died soon after her liberation in 1945.
After contracting pneumonia while in Tokyo in 1961, he was transported by plane to Zurich, where he owned a house. He died in June 1961 at the age of 86.
Karl von Wiegand is the father of the American journalist (also for Hearst's Newspapers) and abstract painter Charmion von Wiegand (1896–1983).
Web links
- Dissertation with references to Wiegand's work in World War I on d-nb.info
- Text version of a letter from US Ambassador William E. Dodd to US President F.D. Roosevelt, with references to Wiegand's relations with Germany, at fdrlibrary.marist.edu
- Literature by Karl von Wiegand in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interview with Crown Prince Wilhelm . In: Karl H. von Wiegand: Current Misconceptions About The War. The Fatherland Corporation, New York 1915.
- ↑ Andrew Nagorski : Hitler Country: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power . Simon & Schuster, 2012, ISBN 1-4391-9100-X . p. 22nd
- ↑ What newspapers said about Hitler in 1922 (before the Beer Hall Putsch)
- ↑ Europe for Europeans: Adolf Hitler on the world situation during the French campaign in the Google book search
- ↑ According to other sources, the meeting took place on June 9th.
- ^ Notice of death in Time Magazine on February 25, 1946.
- ↑ Larger Than Life obituary in Time Magazine, June 16, 1961.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wiegand, Karl von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wiegand, Karl Henry von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American journalist and war correspondent |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hesse , Alsace-Lorraine |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1961 |
| Place of death | Zurich |