Klaus von Pape

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Klaus Maximilian von Pape , also Claus von Pape (born August 16, 1904 in Oschatz , Saxony , † November 9, 1923 in Munich ), was a National Socialist putschist. The trained businessman died during the Hitler putsch in an argument with the state police ; before that he lived in Herrsching am Ammersee .

Pape came from a family from Wolfenbüttel in the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg who was raised to the imperial nobility in 1779 . He was the son of the royal Saxon major and battalion - commander Georg von Pape (1868-1917) and Emma von Rabenau (* 1879, † after 1928). The couple had three children Magdalena (* 1903), Klaus and Georg (* 1909).

The putschists killed on November 9, 1923 were honored between 1933 and 1945 as " martyrs of the movement " and at the same time instrumentalized by Nazi propaganda ; v. Pape 4th row from the top, 2nd from the left.

Hitler dedicated the first volume of his book Mein Kampf to Pape and 15 other killed coup participants in 1925 , where they were named in the foreword. After the seizure of the Nazis 1933 at the Feldherrenhalle a blackboard with the names of those killed 16 mounted in Munich that of a guard of honor the SS was guarded. Every passer-by who passed this board was obliged to honor it with the Hitler salute. In 1935, two "Temples of Honor" were erected on Königsplatz as a common grave for this group of people. In the same year Pape was exhumed , taken there with the rest of the dead, and reburied in a bronze sarcophagus . Until 1945 the Nazi regime and Nazi propaganda staged a cult around the " martyrs of the movement ".

Between 1933 and 1945, Pape was honored in various ways. In 1937 a former parade hall in Celle (Burgstrasse), which was converted into a sports hall, was given the name Claus-von-Pape-Halle and in Jöhstadt the youth hostel there was named Claus v. Pape named. In the Nazi state , several streets were named after him, for example, in Gelsenkirchen today's Drosteweg , in Recklinghausen, Wuppertal (since 1935; previously Gerberstraße), in Kassel-Oberzwehren today's Im Triesch and in Düsseldorf-Stockum today's Gladiolenstraße .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Adeligen Häuser, Alter Adel und Briefadel 1928. Verlag Justus Perthes, Gotha 1928, p. 436; Hermann Bethge: The Führer and his work. Core materials, guiding principles and suggestions. Verlag A. W. Zickfeldt, 1939, p. 73. In both sources he is named Klaus (with K).
  2. ↑ In Herrsching, the current Schönbichlstrasse was called "Claus-von-Pape-Strasse" during the Nazi era.
  3. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume X, Volume 119 of the complete series, C. A. Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1999, ISBN 3-7980-0819-1 , p. 157.
  4. ↑ Gotha B 1928; all three children were born in Oschatz.
  5. ↑ Renaming of streets in Gelsenkirchen after 1945 , Gelsenzentrum, portal for city and contemporary history.
  6. ↑ lwl.org: The street naming practice in Westphalia and Lippe during National Socialism. Database of street names 1933–1945.
  7. ^ Klaus Gobel: Wuppertal in the time of National Socialism , 1984, p. 47.
  8. ↑ Oberzwehren in RegioWiki.
  9. ^ The building officer Ernst Julius Langenberg
personal data
SURNAME Pape, Klaus von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pape, Claus from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION National Socialist putschist
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Oschatz , Saxony
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1923
Place of death Munich