Kurt von Stutterheim

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Kurt von Stutterheim (born March 5, 1888 in Ahorn ; † July 7, 1978 in Vevey ) was a German journalist and author .

Life

Kurt von Stutterheim was born in Ahorn near Coburg in 1888 as the son of Richard von Stutterheim and Olga von Stutterheim, born in Baggehufwudt . From 1898 to 1907 he attended the Casimirianum high school in Coburg. In 1907 he began studying philology in Heidelberg. After a long trip to Italy and Russia and from 1909 he attended the University of Munich . In 1912 Stutterheim moved to the University of Tübingen , where he studied German, philosophy and modern history. Two years later he received his doctorate in Tübingen with a thesis on “ Wilhelm Hertzas a lyricist "to the Dr. phil. In 1914 he enrolled in the law faculty in Strasbourg . Unfit for military service, he worked in the civil administration in Strasbourg during the First World War .

In 1919 Stutterheim joined the editorial team of the Berliner Tageblatt and went as a correspondent in the areas on the Rhine occupied by troops of the victorious powers . In 1920 he moved to London as the England correspondent and in 1929 married Cynthia Maud Beckett, daughter of Sir William Gervase Beckett from Yorkshire and sister of Beatrice Beckett, who was married to the politician Anthony Eden . In 1931 he moved to Rome as Italy correspondent.

In 1933, Stutterheim took over the foreign policy department of the Berliner Tageblatt for a few months in Berlin and then returned to London as a correspondent. There he campaigned for an improvement in German-British relations and in 1937 wrote a study entitled "England Today and Tomorrow".

After the editor-in-chief of the Berliner Tageblatt Paul Scheffer withdrew from the management of the newspaper in 1936, Stutterheim ended his work and in 1937 went on a world tour of several years. He then wrote for the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung and visited South Africa, Canada and Australia, among others. At the outbreak of the Second World War he was in Australia and was interned there. After the war he became a lecturer in German language and history at the universities in Armidale and Sydney .

In 1952, Stutterheim divorced his first wife. He moved to Vevey, Switzerland, and there married Luise-Henriette Margarete von Bernstorff, a sister of Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff , in 1953 . Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff owned a house in Vevey. Stutterheim had met him in London in the 1920s and in 1962 published a biography about the diplomat and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Works

  • The English press from its beginnings to the present . Duncker, Berlin 1933.
  • England today and tomorrow . Herbig, Berlin 1937.
  • Australia . Herbig, Berlin 1949.
  • The majesty of conscience. In memoriam Albrecht Bernstorff . Foreword by Theodor Heuss . Christians, Hamburg 1962.

literature

  • Alexander Wolz, Christian Boseckert: Dr. Kurt von Stutterheim (1888–1978) . In: Coburger Geschichtsblätter Jahresband 2018 , pp. 92–94.
  • Eckart von Stutterheim and Kurt von Stutterheim: The gentlemen and barons of Stutterheim / Alt-Stutterheim. Verlag Degener & Co., Neustadt an der Aisch 1965, pp. 186–187 and 233–237, plate before p. 233

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Alexander Wolz, Christian Boseckert: Dr. Kurt von Stutterheim (1888–1978) . In: Coburger Geschichtsblätter Jahresband 2018 , pp. 92–94.
  2. ↑ Bernd Schmalhausen: “I'm just a painter”: Max and Martha Liebermann in the “Third Reich” . Georg-Olms-Verlag, Hildesheim 2018, ISBN 978-3-487-15658-3 , p. 141.
personal data
SURNAME Stutterheim, Kurt von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Ahorn (district of Coburg)
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1978
Place of death Vevey