Lorenz Ritter von Stransky-Griffenfeld

Lorenz Ritter von Stransky-Griffenfeld (born March 14, 1899 in Müln , † November 9, 1923 in Munich ) was a participant in the Hitler putsch and a German putschist . He became known as one of the killed participants in the Hitler coup of 1923, to whom Adolf Hitler later dedicated the first volume of his book Mein Kampf .

Life

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. Stransky-Griffenfeld 4th row from the top, 1st from the left.

Stransky-Griffenfeld comes from an old noble family. He studied at the technical center in Hildburghausen , which later became the state engineering school - technical school for mechanical engineering and electrical engineering . During World War I , Stransky-Griffenfeld served in the Royal Bavarian 1st Field Artillery Regiment "Prinzregent Luitpold" (or in the Royal Bavarian 7th Field Artillery Regiment "Prinzregent Luitpold" ) on the western front and was retired from the army as a first lieutenant after the war . He joined the Epp Freikorps and later became a NSDAP member and SA member. He was also a member of the anti-Semitic German Volkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund . He worked professionally in the Black Forest . During this time he founded local groups of the NSDAP in the Black Forest and Württemberg . During the attempted coup he was platoon leader of the 1st division of the 9th company of the SA Regiment Munich (Rossbach division) and suffered a fatal gunshot wound in a collision with the Bavarian State Police on Odeonsplatz in front of the Feldherrnhalle. The plume of blood is said to have been soaked with his blood.

Hitler dedicated the first volume of his book Mein Kampf to Stransky-Griffenfeld and 15 other killed coup participants as early as 1925 , where they were named in the foreword. After the seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933 was at the Feldherrnhalle a plaque with the names of such persons placed in Munich, by a guard of honor of the SS was honored. 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 Stransky-Griffenfeld was exhumed , taken there along with the other dead and reburied in bronze sarcophagi . Until 1945 they were included in the National Socialist cult of the "martyrs of the movement" .

During the Nazi era, a number of streets in the German Reich were named after Stransky-Griffenfeld. There was a Ritter von Stransky-Straße in Karlsruhe and in Hildburghausen (the street in front of the new technical center ). In 1937 the former Industriestraße in Gelsenkirchen (renamed on June 15, 1946 to Franz-Bielefeld-Straße) and on April 20, 1939 the former Holzstraße in Recklinghausen (renamed on April 30, 1945 to Holzstraße) after him.

literature

Busch, A.-K .: Blood witnesses: A contribution to the practice of political conflicts in the Weimar Republic , 2nd, revised. u. exp. Ed., Fretterode: Nordland-Verl., 2010, p. 65 (scientifically unsecured), ISBN 978-3-9812409-0-0 .
Calendar of German Labor , Berlin: Verl. D. German Labor Front, 1935, p. 52.
Volz, Hans: Data of the history of the NSDAP , 5th edition, Berlin [including]: Ploetz, 1935, p. 9.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Hermann Bethge: The leader and his work: core materials, central ideas and suggestions , vol. 3: A leader rises (years of combat). Zickfeldt, Osterwied (Harz) / Berlin 1928, p. 74.

^ Emperor Leopold I granted Martin Karl Stansky von Stranka the status of imperial knighthood on July 4, 1682. His sons Johann Jakob and Martin Josef received from Emperor Karl VI on September 28, 1734 . a confirmation and the bohemian knighthood. The great-grandson Johann Jakob Franz Stransky von Stranka and Greyffenfels was entered in the Bavarian nobility register on October 26, 1819 . Stransky is a name of origin for Czech place names such as Strán, Strana, Stránka. see. Inner unity . In: Der Spiegel . No. 38 , 1967, p. 96 ( online - 11 September 1967 ).

↑ ^a ^b street names . Retrieved June 19, 2016.

↑ ^a ^b Markus Weidner: Stransky-Stranka and Greiffenfels, Ritter von, Lorenz . In: The street naming practice in Westphalia and Lippe during National Socialism: Database of street naming 1933-1945 . Retrieved June 19, 2016.

↑ Address book of the Gau and state capital Karlsruhe: Directory of houses with details of the owners, heads of households, companies . 1942. Retrieved June 19, 2016.

personal data
SURNAME	Stransky-Griffenfeld, Lorenz Ritter von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Participants in the Hitler putsch
DATE OF BIRTH	March 14, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH	Müln
DATE OF DEATH	November 9, 1923
Place of death	Munich

[Bethge-1] Hermann Bethge: The leader and his work: core materials, central ideas and suggestions , vol. 3: A leader rises (years of combat). Zickfeldt, Osterwied (Harz) / Berlin 1928, p. 74.

[2] Emperor Leopold I granted Martin Karl Stansky von Stranka the status of imperial knighthood on July 4, 1682. His sons Johann Jakob and Martin Josef received from Emperor Karl VI on September 28, 1734 . a confirmation and the bohemian knighthood. The great-grandson Johann Jakob Franz Stransky von Stranka and Greyffenfels was entered in the Bavarian nobility register on October 26, 1819 . Stransky is a name of origin for Czech place names such as Strán, Strana, Stránka. see. Inner unity . In: Der Spiegel . No. 38 , 1967, p. 96 ( online - 11 September 1967 ).

[Straßennamen-3] street names . Retrieved June 19, 2016.

[Weidner-4] Markus Weidner: Stransky-Stranka and Greiffenfels, Ritter von, Lorenz . In: The street naming practice in Westphalia and Lippe during National Socialism: Database of street naming 1933-1945 . Retrieved June 19, 2016.

[5] Address book of the Gau and state capital Karlsruhe: Directory of houses with details of the owners, heads of households, companies . 1942. Retrieved June 19, 2016.