Matwei Vasilyevich Golowinsky

Matvei Vasilyevich Golovinsky (also: Mathieu; Russian: Матвей Васильевич Головинский) (* 6. March 1865 in Iwaschewka (Ивашевка); † 1920 in Petrograd ) was a Russian-French author and journalist.

Life

He was the son of Wassilij Golowinski, an aristocrat and friend of Dostoyevsky (both were members of the Petraschewzen ). When the father died in 1875, Matwei was raised by his mother and a French nanny. While studying law, Golowinski joined an anti-Semitic and counter-revolutionary group, the "Holy Brotherhood" ( Святое Братство ), which handled forged and manipulated documents in order to discredit their opponents. After graduating, Golowinski worked for the Ochrana , for which he arranged pro-government press releases. Maxim Gorki publicly exposed this activity, which forced Golowinski to emigrate.

In France he wrote press articles on behalf of Ratschkowski , who was then head of the Russian foreign intelligence service in Paris. As part of this activity, he is also said to have been the author of the infamous Protocols of the Elders of Zion to provide “evidence” of a capitalist and anti-Tsarist conspiracy against Nicholas II .

He returned to Russia around 1905. He later changed sides and worked for the Bolsheviks from 1917 until his death .

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Konrad Heiden already identified Golowinski and Ratschkowski in 1944 as the author or commissioner of the so-called "Protocols of the Elders of Zion", but this has not been conclusively clarified.

The assumption is based essentially on the publication of the memoirs of Count Alexandre du Chayla in 1921, witness statements on the occasion of the Bern trial of 1934/1935 and the expertise du Chayla before the court in Bern . It is now assumed, however, that the testimony before the court and the count's statements mixed up individual facts with fictions.

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literature

• Michael Hagemeister : The "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" in court. The Bern Trial 1933–1937 and the “Anti-Semitic International” . Zurich: Chronos, 2017, ISBN 978-3-0340-1385-7 , short biography p. 534

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Daily Telegraph on November 19, 1999: 'Protocols of Zion' forger named ( Memento of May 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ br-online ( Memento from August 29, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Michael Hagemeister , Sergej Nilus and the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" - reflections on the research situation Revised version of a lecture on December 14, 1994 at the Center for Research on Antisemitism at the Technical University of Berlin .
4. ↑ Wolfram Meyer zu Uptrup Review of Cesare G. de Michelis, The Non-Existent Manuscript. A Study of the Protocols of the Sages of Zion. Lincoln 2004. In: H-Soz-u-Kult September 21, 2005. (PDF; 65 kB)