Michael Graf Soltikow

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Michael Graf Soltikow (* as Walter Richard Max Bennecke on November 17, 1902 in Potsdam ; † February 13, 1984 in Villefranche-sur-Mer ) was a German writer and journalist .

Life

His parents were the Berlin high school teacher Friedrich Ludwig Bennecke (born May 23, 1861 in Berlin; † November 17, 1935 in Potsdam) and Margarete, geb. Schmeisser (1871-1934).

He studied law at the Universities of Berlin, Breslau, Bonn, Oxford, London and Paris, passed the legal traineeship in Bonn in 1929 and obtained his doctorate. jur.

In 1926 he was adopted by Russian emigrants, Leo Graf von Soltikow and his wife Alexandra Tzvatkoff, who had no children and had fled from Russia to Paris in 1917, following a newspaper advertisement.

He devoted himself to writing and journalism.

During the Second World War he was temporarily a soldier in the High Command of the Wehrmacht , Dept. Abroad Defense and retired as a non-commissioned officer at the end of the war. He later claimed to have been active in the Abwehr under Admiral Wilhelm Canaris and Hans Oster since 1940 . He was also given the first name Michael Alexander allegedly at the instigation of the Abwehr, when the Abwehr wanted to disguise him at the beginning of the war as a wealthy, cosmopolitan bachelor of Russian descent in order to be able to use him in the espionage surveillance of the Berlin diplomacy.

He published a leaflet entitled “Extrablatt - Gröning unmasked”, which Bruno Gröning sharply criticized.

On April 2 and 9, 1952, he brought out two articles during the weekend for which he was convicted in a lengthy process of denigrating Ernst Eduard vom Rath, who was shot in an assassination attempt by Herschel Grynszpan in 1938 .

In 1959 he was convicted of making allegations of plagiarism against Curt Riess .

Around 1963 he tried to found a cafeteria in Germany .

In 1966 he married the interpreter Monika Helga Freiin von Künsberg (Monika Countess von Soltikow, born September 11, 1938 in Berlin-Schöneberg), the daughter of Eberhard Max Paul Freiherr von Künsberg . She later married Charles Chevillard (* 1930).

Publications

  • The problem of the objective marriage breakdown in Germany, France and England . University of Bonn, Dissertation in law and political science, 1929
  • SOS Thetis
  • The laughing cloud
  • Identified by Scotland Yard
  • Aufwind: Humorous incidents in the life of our air force ; 1942
  • The Devil of Whitechapel; English administration of justice in the dock ; 1944
  • The cat ; 1957
  • The night has never been so bright ; 1961
  • Midnight reception: The big game with England's agents ; 1961
  • Sosnowski l'espion de Berlin ; 1961
  • Secret agent Nicole ; (Spy novel), 1963
  • A woman is not enough (novel); 1963
  • A doctor becomes suspicious ; 1962
  • The yellow storm ; (Factual report; on the Egyptian cholera epidemic 1947), 1962
  • Vrouwen in de oorlog ; 1970
  • I was right in the middle. My years at Canaris ; 1980
  • Rittmeister von Sosnowski : Spy novel based on facts ; 1984

literature

  • L'Affaire Count Soltikow ; 1971
  • Ton Biesemaat: De Soltikow Affaire

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ buro-klieken.de ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / buro-klieken.de
  2. ↑ Michael Graf Soltikow in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  3. ↑ Observator: "Count Soltikow on the phone". In: zeit.de. January 3, 1952, accessed December 8, 2014 .
  4. ↑ www.bruno-groening.org ( Memento of the original dated July 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bruno-groening.org
  5. ↑ www.roizen.com
  6. ↑ www.ifz-muenchen.de
  7. ↑ Michael Graf Soltikow . In: Der Spiegel . No. 12 , 1959, pp. 66 ( Online - Mar. 18, 1959 ).
  8. ↑ Ingenious or almost ingenious . In: Der Spiegel . No. 18 , 1963, p. 61 ( Online - May 1, 1963 ).
  9. ↑ www.geneall.net
  10. ↑ www.jacktheripper.de
personal data
SURNAME Soltikow, Michael Graf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bennecke, Walter Richard Max; Soltikow, Michael Alexander Graf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th November 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1984
Place of death Villefranche-sur-Mer