Oskar Meding

Oskar Meding (born April 11, 1828 in Königsberg (Prussia) , † July 12, 1903 in Charlottenburg ) was a German diplomat and writer.

Life

Meding was a son of the Königsberg district president Friedrich Ferdinand Meding . He studied law in Königsberg , Berlin and Heidelberg . In Königsberg he became a member of the Germania fraternity in 1847 and a member of the Corps Saxo-Borussia in Heidelberg in 1849 . After completing his studies, he entered the Prussian administrative service, but moved to Hanover in 1859, where he last held the position of a government councilor. In 1866 he accompanied King George V to the army and later into exile in Vienna as an advisor to the general ministry . From 1867 to 1870 he represented the interests of the king in Paris and set up the Welf Legion there, which was to restore the Kingdom of Hanover in the event of a Franco-German war on the side of France. After 1871 he withdrew from politics and devoted himself exclusively to writing.

Meding wrote numerous novels under the pseudonyms Gregor Samarow and Leo Warren , in which he often dealt with topics of recent history. His pathetic student novel Die Saxoborussen prompted Wilhelm Meyer-Förster to publish his parody Die Saxo-Saxonen under the pseudonym "Samar Gregorow".

Works

• About scepter and crowns
• The Roman journey of the Epigones
• Lost
• The Crown Prince's Regiment
• The hunt of death. novel
• Empress Elisabeth
• Guard du Corps
• The manufacturer's house
• Peter the Third
• The knights of the German house
• The curse of the evil deed
• The gypsy
• The gold pharmacy
• Summit and abyss
• At the belt
• Under the white eagle
• Around the crescent
• Cross and sword
• The Grand Duchess
• The legacy of Kaiser Wilhelm I.
• The Saxoborussians

literature

• Academic monthly books 20 (1903/04), p. 215 (obituary)
• Wilhelm Rothert : General Hannoversche Biography Volume 1: Hannoversche men and women since 1866 , Sponholtz, Hannover 1912, pp. 175–186 ( (Zimmermann, Meding and) Klopp. )
• Adalbert Brauer:  Meding, Oskar. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , pp. 601 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 4: M-Q. Winter, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-8253-1118-X , pp. 69-70.
• Georg Ruppelt : Who wrote history and stories: Oskar Meding. Hanoverian diplomat, Prussian agent, bestselling author (1828-1903) (= reading room , issue 10). Niemeyer, Hameln 2003, ISBN 3-8271-8810-5 .

Web links

Wikisource: Oskar Meding  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by and about Oskar Meding in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by Oskar Meding in the Gutenberg-DE project
• Oskar Meding in the Internet Archive