Otto von Dungern-Oberau

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Otto von Dungern-Oberau , completely Otto Emil Karl Eduard Wilhelm von Dungern on Oberau , (born April 4, 1873 in Coburg , † March 17, 1969 at Gut Oberau near Staffelstein , Upper Franconia ) was a German nobleman, Prussian officer and travel agent and hunting writer.

Life

Otto von Dungern was a son of Friedrich Ernst August Freiherr von Dungern (1839–1912) and Auguste Souchay de la Duboissière (1842–1936), and a grandson of the Nassau State Minister Emil August von Dungern and the Frankfurt city ​​politician and Reich Commissioner Eduard Souchay . From 1893 to 1910 he served in the 3rd Guard Uhlan Regiment in Potsdam . There his friendship with Harry Graf Kessler began , who had a homoerotic tendency towards him. The two ended their love affair in the winter of 1894/95, but remained friends for decades. Otto married Thekla von Schmidt-Pauli (1876–1940) in Potsdam in October 1896, a daughter of General Florentin von Schmidt-Pauli , with whom he had four children. Between October 1898 and August 1900 he was assigned to the military riding institute in Hanover . In 1908 he became the personal adjutant of Crown Prince Wilhelm , but the following year (March 15, 1909) he was transferred back to his regiment and given a year of leave of absence because he had had an affair with his 22-year-old wife Cecilie . Between June and November 1909 he made a trip to Central Asia, which took him from Tashkent to Xinjiang in western China , which was then under Russian influence .

In January 1910 he said goodbye to the military and took over the Oberau family estate near Staffelstein. At the beginning of the First World War he was reactivated and initially received command of an Eskadron Reserve Dragoons . After the end of the war in 1918 he commanded a volunteer corps and in 1923 sympathized with the so-called Hitler putsch . Otto von Dungern joined the Julius Neumann publishing house in Neudamm , which specialized in forestry and hunting, and was chief editor of the Deutsche Jäger-Zeitung and, from 1934 to 1943, of Deutsche Jagd , the association newspaper of the German hunters' association . He was district leader of the NSDAP in Potsdam and from 1934 to 1943 in the German hunters' association Gaujägermeister of the Kurmark . In 1943 he retired to Gut Oberau.

Fonts

  • Tian-Shan. Hunting and travel letters. With an introduction by Gottfried Merzbacher . Reimer, Berlin 1911.
  • St. George help! A rider's life in war and peace. Neumann, Neudamm 1931.
  • Hubertus help! A German big game hunter's memories from two parts of the world. Neumann, Neudamm 1931.
  • (Ed.): German hunting. Master stories from the Deutsche Jäger-Zeitung. Neumann, Neudamm 1933.
  • (Ed.): Wilhelm Kießling : Hunters and Hunting in the Third Reich. A guide for young hunters. Neumann, Neudamm 1936.
  • Under emperors and chancellors. Memories. Veste, Coburg 1952.

literature

  • Dungern (-Oberau), Otto Freiherr von. In: German Literature Lexicon . The 20th Century , Vol. 7, K. G. Saur Verlag, Munich 2005, Sp. 49.
  • Laird McLeod Easton: The Red Earl. Harry Graf Kessler and his time . Klett-Cotta Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, pp. 73-76
  • Günter Riederer and Jörg Schuster (eds.): Harry Graf Kessler. The diary . Vol. 2: 1892–1897 (= publications of the German Schiller Society; Vol. 50.2). Klett-Cotta Verlag, Stuttgart 2004, pp. 28–31 (with picture).
  • Jörg Schuster and Janna Brechenmacher (eds.): Harry Graf Kessler. The diary . Vol. 4: 1906–1914 (= publications of the German Schiller Society; Vol. 50.4). Klett-Cotta Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, pp. 541-548 (entries from January 27-29, 1909); P. 757; P. 1022 f. (Profile of the ed.).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tilman Krause : An ingenious dilettante , in: Die Welt from April 24, 2004; the newspaper article refers to the complete diaries of Harry Graf Kessler , with the publication of which this affair became known in 2004 (individual references under literature ).
  2. "I had to think of dung, of the price that this woman [meaning the Crown Princess] pays for her position!"