Otto von Feldmann

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Otto von Feldmann

Otto von Feldmann (born August 6, 1873 in Berlin , † May 20, 1945 in Hanover ) was a German officer and politician .

Origin and family

Otto was the son of the Prussian major general Adolf von Feldmann (1828-1894) and his wife Jenny, née Lührsen (1841-1917). His maternal grandparents were the well-known Hamburg lawyer and senior official of the Hamburg mortgage administration, Dr. Gustav Lührsen (1805–1868) and his wife Charlotte Jauch (1811–1872) , who came from the Hanseatic family . His uncle was the Imperial German Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Johannes Lührsen (1838-1903), his brother the Lieutenant General and State Secretary in the Reichswehr Ministry Hans von Feldmann (1868-1940). Dr. Peter von Feldmann (* 1936), presiding judge a. D. at the Higher Administrative Court in Berlin , is his grandson.

Life

Officers of the German military mission in the Ottoman Empire
on their departure in 1913
Second from left: Major Otto von Feldmann
Otto von Feldmann (right) and Enver Pascha (half right) inspect the III. Ottoman army before the
Battle of Sarıkamış in 1914

Feldmann attended the royal high school in Bromberg , the Kaiser Wilhelm and Ratsgymnasium Hanover , the cadet school in Potsdam and the main cadet school in Groß-Lichterfelde near Berlin.

In 1892 Feldmann joined the 1st Hanoverian Infantry Regiment No. 74 of the Prussian Army as a lieutenant . In 1907 he was transferred to the General Staff . In 1910/12 he served as company commander in the grenadier regiment "King Friedrich I." (4th East Prussian) No. 5 , then again in the general staff.

In 1913 Feldmann changed to Turkish services as part of the German military mission in the Ottoman Empire . There he was first department chief in the general staff, then chief of the staff of the 1st Army and finally, as Feldmann Pascha, chief of the operations department in the Turkish Supreme Army Command (Ottoman headquarters ). In this function he was involved in the genocide of the Armenians . Together with General Friedrich Bronsart von Schellendorf , Chief of the General Staff of the Ottoman Field Army in Istanbul, he was with the Turkish Minister of War Enver Pascha almost every day and coordinated with him in detail. Feldmann expressed this: "It should not and must not be denied, that German officers - and I myself am one of these - were forced to give their advice then to clear at certain times certain areas in the rear of the army of Armenians." After Conclusion of the Versailles Treaty (June 28, 1919) he took as Lieutenant Colonel i. G. his farewell.

From 1919 Feldmann was politically active. 1920–1933 he was regional chairman of the German National People's Party . He steered the campaign as "political representative" Paul von Hindenburg in his election as Reich President and headed the "Secretariat of Hindenburg" after his election. Feldmann belonged to the National Socialist Reichstag in the 2nd electoral term 1933–1936 and in the 3rd electoral period 1936–1938 as a guest of the National Socialist faction.

In addition, Feldmann was Gau chairman in the Pan-German Association and a member of its main management.

Fonts

  • Peter von Feldmann (ed.): Otto von Feldmann, Turkey, Weimar, Hitler. Memoirs of a Prussian officer and German national politician. 2013.

literature

  • Reichstag handbook. Volume: IX. Election period 1933. sn, Berlin 1934, p. 167
  • The German Reichstag. Election period after January 30, 1933. 3, 1936, ZDB -ID 530505-6 .
  • Jörg Berlin, Adrian Klenner (Eds.): Genocide or Resettlement? The fate of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. Presentation and documents. PapyRossa-Verlag, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-89438-346-1 ( PapyRossa-Hochschulschriften 69).
  • Maximilian Terhalle : Otto Schmidt (1888–1971). Opponent of Hitler and Intimus Hugenberg. Bonn 2006 (Bonn, Univ., Diss., 2006).
  • Otto von Feldmann: Turkey, Weimar, Hitler, memoirs of a Prussian officer and German national politician. edited and edited by Peter von Feldmann, Verlag Edition Winterwork, Borsdorf 2013, ISBN 978-3-86468-392-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Gust The genocide of the Armenians: The tragedy of the oldest Christian people in the world. 1993, ISBN 3-446-17373-0 , chap. 7th
  2. ↑ From Hamburg Institute for Social Research, "Mittelweg 36". 1995, p. 33.
  3. ↑ German General Newspaper. dated June 30, 1921, letter from Otto v. Feldmann on the trial of Soghomon Tehlirian
  4. ↑ Frank Möller, Charismatic Leaders of the German Nation , 2004, p. 136
  5. ^ Gerhard Schulze-Pfälzer, How Hindenburg became President of the Reich. Personal impressions from his surroundings before and after the election , 1925
  6. ↑ Maximilian Terhalle, German National in Weimar: the political biography of the Reichstag member Otto Schmidt (-Hannover) 1888-1971 , 2009, p. 151
personal data
SURNAME Feldmann, Otto von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 1945
Place of death Hanover