Otto von Heydebreck

Otto Ernst Heinrich von Heydebreck (born March 19, 1887 in Köslin , † December 3, 1959 in Bad Honnef ) was a German journalist.

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Heydebreck was the son of an old Prussian noble family. His younger brother was Hans Peter von Heydebreck , who became known as the Freikorps and SA leader .

In his youth, Heydebreck first pursued an officer career. After participating in the First World War , he retired from the army with the rank of captain.

Heydebreck settled in Munich as a full-time journalist around 1920. Politically at that time he was a moderate conservative who, according to Claus Heinrich Bill, “was monarchically minded, but was quite ready to work responsibly in shaping the republic”. From 1929 to 1933 he was head of the Berlin office of Münchener Neuesten Nachrichten . As part of this activity, he supported the politics of the government of his friend Heinrich Brüning , which brought him into conflict with Paul Reusch , who, as chairman of the board of the Gute Hoffnung Hütte - which belonged to the owners of the newspaper - put the MNN on a national course and against the Brüning government wanted to align. A few weeks after the National Socialist “ seizure of power ” Heydebreck was dismissed on May 22, 1933 by the National Socialist commissioner in the newspaper's editorial office, Leo Hausleiter , in the course of bringing the MNN into line .

As a friend of the former Chancellor Brüning and as the brother of a high SA leader, Heydebreck was targeted by the SS in the course of the Röhm affair of June 30, 1934 . However, he avoided arrest or even murder because his colleague Hans-Joachim Kausch kept him hidden.

After Heydebreck could no longer find employment in the German press, he worked for a few years as a Berlin correspondent for the Wiener Neue Freie Presse . He lost this position when he was dismissed after the completion of Austria in March 1938 for political unreliability. Instead he worked as a correspondent for the Prager Tageblatt . He also lost this position when the rest of the Czech Republic was broken up in March 1939. He then became a correspondent for the Basler Nachrichten .

After the Second World War, Heydebreck fled to West Germany. In the 1950s he temporarily headed the Berlin office of the newspaper Die Welt . He also received a position at the Federal Press Office in Bonn.

family

Heydebreck was married to Agnes Schwenke (born October 9, 1892 in Tilsit; † February 18, 1941 in Kaiserswerth near Düsseldorf) since July 28, 1914. The marriage resulted in the son Berndt Tessen (1920–1942), who has been missing since January 1942 in Tushanini in Russia as a medical officer with the 9th Company of Infantry Regiment No. 19, and the daughter Beatrix (1926–1943).

In his second marriage, Heydebreck was married to a woman Flemming from 1948, from whom he was later divorced. In 1955 he married Agnes Dodemont (1902–1988), the daughter of the factory owner Hubert Dodemont and his wife Sibilla Huppertz.

literature

• Claus Heinrich Bill: v. Heydebreck. Family history 1254 to 1999 (= series of publications by the Institute for German Adels Research . Vol. 13, ZDB -ID 2250305-5 ). Institut Deutsche Adelsforschung, Sonderburg 1999, pp. 220–232.
• Heinz-Dietrich Fischer : re- education and press policy under British occupation status. The zone newspaper “Die Welt” 1946–1950. Conception, articulation and reception. Droste, Düsseldorf 1978, ISBN 3-7700-0521-X .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Claus Heinrich Bill: v. Heydebreck. 1999, p. 212.
2. ↑ Kurt Koszyk : Paul Reusch and the "Munich Latest News". On the problem of industry and the press in the final phase of the Weimar Republic. In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte . Vol. 20, No. 1, 1972, pp. 75-103 .