Otto II of Salm-Horstmar

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Otto II Prince of Salm-Horstmar (born September 23, 1867 at Varlar Castle ; † March 2, 1941 ibid) was a German nobleman ( Salm-Horstmar ) and right-wing politician.

Life

He was the third son of Otto I, Prince of Salm-Horstmar (1833-1892) and his wife Emilie, geb. Countess zur Lippe-Biesterfeld (1841–1892). His paternal grandfather was the Rhine Count Friedrich zu Salm-Grumbach (since 1816 Prince of Salm-Horstmar).

After graduating from school, he studied law in Lausanne , Geneva and Berlin . Between 1889 and 1892 he was an officer and also attended the Agricultural University in Berlin . Then Salm-Horstmar took over the family estates. He also participated in agrarian interest groups. He was chairman of the German landowner associations. From 1915 until his death he was President of the Westphalian Riding Club . In addition, Salm-Horstmar campaigned for the expansion of the Münster Academy into a full university and received the doctorate from the Westphalian Wilhelms University in 1902 . In addition, the Historical Commission for Westphalia accepted him as a full member in 1904.

As a hereditary member, Salm-Horstmar belonged to the Prussian manor house . He was also a member of the Westphalian provincial parliament from 1911 to 1919 . Between 1916 and 1919 he was its chairman.

Politician

After he had previously been the first vice-president, Salm-Horstmar was chairman of the German Fleet Association between 1902 and 1908 , which advocated the development of a strong fleet. He was an active organizer of radical right-wing agitation. At the end of the First World War he became a member of the German Fatherland Party . He viewed the war as a conflict between a “Jewish-democratic” and a “German-aristocratic” worldview. This was connected with attacks on the supposedly Jewish infiltration of Freemasonry .

During the Weimar Republic he was a leading member of the Pan-German Association and an opponent of the republic. In 1920 he was jointly responsible for the first German translation of the " Protocols of the Elders of Zion ." In 1931 he unsuccessfully asked Paul von Hindenburg to appoint a new government without Social Democrats and without Chancellor Heinrich Brüning . This new right-wing government should be based on the Harzburg Front .

progeny

Prince Otto II zu Salm-Horstmar married Countess Rosa zu Solms-Baruth in 1903 (* June 8, 1884, † June 12, 1945). With this he had the following eight children:

  • Luise Emilie Friederike Elisabeth (* July 19, 1904 - † September 2, 1904)
  • Otto Ludwig Wilhelm Hans Friedrich Karl Eduard (7 March 1906 - 22 April 1927)
  • Hans Christoph Leopold Emich Hermann (* May 27, 1907; † December 15, 1908)
  • Philipp Franz Friedrich Conrad Wilhelm Chlodwig (born March 31, 1909 - † November 8, 1996) ∞ Marie Therese Countess zu Castell-Castell
  • Karl Walrad Emich Hermann Bolko Friedrich (born January 8, 1911 - August 2, 1991) ∞ Susanne Jantsch
  • Friederike Juliane Luise Emilie Feodora Anna (born October 5, 1912 - † July 3, 2000) ∞ Ludwig Ferdinand Prince zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (1910–1943).
  • Johann Giselbert Alexander Leopold Rudolf Friedrich (March 14, 1916 - September 9, 1939)
  • Marie Luise Eleonore Adelma Rosa (* August 18, 1918 - March 12, 2015) ∞ Heinrich IV. Prince Reuss

literature

  • Sebastian Diziol: "Germans, become members of the fatherland!" The German Naval Association 1898–1934. Solivagus Praeteritum, Kiel 2015. ISBN 978-39817079-0-8 .
  • German biographical encyclopedia vol. 8, p. 681 ( partial digitization ).
  • Heinz Gollwitzer : The gentlemen. The political and social position of the mediatized 1815–1918. A contribution to German social history. 2nd revised and supplemented edition. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Göttingen 1964.
  • Stephan Malinowski : From King to Leader: Social decline and political radicalization in the German nobility between the German Empire and the Nazi state. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-05-003554-4 ( Elite change in the modern age 4).
  • CJ Schwabe: Freemasonry and the press in the world wars In: Die Bauhuette. Organ for the total interests of Freemasonry , 1919.10.18, vol. 62, no. 42, p. 334.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann : The politics of sociability. Masonic lodges in German civil society, 1840–1918. Göttingen 2000, p. 334 ( partially digitized )
  2. ^ CJ Schwabe: Freemasonry and press in the world wars In: Die Bauhuette. Organ for the total interests of Freemasonry , 24.08.1918, vol. 61, no. 34, pp. 265–268. ( Digital )
  3. ^ Stephan Malinowski: From the king to the leader: Social decline and political radicalization in the German nobility between the German Empire and the Nazi state. , P. 182 ( partially digitized ).
personal data
SURNAME Salm-Horstmar, Otto II. To
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Salm-Horstmar, Otto zu; Salm-Horstmar, Otto II. Prince zu (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nobleman and right-wing politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Varlar Castle
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 1941
Place of death Varlar Castle