Paul von Kügelgen (journalist, 1875)
Paul Siegwart von Kügelgen (born April 26, 1875 in Saint Petersburg , † August 3, 1952 in Berlin ) was a Russian-German journalist and translator .
Life
Paul von Kügelgen was the son of the journalist and editor Konstantin Paul Gerhard von Kügelgen and brother of Karl Konrad Emil von Kügelgen . He worked for his father's St. Petersburg newspaper . After his death in 1904 he took over the editor-in-chief until the paper was discontinued in 1915. Between 1917 and 1918 he was the founder and head of the Office for Civil Prisoners in Saint Petersburg.
In 1918 he was the representative of the foreign department of the German OHL . After that he was briefly commissioner of the Imperial Treasurer for Estonia / Finland. During the Weimar Republic he lived in Berlin . Among other things, he was head of the Ost-West-Verlag. Since 1934 he was a member of the NSDAP .
Paul and his brother Karl von Kügelgen supported the women's rights activist and sex reformer Helene Stöcker and organized a series of lectures by her in St. Petersburg in 1904.
His son Bernt von Kügelgen was a journalist in the GDR.
Publications (selection)
- Flowers and fruits. Songs and poems . o. O., 1915
- The restless one. Songs and poems. Leipzig: Koehler and Amelang, 1925
- A master of life - Wilhelm von Kügelgen. The most delicious of the old man's memories in letters to his brother Gerhard from the years 1840–1867. Leipzig: Koehler and Amelang, 1927
literature
- Carola L. Gottzmann , Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . De Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019338-1 , p. 788 .
Web links
- Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Paul von Kügelgen. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
Individual evidence
- ^ Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry to Kügelgen, Konstantin Paul Gerhard v .. In: BBLD - Baltic biographical lexicon digital
- ^ Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Kügelgen, Karl (Carlo) Konrad Emil v .. In: BBLD - Baltic biographical lexicon digital
- ^ Paul Siegwart von Kügelgen in the Erik Amburger database «Foreigners in pre-revolutionary Russia» , accessed on April 4, 2019
- ↑ Helene Stöcker (2015): Memorabilia, ed. by Reinhold Lütgemeier-Davin u. Kerstin Wolff. Cologne: Böhlau, 141 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kügelgen, Paul von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kügelgen, Paul Siegwart from (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian-German journalist and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 26, 1875 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Petersburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd August 1952 |
| Place of death | Berlin |