Robert de Fiori

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Robert de Fiori (* 1854 in Gorizia , † 1933 in Munich ) was an Austro-Hungarian journalist who worked as a Bavarian agent in 1918 and an Italian agent in 1919.

He obtained the Matura at the kk academic high school in Gorizia. From 1876 to 1877 he studied law at the University of Vienna .

Career

From 1881 to 1914 he was a correspondent for the New Free Press in Rome . From the end of June to the beginning of July 1918, he held talks with George D. Herron as an agent of the German Foreign Office .

In 1923 Ercole Durini di Monza congratulated Gustav von Kahr on the failure of the Hitler putsch , while in the consulate general he led, Roberto de Fiore as "slight boy", as Heinrich Himmler called these freely operating agents, maintained contact with the NSDAP for Mussolini , reported and at times as a writer lived in Herrsching am Ammersee .

Individual evidence

  1. Mayra Laudanna, Ernesto de Fiori, p. 197
  2. ^ Kk academic high school in Görz, 1868 IV class, [1]
  3. ^ Annual report of the Academic Reading Hall in Vienna, 1877, [2]
  4. ^ The " New Free Press " represented Roberto de Fiori (Blum) in Rome for many years until the World War. As half an Italian from Gorizia, he was always very well informed and informed about Italian politics. His Roman correspondence was therefore very much appreciated. In contrast to his colleagues, he did not publish anything literary and was only absorbed in politics. see. Ludwig Pollak, Margarete Merkel Guldan, Roman Memoirs: Artists, Art Lovers and Scholars 1893–1943, p. 122
  5. In the meantime Herron had talked about peace conditions at four meetings in Geneva with Robert de Fiori, a Bavarian who had long been a correspondent for the Wiener Zeitung Neue Freie Presse in Rome and who now acted as an intermediary between Herron and the Bavarian government. Wilson did not want to know anything about it because he did not take these efforts seriously and assumed that Germany's expansionist intentions in the east were behind them. Alexander Sedlmaier, Images of Germany and Germany Policy: Studies for, 2003, [3] ; Gerhard Ritter, Staatskunst und Kriegshandwerk: Vol. The rule of German militarism and the catastrophe of 1918, R. Oldenbourg, 1968, [4] ; There were exactly two reports from the end of June and the beginning of July 1918 about conversations with a Dr. de Fiori, who, as an agent of the German Foreign Office and the Bavarian government, came into contact with Herron through Professor Foerster (Foerster's letter to Herron dated June 6, 1918 at Briggs, p. 50) Fiori was an Austrian journalist, SPD and later USPD -Member who was known to the German pacifists in Switzerland and to Herron's contacts (cf. Osuký, p. 45, where Osuký, along with Jaffé and Foerster, also promoted Dr. de Fiori to professor.) see. Joachim Kuropka, Image and Intervention: Inner Situation in Germany and British Influencing Strategies in the Decision-Making Phase of the First World War, 1978, p. 327
  6. The NSDAP in the Starnberg district. From the Appendices to the Consolidation of Power (1919-1938). Inaugural dissertation to obtain the doctoral degree in philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich