Veit Ulrich von Beulwitz
Veit-Ulrich Hans Hermann Ludwig von Beulwitz (born July 17, 1899 in Stolzenberg , † July 1, 1934 in Berlin-Lichterfelde ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ) and high-ranking SA leader.
Life
Youth and the Weimar Republic (1899 to 1933)
Veit-Ulrich came from the old Eastern noble family von Beulwitz and was the son of the ducal Anhalt chamberlain and forester Roderich von Beulwitz (1862-1939), landlord of Löhma and Eichicht , and Louise von Obernitz (1874-1969). After graduating from high school, he volunteered in the 4th Guard Field Pioneer Company of the Prussian Army and took part in the First World War. He was later transferred to the 5th Guards Division and fought as a lieutenant on the Western Front from 1917 to 1918 . In 1918 he attended an infantry course in Döberitz, he was also trained at the pioneer school in Andenne / Belgium. During the war Beulwitz was awarded the Iron Cross II. Class and the Schwarzburg Cross of Honor .
After the end of the war, Beulwitz belonged to the Eastern Border Guard from 1919 and to the Brandenburg Jäger Battalion No. 3 in Lübben from 1920 . For his commitment he was awarded the Silesian Eagle in both classes. He was a member of the Republican Army from March until he left on May 15, 1920. In 1921 Beulwitz joined the Freikorps Oberland and in 1922 the Reichsflagge . At that time he also studied mechanical engineering for five semesters at the TH Munich .
According to his own statements in his SA documents, Beulwitz joined the SA for the first time in 1922 at the instigation of Ernst Röhm and Hermann Kriebel . In an SA leader questionnaire he again wrote that in 1923 he had been assigned by the Ehrhardt Brigade to train the SA. In any case, in 1923 he was employed as an orderly in the area of organization, equipment procurement and recovery. During this time he claims to have been involved in the training of the SA for the German Day on May 1, 1923 and for the Hitler putsch on November 9, 1923. He also stated that he participated in both actions.
After the coup failed, Beulwitz became a working student and later a war correspondent at home and abroad. In 1929 he was sentenced to imprisonment as part of a trial, but was released early after an amnesty. Afterwards he was "without a steady income and bread" until 1933. For this reason he does not want to become a member of the NSDAP or the SA.
During this time Beulwitz married on May 13, 1929 in Rudolstadt Gertraudt Ortloff (* July 25, 1906 in Stadtilm ; † after 1966), the daughter of the chief magistrate Wilhelm Ortloff (* September 22, 1869) and Elisabeth Peters. From this marriage the son Dietrich Wilhelm Ulrich (born April 30, 1933 in Charlottenburg) emerged. His widowed wife later married the Dipl.-Ing. Heinrich Walchenbach, who died in 1947 in special camp No. 2 Buchenwald in Soviet captivity, and in his third marriage in 1957 the dentist Stephan Sprissler. Beulwitz's brother-in-law was the lawyer Gerhard Ortloff (born July 25, 1906 in tadtilm; + June 14, 1942 in Tobruk).
From 1930 to 1933 Beulwitz was the leader of the student body's military camps. He also appeared on lecture tours at "all universities in the Reich". He was also the leader of working groups and was active in the field of spiritual training. There were also attempts at writing.
Period of National Socialism and Death (1933 to 1934)
A few months after the National Socialist seizure of power , Beulwitz got a job as a military sports teacher. From April 1933 he was a military sports teacher at Berlin universities. On June 7, 1933, he officially joined the NSDAP and the Sturmabteilung (SA). In this he was promoted to troop leader on November 6, 1933 and to senior officer on February 3, 1934. On the orders of the SA group Berlin-Brandenburg he took part in the Reichskuratorium course in 1933 in Döberitz. Formally he belonged to Sturm 12 of the II. Sturmbann of the 14th Standard of the SA Upper Group Berlin-Brandenburg.
On November 23, 1933, Beulwitz was assigned to the SA University Office as an off-road sports teacher. On March 19, 1934 he was assigned to the staff of the Supreme SA Leader, d. H. Ernst Röhms, on the service at the SA press office with effect from February 1st.
When Adolf Hitler had the SA overthrown in the context of the Röhm affair on the night of June 30th to July 1st, 1934 , Beulwitz was also arrested and shot by the SS . At that time Beulwitz took part in a press conference by Hermann Göring in the Reich Propaganda Ministry, at which Göring reported on the alleged uprising of the SA against the Hitler government. When Göring discovered Beulwitz in the crowd of gathered press people, Werner Stephan said he had him arrested and taken to the Lichterfelde cadet institute for immediate execution . It is certain that Beulwitz, together with other SA men, v. a. Members of Karl Ernst's staff , such as Wilhelm Sander and Walter von Mohrenschildt , were shot dead by an SS commando in the Lichterfelde cadet institution. Probably for this reason he is often referred to in the literature as the press chief of the SA group Berlin-Brandenburg.
A few days after the shooting of her husband, Beulwitz's widow wrote to Wilhelm von Oertzen , the founder and chairman of the men's society Mecklenburg and Freund Beulwitz, and godfather of his son Dietz, about the crime:
“My dear Oertzens! To all of you the incomprehensible news that Veit Ulli was shot in Berlin on July 1st in the evening of 1/28 o'clock. This deep-hearted patriot certainly had nothing to do with Röhm's villainy. The word staff leader in the highest SA press office was enough for the incredible bloodbath in Berlin. Today I have nothing, no sign, no valuables, no corpse. If a friend hadn't happened to be an eyewitness, I would still look. "
In July 1934, Beulwitz was posthumously expelled from the SA due to a special order issued by Hitler. His widow, who lived in Magdeburg, later received a pension of 350 Reichsmarks from state funds.
Fonts
- "Hans Westmar Film premiered in the Berlin Capitol am Zoo", in: Völkischer Beobachter from December 15, 1933.
Archival material
- SA documents (Federal Archives Lichterfelde, SA 4000, film no. 43, pictures 448–452)
Individual evidence
- ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility , Adelige Häuser A Volume VIII, page 121, Volume 38 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1966
- ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility A VIII (1966)
- ^ Herbert Michaelis: Causes and Consequences. Volume 10, 1983, p. 229.
- ↑ Werner Stephan: Germany experienced eight decades. 1983, p. 229.
- ↑ So z. B. in the white book about the shootings of June 30, 1934. 1934, p. 95, in Wolfgang Ruge: Hindenburg. Portrait of a militarist. 1981, p. 466 and Otto Gritschneder: The Führer sentenced you to death. 1993, p. 123.
- ^ Lothar Elsner: The gentlemen's society. Life and changes of Wilhelm von Oertzen. 1998, p. 116.
- ^ Helmut Heiber and Peter Longerich: files of the party chancellery of the NSDAP. 1992, p. 167.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beulwitz, Veit Ulrich von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Beulwitz, Veit-Ulrich Hans Hermann Ludwig von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (NSDAP), SA member, shot in the "Röhm Putsch" |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 17, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stolzenberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 1, 1934 |
| Place of death | Berlin-Lichterfelde |