Wilhelm Faupel

Wilhelm Faupel (1918)

Wilhelm Faupel (born October 29, 1873 in Lindenbusch , † May 1, 1945 in Berlin ) was a German military and diplomat .

Life

Faupel joined the field artillery regiment "von Podbielski" (1st Lower Silesia) No. 5 of the Prussian Army in March 1892 as a flag junior . There he was appointed ensign on September 17, 1892 and promoted to second lieutenant on May 20, 1893 . On October 1, 1899, Faupel was transferred to the 2nd Lower Silesian Field Artillery Regiment No. 41 and then on July 18, 1900 to the East Asian medical company, with which he participated in the Boxer Rebellion . He then studied at the War Academy . From 1904 he was a member of the protection force in German South West Africa involved in the suppression of the Herero and Nama uprisings, at times under the leadership of Ludwig von Estorff . From September 11, 1907, Faupel was appointed First General Staff Officer in the General Staff of the IV Army Corps .

Faupel resigned from the army on February 4, 1911 and went to Argentina as a military advisor . He returned home in early 1914, was reactivated on January 20, 1914 and assigned to the General Staff in Berlin. On this date, he was promoted to major .

When the First World War broke out , Faupel became the first general staff officer in the staff of the 25th Division . In November 1914 he joined the general staff of the XVII. Army Corps and a year later in the General Staff of the Army High Command 2 . Faupel was awarded the Pour le Mérite with oak leaves.

On January 18, 1919, he took over the leadership of the Freikorps " Görlitz " from then Major Walter von Unruh , when he was transferred to General Command VI. The "Görlitz" Freikorps, which later reached a strength of around 2,500 men, was deployed under his leadership in Görlitz, Magdeburg , Dresden and Munich to suppress and crush rebellions. Following the acquisition of the volunteer corps in the Reichswehr (Reichswehr Rifle Regiment 10) he left the ceremony with character as Major General of 31 March 1921 from active service.

From 1921 to 1926 he worked again as a military advisor in Argentina, then in 1926 became Lieutenant General of the Peruvian Armed Forces and their Inspector General . He lost this position with the overthrow of President Augusto B. Leguía . From 1934 to 1936 and from 1938 to 1945 he headed the Ibero-American Institute with brief interruptions . In this role he worked with the SS , among others . From 1935 he worked in the federal management of the Volksbund for Germanness abroad . From November 1936 he worked in Salamanca , the seat of the putschist government under General Francisco Franco (1892–1975) as chargé d'affaires of the Reich government and in this function was responsible for relations with Franco . From February to August 1937 he was ambassador of the German Reich in Spain . His successor as the German chargé d'affaires in Spain was Eberhard von Stohrer (1883–1953). During his tenure in Spain he was involved in the case of the imprisoned German pacifist Heinz Kraschutzki . Faupel had been friends with Kraschutzki's late father. Kraschutzki's mother asked for help for her son. Faupel agreed with the Franco regime that Kraschutzki would remain imprisoned but not be shot. In the process there is a handwritten note, probably from Faupel, Do not shoot . On May 1, 1937, he joined the NSDAP . In May 1943, Faupel is said to have asked Juan Domingo Perón to carry out a coup .

On August 27, 1939, the so-called Tannenberg Day, Faupel was given the character of Lieutenant General.

In the battle for Berlin Faupel committed before engaging Soviet troops on May 1, 1945 in Neubabelsberg suicide . He previously arranged for all of his personal correspondence and the Ibero-American Institute documents in his possession to be destroyed.

Publications

• Germany's economic and cultural relations with South America, Ibero-American Institute Berlin, 1931
• Las relaciones del ejercito inglés lan los de los paises ibero-americanos; Ibero-American Institute Berlin, 1933
• About the origin, course and lessons of the Chaco War 1932–1935, Ibero-American Institute Berlin, 1936

literature

• Reinhard Liehr, Günther Maihold and Günther Vollmer (eds.): An institute and its general. Wilhelm Faupel and the Ibero-American Institute during the National Socialist era. Verlag Vervuert Frankfurt 2003, ISBN 3-89354-589-1 .
• Karl-Friedrich Hildebrand, Christian Zweng: The knights of the order Pour le Mérite of the First World War. Volume 1: A-G . Biblio Publishing House. Osnabrück 1999. ISBN 3-7648-2505-7 , pp. 400-401.
• Biographical manual of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Schöningh, Paderborn 2000
  • Volume 1: A – F , edited by Johannes Hürter , Martin Kröger , Rolf Messerschmidt and Christiane Scheidemann, 2000, ISBN 3-506-71840-1 , p. 544 f.
  • Volume 5: T – Z, supplements , edited by Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper and Martin Kröger, 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-71844-0 , p. 483 [supplement NSDAP].

Web links

• Literature by and about Wilhelm Faupel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Newspaper article about Wilhelm Faupel in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
• Wilhelm Faupel in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Files Edition . Weimar Republic

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Martin Breuninger, Germà García i Boned , Mallorca's forgotten history - How the island paradise became hell, Vitolibro Mallorca and Malente 2011, ISBN 978-3-86940-001-3 , page 107