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Wilhelm Harun-el-Raschid-backset (ca.1928)

Wilhelm Harun-el-Raschid-Hintätze , born as Johannes Robert Wilhelm Hintätze (born May 26, 1886 in Senftenberg ; died March 29, 1963 in Lübeck ), was a German officer and SS standard leader of the Muslim faith. Towards the end of the Second World War he commanded the " Osttürkischer Waffenverband ", a regiment of the Waffen-SS .

biography

Family, World War I and the interwar period

Wilhelm Hintsatz's father, Wilhelm Hintsatz senior (1855–1937), worked as a pastor in Senftenberg from 1888. He and his wife Louise (1857-1940), née Oertel, had another son, Robert (* 1888), who died at the age of five, and a daughter, Louise Johanna (* 1898). Wilhelm junior graduated from high school on February 23, 1905 at the Pforta State School . Five days later, on February 28th, he joined the infantry regiment "von Stülpnagel" (5th Brandenburgisches) No. 48 in Cüstrin as a flag squire , and in August 1906 he rose to lieutenant . In 1909 he was commanded by his regiment to the 2nd Pomeranian Foot Artillery Regiment No. 15 in Thorn , awarded the rescue medal on ribbon , which was once used by Friedrich Wilhelm III. for people who had saved another person at their own risk. This was the first of a total of 34 awards and medals in his life. On May 2, 1912, he married Hildegard Cäcilie Schmidt, a daughter of the mine director Paul Schmidt; the couple was married by the groom's father; the marriage ended in divorce in the 1920s. From October 1, 1913, he attended the Military Technical Academy in Berlin , where he was promoted to lieutenant on February 17, 1914 and awarded the Order of St. Stanislaus on July 10, 1914 .

With the outbreak of the First World War acted as Hintersatz aide and interpreter officer for French at the Headquarters of the 9th Infantry - Brigade (9th IB) from Bromberg . After an injury in September 1914 - the first of three in this war - he became a pilot trained and 1915 for Captain promoted after two different expressions of the Iron Cross had received. Because of a severe frostbite on his face in April 1916 during a storm flight, he had to give up flight activities and became head of the Altenburg Aviation School ( III. AK ), until he subsequently worked on the organization of Finnish volunteers who fought for the liberation of their country from Russia . For this he was honored on April 22nd, 1920 with the Commander's Cross 2nd Class of the Finnish Order of the White Rose with Swords .

In September 1917 Wilhelm Hintsatz was promoted to major and posted to Turkey , where he learned Turkish and Arabic . There he was under the command of the Prussian general and Ottoman marshal Otto Liman von Sanders , the so-called " hero of Gallipoli ", for whom he developed admiration and about whom he later wrote a transfiguring biography, which was published in Berlin in 1932. Hintersatz was appointed inspector general of the entire machine gun system of the Turkish army and at the same time head of department in the main headquarters (19th department). Presumably in 1918 Wilhelm Hintsatz, who had been interested in Turkey and the Orient from his youth , converted to Islam and from then on called himself Harun-el-Raschid-Hintsatz or, for short, Harun-el-Raschid Bey . As such, he was later included in the seniority lists of the SS .

After the end of the First World War, Harun-el-Raschid Bey got involved with former Muslim prisoners of war in the so-called half - moon camp in Wünsdorf . In 1919 he got a job with the military police of the Reich Treasury . In September of that year, an assassination attempt on him was reported for being too vigorous against black market traders. At the beginning of 1920 he left there. He then worked for the Deutsche Reichswerke until 1925 . After leaving there, he claimed to be active as an "investigator" for the industry and acquired considerable real estate. In 1924 he married Martha Frieda Kuwert, née Staats, a second time.

In 1935 Harun-el-Raschid married Martha Luise Käthe Milly Lindener for the third time, 26 years her junior. The couple went on an extended honeymoon by car and ship through southern Europe to Africa and finally landed in Addis Ababa , the capital of Abyssinia, in July of that year . According to his own statements, el-Raschid claims to have gone into the service of the Negus as a secret service employee . The couple started their return journey in December 1935, reached the port of Genoa on January 17, 1936 and finally returned to Berlin on February 20. A few weeks later their son Ildar Wilfried was born; In 1940 the second son Teja Torgut followed.

Second World War

At the beginning of the Second World War , Harun-el-Raschid volunteered as a soldier, but was initially turned down. In 1940 his novel was black or white? published, which was dedicated to the Duce and the German-Italian friendship. According to his own statements, he served as a liaison officer between the Reich Security Main Office and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem , Mohammed Amin al-Husseini , who had lived in exile in Berlin since 1941 .

From 1943 the SS began to systematically recruit Muslim men and set up Muslim divisions whose members came from the Balkans and the Soviet Union . These Muslim soldiers had various reasons for fighting for the Germans, some for their own nationalistic reasons, others, such as those from the Soviet Union, because they wanted to get rid of Russian domination. Finally, the “1. East Muslim SS Regiment ”, which initially fought against partisans in the Minsk area until it was relocated to Poland . There the regiment, together with the notorious SS special unit Dirlewanger , was involved in the suppression of the Warsaw Uprising in August 1944 . A short time later the regiment was renamed "Osttürkischer Waffenverband der SS" (OTWV).

Harun-el-Raschid made a name for himself as a resolute representative of Islamic mobilization. In June 1944, for example, he and the Grand Mufti suggested setting up purely Muslim units and stationing them in Bosnia and Herzegovina in order to be merged with other Muslim SS corps such as the "Handschar" . He also suggested transferring the Muslim formations of the Wehrmacht to the Waffen SS , but this met with resistance from the Wehrmacht. He received support from Prince Mansur Daud, a distant relative of King Faruq of Egypt, whose "effective propaganda" in recruiting the soldiers impressed him.

At the suggestion of SS-Hauptsturmführer Reiner Olzscha , Harun-el-Raschid was accepted into the Waffen-SS in October 1944 because of his "close ties to the Islamic world" and on the orders of Heinrich Himmler . He was quickly promoted to SS-Standartenführer and on October 20 In 1944 appointed commander of the "East Turkish SS Association", which consisted mainly of Turkestans , Azerbaijani and Tatars . Harun-el-Raschid himself stated that the “Mohamedans” [sic] would see in him a fellow believer who “prayed with them without hesitation in the same mosque”. He “guaranteed” Olzscha “a Mohamedan [sic] armed force that is as loyal as it is ready to fight and valuable as a soldier”. At the beginning of 1945 the Muslim association, now called the "East Turkish SS Corps", consisted of 8,500 men.

Harun-el-Raschid, however, was not up to the new task: On Christmas Eve 1944, several hundred men of the Turkestan regiment deserted on the Hungarian-Slovakian border because they were disappointed with the Germans, but also because of the supposed incompetence of Harun-el-Raschid. Rasheed. There were also internal disputes between the various ethnic groups. SS-Standartenführer Paul Minke from the SS main office "Oststelle" asked "urgently" for the removal of Harun-el-Raschid. According to Trigg, Himmler was immediately dismissed and the regiment was reorganized, while Matthias Gleisner, Harun-el-Raschid's biographer, is of the opinion that this dismissal did not take place and that el-Raschid remained in command of the unit. In March 1945, Harun-el-Raschid, who, according to Trigg, was only the leader of the Tatar "Idel-Ural weapons group", surrendered to partisans in Merate in northern Italy , handing the men over on condition that they would be treated humanely. On April 26, the men laid down their arms. Four days later, Harun-el-Raschid and his men were handed over to the 1st Armored Division (USA) and the Tatars were sent back to the Soviet Union , where they were executed as “ traitors ” or deported to gulags .

After 1945

Wilhelm Harun-el-Raschid was captured by the US after the war and was in the Langwasser camp in Nuremberg from June 1946 to April 1947 . He then returned to his family. In the night of bombing in Lankwitz from 23 to 24 August 1943 , 85 percent of Lankwitz , which was incorporated into Berlin in 1920, was destroyed, including the house of the Harun-el-Raschid family. El-Raschid's wife and two sons were forcibly placed in Husby (Schleswig-Holstein). There they now lived in poor and cramped conditions.

Phylax suppressor

There, Harun-el-Raschid tried unsuccessfully as a salesman. In 1949 he discovered a new passion that he made to his profession, and worked as divining predecessor and earth radiation researcher. This also included the sale of a “radiation device ” called the Phylax apparatus , which, when “properly installed”, supposedly increased milk production in cows and the general well-being of people. The sale was so successful for el-Raschid that he and his family were able to move into a large caravan in 1950. In 1953 he published the brochure Achtung! Earth rays , 1954 his book From the Orient to the Occident: A mosaic of different colored experiences , a work about his experiences and travels. In the mid-1950s he ended his activity as a "dowser".

At the end of March 1956, the former imam of the "Osttürkischer Waffenverband", the Uzbek and former SS officer Nuredin Namangani , returned to Germany and was committed to building a mosque in Munich , in particular to take care of the former Muslim fighters from the Wehrmacht and SS who stayed in Germany. Harun-el-Raschid supported his plans and wrote to Federal President Theodor Heuss in 1958 : He emphasized Namangani's “love for Germany” and that he was “a truly loyal friend of Germany”. The Muslims in Germany lack a politically free mosque and the dignified religious and cultural headquarters in Germany, as is the case in other western countries.

Retirement home in Lübeck

The many years of atherosclerosis suffering Colonel a. In 1961 D. moved into an apartment in the “Hebbelstraße” development area in Marli in Lübeck . There he died on March 29, 1963. On April 4, a memorial service with military honors took place in the Vorwerk cemetery in the crematorium, and his urn was buried on April 11 . His grave has now been closed.

See also

Publications

  • Marshal of Liman Pasha and his work . Eisenschmidt, Berlin 1932.
  • “Ad Imperium Romanum versus!” Black or white? A novel based on personal experience in the African war . Kasper, Berlin 1940.
  • Danger! Earth rays are a danger to humans, animals and plant husbandry! The dowsing rod warns . Eisenschmidt, Wiesbaden / Berlin 1952.
  • From Orient and Occident: A mosaic of colorful experiences . Heimat-Verlag, Bielefeld 1954.

literature

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Harun-el-Raschid-Hintsatz  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Matthias Gleisner: Harun-El-Raschid Bey - Part 1. Accessed on May 22, 2021 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e Harun-El-Raschid Bey - Part 8 , June 14, 1946, accessed on June 11, 2021 .
  3. ^ Matthias Gleisner: Harun-El-Raschid Bey - Part 3. Accessed on May 25, 2021 .
  4. ^ Military weekly newspaper of November 1, 1908.
  5. ^ Standard leader Harun-el-Raschid. Retrieved May 30, 2021 .
  6. ↑ a b c d Matthias Gleisner: Harun-El-Raschid Bey - Part 6. Accessed on May 30, 2021 .
  7. ^ Matthias Gleisner: Harun-El-Raschid Bey - Part 4. Accessed on May 25, 2021 .
  8. ↑ Order list
  9. ↑ a b Matthias Gleisner: Harun-El-Raschid Bey - Part 5. Accessed on May 30, 2021 .
  10. ^ Rubin / Schwanitz, Nazis, Islamists , pp. 70/71.
  11. ↑ a b c d Motadel, For Prophet and Guide , p. 279.
  12. ↑ Schwake, German Soldiers Graves , p. 238.
  13. ↑ State fortress and armaments industry , section: The powder fume flies , page 57 f.
  14. ↑ a b c Matthias Gleisner: Harun-El-Raschid Bey - Part 7. Accessed on May 30, 2021 .
  15. ↑ Motadel, for prophet and leader ff, S. 262nd
  16. ↑ Bougarel, Muslim SS units , S. 254th
  17. ↑ Motadel, for prophet and leader , S. 278th
  18. ↑ Motadel, for prophet and leader , S. 283rd
  19. ↑ Bougarel, Muslim SS units , S. 277th
  20. ↑ Motadel, for prophet and leader , S. 280th
  21. ↑ Motadel, for prophet and leader , S. 280th
  22. ↑ Trigg, Hitler's Jihadis , p. 192.
  23. ↑ Trigg, Hitler's Jihadis , p. 192.
  24. ↑ Ian Johnson : The Fourth Mosque: Nazis, CIA and Islamic Fundamentalism. Klett-Cotta , Stuttgart 2011, p. 132.
  25. ^ Lübeck address book 1963.
personal data
SURNAME Harun-el-Raschid-backseat, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hintsatz, Johannes Robert Wilhelm Hintsatz (original name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and SS standard leader
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Senftenberg
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 1963
PLACE OF DEATH Lübeck