Werner von Alvensleben
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Werner von Alvensleben (4 July 1875 – 30 June 1947) was a German businessman and politician.
Biography
He was the second son of Werner Graf von Alvensleben-Neugattersleben (1840–1929) and Anna von Veltheim (1853–1897). His younger brother Bodo Graf von Alvensleben-Neugattersleben was later to become the president of the German Gentlemen's Club (
During
After the war, von Alvensleben became increasingly involved in politics alongside his professional activities. Although he had been a member of the German Conservative Party before the war, he did not join a political party afterwards, preferring to work in the background above all. Nor did he belong to the gentlemen's club of which his younger brother Bodo was the president. In June 1930 the Deutscher Bund zum Schutz der abendländischen Kultur (German Union for the Protection of Occidental Culture) was founded and he became its president. Its aim was to funnel all conservative energies into one comprehensive conservative party, planning to have a thorough reform of the ‘estates’ in the state and the economy. Politically he was a member of the inner circle surrounding the later German Reich defence minister and Reich Chancellor General Kurt von Schleicher, and also had close contact with the supreme army commander, Colonel General Kurt Freiherr von Hammerstein-Equord.
After
A guard asked whether he, A., still placed people in classes. Whereupon Opa A. said, Yes he did. And that there were three classes. The first class consisted of people who had been in prison, the second of those who were in prison, and the third of those who were on their way to prison; and to the third class, my dear fellow, is the one to which you belong. Whereupon the beating commences and I suppose it's worth being beaten for such a fine story.
In connection with the Night of the Long Knives and the murder of Schleicher on 30 June 1934, Hitler said in a speech to the
In April 1945, he was freed from Magdeburg prison by American troops. As Neugattersleben had since become part of the Soviet occupied zone, he went to live with his daughter in Bremen-Vegesack where he died on 30 June 1947.
Werner von Alvensleben had one son, also named Werner, who was responsible for the attempted assassination of the Austrian Heimwehrfuehrer Dr. Richard Steidle in June 1933.[1][2]
Bibliography
- Hellmut Kretzschmar: Geschichtliche Nachrichten von dem Geschlecht von Alvensleben seit 1800. [Historical news from the Alvensleben family since 1800] Burg b. M. 1930, page 75.
- Rudolf Pechel: Deutscher Widerstand. [German Resistance] Erlenberg-Zurich 1947, pages 175, 299 et seq.
- Eberhard von Vietsch: Arnold Rechberg und das Problem der politischen West-Orientierung nach dem 1. Weltkrieg. [Arnold Rechberg and the problem of political orientation towards the West after the 1st World War] 1958, pages 94, 129.
- Hans Adolf Jacobson (publisher): Spiegelbild einer Verschwörung. [Reflection of a Conspiracy] 2nd volume, Stuttgart 1984, pages 774–780 (Reproduction of the verdict passed by the Volksgerichtshof on 1 February 1945 in the criminal proceedings against Werner von Alvensleben and Dr. Rudolf Pechel).
- Kunrat Freiherr von Hammerstein: Spähtrupp. [Reconnaissance Patrol] Stuttgart 1963, pages 50, 55–59, 71, 206–207, 223, 242.
- Annali von Alvensleben: Abgehoben. [Set Apart] Hamburg 1998 (Autobiography by a daughter of Werner von Alvensleben).
- Stephan Malinowski: Vom König zum Führer. Deutscher Adel im Nationalsozialismus. [From the King to the Führer. German Aristocracy during National Socialism] Berlin 2003, pages 428/429.
See also
References
- ^ Richard Schober: „Ein politisch verführter junger Mann?“ Werner von Alvensleben und das Attentat auf Richard Steidle (11. Juni 1933). „Tiroler Heimat“.
- ^ "Notizen zur Begnadigung des Steidle-Attentäters Werner von Alvensleben jun (1933). Die Korrespondenz Werners von Alvensleben sen mit Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler", in Tiroler Heimat 78, (2014) page 219–230