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Albert Leo Schlageter (12 August 1894 — 26 May 1923) was a member of the German Freikorps and a Martyr-figure for the National Socialists. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 405 × 600 pixelsFull resolution‎ (458 × 678 pixels, file size: 407 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ...
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1894 (MDCCCXCIV) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
is the 146th day of the year (147th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The designation of Freikorps (German for Free Corps) was originally applied to voluntary armies. ...
For other uses, see Martyr (disambiguation). ...
The National Socialist German Workers Party (German: , or NSDAP, commonly, the Nazi Party), was a political party in Germany between 1920 and 1945. ...
Life
Schlageter was born in Schönau im Schwarzwald to strict Catholic parents. Schönau im Schwarzwald is a town in the district of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ...
After the outbreak of the First World War he became a voluntary emergency worker for the military. During the war he participated in several battles, notably Ypres (1915), the Somme (1916) and Verdun. Following his promotion to second lieutenant he took part in the Third Battle of Ypres (1917). After the war, and his dismissal from the army, Schlageter described himself as a student of the political sciences; but he studied the subject at the most for one year. At this time he also became a member of a rightwing Catholic student group. Soon Schlageter also joined the Freikorps and took part in the Kapp Putsch and other battles between military and communist factions that were convulsing Germany. In 1922 his Freikorps unit in Upper Silesia merged with NSDAP. During the occupation of the Ruhr in 1923 he led an illegal "combat patrol", that tried to resist the French occupying forces by means of sabotage. A number of trains were derailed in order to disrupt supplies to troops. On the 7 April 1923 Schlageter was betrayed, possibly from within his own ranks, and was arrested by the French. Tried by court-martial on 7 May 1923, he was condemned to death. In the morning of the 26 May he was executed on the Golzheimer heath near Düsseldorf. Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ...
Geography Country Belgium Community Flemish Community Region Flemish Region Province West Flanders Arrondissement Ypres Coordinates , , Area 130. ...
For other battles known as Battle of the Somme, see Battle of the Somme (disambiguation). ...
Combatants France German Empire Commanders Philippe Pétain Robert Nivelle Erich von Falkenhayn Strength About 30,000 on 21 February 1916 About 150,000 on 21 February 1916 Casualties 378,000; of whom 163,000 died. ...
Second Lieutenant is the lowest commissioned rank in many armed forces. ...
Passchendaele village, before and after the Battle of Passchendaele The Battle of Passchendaele, otherwise known as the Third Battle of Ypres, was one of the major battles of World War I, fought by British, ANZAC, and Canadian soldiers against the German army near Ypres (Ieper in Flemish) in West Flanders...
Memorial for the suppression of the Kapp putsch in Wetter station The Kapp Putsch —or more accurately the Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch —was an attempt to overthrow the Weimar Republic, based in opposition to the imposed Treaty of Versailles at the end of World War I. It was branded right...
Map of Upper Silesia, 1746 Upper Silesia (Polish: Górny Śląsk, German: Oberschlesien, Czech: Hornà Slezsko) is the south-eastern part of Silesia, a historical and geographical region of Poland (Opole Voivodship and Silesian Voivodship) and of the Czech Republic (Silesian-Moravian Region). ...
The Nazi swastika The National Socialist German Workers Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei), better known as the NSDAP or the Nazi Party was a political party that was led to power in Germany by Adolf Hitler in 1933. ...
The Occupation of the Varun Balan in 1923 and 1924, by troops from France and Belgium was a response to the failure of German Weimar Republic under Cuno to pay reparations in the aftermath of World War I. Initiated by French Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré, the invasion took place on...
For other uses, see Sabotage (disambiguation). ...
April 7 is the 97th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (98th in leap years). ...
Year 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
is the 127th day of the year (128th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
is the 146th day of the year (147th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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On 8 May Schlageter wrote to his parents: "from 1914 until today I have sacrificed my whole strength to work for my German homeland, from love and pure loyalty. Where it was suffering, it drew me, in order to help…I was no gang leader, but in quiet labour I sought to help my fatherland. I did not commit any common crime or murder."[1] The truth of this statement may well be doubted, since he is thought to have been involved in assassinations of presumed "informers". is the 128th day of the year (129th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Almost immediately after Schlageter's death Rudolf Höß assassinated his alleged betrayer, Walther Kadow. He was assisted by Martin Bormann. Höß was sentenced to ten years but only served four; Bormann received a one-year sentence.[2] Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höß (in English commonly Hoess or Höss or rarely Hoeß; November 25, 1900; April 16, 1947) was an SS-Obersturmbannführer (Lt. ...
Walther Kadow was a school teacher murdered by Rudolf Höss in 1924 . ...
Martin Bormann Martin Bormann (June 17, 1900 - c. ...
Creation of heroic mythology After his execution he became a hero to some sections of the German population. Immediately after his death a Schlageter Memorial Society was formed, which agitated for the creation of a monument to honour him. The German Communist Party sought to debunk the emerging mythology of Schlageter by circulating a speech by Karl Radek portraying him as an honourable but misguided figure.[3] However, it was the Nazi party who most fully exploited the Schlageter story. Rituals were constructed to commemorate his death, and in 1931 the Memorial Society succeeded in getting a monument erected near the site of his execution. This was a giant cross placed amid sunken stone rings.[4] Karl Radek Karl Radek Karl Berngardovich Radek (October 31 [O.S. October 19] 1885 - May 19, 1939) was a Bolshevik and an international Communist leader. ...
After 1933 Schlageter became one of the principal heroes of the Nazi regime. Hanns Johst, the Nazi playwright, wrote Schlageter (1933), a heroic drama about his life. It was dedicated to Hitler, and was performed on his first birthday in power as a theatrical manifesto of Nazism. The line "when I hear the word culture, I reach for my gun", often quoted by Nazi leaders, derives from this play. The original line is slightly different: "Wenn ich Kultur höre ... entsichere ich meinen Browning," "Whenever I hear of culture... I release the safety-catch of my Browning!" (Act 1, Scene 1). It is spoken by another character in conversation with the young Schlageter.[5] Year 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Hanns Johst (July 8, 1890 - November 23, 1978) was a German playwright and Nazi Poet Laureate. ...
Several important military ventures were also named for him, including the Jagdgeschwader 26 Schlageter fighter-wing of the Luftwaffe, and the naval vessel Albert Leo Schlageter. His name was also given as a title to two SA groups, the SA-Standarte 39 Schlageter at Düsseldorf and SA-Standarte 142 Albert Leo Schlageter at Lörrach. Jagdgeschwader 26 (JG 26) Schlächter was a Luftwaffe fighter-wing of World War II. It operated exclusively in Western Europe againt Great Britain, France and the United States. ...
The Portuguese Navy school ship Sagres The Sagres at OpSail 2000 Sagres has a great deal of polished brass and hoists lights in her rigging when in port. ...
Schlageter also featured as a prominent character in British author Geoffrey Moss's 1933 novel I Face the Stars, about the rise of Nazism. Major Geoffrey McNeill-Moss (1886-1954), British soldier and writer who published under the name Geoffrey Moss. ...
After the war the Schlageter memorial was destroyed by occupying Allied forces as part of the denazification process. Denazification (German: Entnazifizierung) was an Allied initiative to rid German and Austrian society, culture, press, economy, judiciary and politics of any remnants of the Nazi regime. ...
References
External links - German biography of Schlageter
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