Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley

Anton von Padua Alfred Emil Hubert Georg Graf von Arco auf Valley (5 February 1897 – 29 June 1945), commonly known as Anton Arco-Valley, Germany political activist, is best remembered as the assassin of the Bavarian socialist leader Kurt Eisner in February 1919. February 5 is the 36th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1897 (MDCCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... June 29 is the 180th day of the year (181st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 185 days remaining. ... 1945 (MCMVL) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). ... The Free State of Bavaria  (German: Freistaat Bayern), with an area of 70,553 km² (27,241 square miles) and 12. ... Monument to Kurt Eisner on the sidewalk where he fell when he was assassinated in Munich. ...

Arco-Valley was born in Sankt Martin im Innkreis in Upper Austria, the son of Ferdinand Maria Emmerich Eduard Graf von Arco auf Valley^[1] and Emily Freiin von Oppenheim, the granddaughter of Salomon Oppenheim, a Jewish banker.^[2] After serving with a Bavarian regiment in the last year of World War I, he was demobilised and returned to study at Munich University, an angry and disillusioned German nationalist. As an aristocrat, a monarchist and a proclaimed anti-Semite despite his part-Jewish descent, he detested Eisner, the Jewish leader of the Bavarian socialists and Premier of Bavaria since the overthrow of the monarchy in November 1918. He wrote in his diary that Eisner deserved to die because he was a Jew.^[3] Upper Austria (Ober sterreich) is one of the nine federal states or Bundesl nder of Austria. ... Combatants Allied Powers: British Empire France Italy Russia United States Central Powers: Austria-Hungary Bulgaria Germany Ottoman Empire Commanders Ferdinand Foch Georges Clemenceau Joseph Joffre Victor Emmanuel III Luigi Cadorna Armando Diaz Nicholas II Aleksei Brusilov Herbert Henry Asquith Douglas Haig John Jellicoe Woodrow Wilson John Pershing Wilhelm II Paul...

On 21 February 1919 Arco-Valley, acting alone, shot Eisner dead on a Munich street. His action triggered bloody reprisals by the Munich revolutionaries, in which a number of his fellow aristocrats were killed, including Gustav-Franz Fürst von Thurn und Taxis. His actions inspired the young Joseph Goebbels, who was in Munich at the time. Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels (October 29, 1897 – May 1, 1945) was Adolf Hitlers Propaganda Minister (see Propagandaministerium) in Nazi Germany. ...

Arco-Valley was tried in January 1920. He was sentenced to death, but a conservative judge eventually reduced this to five years in prison. The State Prosecutor said of him, "If the whole German youth were imbued with such a glowing enthusiasm we could face the future with confidence."^[4] He served his sentence at Landsberg Prison, and in 1924 he was evicted from his cell to make way for Adolf Hitler. He was released in 1925, and was on probation until 1927, when he was amnestied. Entrance of the Landsberg Prison Landsberg Prison is a penal facility located in the town of Landsberg am Lech in the southwest of the German state of Bavaria, about 30 miles (45 km) west of Munich. ... Hitler redirects here. ...

Arco-Valley played no further part in politics, although he was decorated by the Nazi regime as a "hero of the movement." On July 10, 1934, he married Maria Gabrielle Gräfin von Arco-Zinneberg. He died in Salzburg in 1945, survived by his wife who died in 1987, and three daughters, of whom two are still living. National Socialism redirects here. ... Salzburg is a city in western Austria and the capital of the federal state of Salzburg (population 150,000 in 2006). ...

External link

• Video of the spot where Arco-Valley killed Eisner (in German)

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