Writer Edgar From Schmidt-Pauli (1881-1955): Letter Alain 1949, Over Bio

You are bidding on one handwritten, signed letter ofWriter, journalist and literary official Edgar von Schmidt-Pauli (1881-1955).

Dated Tutzing, the 14th August 1949.

With very interesting ones Information about his biography/family.

Aimed at those coming from Hungary Count Franz Ledochowski (1876-1954) and his wife Eva Lédochowska, née. de Bethlen (1878-1961). Their daughter, Clara Ledóchowska (* 26. June 1911 in Sarns near Brixen), secretary at the Austrian embassy at the Holy See (Vatican).

AlsoEdgar von Schmidt-Pauli had connections to Hungary because his mother was descended from Hungarian barons.

Excerpts:"My dear good friends! [...] We too were protected - completely undeservedly - even though we lost everything and fled from the Russians at the last moment - because our sons are alive. Unfortunately, the eldest was still a major prisoner in Russia. The second, efficient, clever, decent, is an assistant director in Munich and often with us in our small two-room apartment, but with a balcony and a view of the mountains [...]. My wife is a gift from God in her beauty, Nordic inner frankness and depth, enormously skilled, unique in her harmony with our son, so that we live quietly and happily. However, I have to go to Munich every day [...]. But I have to start from the beginning - for the third time in my life, in 4 jobs: theater and music critic in the 'Echo der Woche', financing films, secretary of the German-French committee and supervisory board of an AG [...] Thank God that you have your daughter in Rome. [...] You don't write anything about your son!? My friend from Russia writes quite regularly. That too is a grace.

The news from Hungary is almost too sad to bear. Many came through here: [...] Wenckheims (now Argentina), Ludwig Windischgraetz (Argentina), Radranskys (Paris), Kozmas etc. [...] All these fates. And my relatives - kidnapped, killed, killed themselves or left completely poor in village apartments because of the plundered castles! Please tell Aunt Agnes, my friend Stella Andrássy, née. Swedish, has a fabulous interr. Book written: 'The Puszta is Burning' - bestseller in Sweden, published in German in Switzerland - with all the fairytale splendor of old Hungary and the misery of the siege and unimaginable escape. Many acquaintances and their fates! [...] heartfelt kiss on the hand of Countess Eva [...]. Your old man Edgar."

With printed letterhead "Dr. jur. Edgar von Schmidt-Pauli // Tutzing Obb. Bergstrasse 216."

Double-sided written sheet (A4); without envelope.

Condition: Paper slightly browned, with small corner creases. Please also note the pictures!

Internal note: Clara L. 47 Adel Autograph Autograph

Over the author Edgar von Schmidt-Pauli (Source: wikipedia):

Fiath Florentin Richard Edgar von Schmidt-Pauli (*3. March 1881 in Hamburg; † 16. September 1955 in Tutzing) was a German writer, journalist and literary official.

Life

Youth and the First World War: Edgar von Schmidt-Pauli was the son of the Hamburg merchant of the same name Edgar von Schmidt-Pauli (1853–1920). Through his mother Josepha Freiin Fiath von Eörményes and Karansébes (1855–1945) he was a descendant of Hungarian barons; his sister was the writer Elisabeth von Schmidt-Pauli (1882–1956). In his youth, Schmidt-Pauli attended the Knights' Academy in Liegnitz, where he first became noticed as a writer through lyrical attempts. After attending school, he studied law in Cambridge, Munich, Göttingen and Leipzig, where he received his Dr. jur. earned a doctorate. After passing the major state examination in law, however, he did not practice the profession he had learned, but instead turned to journalism. Since 1910 he worked as a music and theater critic for the Hamburger Fremdenblatt. From 1912 to 1914 he worked as a director at the Hamburg City Theater and the Wiesbaden Court Theater.

From 1914 onwards, Schmidt-Pauli took part in the First World War as a captain in the reserve. During the war he began to emerge as a writer: in 1916 he published his first book, Kriegsritte. From 1916 to 1918 he also took over the editor-in-chief of the Belgian Courier in Brussels.

Weimar Republic: After the end of the First World War, Schmidt-Pauli became a press delegate to the German delegation led by Kurt Freiherr von Lersner at the peace negotiations in Versailles.

Around 1920 Schmidt-Pauli married Edith von Krogh Tiedemann Beyer, Bergen, Norway. The marriage produced, among other things, the son Rolf von Schmidt-Pauli and the diplomat Edgar von Schmidt-Pauli, named after his father, who, among other things, became the ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Laos and Thailand.

In 1923 Schmidt-Pauli became editor-in-chief of the Eca news agency in Berlin and continued as editor-in-chief of the magazines Roland von Berlin and Jugend. On the occasion of the Hitler-Ludendorff Putsch of November 1923, Schmidt-Pauli rushed to Munich to support the coup attempt, but only arrived there after the failed march on the Feldherrnhalle. The next day he visited Erich Ludendorff in his villa to pass on his reports to the Berlin press.

From 1927 to 1934 Schmidt-Pauli served as editor of the monthly magazine Politics and Society. At times he was also press chief at the State Commissioner for Public Order in Berlin. Ideologically, Schmidt-Pauli predominantly represented monarchist views at this time. So he tried to write a biography of Wilhelm II. In 1928 it was about the rehabilitation of the former emperor, whose share of responsibility for the catastrophes of the outbreak of war in 1914 and the defeat in 1918 he tried to relativize in favor of emphasizing the fateful nature of the larger lines of historical development.

At the end of the 1920s, Schmidt-Pauli became involved with the conservative circles around Heinrich von Gleichen as a member of the German Men's Club.

Time of National Socialism: After the “seizure of power” in 1933, Schmidt-Pauli quickly adapted to the new political conditions. As early as the summer of 1933 he became a member of the board of the Reich Association of German Writers (RDS). In the same year he was appointed representative of the German section to the International Executive Committee of the PEN Club. After the International PEN passed a resolution on August 8th In November 1933, Schmidt-Pauli condemned the repression of writers who did not conform to the official policy of the German Reich. In the same month, Schmidt-Pauli announced the withdrawal of the German section from the international PEN organization.

During the political purge of March 30th In June 1934, Schmidt-Pauli initially escaped arrest because he was in Paris that day. Der Spiegel later suggested that he, like many others, was scheduled for assassination that day. After his return to Berlin, however, he was temporarily taken into custody and locked in the Columbia House.

From October to November 1949, Schmidt-Pauli stayed in Paris for six weeks to form a committee to prepare the Franco-German understanding conference. However, at the urging of French politicians who submitted petitions to the Bavarian Prime Minister Hans Ehard - in which they referred to Schmidt-Pauli's journalistic activities - he was withdrawn from the honorary presidency of the Understanding Conference.

Fonts

As author:

Non-marriage and void marriage in the narrower sense, 1913. (Dissertation)

War rides. Experiences of a cavalry officer, Berlin 1916.

From Galicia, Mönchengladbach sa [1916].

The emperor. The true face of Wilhelm II, Berlin 1928.

We Indians, Berlin 1929.

Diplomats in Berlin, Berlin 1930.

The other Casanova, Berlin 1930.

Count Stefan Bethlen, Berlin 1931.

Prince Bülow's Thinking Indignities, Berlin 1931.

Nikolaus von Horthy, admiral, folk hero and imperial administrator, Berlin sa [1937]

General von Seeckt, Berlin 1937.

Europe's dynasties and the world war, 1938.

History of the Freikorps 1918–1924, Stuttgart 1939.

Friedrich Bergius, Berlin 1943.

Nikolaus von Horthy, Hamburg sa [1944].

60 years of the Cologne Racing Club, Cologne 1957.

As translator:

David Lloyd George: The Truth About Reparations and War Debt, 1932. (from English)