Talk:Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter

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This is a rare case when a non-english wikipedia entry has more information on a topic, the german article should be reviewed by someone familiar with the language and have content added into this English article. 67.5.157.80 (talk) 12:03, 28 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Hitler's dislocated shoulder - right or left?

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In the intro, last sentence: "During the Putsch, he was shot in the lungs and died instantly, at the same time dislocating Hitler's right shoulder."

William Shirer in "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" (chapter 3, I don't know the page) seems to imply (does not state directly) it is Hitler's left shoulder that was dislocated because his left hand was interlocked with Scheubner-Richter's right when the latter pulled him down. Unless I'm misinterpreting this, doesn't that imply it's the left that was dislocated? Cornelius (talk) 23:01, 5 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Served on the Eastern Front ?

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Not really. He was transferred to Ottoman Army as early as November 1914 (not "later"), after his brief service with 7th Bavarian Chevaulegers on the Western Front. --129.187.244.19 (talk) 11:17, 31 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Private army 1905

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[...] joined a pro-government private army during the Russian Revolution of 1905 [...]? Yes and no. He joined the Baltic German Self-Defense (Baltendeutscher Selbstschutz), but this unit was officially subordinated to a Cossack detachment of the Imperial Russian Army. He was also wounded (gunshot to the knee). This participation in a Cossack detachment meant that Max Richter was not only involved in protecting goods, farms and manufactories (also the factory of his later wife, where he met Mathilde for the first time), but also in the bloody suppression of unrest and terror by the Bolsheviks through the Imperial Russian army in the Baltic provinces. Richter was wounded in the knee by a gunshot. Michael Kellogg writes in The Russian Roots of Nazism, 2008<: "While he was considered a subject of Imperial Germany, Scheubner-Richter spoke fluent Russian from his early Russian schooling, and he regarded himself a Baltic German since he had spent his entire youth in the Imperial Russian Baltic ports Riga and Reval and had risked his life for Baltic German interests in 1905. During the Revolution of 1905, nationalist Latvians and Estonians had joined forces with socialist revolutionaries to overthrow Baltic German landowners who held the leading societal role in the Baltic provinces. Scheubner-Richter had been shot in the knee while serving in the Baltic German Selbstschutz (Self-Protection) forces that had combated this anti-Baltic-German alliance." --2003:DC:8F01:400:E923:504:92D1:D7A6 (talk) 17:47, 24 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

In 1918, [...] moved to Germany from Russia

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In 1918, Scheubner-Richter and Alfred Rosenberg moved to Germany from Russia [...] ... who wrote this? Did anyone read ANY sources? Georgii Nemirovich-Danchenko, Paul Leverkuehn, Otto von Kursell, Karsten Brüggeman, Michael Kellogg, Wolfgang Zdral and so on?

Here is the real chronology:

  • 26 January 1917 After von Scheubner-Richter's return to Berlin from Munich, the Foreign Office declined to accept his further proposed assignments. His secondment was also canceled. He then served on various assignments, including in Straubing, in the regiment under Adolf Friedrich von Mecklenburg.
  • 5 August 1917 Transferred to the section "Politics" of the Great General Staff in Berlin; commanded to Stockholm for the purpose of dealing with Ukrainian-Georgian issues (intelligence gathering).
  • 1 December 1917 Intelligence/Signals Officer with the Supreme Commander of All German Forces in the East (Ober-Ost)
  • 5 September 1918 Commanded to Riga for the purpose of dealing with issues concerning the German advance in Livonia and Estonia (intelligence gathering).
    • The mood in his hometown had changed: Lenin's Bolsheviks held power, and news of strikes, revolution, and soldiers' and workers' councils was coming from Germany. Before the war, Riga was home to over half a million people; after 1910, the population fell to 160,000, of whom 9 percent were from the German upper class. Factory chimneys had stopped smoking, and entrepreneurs had moved into the interior of Russia. Those who could were bringing their wealth to safety in Moscow. At least the wealthy at this time believed that Moscow was a safe place – a misjudgment, as would soon become apparent.
  • 9 November 1918 Head of the Press Office at the High Command of the 8th Army in Riga; His colleagues in the press office were Arno Wolfgang Schickedanz and Max Hildebert Boehm.
  • December 1918 After Germany's surrender in November, the envoy, August Winnig, appointed Scheubner-Richter as acting head of the German diplomatic mission.
    • In January 1919, the Red Army entered Riga. The last remaining Germans in Riga flee westward, fearing attacks by the Red Guards. Despite the chaos and the turmoil, Scheubner-Richter maintains a sense of perspective and does what seems most important to him: He secures the embassy's money from the Reds. He develops a sense of imagination when concealing the treasure: The diplomat hides the banknotes in the bucket next to the toilet in the house of a German friend.
    • When von Scheubner-Richter attempted to deport himself, he was arrested by soldiers' councils and taken to the police prison on Alexanderstrasse. The troops were outraged; Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg had been assassinated in Berlin. In retaliation, the Bolsheviks demanded the execution of the German diplomat. In street demonstrations, the insurgents reaffirmed their intention. They set up a revolutionary tribunal, which sentenced von Scheubner-Richter to death. At the last minute, the commander of the Soviet units ordered his release. Von Scheubner-Richter left his hometown of Riga, this time for good – in his luggage, in a butter dish, in a loaf of bread, and in a jar of honey with the banknotes from the hiding place.
  • January to May 1919 Service in Königsberg as political advisor to the district commissioner for the East
    • 1 February 1919 at the same time head (Obmann) of the Ostdeutscher Heimatdienst (East German Homeland Service) in Allenstein with the order to combat Bolshevism
    • May 1919 Commanded to Danzig as managing director of the Parliamentary Action Committee North for the purpose of preparing the referendum, then returned to Königsberg
  • March 1920 Resigned as head of the East German Homeland Service due to the Kapp Putsch which he supported together with Freikorps units; he was officially relieved of duty on 1 June 1920.
  • June to October 1920 Visit to Crimea to discuss further actions against Bolshevism with General Wrangel, then return to Munich.
  • 1920 Acquired Bavarian citizenship
  • October 1920 Alfred Rosenberg introduced von Scheubner-Richter to Adolf Hitler; he reported on his secret mission to Crimea.
    • Von Scheubner-Richter uses his organizational and diplomatic talents to raise money for the financially weak NSDAP. He becomes a valuable supporter of the party leader for another reason: "He opened all doors for me," Hitler admits after von Scheubner-Richter's death. Contacts with higher circles were particularly important for the upstart from Braunau, because influence and power still lay in the hands of the old elite, who were consistently recruited from the upper class. But Hitler knew only a few people there; the vast majority of his members and friends were middle-class people, artisans, soldiers, and workers. Scheubner-Richter's ties to the Russian exiles in Munich, in particular, made the cash register ring. To this end, he founded two organizations in 1921 as a contact point and fundraising pool: the "New German-Russian Society" and the Aufbau or "Economic Reconstruction Association." This proved to be a wise move, as it made it easier to attract supporters who were enthusiastic about the idealistic goals of intensifying contacts between Germany and Russia.
  • 22 November 1920 Joined the NSDAP (# 2,414)
    • The Bavarian aristocrat Theodor Freiherr von Cramer-Klett, representative of the Vatican in Bavaria, Hereditary Imperial Councilor of the Crown of Bavaria, and a fervent monarchist and fascist, serves as president of the Aufbau Association. The influential General Vasilij Biskupskij is involved on the Russian side. The German-Russian Society has even more distinguished members. In addition to the Bavarian Swabian and linguist Professor Adolf Dirr (1867–1930) as first secretary, Grand Duchess Viktoria Fedorowna (born Princess Victoria Melita von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha) assumes the honorary presidency. Von Scheubner-Richter's wife Mathilde became friends with the Grand Duchess, and they went on excursions together—even if the destination hardly corresponded to the usual ladies' get-togethers of the time: They attended SA military exercises in Munich together.
  • 1 to 2 September 1923 Took part in the Deutscher Tag in Nuremberg with over 100,000 participants
    • One of the most important results of the "German Day" or "German Diet" in Nuremberg was the formation of the Deutscher Kampfbund from the SA (Hermann Göring), Reichsflagge (Captain Adolf Heiß) and Bund Oberland (Friedrich Weber), with Hermann Kriebel appointed as its military leader. Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter became managing director; political leadership was taken over by Hitler on 25 September 1923. --2003:DC:8F01:400:E923:504:92D1:D7A6 (talk) 18:08, 24 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Awards, decorations and honours

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Honours

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  • Street Scheubner-Richter-Straße in München Ramersdorf-Perlach on 18 May 1934
  • Street Von-Scheubner-Richter-Straße in Gelsenkirchen, 1937
  • Street Von-Scheubner-Richter-Straße in Düsseldorf-Golzheim, 1937 (Schlagetersiedlung)
  • Street Scheubner-Richter-Straße in Recklinghausen on 20 April 1939
  • Street Scheubner-Richter-Straße in Leslau (im Wartheland)
  • Street Scheubner-Richter-Straße in Wuppertal-Ronsdorf
  • Street Erwin-von-Scheubner-Richter-Straße in Danzig-Ohra
  • Street Erwin-von-Scheubner-Richter-Straße in Kassel

Wehrmacht

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Writings (excerpt)

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