Gilbert von In der Maur
In der Maur (right) and his first wife
BornGilbert Heinrich Carl August von In der Maur auf Strelberg und zu Freifeld
15 August 1887
Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Died13 September 1959 (aged 72)
Pörtschach am Wörthersee, Austria
Noble familyIn der Maur
Spouse(s)Countess Maria Gertrude Valeska Rosa Aloisia Barbo von Waxenstein (?? - 1920; divorced)
Margarethe Maria Anna Hatheyer
IssueWolf In der Maur
FatherCarl von In der Maur
MotherAuguste von Kogerer
OccupationMilitary officer, journalist

Gilbert Heinrich Carl August von In der Maur auf Strelberg und zu Freifeld (15 August 1887 - 13 September 1959) was a Liechtenstein-born Austrian military officer, journalist and publicist. He also served as a government official of the Austrian National Socialist Party.[1]

Biography

Gilbert Heinrich Carl August von In der Maur auf Strelberg und zu Freifeld was born in Vaduz, Liechtenstein on 15 August 1887 to Carl von In der Maur and his wife, Auguste von Kogerer (1862-1916), daughter of Imperial and Royal Court Counselor Heinrich Ritter von Kogerer.[2] He descended paternally from the old Tyrolese noble family In der Maur zu Strelburg und Freifeld. He was baptized in the Catholic faith on 24 August 1887. He served in the Austro-Hungarian Army during World War I[3][4] and was severely wounded in 1914. He became a Rittmeister in the Austro-Hungarian Army in 1917.[5]

From 1918 until 1933 he played an active role in the Anschluss movement, focused on Austria and Germany uniting to form a "Greater Germany", was a supporter of Austrian National Socialism[6] and was a leading member of the Austrian Schutzstaffel as well as a member of the National Socialist Landesleitung, working alongside Josef Leopold.[7] In July 1919 he went to Berlin as part of a Tyrolean delegation to discuss a potential German annexation of Austria.[8] He considered Austria a "dictated" state, imposed upon Germanic people, preventing them from freely uniting with Germany.[9]

In der Maur married Countess Maria Gertrude Valeska Rosa Aloisia Barbo von Waxenstein, the daughter of Count Josef Anton Barbo von Waxenstein. They had three children including Wolf-Bernhard Carl Borromaeus Paul Robert von In der Maur.

They divorced in 1920 and the Countess remarried Count Marino Pace von Friedensberg, a nephew of Anton Pace von Friedensberg and military comrade of In der Maur.[10][11][12] In der Maur's daughter, Erika von In der Maur, adopted her stepfather's last name and became Erica Gräfin Pace von Friedensberg. He later married a second time to Margarethe Maria Anna Hatheyer and had more children.

In 1936 In der Maur authored the book Die Jugoslawen Einst Und Jetzt. Jugoslawiens Aussenpolitik on Yugoslavia and foreign policy.[13] In the work, he compared the formation of the Yugoslav state to the unification of Germany.[9]

From 1939 to 1945 he worked in the Defense Intelligence Agency in Vienna.[5]

He died on 13 September 1959 in Pörtschach am Wörthersee.

References

  1. ↑ Parkinson, F. (1989). Conquering the Past: Austrian Nazism Yesterday & Today. Wayne State University Press. p. 70. ISBN 0814320546. gilbert%20von%20in%20der%20maur.
  2. ↑ Horstenau, Edmund Glaise von; Broucek, Peter (1983). Minister im Ständestaat und General im OKW (in German). Böhlau Verlag Wien. ISBN 9783205087434.
  3. ↑ Ospelt, Josef (16 December 1913), Regierungssekretär Josef Ospelt informiert Hermann von Hampe, Leiter der Hofkanzlei, über den Tod und die Beisetzung von Landesverweser Karl von In der Maur (in German), Fürstentums Liechtenstein Landesarchiv
  4. ↑ Ospelt, Josef (12 February 1914), Regierungssekretär Josef Ospelt berichtet der fürstlichen Hofkanzlei über die laufende Notstandsaktion für die Landwirtschaft (in German), Fürstentums Liechtenstein Landesarchiv
  5. 1 2 "In der Maur auf Stehlburg und zu Freyfelt Gilbert von, österr. Offizier" (in German). Fürstentums Liechtenstein Landesarchiv. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
  6. ↑ "Franz Von Papen And The Anschluss". Essays in European History: Selected from the Annual Meetings of the Southern Historical Association, 1988-1989 (revised ed.). University Press of America. 1996. p. 17. ISBN 9780761803171.
  7. ↑ Parkinson, F. (1989). Conquering the Past: Austrian Nazism Yesterday & Today. Wayne State University Press. p. 71. ISBN 0814320546. maur.
  8. ↑ Low, Alfred D. (1974). The Anschluss Movement, 1918-1919, and the Paris Peace Conference. Vol. 103 (illustrated ed.). American Philosophical Society. p. 395. ISBN 9780871691033.
  9. 1 2 Wingfield, Nancy M., ed. (2003). Creating the Other : Ethnic Conflict and Nationalism in Habsburg Central Europe. Austria Studies. Vol. 5. New York: Bergham Books. p. 203. ISBN 1-57181-385-3.
  10. ↑ "Gilbert Heinrich Mauer von Strelburg und Freyfelt". Retrieved 2017-09-01.
  11. ↑ "Maria Gertrude Valeska Rosa Aloisia, countess Barbo von Waxenstein, * 1892". geneall.net. Retrieved 2017-09-01.
  12. ↑ "Maria Gertrude Gräfin Barbo Waxenstein".
  13. ↑ "Die Jugoslawen Einst Und Jetzt by Gilbert in Der Maur - AbeBooks". www.abebooks.co.uk. Retrieved 2017-09-01.
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