Gregor Schwartz-Bostunitsch | |
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![]() Schwartz-Bostunitsch in 1940 | |
SS-Standartenführer | |
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Born | 01.12.1883 Kyiv, Ukraine |
Died | Unknown Unknown |
Nationality | German |
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Gregor Schwartz-Bostunitsch (born 1 December 1883, d. after 1945) was a prominent figure in Nazi Germany. He was a German-Russian author in the völkisch movement and became SS-Standartenführer in 1944.
Gregor Schwartz-Bostunitsch was a radical author with German-Russian ancestry. [1] An active agitator against the Bolshevik Revolution, he fled his native Russia in 1920 and travelled widely in eastern Europe, making contact with Bulgarian Theosophists and probably with G.I. Gurdjieff. [1] As a mystical anti-communist, he developed an unshakeable belief in the Jewish-Masonic-Bolshevik world conspiracy portrayed in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. [2] In 1922 he published his first book, Freemasonry and the Russian Revolution, and emigrated to Germany in the same year. [3] He became an enthusiastic convert to Anthroposophy in 1923, but by 1929 he had repudiated it as yet another agent of the conspiracy. [3] Meanwhile, he had begun to give lectures for the Ariosophical Society [4] and was a contributor to Georg Lomer's originally Theosophical (and later, neopagan) periodical entitled Asgard: a fighting sheet for the gods of the homeland. [5] He also worked for Alfred Rosenberg's news agency during the 1920s before joining the SS. [3] He lectured widely on conspiracy theories and was appointed an honorary SS professor in 1942, but was barred from lecturing in uniform because of his unorthodox views. [3] In 1944 he was promoted to SS-Standartenführer on Himmler's recommendation. [3]
His name appears in a list of allied prisoners in May 1946, but his eventual fate is unknown.
Gregor Schwartz-Bostunitsch | |
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![]() Schwartz-Bostunitsch in 1940 | |
SS-Standartenführer | |
Personal details | |
Born | 01.12.1883 Kyiv, Ukraine |
Died | Unknown Unknown |
Nationality | German |
Political party |
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Gregor Schwartz-Bostunitsch (born 1 December 1883, d. after 1945) was a prominent figure in Nazi Germany. He was a German-Russian author in the völkisch movement and became SS-Standartenführer in 1944.
Gregor Schwartz-Bostunitsch was a radical author with German-Russian ancestry. [1] An active agitator against the Bolshevik Revolution, he fled his native Russia in 1920 and travelled widely in eastern Europe, making contact with Bulgarian Theosophists and probably with G.I. Gurdjieff. [1] As a mystical anti-communist, he developed an unshakeable belief in the Jewish-Masonic-Bolshevik world conspiracy portrayed in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. [2] In 1922 he published his first book, Freemasonry and the Russian Revolution, and emigrated to Germany in the same year. [3] He became an enthusiastic convert to Anthroposophy in 1923, but by 1929 he had repudiated it as yet another agent of the conspiracy. [3] Meanwhile, he had begun to give lectures for the Ariosophical Society [4] and was a contributor to Georg Lomer's originally Theosophical (and later, neopagan) periodical entitled Asgard: a fighting sheet for the gods of the homeland. [5] He also worked for Alfred Rosenberg's news agency during the 1920s before joining the SS. [3] He lectured widely on conspiracy theories and was appointed an honorary SS professor in 1942, but was barred from lecturing in uniform because of his unorthodox views. [3] In 1944 he was promoted to SS-Standartenführer on Himmler's recommendation. [3]
His name appears in a list of allied prisoners in May 1946, but his eventual fate is unknown.