Re: [ejlist] Three questions on Germanic affairs

[Rebing@t-online.de (Rebing)]

Gary, Sedition Service sounds allright to me. They probably had the noble task of 
what is called in today's German 'Desinformation'.
 
Zähringstrasse is not to be found on the map of the inner city of Vienna in 
my Meyers Lexikon of 1895. There was a petty dynasty of the Zähringer in South 
West Germany, but Zähring does not ring any bell with me.

Heinrich Mann wrote an autobiography, Ein Zeitalter wird besichtigt, but in fact 
it is primarily a statement of his Weltanschauung and probably does not contain 
any detailed information about that committee. Perhaps you find something in K. 
Pawek, Heinrich Manns Kampf gegen den Faschismus im französischen Exil 1933-1940, 
Hamburg 1972. Or in Heinrich Mann am Wendepunkt der deutschen Geschichte. 
Internationale wissenschaftliche Konferenz aus Anlass des 100. Geburtstages von 
Heinrich Mann, März 1971, Berlin (DDR) 1971. 

Günter Rebing

 Gary Kern schrieb:
> Dear Jüngerites:
>
> I have three questions only remotely relating to EJ, yet definitely
> connected to German culture in the 1920's & 30's and therefore hopefully
> admissable as background material.
>
> Can anyone provide any information on any of the following three items:
>
> 1. Zersetzungsdienst--a German intelligence unit operating in the 1920's
> before the failed 1923 revolution.  Was it the Communist intelligence
> service, or the state?  And do you translate it into English as
> "Sedition Service"?
>
> 2. There was a street in Vienna where the tiny Austrian Communist Party
> held a demonstration in 1919 in support of the shortlived Hungarian
> Soviet Republic.  My source reads "Zähringstrasse."  Is that correct,
> and does it mean anything?  The demonstrators were shot down, but
> Krivitsky, the hero of my book, escaped.
>
> 3. In 1934 there was a Paris-based Committee for Freedom in Germany,
> headed by Heinrich Mann.  Does anyone know anything about it?  My source
> says that Walter Krivitsky, the Soviet spymaster and subject of my book,
> recruited the group.
>
> If EJ figures in any of these matters, all the better!
>
> GK
>
>
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