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"I want to live freely and I want to die freely" - The memoirs of Hans Tröbst.
"Tell me, Muse, the man who saw many places ..." I can proudly say of myself with Homer, I have learned languages and expanded the horizon, I get a salary, as I would not receive it in Germany, I lead that Life of a gentleman, as I was used to, I have horse and servant and stayed in the environment in which I grew up and I love so much. Here history is written and I can say: "I have been there!" Hand on heart! you old comrades in arms, comrades of glad driving, who now sit in Germany and break your head for the "morning", who wants to exchange with me?
Parole d'Honneur! Not me!
I am an egotist, a bloodthirsty egoist in everything concerning my personal freedom. You must not touch that. I want to come and go, when, where and how I want, without having to ask someone, "Is it fitting?"
"I want to be free. I want to live free and I want to die freely!
Do not deprive anyone and not inherit and easily look away from the hackle below me from my pet! "
Pictured Hans Tröbst in Turkish uniform and Fez.
Hans Tröbst can be counted among the great German adventurers of the early 20th century. He was born in Weimar, but died in China, but could at least be buried in Germany. The material of his life would last for many lives, so he was imperial officer, Freikorps fighter and then only German officer in Turkish captain's uniform under Mustafa Kemal Pasha ("Atatürk"), finally significant foreign correspondent. His grandson Mario Troebst has gradually published the Wanderer's memoirs between the worlds as an e-book in several volumes. ...
When the First World War ended, he was left with nothing. So Hans Tröbst was looking for more "career opportunities", and they were in 1918 enough in post-war Europe. He was a sort of mercenary, but not for money, but he was only hired for those who, in his opinion, were doing just cause or fighting the Entente.
In the records of Hans Tröbst is the following entry from the year 1920:
When, on the fateful November days of 1918, the thunder of cannon faded away on the vast battlefields of Europe and "the whole stop was blown up" - who of the old champions, to whom "service alone was only house and home", did not have the bizarre Question submitted:
"What now?" "What to do? What to do? "
To be sure, at first this concern for the future did not put the dagger on the chest, for all over the world, after the armistice, the rifles still popped; the "eternal Landfried seemed and wants to remain a beautiful dream today. And so, as I have done, countless old troupiers in the volunteer formations who defended the frontiers against the Poles and Bolsheviks and who fought for or against the government inside, could wage a military shameful existence until the army reduction in August 1920 became the changeover to a new profession made necessary.
Most of us were not bedded on rose petals, and not everyone had a general director as an uncle. And the good positions for adopted officers who wrote out the "Rano" and other newspapers demanded first and foremost knowledge, if one did not prefer, with 150 marks pocket money as "Gutsbewacher" or subalterner scribes at banks, private or authorities further dawning ,
What wonder then that "When in those days the 'Kemalists' and 'Wrangel' activities were advertised in every street? A large part of the old mercenaries decided to set their fate on the sword again and in a foreign army theirs Luck to try and search. I, too, thought the same way, and one fine day, one day, I resolutely put my "graces content" in my pocket, tied my bundle, and "rode over to the 'Kemalists,' who would just arm themselves against Smyrna! " Aventiurenritt "Strange experienced, I recorded for the benefit and piety of all like-minded people on the following sheets. Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear!Because much indicates that Old Master Moltke right again this time: "The next war will be either a seven-year-old or a thirty-year-old!" Seven years have passed, and still is "peace on earth!"
See also: Mario Troebst talking about his grandfather
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Trobst, HansHans Tröbst (sometimes also Troebst ; October 27, 1891 in Weimar ; July 5, 1939 in Dairen , China ) was a German officer of the Prussian Army , the German Army , the Free Corps and the Ottoman Army . The Baltic champion and Knight of the Iron Cross of both classes was in the interwar period, among other foreign correspondents.
Hans Tröbst was born on October 27, 1891, the day of the capture of Metz in the German-French War , as he always reported with pride, in Weimar.Tröbst joined after graduation on 5 March 1910 as a Fahnenjunker in the traditional Magdeburg Pioneer Battalion No. 4, which was founded in 1816 shortly after the Seventh Coalition War .military schoolIn October 1910, Ensign Tröbst came as part of his military training for almost nine months on the war school in Engers on the right bank of the Middle Rhine and located at the foot of the Westerwald. Engers was the most favored war school in the whole empire, it was called in the army "the guard war school" and was for the ensign what the students Bonn and the Bonn Borussen were.
The main subject was tactics . Next to the tactics were as main subjects: weapons teaching (treated the composition (technique) of all weapons, from the revolver to the 21 cm mortar, the whole targeting and target practice of artillery and infantry ), followed by attachment theory and numerous other subjects: military, plan drawing, French or Russian, mapping, round writing, military writing, gymnastics, fencing, troop service, horseback riding , shooting, waving, telephoning and much more. He wrote to an aunt:
"The war school here is the purest hunger institution. In the morning you wake up regularly with a growling stomach, rushes into the dining room and drinks coffee. (In words: 1 cup of coffee and two tiny rolls, with an even smaller dollop of butter on each plate.) At 11 o'clock is breakfast. = hot lunch. Just 5 minutes before the end of the lesson, everyone unpacks their books to be the first to be at the table afterwards. When it rings, the whole lecture-room, headlong, rushing, rushing over, rushes down the broad staircase to get as close as possible to the bowls. Happy the one who managed to catch one. He grabs his plate full, and is satisfied for half an hour. Of the others, 3 or 4 regularly get nothing or almost nothing. With wrathful tears in the eye, the unfortunates sit there, cursing the housekeeper, the orderlies, and have to watch how little by little the inedible flesh disappears. The torn economist then builds up at the exit of the hall, where he sells tiny rolls of 15 grams. Of course, shiny shops. In the evening, the game repeats itself the same way. By the way, it is very nice here. My room leads directly to the Rhine, everywhere a beautiful view, nice excursions in the area, just damn cold it is on this windy tower room, you freeze so that in the morning you dare not out of bed at all. Also in the permanent supervision you can not even find so very pure. Even at night spies and castles are revised, who leaves only the slightest open, gets punishments, prohibition bans etc. Treated here almost worse than the recruits. 'Stupid boy, naughty rascal, conceited brat', these are the purest pleasantries. Well, reserve still has 31 weeks, then it's over. "
World War and Free Corps
Trobst served in the First World War, among other things as adjutant in the infantry regiment "general field marshal von Hindenburg" (2. Masurisches) No. 147 and as a pioneer before Dünaburg, was highly decorated, became afterwards free corporal fighters in Finland and in the Baltenland , where he as an officer Volunteer Battalion "Poensgen" served in the Iron Division ."Yes, dear God, if the enemies are such a miserable bond, if ' God is with us ', why do not we finally stop energetically with the whole mess?"He fought under Awaloff-Bermondt against the Bolsheviks and fought on the home front in the naval brigade "Ehrhardt" . After its dissolution he ventured on an adventurous journey over Serbia , Bulgaria , Konstantinopel to Anatolia to the army Kemal Paschas. On November 9, 1923 he took part as a follower of General Ludendorff on the march to Feldherrnhalle ."I think I have a judgment on the matter. First, because I became acquainted with all the leading men and heard views from them. Secondly, because I've already been involved in the Kapp putsch , which in some ways resembled the Hitler coup. "![]()
Hans Tröbst, passport photo, taken in Eski-Schehir, 1.2.1925.
Interwar
He later served Mustafa Kemal Pasha ("Atatürk") as captain of the Ottoman Army and fought in the Greek-Turkish War . In 1923 he praised in the newspaper "Homeland" the "ethnic cleansing" of Turkey and thus the population exchange, which set the Treaty of Lausanne on the minority issue.foreign correspondent
Tröbst was, inter alia, foreign correspondent and worked for German newspapers, magazines, press correspondence and news agencies. He reported from 1924 to 1939 first from Turkey, then from the Balkans and finally from the Far East.
"I have been living abroad since 1920 and have seen Germany for the last time about two years ago under the short" Schleicher regime ". Since then, I knew Germany only from the representations of the emigrant press, the anti-German foreign press and foreign-reaching German newspapers. In order to get a clear picture of the real situation in my homeland, I have just been traveling around Germany for four weeks and, in order to explore the true mood, I went first and foremost among the circles that the playlist with the simple words " Used to dismiss people . Ie. I got acquainted with waiters, chauffeurs, hairdressers, workers, unemployed, small staff, etc., etc., but I also got in contact with all other layers and circles, I have with Reichswehr officers , doctors, lawyers, lawyers , journalists and Talked to merchants in detail and tried dispassionately to see with their own eyes and to hear with their own ears to make me a real picture of the situation in the home . I summarized the overall result of my impressions and observations in the following report sine ira et studio. " - Hans Tröbst in a preface to his book" Heimaturlaub 1934 - Impressions of the German Foreign Correspondent Hans Tröbst "
Hans Tröbst went to Manchuko in 1934 because he regarded the Far East as an interesting field of journalistic work. After the so-called Mukden incident, Japan's conquest of Manchuria had begun in 1931, and in 1932, after the victory, Japan had set up its satellite state of Manchuko there. Dairen became the basis for his reporting from the Far East for Hans Tröbst.
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Die Reise nach Anatolien - Band 8: Vom Baltikum zu Kemal Pascha (Ein Soldatenleben in 10 Bänden 1910 - 1923) (German Edition)
Mit den Kemalisten kreuz und quer durch Anatolien - Band 9: Vom Baltikum zu Kemal Pascha (Ein Soldatenleben in 10 Bänden 1910 - 1923) (German Edition)
IN TURKISH Mustafa Kemal'in Ordusunda Bir Alman Yüzbaşı Hans Tröbst | TÜYAP YAYINLARI Translated by: Yüksel Pazarkaya Published 2017-01-01
On September 10, 1885, the existing Rumelian issues were overprinted with two different images of the Bulgarian lion, and then with the lion in a frame and "Bulgarian Post" in Bulgarian (Cyrillic letters).
