Mikhail Akhmeteli (pseudo. Konstantin Michael) ( 1895 - 1963 ) - German scholar and public intellectual of Georgian origin.
| Mikhail Mikhailovich Akhmeteli | |
|---|---|
| მიხეილ ახმეტელი | |
| Date of Birth | 1895 |
| Place of Birth | Borjomi , Tiflis Province , Russian Empire (now Georgia ) |
| Date of death | 1963 |
| A place of death | Munich , Germany |
| A country |  Russian empire  Germany  Germany  Germany |
| Place of work | |
| Alma mater | Jena University |
Content
- 1 Biography
- 1.1 During the war
- 1.2 After the war
- 2 Works
- 3 Literature
- 4 notes
Biography
Born in the family of a hereditary honorary citizen . In 1914 he graduated from high school in Georgia for the nobility. In the years 1915-1917. studied at Kharkov University . Adjacent to the Mensheviks .
After the government of independent Georgia allocated money for his studies abroad (his uncle, Vladimir Akhmeteli, was the first Georgian ambassador to Germany), Akhmeteli moved to Germany, where he entered Jena University in 1919. In 1925 he defended a dissertation there on the topic "The Economic Importance of Transcaucasia with a Special Focus on Georgia" (Die wirtschaftliche Bedeutung Transkaukasiens mit besonderer Berücksichtigung Georgiens) .
Since 1926 he collaborated in the economic department of the Institute of Eastern Europe in Breslau . Expert in Soviet agriculture, professor. Member of the NSDAP (party ticket No. 5 360 858). In 1932 he defended his doctoral dissertation in Breslau.
In 1937-1940 - Director of the Wannsee Institute (a think tank organized under the auspices of the SS and the NSDAP , he was also called the Institute of Eastern Europe in Berlin ). The Institute carried out information and intellectual support for a number of state structures, including SD [1] . Ahmeteli's deputy was the famous Nazi Sovietologist and expert German Greif .
During the war
Since 1939, Mr .. - Head of the Georgian National Committee, formally uniting Georgian emigration in the territory controlled by the Reich. The committee also worked with Soviet prisoners of war - Georgians by nationality, campaigning for them to join the Georgian Legion of the Wehrmacht . He maintained friendly relations with Alfred Rosenberg .
A few days after the German attack on the USSR, Ahmeteli presented a detailed plan for future agrarian reform. In December 1942, supporting Rosenberg, he sharply criticized Germany’s occupation policy in the USSR, for which he was nearly arrested in April 1943 "for defeatism" [2] . Then Ahmeteli was saved by Walter Schellenberg , who oversaw the Wannsee Institute [3] .
After the war
He participated in the organization of the Institute of Eastern Europe in Munich , taught at the University of Munich . According to some reports, he maintained contacts with the US and German special services (even during the war he was an agent of Reinhard Gehlen and at the same time an agent of the RSHA [4] ).
Member of the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Peoples .
Compositions
- Das Gesetz des abnehmenden Ertragszuwachses und seine gegenwärtige Beurteilung. Ohlau, 1932.
- Querschnitt durch die Industrie Sowjetrusslands // Ostraum-Berichte. Heft 1 (1935).
- Die quantitative Leistung und die Betriebsverhältnisse der Sowjetrussland // ibid. Heft 2 (1935). S. 80-160.
- Die Agrarpolitik der Sowjet-Union und deren Ergebnisse. Berlin-Leipzig: Nibelungen Verlag, 1936.
- Stellungnahme zur neuen Agrarordnung. Berlin: Wansee-Institut, 1942.
Literature
- Burkert M. Die Ostwissenschaften im Dritten Reich. Wiesbaden: Harassowitz, 2000.
Notes
- ↑ Mulligan TP The politics of illusion and empire: German occupation policy in the Soviet Union, 1942-1943. New York-Westport-London, 1988. P. 53.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Dallin A. German rule in Russia, 1941-1945: a study of occupation policies. London, 1957. P. 170, 323.
- ↑ Koch PF Enttarnt. Doppelagenten: Namen, Fakten, Beweise. Salzburg, 2011.