Albrecht von Graefe (politician)
| Albrecht von Gräfe | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1 January 1868 Berlin |
| Died | 18 January 1933 (aged 65) Benz, Wismar |
| Nationality | German |
| Occupation | Landowner, Army officer |
| Known for | Politician |
| Political party | German Conservative Party, German National People's Party, German Völkisch Freedom Party, National Socialist Freedom Movement |
| Parent(s) | Albrecht von Graefe |
| Relatives | Karl Ferdinand von Graefe (grandfather) |
Albrecht von Gräfe, often Anglicized as Graefe (1 January 1868 – 18 April 1933), was a German landowner and right-wing politician active both during the German Empire and the Weimar Republic. Although never a member of the Nazi Party he was an early associate of Adolf Hitler and for a while appeared a credible rival for the leadership of the overall Völkisch movement.
The son of the celebrated ophthalmologist Albrecht von Graefe, and thus grandson of the surgeon Karl Ferdinand von Graefe, he enlisted in the German Imperial Army as an officer in 1887. After his military service von Graefe entered politics and served as a deputy in the Reichstag for the German Conservative Party from 1912 to 1918.
Von Graefe returned to the Reichstag in 1920 as member of the German National People's Party (DNVP). A close associate of Reinhold Wulle, von Graefe was on the far right of the DNVP and as early as 1920 the pair had held negotiations with Adolf Hitler. Between 1919 and 1920 von Graefe personally had come to prominence following the publication of a series of open letters in the German press in which his racialist and anti-Semitic views were attacked by the prominent liberal Gustav Stresemann.
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