Daß nun aber Alfred NevenDumont in seinem BoulewardBlatt „Bankfurter Buntschau“ der Sommerlath-Tochter , Silvia , Königin von Schweden, bzw. ihrem Vater einen Persilschein ausstellt ….? Warum wohl ? – Walther Sommerlath setzte sich wie viele andere hochrangige Altnazis auf der Flucht vor den Spruchkammern nach Lateinamerika -nach Brasilien ab, wo er über beste Beziehungen zu Finanz- und Industriekapital verfügte. Bereits 1934 war er dort in die Leitung eines Stahlkonzerns aufgestiegen und in die NSDAP-Auslandsorganisation eingetreten.
Warum also nun dieser PersilbescheinigungsArtikel in der Bankfurter Buntschau?
Der FRontmann Hannes Gamillscheg, einer aus Dumonts erster Garde, vermittelt im FR-Magazin vom 10 August 2011 auf zweitbester Plazierung – letzte Seite- der etwas zusammengeschmolzenen Leserschar mit viel Konjunktiv aber gearde deshalb um so wirkungsvoller das Bild des Walther Sommerlath als quasi „Klein-Schindler“, der sich 1939 nicht jüdisches Eigentum angeeignet sondern eigentlich nur einem jüdischen Fabrikanten das Leben gerettet habe.Nun soll sich ja auch Alfred NevenDumont in und um Köln herum rührend um den Erhalt jüdischen Egentums gekümmert haben.
Möglicher Weise ganz ähnlich wie Walther Sommerlath in Berlin. ((Unabhängig davon wünsche ich den KollegINNen in den Redaktionen für ihrer laufenden Kampfaktionen gegen die Dumonts & Cie die bitter notwendigen Erfolge(((im wahrsten Sinne dieses Wortes)))
Was bei dem Journalisten Gamillscheg zu seinem offenbaren Sinneswandel geführt hat ist (noch) unklar. Jedenfalls hatte sich der vor über einem Jahr in der FR schon einmal etwas kritischer zum schwedischen Königshaus und dessen Verbindungen zu den Nazis und zur Rolle Walther Sommerlaths geäußert.
http://www.fr-online.de/panorama/koenigin-auf-spurensuche/-/1472782/8874648/-/
Königin auf Spurensuche
Immer wieder wurden Anschuldigungen gegen ihren längst verstorbenen deutschen Vater laut – von einer Nazi-Vergangenheit war die Rede. Nun berichtet Königin Silvia von Schweden von den Untersuchungen über die Vergangenheit des Vaters.
Walther Sommerlath
Walther Sommerlath | |
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Born | 22 January 1901 Heidelberg, Grand Duchy of Baden |
Died | 21 October 1990 (aged 89) Heidelberg, Germany |
Spouse | Alice Soares de Toledo |
Children | Ralf Walther Ludwig Hans Jörg Silvia, Queen of Sweden |
Relatives | Louis Carl Moritz Sommerlath (father) Erna Sophie Christine Waldau (mother) |
Carl August Walther Sommerlath (22 January 1901 – 21 October 1990) was a German businessman and the father of Queen Silvia of Sweden. He was president of the Brazilian subsidiary of the Swedish steel-parts manufacturer Uddeholm Tooling after World War II.
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[edit] Early life
He was born and raised in Heidelberg, Grand Duchy of Baden, German Empire (now Baden-Württemberg, Germany). His parents were Louis Carl Moritz Sommerlath (1860–1930) who was born in Chicago, Illinois in the United States who was from an armigerous family of the German Bourgeoisie, and his wife Erna Sophie Christine Waldau (1864–1944).[1] In the mid 1920s, Walther Sommerlath moved to São Paulo, Brazil where he worked for the steel company Acus Roechling Boulerus do Brasil, a subsidiary in the German steel group Roechling.
[edit] Marriage
On 10 December 1925 he married the Brazilian Alice Soares de Toledo (1906–1997), in Santa Cecília, São Paulo. She was the daughter of Arthur Floriano de Toledo and his wife Elisa de Novaes Soares. The couple had four children:
- Ralf Sommerlath (born 1929)
- Walther Ludwig Sommerlath (born 1934)
- Hans Jörg Sommerlath (1941–2006)
- Silvia Sommerlath (born 23 December 1943), married in 1976 to Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, had issue.
[edit] Life in Germany
In 1938, Walther Sommerlath left Brazil and returned to Heidelberg. In 1939 he moved to the German capital Berlin. Between 1939 and 1943, Sommerlath ran a company in Berlin that was seized from its Jewish owners by the Nazis. The company manufactured arms to be used in the War. In 1943, Sommerlath’s plant was destroyed by allied bombs. Later that year, the Sommerlath family returned to Heidelberg.
After the war, in 1947 the Sommerlath family returned to Brazil, where Walther Sommerlath worked as the president of the Brazilian subsidiary of the Swedish steel-parts manufacturer Uddeholm. The family finally moved back to Heidelberg in 1957. Walter Sommerlath died in Heidelberg in 1990.
[edit] Membership of the Nazi Party
Not very much is publicly known about Sommerlath’s Nazi affiliations. Living as a German citizen in São Paulo, Brazil, Sommerlath joined as an expatriate member the German National Socialist Worker’s Party, NSDAP/AO on December 1, 1934, as member no. 3592030. His brother Paul Sommerlath had joined the Party in 1933. Most Germans in Brazil chose not to be members in the party. The Sommerlath brothers remained members of the Nazi party until the party was banned and dissolved by the allies in 1945.
In 1976, when Silvia was to marry King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, the Swedish daily Expressen interviewed Sommerlath about his Nazi background. In the interview, Sommerlath denied that he had any connections with the Nazi Party, saying that his only part of the War was his work at the arms factory in Berlin.
The Swedish Royal Family has declined to give out any information about the Queen’s father’s role in the war or the name and facts about his company. But on May 16, 2011, Queen Silvia announced that she would probe her father’s alleged Nazi ties in reaction to a Swedish TV news magazine.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Genealogics – Leo van de Pas – Walther Sommerlath.
- ^ „Swedish queen to probe father’s alleged Nazi ties“. The Telegraph. Associated Press. May 16, 2011. Retrieved 16 May 2011.
- Rosvall, Ted, Bernadotteättlingar, Falköping: Rosvall Royal Books, 1992, ISBN 91-630-1299-5
- Ancestry of Queen Silvia of Sweden
- Genealogics – Leo van de Pas – Walther Sommerlath
Wie auch immer es gewesen ist, viele IQs können sich nicht unterm Krönchen regen, wenn Silvia trotz diplomatischer Ausbildung gesteht, schon vor der Untersuchung das Ergebnis gewusst zu haben.