Hans Ormund Bringolf

Hans Ormund Bringolf ( born January 11, 1876 in Baden -Baden, † March 4, 1951 in Hallau ) was a Swiss adventurer.

Life

Bringolf came as the son of Swiss colonel of cavalry and later entrepreneur Johann Bringolf and his Russian wife Katherina born Starikoff to the world. After childhood and the first school in Schaffhausen he makes the final examination in Neuchâtel. He then studied from the summer of 1894, first in Heidelberg and then in Innsbruck, Vienna, Rome and Berlin, until he finally 1899 in Greifswald Dr. iur. doctorate.

The study he interrupted several times for military service and military exercises in the Swiss Army. He received from his comrades nicknamed Lieutenant B. blessed because he was declared dead multiple times during maneuvers. After studying Bringolf was until 1904 in the Swiss diplomatic service, but it was dismissed when he forged checks for debt. Because of this incident concluded his students and compound from the Heidelberger time, the Corps Guestphalia Heidelberg, from. To avoid prison, he fled from Switzerland to the U.S. and then commanded 1906-1908 a U.S. police contingent of troops in the Philippines. Later Bringolf was imprisoned for fraud in Lima (Peru ). After returning to Europe, he was in Heidelberg in hochstaplerischer way as Baron von Tscharner and age Lord of the Corps Guestphalia and was sentenced to a prison term, which he served in Mannheim. After the beginning of World War II, he became an officer in the French army and attained due to special foolhardiness on the Serbian front the nickname Lion of Manastir. He was inducted into the Legion of Honor in 1923. Shortly after he was unmasked as a fraud again. In Bürgerheim Hallau he wrote the "life of the Roman lieutenant Bringolf blessed " (1927 ).

Works

  • International agreements as a source of intervention in international complications. Greifswald (dissertation), 1899.
  • The novel Life of Lieutenant Bringolf saved. Heidelberg 1927. 2nd edition Zurich 1928.
  • I have no regrets. Translated from the German and with a foreword by Blaise Cendrars. New York 1932.
  • A Swiss adventurer in foreign service. Solothurn 1942. Reprint Rorschach 1950.
  • Un Aventurier suisse sous les drapeaux de l' étranger. L' Abbaye du Livre, Lausanne 1943. Translation of Jean Buhler.
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