Egon Hanfstaengl

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'''Egon Ludwig Sedgwick Hanfstaengl''' (;* [[February 3]] [[1921]] in [[New York City]] <ref>Peter Conradi, Hitler's Piano Player, 2006, Seite 34</ref>; † [[March 21]] [[2007]] in the [[USA]]) was a German art publisher and also [[Adolf Hitler|Adolf Hitler‘s]] godchild. He was the son of [[Ernst Hanfstaengl]].

== Life ==

Egon Hanfstaengl was born on February 3 1921 in New York City as the son of Ernst Hanfstaengl and Helene Hanfstaengl, neé Niemeyer. Hitler became his godfather. He had a sister, Hertha, who died at the age of 5. He received his school education in England and Germany, where he also joined the [[Hitler Youth|Hitler Youth (HJ)]].

He went to the United States to study and was also an American citizen from birth on. As the son of a prominent former top official of the [[NSDAP]], about whom the American press reported regularly, Hanfstaengl also came into the focus of the reporting. The [[New York Times]] announced the admission of the 18-year-old to [[Harvard University]]<ref>''Hitler Ex-Aide's Son in Harvard.'' In: ''New York Times'', 23. September 1939.</ref>. The newspaper also reported that he volunteered for the [[United States Army Air Corps]] in early [[1941]]<ref>''Hanfstaengl Jr. In Army; Harvard Man, Son of Ex-Nazi, Enlists in American Forces.'' In: ''New York Times, '' 30. Januar 1941.</ref><ref>[[Carlos Widmann]], [https://ift.tt/2vUkpQG Play it again, Putzi]. ''Der Spiegel'', 10/1999.</ref>. The news about Hanfstaengl's entry into the [[US Army]] also received attention from [[Minister of Propaganda]] [[Joseph Goebbels]], he made a corresponding entry in his diary<ref>''Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels.'' Hrsg. Elke Fröhlich. T. I, Bd. 9. München 1998, S. 119.</ref>.

Journalist [[John Franklin Carter]], who, as a consultant to [[US President]] [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], had psychological assessments prepared of some Nazi leaders, also asked Hanfstaengl's father and his son. When Hanfstaengl started working on a book about the HJ, Roosevelt, who knew his father Ernst Hanfstaengl from studying in Harvard, spontaneously dictated several paragraphs for a foreword, according to the Carters report<ref>Joseph E. Persico: ''Roosevelt's Secret War. FDR and World War II Espionage.'' New York 2002, S. 232.</ref>. According to American records, Hanfstaengl offered Roosevelt to travel to Hitler in the [[Berghof (residence)|Berghof]] near [[Berchtesgaden]] in [[1943]] to attack him, but the White House ignored this suggestion<ref>Joseph E. Persico: ''Roosevelt's Secret War. FDR and World War II Espionage.'' New York 2002, S. 332.</ref>.

After [[World War II]], Hanfstaengl was a lecturer in European and American history at [[Brooklyn College]] in New York. From [[1958]] until its dissolution in [[1980]], he was managing director of the art and publishing house Franz Hanfstaengl in [[Munich]]. As the godchild of Adolf Hitler, he appeared in several [[Adolf Hitler in popular culture|documentaries about Hitler]].

== Literature ==

* [[Ulrich Chaussy]]: ''Zweimal Amerika und zurück nach Bayern: das bewegte Leben des Egon Hanfstaengl.'' Bayerischer Rundfunk, 2000.

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