Germany in August 1916. Two years later, he received a new as-
signment in the Baltic countries as head of the army press bureau,
although his attempts to stem the increasing Bolshevik presence
proved futile and he was taken prisoner and condemned to death.
Following the intervention of the German government, Scheub-
ner-Richter escaped to Berlin and established the news agency Der
Aufbau. Had the Kapp Putsch succeeded in 1920, he would have
likely headed the new government’s secret service; its failure re-
sulted instead in his return to Munich and first encounter with the
fledging Nazi Party. A mutual attraction developed between him and
Adolf Hitler, who came to benefit both financially and politically
from Scheubner-Richter’s upper-class connections, especially with
other right-wing Russian émigrés. With his deep antipathy toward
Bolshevism, he emerged as a prolific writer on the Eastern policy
of the new party as well as the business manager of the Deutscher
Kampfbund, an amalgam of leading extreme right-wing paramilitary
organizations in the city. On 9 November 1923, Scheubner-Richter
was fatally wounded during the Beer Hall Putsch that he had helped
orchestrate (had the bullet been fired a foot to the right, Hitler might
have been killed instead). Whereas the first part of Mein Kampf was
dedicated to all 16 persons lost to the movement during the skirmish
with the Bavarian police, it was Scheubner-Richter whom Hitler
considered the only “irreplaceable” figure.SCHEVITZ, JEFFREY (1941– ). An American sociologist and peace
activist accused of spying for the Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung
(HVA), Jeffrey Schevitz arrived in West Berlin in 1976. Working as
a researcher at the Free University and then at the Nuclear Research
Center in Karlsruhe, he relayed large quantities of documents and
information on a variety of topics to the HVA until 1990. Schevitz
was arrested by German police in 1994. In his defense, he disclosed
a covert relationship with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency,
claiming he had been engaged to spy on both Germanys, although
his presumed case officer and only corroborating witness, Shepard
Stone of the Aspen Institute, had already died. On 11 November
1995, a Stuttgart court gave Schevitz an 18-month suspended
sentence. His wife, Beatrice Altman, charged as an accomplice,
received a fine of $7,000.
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