Fyodor Viktorovich Vinberg
Fyodor Viktorovich Vinberg (Russian: Фёдор Викторович Винберг; German: Fjodor Wiktorowitsch Winberg; 27 June 1868 - 14 February 1927) was a Russian officer and journalist. Vinberg was a loyal Russian monarchist with an aristocratic contempt for the masses. He called for "Aryan peoples" to unite against the "Jewish plan for world domination". Walter Laqueur describes his ideas as "a half-way house between the old Black Hundred and National Socialism". Vinberg distinguished two kinds of anti-semitism: the "higher", concerned with restrictive laws against the Jews, and the "lower", the brutal and homicidal behavior of the lower classes, which was terrible but essential if the Jewish menace, recently responsible for communist revolution, is finally to be laid to rest. Their task would be the complete annihilation of the Jews.
Biography
Born in Kiev in the family of Wiktor Fjodorowitsch Vinberg, a general of the cavalry of Baltic German descent, and his wife Olga, née Welz, Vinberg attended high school in Kiev and thew Imperial Alexander Lyceum. In years 1891 to 1892, he worked in the ministry of internal affairs.
In 1893, he embarked on an officer's career, and two years later, with the rank of cornet, he joined the Uhlan Life Guards Regiment of Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna. During the Russian Revolution of 1905, he participated in punitive expeditions in the Baltic States. Serving in the cavalry, he rose to the rank of colonel in 1911. Serving in the Imperial Russian cavalry, he rose to the rank of colonel (polkovnik) in 1911.
In the years before World War I, he became involved in extreme right-wing politics, joining Russian Assembly, Union of Archangel Michael and writing for right-wing publications. During WWI, he commanded 2nd Baltic Cavalry Regiment. He became personally acquainted with the German Tsarina Aleksandra for whom he developed a strong emotional attachment. After the February Revolution, he left the army.
After the October Revolution, he was imprisoned by Bolsheviks for his role in alleged plot to overthrow the Russian provisional government. He pleaded not guilty and pointed out to the absurdity of such charges by Bolsheviks, who have overthrown provisional government themselves. He was sentenced to one year imprisonment by the revolutionary tribunal, but released in early 1918. In prison he kept notes, which he published later.
In 1919, he found his way to Berlin, where he published short-lived right-wing newspaper Prizyv ("The Call") and Luch Sveta ("A Ray of Light") magazine. He was a friend and colleague of Piotr Shabelsky-Bork, with whom he collaborated. In his magazine he republished Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
In the wake of the German Kapp Putsch of March 1920, Vinberg moved from Berlin to Munich. In 1922, he emigrated to France, where he died in 1927.
Publications
- Asher Hirsch Ginsberg.
- Taĭnyĭ vozhdʹ īudeĭskīĭ.: Perevod s frantsuzskago
- [of Miss L. Fry by Th. Vinberg, being an attempt to prove
- the "Protokoly Sīonskikh Mudret︠s︡ov"
- published in a work by S. A. Nilus
- to be a work by U. Ginzberg].
- by Leslie Fry; Thedor Viktorovich Vinberg Berlin, 1922
- OCLC: 84780936
- Krestny Put (Via Dolorosa), 1921
Sources
- L'Apocalypse de notre temps; les dessous de la propagande allemande d'après des documents inédits by Henri Rollin (Paris: Gallimard, 1939) pp. 153 seq.
- Russia and Germany, A Century of Conflict by Walter Laqueur (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1965) pp. 109 seq.
- Warrant for Genocide by Norman Cohn (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1967) pp. 90, 139-140, 155-156, 184.
