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Lage Fabian Wilhelm Staël von Holstein (born on April 15, 1886,
deceased in 1946) was a descendant of
the Swedish branch of the aristocrat family Staël von Holstein. His
father, Carl Jakob Joakim Staël von Holstein (1843-1890) was assessor.
Lage Fabian Wilhelm Staël von Holstein was
married more than once. On January 2, 1914, he married in Amsterdam with
the 25 year old Marie Ulrike Oelsner. On October 29, 1914, this marriage ended in a
divorce. On
March 27, 1919, he got married with Anna Gurli Gunhild Sonja Edlund,
born on September 22, 1891. On September 21, 1919, a daughter was born:
Rosa Sonja Eleonora.[1]
The most early publication by Staël von Holstein which is mentioned in
the online-catalogue of the Royal Swedish Library
is Morgunjubel, a volume of verses (Stockholm, 1906). In
1908, his thesis Etude sur le roman d'Athis et Prophilias was
published in Stockholm. His dissertation was published in Uppsala in 1909 and was
entitled Le
roman d'Athis et Prophilias. Etude litteraire sur ses deux versions.
From 1911, Stäel von Holstein wrote about Swedish and international
military, political and social matters. Some of the publications he
wrote in this time, were translated into French and German.
The titles of Staël von Holstein's publications, written in the '30's,
show that he joined national-socialism.
In 1939-1940, Åström publishers in Stockholm published the four-volume
series Vår
neutralitet. In 1939, the first volume of this series was translated
into German. In 1940, this volume was translated into Dutch and Spanish.
The Dutch title: Kan Engeland den oorlog winnen? De Zeeoorlog en de
Neutralen. This brochure was published by W.J. Ort in The Hague; its
circulation number was 5.000 copies. Staël von Holstein himself had
contacted Arie Meijer Schwencke, owner/director of the VGB (Vereenigde
Grafische Bedrijven, a printer's company), with the request if
Meijer Schwencke could have his brochure translated into Dutch and
spread it. The VGB, seated in The Hague, produced pro-German
propaganda brochures, which were published under the banner of Ort.
Staël von Holstein was the owner of a publishing company, the Neutrala
Institutets förlag. This company was all but neutral, its catalogue
contained national-socialist books and brochures which Staël von
Holstein either had written by himself or translated into Swedish.[2]
Staël von Holstein's activities were not limited to the writing of
brochures. On page 1 of the evening edition of the Hague daily Het
Vaderland was announced that as part of the winter program of the Nordische
Gesellschaft in Berlin,Baron Staël von Holstein, the Swedish expert
on international law, would give a lecture about a juridical theme.
Nostradamus
In 1940, Stockholms bokindustri AB
printed two national-socialist brochures on Nostradamus: Nostradamus spådomar om kriget,
intended for Sweden, and What will
happen in the near future? For an answer we must turn to "Les
vrayes centuries et propheties de Maistre Michel Nostradamus" - The
prophecies of the ancient French astrologer Michel Nostradamus and the
present war - by Norab (cover title: Nostradamus
Prophecies about the War), which, according to the American Century-scholar Edgar Leoni, was spread in the USA.[3]
According to the Svensk Bok-Katalog
1936-1940, the name Norab, a common Swedish family name, was a
pseudonym of Staël von Holstein.[4]
Like the brochure Hoe zal deze oorlog eindigen?, these two
brochures are translations cq adaptations of the German source text of a
brochure about Nostradamus, compiled in 1939-1940 by order of dr. Paul
Joseph Goebbels, the minister of Propaganda
in Nazi-Germany. Therefore, Staël von Holstein is not the author of Nostradamus spådomar om kriget and What will
happen in the near future?..., but the translator, who added
texts in order to strenghten the impact of this brochure in
psychological warfare.
Most likely, Nostradamus spådomar om kriget was published by the
Neutrala Institutets Förlag in Stockholm. In English, this title reads Nostradamus
prophecies about the war, which is the cover title of What will
happen in the near future?.
Norab-1940a |
Norab-1940b |
De Meern, the
Netherlands, November 20, 2006
T.W.M.
van Berkel
updated on
October 6, 2009
Notes
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Th. Baron Staël von
Holstein to Van Berkel, April 17 and 23, 2007. See also: http://runeberg.org/adelskal/1923/1153.html.
[text]
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P. Björk (www.trismegistus.se)
to Van Berkel, April 15, 2007. [text]
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Leoni, p.99. [text]
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Staël von Holstein also
used the pseudonyms Camillus, Elles Rit, Lage Staël von Holstein
and L. de Staël-Holstein.
[text]
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