Hans Paasche
Hans Paasche( 3 April 1881, Rostock – 21 May 1920, Waldfrieden, Neumark) was a German politician and pacifist.
He was the son of the Reichstag vice president Hermann Paasche and Lisi Paasche, and was married to Gabriele( Ellen) Witting.
Hans( Johannes) Albert Ferdinand Paasche studied at the Joachimsthalsches Gymnasium in Berlin.
He became a sea cadet in 1899.
An Imperial Navy officer and combative pacifist, Hans Paasche was also a big game hunter and nature conservationist, explorer of Africa and life reformer, alcohol abstainer and vegetarian, author and revolutionary.
His brief but active life was marked by attempts to change the Prussian" Deutschland- über- alles" military mindset.
His first experience with war was at the German African military campaign in the German East Africa colonies, where he learned first hand the horror and futility of war.
In 1905, Paasche became commander in chief in the Rufiji-region, now southern Tanzania.
His command was decisive, but he also took pains to reach a swift pacification.
Refugees and defeated Africans found medical help and shelter at his headquarters at Mtanza.
He was decorated with the Order of the Crown with Swords, but was removed from command because of his independent peace negotiations.
His experiences during the uprising and his guilty feelings over his actions changed his life forever.
After his return to Germany, in 1908 he married Ellen Witting, daughter of Richard Witting, director of the Nationalbank für Deutschland and former Lord Mayor of Posen( Poznań).
His honeymoon trip brought him back to Africa, where he undertook a major expedition with his wife Ellen, who became the first European woman to reach the source of the Nile and the first to ascend Kilimanjaro, as well as the recently erupted volcano Nyiragongo.
Paasche published his first book:" Im Morgenlicht In the Morning Light"), which contained impressions of war and of hunting in Africa, but also valuable ethnographical materials.
Paasche's fictional series of letters" Lukanga Mukara" offer a look at Germany through the eyes of an educated African and mock the decadence of the early pre-World War I Germany.
His satirical parody of German lifestyles and attitudes gained immediate popularity.
Hans Paasche became one of the most charismatic public figures of the German Empire, well known for openly advocating his provocative ideas.
Still in uniform but not on active duty, he undertook an assault on the many wrongs that he saw in the German society and its military obsessions.
This brought him many avid listeners and readers, especially among the young.
It also brought him vilification, including that of his own father, and the dangerous attention of military prosecutors.
A high treason prosecution was conducted against him by Abteilung IIIb, the intelligence service of the General Staff led by colonel Walter Nicolai.
The trial ended in 1918 with a negotiated admission into a mental health institution.
He was released at the end of 1918, and continued his work as a radical journalist.
He served a brief term in the Berlin Workers' and Soldiers' Council and tried in vain to organize a national court.
Eventually he was forced out by right- wing social democrats.
After the sudden death of his wife Ellen at twenty nine, he retreated to his estate at Waldfrieden to take care of his four young children, Jochen, Nils, Helga and Ivan.
Nevertheless, he still took part in national and international campaigns for peace, understanding among nations, and a League of Nations.
His estate Waldfrieden became a shelter for hunted leftist insurgents.
His assassination was ultimately decreed by the ultra-nationalist death squad Organisation Consul.
In 1920, at the age of 39, he was shot by a commando of sixty soldiers from District Command III while supposedly trying to escape.
The soldiers had mounted the operation under an anonymous call with the pretense of finding a hidden weapons cache, which was never found.
Few were prosecuted and none were convicted.
In 1985, Helga Paasche removed the tombstone of her father from Waldfrieden to the archives of the German Youth Movement on Ludwigstein Castle, where it is part of a permanent Hans- Paasche- exhibition.
His life has been extensively documented by his daughter, Helga Paasche, the author Werner Lange and his grandson Dr. Gottfried Paasche( for many years a professor of sociology at Canada's York University), among others.
Hans Paasche's great- granddaughter, Sarah Paasche- Orlow, is a Conservative Rabbi.
Richard Witting
Richard Witting( born: Witkowski; 19 October 1856, Berlin – 22 December 1923, Berlin) was a Prussian politician and financier.
He was mayor of Poznań in 1891 – 1902.
From 1902 to 1910 he was director of Nationalbank für Deutschland( National Bank for Germany).
Witting was a brother of Maximilian Harden and father- in- law of Hans Paasche.
Witting is considered one of the major authors(" fathers") of the democratic Weimar Constitution, which he and Hugo Preuß worked out in first drafts.
He was also a convert to Lutheran Protestantism from Judaism, a common practice of this epoch.
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He has also done significant voice acting.
He was born and brought up in Edinburgh, attending Broughton High School, Edinburgh and trained in Glasgow's Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.
He married the Spanish actress Assumpta Serna in 1993.
They live in Los Angeles and Europe, and jointly run an acting workshop.
In 1994, he provided the voice for Cletus Cassidy, AKA “ Carnage ” in “ Spider- Man: The Animated Series ”
In 2008, Cleverdon starred in the film" Ecstasy" based on" The Undefeated" from Irvine Welsh's best- selling novel.
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Scott Cleverdon( born 31 July 1969) is a Scottish actor best known as the angel Pyriel in the film.
He has also done significant voice acting.
He was born and brought up in Edinburgh, attending Broughton High School, Edinburgh and trained in Glasgow's Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.
He married the Spanish actress Assumpta Serna in 1993.
They live in Los Angeles and Europe, and jointly run an acting workshop.
In 1994, he provided the voice for Cletus Cassidy, AKA “ Carnage ” in “ Spider- Man: The Animated Series ”
In 2008, Cleverdon starred in the film" Ecstasy" based on" The Undefeated" from Irvine Welsh's best- selling novel.
From 2011, he played Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba in the TV series," Borgia", which also starred his wife, actress Assumpta Serna, whom he met in 1993 while filming" Sharpe".

Question: Do Assumpta Serna and Hans Paasche share the same nationality?
Answer: no