1888
WBvS
was born in Fritzbergenheim An Der Glan, the son of Helmut Heinrich
Hermann and Hannelore Helene Brauseberger Von Schwautz.
1894
At
the very age of 6 WBvS had read the theosophic works of Helena
Petrovna Blavatsky, the pan-Germanic essays of Georg von Schonerer
and the novels of Guido Von List.
1895
WBvS
writes his first essay entitled "The Emergence of Ariosophy",
which became a highly acclaimed book in the "völkisch"
movement.
1897
WBvS
founds the "Schwautz Society" in order to spread his
ideas throughout Austria and Germany. Members of this society
were among others List (who would later found his own List Society)
and Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels. WBvS is to be the first and
only nine year old at the head of an Aryan cult.
1898
WBvS ends the "Schwautz Society", due
to the unability of its members to follow his thoughts, and
founds the one man "Order of the New Willfried". Eventually
WBvS raised enough money from his wealthy parents to buy a castle
on the Danube for use as ONW headquarters.
1900
As the Ariosophic movement becomes more overtly
political, WBvS concentrates on more mystique matters, such
as symbolism. Yet to be founded anti-Semitic and pan-Germanic
cults would later basically copy WBvS's thoughts at that time
in a quite immature way (the "Germanenorden" for example,
which Sebottendorff will change into the famous "Thule
society").
1903
WBvS founds the "Neuer Verlag", with
which he will only publish his very own writings.
1904
WBvS starts his own pamphlet entitled "Das
Neue Blatt", which gets him into personal conflict with
Liebenfels, who from 1905 on puplished his dogmatic and naive
"Ostara".
1906
Tired of throwing pearls to the swine WBvS ends
all publications and retires in his castle, in order to concentrate
on his personal studies. His writings from 1906 to 1914 were
then each limited to one copy (his own one of course!).
1914
In order to escape his obsessing theories, WBvS
volunteers at the outbreak of the first world war. He joins
the Füsilier Regiment 73 at the Champagne Front, where he meets
the young private Ernst Jünger, whom he will teach and
forge in the French trenches.
1916
In heavy fighting around Guillemont WBvS is badly
wounded and evacuated. He was awarded the Pour le Mérite, the
highest German military decoration, for having killed on his
own two entire French regiments.
1917
WBvS leaves the military hospital of Bazancourt
less the right arm and nearly deaf. He initiates Oswald Spengler,
who would then write his "Der Untergang Des Abendlandes"
(1918-22).
1919
An unknown man called Karl Maria Wiligut, a mere
groupie of his first works, knocks at the castle's door of the
still convalescent WBvS. A laborious initiation and deep friendship
begins, which leads him into Nazi circles.
1921
WBvS founds the "Neue Konservativen"
which will later become Ernst Niekisch's "National Bolschewists".
1922
WBvS moves to Wewelsburg to live in the castle's
southern tower with a few German monks.
1923
He abandons the then minuscule Nazi party without
ever having joined them formally. He still works for them though
as a sort of mystician and art-director.
1926
WBvS leaves the Wewelsburg and ends the friendship
with Wiligut, sexually engaged with Himmler to see that his
designs and not Schwautz's are chosen. He retires back to his
Danube castle for further intense studies of what he called
"Punkte und Striche".
1939
WBvS is mobilised with the rank of Hauptmann
and placed in charge of an infantry company of the 23rd Regiment.
From November 1939 until May 1940, his company is stationed
on the Westwall on the Franco-German border.
1941
WBvS is removed from his rank, for having killed
his own regiment and literally bombed the German city of Iffezheim,
causing death to nearly half of the locals. He is moved to a
mental hospital in Brandenburg.
1945
The Red Army "saves" WBvS in april
1945. The Schutzstaffel's doctors have cut both his legs at
knee-level and he is nearly blind and partly paralised. Ernst
Niekisch having told the Russians that he was a high ranked
SS officer, WBvS is moved to the Treblinka camp, then under
Russian occupation (see the Schwautz case).
1949
Russia releases WBvS, less the left arm and right
leg to the hip.
1951
WBvS and his Ugandian secretary Jabulani Mugambi
Mwaka found the "Neurer Verlag" again to publish his
own writings, which take a distinctly essayistic turn in the
1950s.
1959
After the release of the novel "Reich'n'Roll"
WBvS is forbidden from publishing in the whole of Europe.
1960
WBvS moves with Mwaka to Nkhangda-Nyeweleni,
a tiny village in Uganda.
1988
WBvS's 100th birthday is celebrated as well as
his homosexual marriage to Mwaka.
1997
WBvS and Mwaka join the French ONH cult.