Hans Sellschopp

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Hans Sellschopp (completely Hans Karl / Carl Wilhelm Max Heinrich Sellschopp ; born April 16, 1891 in Schwerin ; † August 5, 1978 in Bottighofen ) was a German businessman and National Socialist cultural functionary who, after the Second World War, worked as a concert broker for reconciliation between Germany and made it to the UK .

Life

Origin and education

Sellschopp was a son of the businessman Paul Karl Friedrich Martin Sellschop (1857–1938) and his wife Marie, b. Bühring (1868–1945), a daughter of the Schwerin court pianist Theodor Bühring. The Schwerin wine merchant consul Carl Bühring, owner of the Uhle wine house since 1891 , was his uncle.

He grew up in Lübeck and attended the Oberrealschule zum Dom . After taking private musical lessons, he first studied at the Academy for Tonkunst in Munich and then law for three semesters. As a merchant, he became a partner in his father's wine shop Engelhardt und Sons in Lübeck. The company was based in two representative town houses in Schmiedestrasse 5–7 in Lübeck's old town . Both houses were destroyed in the air raid on Lübeck in 1942 .

  • Schmiedestrasse No. 5 and 7, Engelhardt und Sons wine shop

  • No. 7 with bunch of grapes as a nose shield above the portal

He participated in the First World War as a volunteer . He was released as a lieutenant in 1914 and first lieutenant in 1920.

Sellschopp was a long-time member and secretary of the Verein der Musikfreunde . The association maintained the Lübeck Symphony Orchestra until 1921 and was the employer of its conductors, including Hermann Abendroth (1905–1911) and Wilhelm Furtwängler (1911–1915). Sellschopp had a long friendship, especially with Furtwängler, which apparently went back to Furtwängler's time in Lübeck.

family

He was married to Ingeborg, born in 1931. Cuwie (1908–2002), a daughter of the Lübeck timber merchant Johannes Ludwig Cuwie (1878–1963) and his wife Anna Johanna Caroline, b. Evers (1885-1959). A son of the couple is the German insurance manager and former board member of the Munich reinsurance company Hans-Dieter Sellschopp (born January 18, 1934).

time of the nationalsocialism

After he had joined the NSDAP on December 1, 1931 , in the Weimar Republic , in 1932 he became head of the Lübeck branch of the Volkischer Kampfbund for German culture . He became a member of the SS and reached the rank of SS-Sturmbannführer in it in 1941 .

As Lübeck chairman of the Combat League for German Culture , he actively worked in the spring of 1933 to bring the society into line for the promotion of charitable activities . On the proposal of the Senate, the advisory meeting on July 31, 1933 elected him by a narrow majority as director of the company and granted him expanded powers according to the Führer principle ; he held this office until 1937. His successor, the district leader Otto Clausen , appointed him a member of the board of directors, which he remained until 1945. When in 1934 the office of municipal music officer for Lübeck was created, it was transferred to Sellschopp.

Organigram of the Reichsmusikkammer 1934 with Hans Sellschopp as head of Department C, Office for Concert Music and of the professional association CI Reich Association for Concert Music .

Since July 1933 he was a member of the committee for program advice , which was also called the Furtwängler committee after its chairman . The committee was set up by the Prussian Ministry of Culture and recognized by the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda for the Reich territory; his task was to ensure that German music and German artists would be preferred in concerts . The aim of the consultation was actually control and harmonization . In April 1934 this commission was taken over by the Reichsmusikkammer . Richard Strauss as its president confirmed him with Furtwängler and Sellschopp as well as Wilhelm Backhaus , Georg Kulenkampff , Siegmund von Hausegger and Hugo Rasch as members. Also in the spring of 1934 he was briefly under discussion as a candidate for the office of commercial director of the Berlin Philharmonic .

In December 1934, Sellschopp became leader of the Reich Association for the Concert Industry and head of the Concert Department in the Reich Music Chamber . He thus controlled all about 700 corporations, associations, companies and people who were active in the field of concerts, including mediation. His area of ​​responsibility included the foreign department, which was only brought up as a subordinate body of the Reich Music Chamber for camouflage reasons, but had been secretly a foreign music-political institution of the Propaganda Ministry since its foundation.

In 1935 Sellschopp was one of the organizers of the Nordic Music Festival of the Nordic Society in Lübeck. At the opening concert on June 26, 1935 in the presence of Alfred Rosenberg , Wilhelm Furtwängler conducted the Berliner Philharmoniker with the Seventh Symphony by Jean Sibelius . With the resignations of Furtwängler and Strauss, his influence in the Reich Chamber of Music declined. From 1936 he was only head of student council I - organizer - of the Reich student council for concerts , while the higher office for concerts was now headed by Frankfurt mayor Friedrich Krebs , as well as Dept. VIII (abroad) of the Reich Chamber of Music. In 1937/38 the foreign office was openly assigned to the Reich Propaganda Ministry, was given the legal form of a registered association , and Sellschopp has since been subordinate to General Manager Heinz Drewes (1903–1980), the head of the music department in the Propaganda Ministry, which led to disputes. In 1938 he organized the tour of the Berlin Philharmonic to fascist Italy. With the outbreak of war, the scope of his office was increasingly limited to countries allied with the German Reich and areas occupied by it. In 1941 the foreign department had a staff of nine. According to an audit report by the ministry in 1943, it performed “generous and valuable cultural work with relatively little effort”. According to Sellschopp's own account, however, there was a conflict with the Reich Propaganda Ministry, which ended with his dismissal without notice.

post war period

After the end of the Second World War, Sellschopp lived in Switzerland and in Freiburg im Breisgau . Accordingly, its denazification was carried out by the southern Baden tribunal . He now worked as a freelance concert broker and in 1949 organized a concert tour of the Zurich Chamber Orchestra to Stuttgart and Tübingen. His special commitment was the concerts in the Ottobeuren monastery . The chronicle of the 60th anniversary of the Ottobeurer concerts described it as “a stroke of luck to be able to implement the guiding principle of 'music connects the peoples' with this man”. In gratitude for his services to the Ottobeuren concerts, the Ottobeuren market awarded him honorary citizenship on February 9, 1971 .

In 1962 he came to Coventry for the first time , where he took part in a reconciliation service in Coventry Cathedral and in a concert conducted by Eugen Jochum . Sellschopp then developed a vision of the spirit of Coventry , which should serve the reconciliation between Great Britain and Germany. He managed to organize a performance of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem under the direction of the composer in Ottobeuren for the 1200th anniversary of Ottobeuren . At the celebration on 5./6. September 1964 in the presence of Federal President Heinrich Lübke and the Duchess of Kent , Provost Williams presented a cross of nails from Coventry to the abbey. The Franco-German encounter in Ottobeuren followed in 1967 , and in 1970 he organized the first European encounter . In 1973 Sellschopp belonged to the first group with Franz Freiherr von Hammerstein-Equord , Abbot Vitalis Maier and others to be honored as Companions of the Order of the Cross of Nails . For the cathedral he was considered God's Music Ambassador for International Reconciliation . In June 1977 he opened the Center for Social and International Reconciliation (CSIR) at Coventry Cathedral as an old friend .

Awards

literature

  • Elisabeth Spies-Hankammer: Lübeck wine trade: studies of cultural and economic history , Senate of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, Office for Culture, 1985
  • Bernd Dohrendorf: The Influence of National Socialism on the Lübeck Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities In: Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities (Ed.): 200 years of permanence and change in bourgeois community , Schmidt-Römhild , Lübeck 1988, pp. 95–117
  • Hans Sellschopp 1891-1978. In: Reinald Scheule: 60 years Ottobeurer concerts and encounters. Edited by Touristikamt Kur und Kultur, Ottobeuren 2009, pp. 105–107 (Sellschopp's self-description on p. 106f)
  • Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 (= The time of National Socialism. Vol. 17153). Completely revised edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-17153-8 , p. 509.
  • Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933-1945 , CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, pp. 6560-6561
  • Jörg Fligge : Lübeck schools in the "Third Reich": a study on the education system in the Nazi era in the context of developments in the Reich. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2014 ISBN 978-3-7950-5214-0 , esp.p. 984
  • Rainer Sieb: Access to the music. To set up organizational structures for music work in the divisions of the party. Dissertation Osnabrück 2007, especially p. 137 ff. ( Digitized version )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ So the line-up ; after 60 years Ottobeurer concerts and encounters (lit.), p. 106, he died in Freiburg im Breisgau
  2. ↑ standard sequence Sellschopp ( Memento of 6 October 2014 Internet Archive ), accessed on September 16, 2014
  3. ↑ Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 1555 .
  4. ^ Entry in the Lübeck telephone directory in 1928; Bast
  5. ^ Furtwängler's old Lübeck friend Sellschopp , Irina Lucke-Kaminiarz: Hermann Abendroth - A musician in the interplay of contemporary history. Weimarer Taschenbuch Verlag, Weimar 2007, ISBN 978-3-937939-65-0 , p. 63
  6. ↑ Who is who? 32: 1278 (1993)
  7. ↑ Membership number 853.378
  8. ^ A b Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , p. 6560
  9. ↑ Membership number 340.763
  10. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 542.
  11. ↑ See Dohrendorf (Lit.), p. 98
  12. ↑ See Dohrendorf (Lit.), p. 102
  13. ↑ See Andrea Therese Thelen-Frölich: The concert institution between 1918 and 1945 using the example of the city of Düsseldorf: the concert hall as a political issue. (Contributions to Rhenish Music History 160) Merseburger 2000 ISBN 978-3-87537-290-8 , pp. 229-231
  14. ↑ Misha Aster: "The Reich Orchestra": the Berlin Philharmonic and National Socialism. Berlin: Siedler 2007 ISBN 978-3-88680-876-2 , p. 62
  15. ^ Karl Friedrich Schrieber: The Reich Chamber of Culture: Organization and goals of German cultural policy. Berlin: Junker and Dünnhaupt, 1934, p. 58
  16. ↑ Rainer Sieb: The access of the NSDAP to the music: to the establishment of organizational structures for the music work in the branches of the party. Osnabrück, Univ., Diss., 2007 full text , p. 137
  17. ↑ At the Nordic Music Festival: From left to right: State Councilor Dr. hc Wilhelm Furtwängler, Reichsleiter Alfred Rosenberg, head of the foreign department of the Reichsmusikkammer Hans Sellschopp (standing), Professor Hermann Abendroth, President of the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic League. Structure 15 (1949), No. 3 (January 21, 1949), p. 12, column a
  18. ↑ See holdings in the Federal Archives
  19. ↑ See the example with Nina Okrassa: Peter Raabe. Conductor, music writer and President of the Reich Chamber of Music (1872–1945). Böhlau Verlag, Weimar 2004 ISBN 3-412-09304-1 , p. 316
  20. ↑ Andrea Hoffend: Between culture axis and culture struggle: the relations between "Third Reich" and fascist Italy in the areas of media, art, science and racial issues. (Italy in the past and present 10) Frankfurt etc: P. Lang 1998 ISBN 978-3-631-32659-6 , p. 246
  21. ↑ Rainer Sieb: The access of the NSDAP to the music: to the establishment of organizational structures for the music work in the branches of the party. Osnabrück, Univ., Diss., 2007 full text , p. 141
  22. ↑ 60 Years Ottobeurer Concerts and Encounters (lit.), p. 107; This is not otherwise proven in the literature.
  23. ↑ Files in the Freiburg State Archives
  24. ↑ 60 Years Ottobeurer Concerts and Encounters (lit.), p. 105
  25. ↑ 60 Years Ottobeurer Concerts and Encounters (lit.), p. 105
  26. ↑ 60 Years Ottobeurer Concerts and Encounters (lit.), p. 106
  27. ↑ Helmut Gröpler: The angels held their breath. The Coventry Cross of Nails: History and Stories. Berlin: Wichern 1992 ISBN 3-88981-054-3 , p. 95
  28. ^ The Coventry Cathedral Network September 1973, p. 7
  29. ^ The Coventry Cathedral Network September 1973, p. 7
  30. ^ Kenyon Wright: Coventry - Cathedral of Peace: Healing the Wounds of History in International Reconciliation. Bloomington: AuthorHouse 2012 ISBN 978-1-4685-8580-3 , p. 61; See also “We should form a community of nails” - Canon Kenyon Wright on the beginnings of the community of nails ( memento of October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 2, 2014
  31. ↑ According to the company's own information, see 60 Years Ottobeurer Concerts and Encounters (lit.), p. 107
personal data
SURNAME Sellschopp, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sellschopp, Hans Karl Wilhelm Max Heinrich (full name); Sellschopp, Hans Carl Wilhelm Max Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman and National Socialist cultural functionary
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH 5th August 1978
Place of death Bottigh furnace