Kurt Pastenaci

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Kurt Pastenaci

Kurt Pastenaci (born September 28, 1894 in Gilge , Labiau district in East Prussia , † February 8, 1961 in Berlin ) was a German journalist, writer and historian .

Life

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Kurt Pastenaci was born as the son of the pastor and later senior councilor Theodor Pastenaci in Gilge, East Prussia (near Labiau).

First World War

In August 1914, he volunteered as a volunteer in the First World War , in which he participated until December 1918. From 1916 he was Lieutenant d. R. with the East Prussian Pioneer Battalion No. 1 in Königsberg, from August 1919 to March 1920 in the East Prussian border guard as a temporary volunteer.

Weimar Republic

At the University of Königsberg he studied philosophy , history and (Germanic, ancient Assyrian, Indian) prehistory . In 1921 he married the pastor's daughter Gertrud Henkys (1898–1981), with whom he had two sons.

From 1921 he was a freemason in the lodge to the three crowns in Königsberg. In 1924 he joined the Young German Order . As a result of financial difficulties, he turned to journalism . From 1921 he was editor of the Königsberger Anzeiger and from 1922 to 1925 editor of the Königsberger Allgemeine Zeitung ( features and politics). In 1925 Artur Mahraun appointed him editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper Der Jungdeutsche in Berlin.

"Third Reich"

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in 1933, both the Young German Order and its daily newspaper disbanded in June 1933 against the backdrop of the impending ban. Kurt Pastenaci was questioned by the Secret State Police in connection with the publication Von der Freiheit eines Deutschen Menschen . In connection with the production and distribution of a political pamphlet directed against Hitler and the NSDAP by members of the Young German Order, another interrogation and arrest by the Secret State Police took place in 1936 in the notorious cellar on Prinz-Albrecht-Straße , combined with the usual house searches. A few weeks after his release from prison, his third arrest came after he warned a friend who was wanted by the Gestapo. Between 1936 and 1939 Kurt Pastenaci hid or supported former members of the Young German Order who were wanted as opponents of the party and were later arrested, including Paul Müller, who was then imprisoned in Tegel for six years , and Fritz Gehrmann, who later perished near Stalingrad .

Pastenaci earned his living as a freelance writer . He wrote a number of books for young people about prehistoric excavations (published by Thienemann Verlag, Stuttgart) and historical novels, some of which were falsified or provided with “suitable” forewords - were published by Nazi publishers. His novel The Duke and the Kings , which dealt with the Saxon Wars of Charlemagne and was published again and again until 1945, was revised to such an extent that the impression arose that Pastenaci was close to the SS and their image of Teutons and ideologically the fight against the Catholic Church supported. The two novels The Duke and the Kings and Duke Bojo were described by the Reichsschrifttumskammer , which was subject to the personal instructions of Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels , as particularly valuable works for German youth and recommended for use in schools and for use at Hitler Youth training events. Pastenaci wrote a. a. for the völkisch magazine Germanien , which was published by the SS organization Ahnenerbe , on Germanic prehistory. Regarded as "politically unreliable" and "unworthy of defense", he received mostly no fee for his work, insofar as this was only to be paid after the " final victory ".

From September 1939 Pastenaci was an employee and editor at the Correspondence Service from Germany (DaD), which served foreign newspapers. Its director was privy councilor Hermann Katzenberger . At DaD, Pastenaci also worked closely with Ernst Lemmer .

In 1944, Pastenaci was drafted as a Volkssturm man and was taken prisoner by the Soviets in the battle for Berlin, from which he was released in November 1945 due to illness.

After 1945

In addition to his other writing activities, he began to write world history. In 1949 two finished manuscript volumes were burned because during the Berlin blockade a plane from the Berlin Airlift crashed into his apartment and destroyed a considerable part of his files and the library. From the remains of the associated card index, Pastenaci wrote the book Diagnosis of Our Time , published by Duncker & Humblot in Berlin .

In the Soviet occupation zone , the following Pastenacis writings were placed on the list of literature to be sorted out: On the dying of the parties (Tannenberg-Verlag, Königsberg 1924), On right-wing political action (Volker-Verlag, Leipzig 1926), On the freedom of a German man (Young German Verlag, Berlin 1933), Caesar or Herzog? (Neighborhood publishing house, Berlin 1935), Eiserne Zeit - Germanen march (Young Generation, Berlin 1935), The Golden Age of the Teutons (Young Generation, Berlin 1935), The Two World Powers (Kraft, Karlsbad 1937), The Gold Treasure of Eberswalde ( young generation, Berlin 1937), King Ra, the Vandals (young generation, Berlin 1937), German leader ( Teubner , Leipzig 1937-38) the struggle of the sons of the sun (young generation, Berlin 1938), the Duke and kings (force, Karlsbad & Leipzig 1939), 4000 years of East Germany (Schwarzhäupter-Verlag, Leipzig 1942), The Royal Grave of Seddin ( Thienemann , 8th edition Stuttgart 1942), Leuthari the Liberator (Thienemann, Stuttgart 1942), Reorganization of Europe (Young Generation, Berlin 1942 ), The Four Thousand Year Reich of the Germans ( Nordland-Verlag , Berlin 1942), The Golden Fish (Thienemann, Stuttgart 1943), Folk History of the Germanic Peoples (Young Generation, Berlin 1943), decisive battles of the Germanic peoples (Nordland-Verlag, Berlin 1944), Her drew Bojo (Nordland-Verlag, Berlin 1944), The great Germanic leaders (Nordland-Verlag, Berlin 1944) and Das Licht aus dem Norden (Nordland-Verlag, Berlin 1944). In the German Democratic Republic , this list was followed by The Art of War of the Teutons (Kraft, Karlsbad & Leipzig 1940) and Germanic-German penetration of Eastern Europe (Schwarzhäupter-Verlag, Leipzig 1943).

In 1951, Pastenaci took over as the successor to the late Artur Mahraun as editor of The Neighborhood magazine , which he headed until his death.

In 1956 Kurt Pastenaci became a lecturer at the adult education centers in Schöneberg , Charlottenburg and Kreuzberg , where he gave several hundred lectures on "Comparative Cultural History ". As a result of his severe heart disease, he later restricted his lectures.

At the same time, he held lectures and seminars on “Fundamentals of Politics” in his house. Pastenacis endeavored to make history and world history fruitful for the present. Most recently he worked on a work on comparative cultural history.

In 1961, at the age of 66, he died of a long-standing heart disease in Berlin.

Fonts

Youth books (selection)

  • The Duke and the Kings. Adam Kraft Verlag (bestseller published several times until 1945 about Charlemagne and Widukind of Saxony)
  • The royal tomb of Seddin (1934)
  • The golden fish
  • King Ra the Vandal
  • The Lord of the Ore (1954)
  • Herzog Bojo Frundsberg Verlag (1939)
  • The Eberswalde gold treasure (1937)
  • Leuthari at Thienemann Verlag
  • Battle of the Sun Sons Young Generation Publishing House. (1937)

Other fonts

  • Caesar or Duke (historical-political representation of the leader idea in European and Germanic-German history)
  • The four thousand year old empire of the Germans. A History of the National Revolution (1933)
  • On the Freedom of a German Man (1933)
  • Folk history of the Teutons (1936)
  • The two world powers (1938)
  • The Gothic Kings (1939)
  • The Germanic art of war. Karlsbad and Leipzig 1940; Reprint Struckum / North Friesland 1985
  • Diagnosis of our time (1951)

Unprinted

  • Utopia of world domination
  • The peace works of the world
  • The great thinkers of the West
  • The history of the cave paintings

swell

  1. Typewritten curriculum vitae Pastenacis (private collection)
  2. Fritz Gause : Kurt Pastenaci . In: Old Prussian Biography , published on behalf of the Historical Commission for East and West Prussian State Research, Vol. 3: Supplements. Elwert, Marburg 1975, pp. 1036f.

Literature on Pastenaci

  • Anna Stüssi: Pastenaci, Kurt . In: German Literature Lexicon. Biographical-bibliographical handbook , founded by Wilhelm Kosch, 3rd edition, ed. by Heinz Rupp and Carl Ludwig Lang, Vol. 11: Naaff - Pixner , Francke Verlag, Bern and Stuttgart 1988, Sp. 939-940.
  • Helmut Vallery: leaders, people and charisma. The National Socialist historical novel . Pahl-Rugenstein, Cologne 1980. ISBN 3-7609-5055-8 .
  • Frank Westenfelder: Genesis, problems and effects of National Socialist literature using the example of the historical novel between 1890 and 1945. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1989.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-p.html
  2. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1948-nslit-p.html
  3. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1953-nslit-p.html

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personal data
SURNAME Pastenaci, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Gilge
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1961
Place of death Berlin