Alfred Funke

Alfred Funke (born April 22, 1869 in Wellinghofen / Dortmund district , † 1941 in Berlin-Friedenau ) was a German theologian , journalist and writer .

Life

Alfred Funke attended school in his hometown Wellinghofen and in Dortmund . From 1888 to 1891 studied it Protestant Theology at the University of Halle / Saale . He was then rector of a private school in Herscheid, Westphalia, until 1893 . After he had passed the theological exam in Magdeburg in 1896 , he went to Brazil , where he headed a German school in the state of Rio Grande do Sul for five years . Funke returned to Germany in 1901 . In 1902 he received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Halle / Saale with a thesis on the colonial geography of South America . In the decades that followed, Funke devoted himself primarily to promoting German settlements in Brazil and German colonies in Africa . From 1908 he lived as an editor in Groß-Lichterfelde near Berlin and from 1922 in Berlin-Friedenau .

Alfred Funke wrote next to journalistic contributions to colonial policy and novels , short stories , travelogues and biographies .

After the end of the Second World War, his writings Der Ruhrkampf (Schloeßmann, Leipzig 1933) and Schwarz-Weiß-Rot über East Africa (Sponholtz, Hannover 1933) were placed on the list of literature to be segregated in the Soviet occupation zone . In the German Democratic Republic , this list was followed by his Die Heilige Scholle (Heimat-Verlag, Halle 1930).

Works

• From German Brazil: Pictures from the life of Germans in the state of Rio Grande do Sul , Leipzig 1902 → Read on archive.og
• The settlement of eastern South America, with special consideration of Germanness, Gebauer-Schwetschke, Halle aS, 1902 → read on archive.org
• German settlement over sea: An outline of its history and its prosperity in Rio Grande do Sul , Halle as 1902 → read on archive.org
• What is national? , Hall 1902
• Impressions from the polar voyage of the steamer "Großer Kurfürst" , Bremen 1905
• Under the Coroados , Leipzig [among others] 1905
• From the Douro and Rio Grande , Halle 1906
• African laurel , Berlin 1907
• Under the spell of the Sherif , Leipzig 1907
• Halloria! , Hall as 1910
• Under German palm trees , Berlin 1910
• The Gringo , Berlin 1913
• Schwert und Myrte (war novel), W. Vobach & Co., Berlin [among others] 1914 → Read on archive.org
• Mexico in our days , Cologne 1914
• Ayeshe , Berlin 1915
• Under the spell of the German eagle (war novel), W. Vobach & Co., Berlin [among others] 1915 → Read on archive.org
• The novel by Empress Eugenie , W. Vobach & Co., Berlin [among others] 1916
• Under two tsars , W. Vobach & Co., Berlin [among others] 1918
• The Bismarck Book of the German People , Berlin
  • 1. Bismarck's development and work up to the founding of the Reich , 1921
  • 2. Bismarck the Prince, Chancellor and Lord of the Palace of Friedrichsruh , 1921
• The King's Shadow , Berlin [among other things] 1922
• The Lasso: Brazilian novel , Verlag W. Vobach & Co., Berlin, Leipzig, Vienna Zurich, 1922 → Read on archive.og
• Argentina as a colonialist country , Bremen 1924
• Der Bruch im Lande , Halle adS 1924
• The German colonist in Brazil , Bremen 1924
• The Middelhof , Halle adS 1925
• Brazil in the 20th century , Berlin 1926
• The Iron Chancellor , Halle on the Saale
  • 1. Jung-Bismarck , 1926
  • 2. From Kniephof to Petersburg , 1926
• The holy floe , Halle-Saale 1930
• The Ruhrkampf , Leipzig [among other things] 1933
• Black-white-red over Africa , Hanover 1933
• Paradise in the jungle , Berlin 1934
• Carl Peters , Berlin 1937
• Bismarck, the German man , Berlin 1939

Editing

• O Brasil ea Allemanha 1822–1922 , Berlin 1923

Web links

• Literature by and about Alfred Funke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Alfred Funke in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors

Individual evidence

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