Anton Bossi Fedrigotti

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Anton Graf Bossi-Fedrigotti von Ochsenfeld (born August 6, 1901 in Mutters-Gärberbach ; † December 9, 1990 in Pfaffenhofen adIlm ) or with the pseudonym Toni Herbstenburger was an Austrian diplomat, author and journalist as well as a writer of youth and war novels.

Life

Count Anton Bossi-Fedrigotti spent his youth in Toblach , where the ancestral castle of the Bossi-Fedrigotti is ( Autumn Castle ), and in Feldkirch .

He lived in northern Germany from 1920 to 1923, in South Tyrol and Italy from 1923 to 1925 , and in Berlin from 1930 to 1938 .

When he started working for the VDA (Association / People's Federation for Germanness Abroad) in Berlin in 1931 , Bossi-Fedrigotti served as a mediator between the NSDAP and his native South Tyrol . He saw his task in ensuring the integration of South Tyrol "into the territorial demands of the NSDAP".

time of the nationalsocialism

After the seizure of power of the Nazis he was since May 1933 member of the NSDAP ( member number 1875708) and since July of the same year a member of the SA . It is very likely that the contacts with Rosenberg , Hofer and Hinkel were very helpful for the Count's Nazi career.

As an employee in the Foreign Policy Office of the NSDAP (since 1933) it was his job to " look after the Nazis who had fled the ' Ostmark ' after the party was banned there in June 1933."

In 1934 his first novel Standschütze Bruggler was published , which by 1943 had 125,000 copies and 18 editions. From the first-person narration of the protagonist Anton Bruggler the reader learns how this time of the First World War, a conversion by making the "thoughtful [n] priest candidates [...] for a determined fighter." Throughout can be elements folkish ideology identified:

“We are nothing more than, as they say, trustees of the great nation from the North Sea to the Adige and because that is us, the Czechs, Poles, Ruthenians and Slovaks have nothing to do with us, only we concern ourselves if we fight, it only makes sense to fight [sic!] if we fight for the Germans. Because the Landl must remain German for all Germans, yes German and nothing else! "

Apart from the German-Austrians, all other emerging ethnic groups are viewed and described as ethnically inferior. The film adaptation (1936) of the novel, which glorified war and homeland, was brought to the screen again at the end of September 1944 in order to "ideally underpin and historically legitimize the death of the Volkssturm men."

In 1935 at the latest, Bossi-Fedrigotti joined the Austrian Legion of the SA (renamed as Hilfswerk Nord-West in 1934), within which he was head of the SA assembly point in Berlin between 1935 and 1936 and rose to SA Sturmbannführer by March 1938 .

In October 1936 Bossi-Fedrigotti attended the “First German War Poet Meeting ” in Berlin, whereupon he was invited to several readings by the Nazi cultural community . In 1938 he took part in the Reichsfront Dichtertreffen in Guben . After the " Anschluss of Austria ", he was appointed regional director of the Reichsschrifttumskammer (RSK) Tirol-Vorarlberg in 1938, took up the post of cultural advisor to the governor of Tyrol in 1939 and took over the management of the Reichskulturkammer . Hofer had personally campaigned for the South Tyrolean at Goebbels . In 1941 Bossi-Fedrigotti was appointed senior councilor.

From 1939 to 1945 he did military service as a representative of the Foreign Office , including in Belarus in 1941 at Mogilew , which he reported to Army High Command 2. One of his tasks was to "instrumentalize the atrocities of the Soviets for German propaganda." His remarks were based on the nationalist-racist ideology of National Socialism :

"The most important z. At the moment is that the Russian is weakening in his resilience, that he is decomposed and that German blood is saved. [...] and when you see our splendid German boys lying there in rows, shot by this inhumanity, you ask yourself why [ Undersc . in the original] not every means is used to decompose these Asians. [...] Today's Russian is not worth these German victims and therefore one has to use the most effective counter-propaganda. "

Bossi-Fedrigotti had his last assignment as a staff officer for propaganda in Italy, where he and Edmund Theil had been running a Wehrmacht propaganda transmitter since 1944 . Shortly after he was kidnapped by partisans in April 1945 , he was first an American and then a French prisoner of war .

After the war

In 1947 he returned from captivity and was now a senior executive councilor. D. and farmer. Further stations in his life were South Tyrol, Bavaria, Berlin, Rome, Ischia , USA. As a writer he lived in Rome, Munich and Innsbruck.

He published his first post-war text with Christian der Grenzgänger in 1951. From 1965 to 1988 he also wrote articles in the German Soldiers' Yearbook . As for the choice of his publishers, "he always moved in the right-wing or right-wing extremist milieu."

The South Tyrolean dedicated his life's work to the Trentino landscape, its people and their problems. Bossi-Fedrigotti has also written numerous books on the First World War . He has also worked as an author for theater, radio and film .

In the 1980s, Bossi-Fedrigotti was awarded the Tyrolean Cross of Merit .

“The ideological milieu in which Bossi-Fedrigotti moved to the very end,” shows an obituary dedicated to him by the right-wing extremist author Reinhard Pozorny .

Others

In the Soviet occupation zone , many of his writings were placed on the list of literature to be discarded.

The name Bossi-Fedrigotti as a double name is derived from a later marriage of a Bossi with a Fedrigotti daughter. The Bossi-Fedrigotti in 1717 with the nickname von Ochsenfeld were raised to the rank of count .

Works

  • The Tyrolean Kaiserjäger at Col di Lana. Franz Schneider Verlag , Leipzig 1934.
  • Standschütze Bruggler . Zeitgeschichte-Verlag, Berlin 1934.
  • Tyrol remains Tyrol. Bruckmann Verlag , Munich 1935.
  • Espionage and treason in the Carpathian battles of the world war. Franz Schneider, Leipzig, Vienna 1935.
  • Andreas Hofer. Sand host of Passeier. Franz Schneider, Berlin 1935.
  • The legacy of the last few days. Zeitgeschichte-Verlag, Berlin 1937.
  • We come, comrades! Zeitgeschichte-Verlag, Berlin 1938.
  • Austria's blood path. Publishing house Die Wehrmacht , Berlin 1939.
  • Advance Days. NS-Gauverlag and printing works for Tyrol and Vorarlberg, Innsbruck 1941.
  • The old flag. NS-Gauverlag and printing works for Tyrol and Vorarlberg, Innsbruck 1941.
  • The two Teraldi. Andermann, Munich, Vienna 1951.
  • Christian, the cross-border commuter. Andermann, Munich 1951.
  • Order to betray. Pabel , Rastatt 1960.
  • Val Pusteria. Athesia Verlag , Bolzano 1967.
  • Vinschgau. 2nd edition. Athesia Verlag, Bozen 1968. New edition. under Josef Rampold , 1971.
  • Kaiserjäger, fame and the end. Leopold Stocker Verlag , Graz, Stuttgart 1977. New edition. ud Tit. The Kaiserjäger in the First World War. Ares-Verlag , Graz, 2009
  • Emperor Franz Joseph I and his time. Ringier , Zurich, Munich 1978.
  • Col di Lana. Schild-Verlag , Munich 1979.
  • Homecoming to doom. Leopold Stocker Verlag, Graz, Stuttgart 1981.
  • Goodbye, my country of Tyrol . New edition (from 1978). Schild-Verlag, Munich 1983.
  • Dolomite saga. Amalthea , Vienna, Munich 1986.
  • Farewell to the double-headed eagle. Publishing company Berg , Dept. Türmer-Verlag, Berg am See: 1990.

literature

  • Literature by and about Anton Bossi Fedrigotti in the catalog of the German National Library
  • Helmut Alexander: The Dolomite War in the "Tyrolean" film . In: Klaus Eisterer & Rolf Steininger (eds.): Tyrol and the First World War . Innsbruck: Austrian Studies 1995, pp. 227–253.
  • Bruno Berger & Heinz Rupp (Eds.): German Literature Lexicon. Biographical-Bibliographical Handbook . Vol. 1st 3rd edition Bern, Munich: Francke 1968.
  • Anton Graf Bossi-Fedrigotti: Standschützen Bruggler . Berlin: Contemporary History 1934.
  • Count Anton Bossi-Fedrigotti: Count Anton Bossi-Fedrigotti . In: Kurt Ziesel (Ed.): War and Poetry. Soldiers become poets - poets become soldiers. A folk book . Vienna, Leipzig: Luser 1940, pp. 59–70.
  • Heinz Brüdigam: The lap is still fertile ... neo-Nazi, militarist, nationalist literature and journalism in the Federal Republic . 2. edit again Frankfurt / M .: Röderberg 1965.
  • Maria Keipert, Peter Grupp & Historical Service of the Foreign Office (ed.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871-1945 . Vol. 1. Paderborn: Schöningh 2000.
  • Hansjörg Waldner: Anton Bossi Fedrigotti: Standschütze Bruggler . In: Hansjörg Waldner: Germany looks to us Tyroleans. South Tyrol novels between 1918 and 1945 . Picus, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-85452-210-X , pp. 65–86.
  • Hans Schafranek: Mercenaries for the "Anschluss". The Austrian Legion 1933–1938 . Vienna: Czernin 2010.
  • Gerald Steinacher, Leopold Steurer, believing in God and loyal to the leader. Count Anton Bossi-Fedrigotti. In: Günther Pallaver, Leopold Steurer (Ed.), German! Hitler is selling you! The legacy of option and world war in South Tyrol , Bozen Raetia 2010, ISBN 978-88-7283-386-5 , pp. 199–248.
  • Christoph Penning: Anton Graf Bossi-Fedrigotti - the South Tyrolean . In: Rolf Düsterberg : Poet for the "Third Reich" . Vol. 3. Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2015, ISBN 978-3-8498-1079-5 , pp. 45-77.
  • Leopold Steurer: In the service of Hitler . In: ff - Das Südtiroler Wochenmagazin 50 (2010), pp. 40–43.
  • Edmund Theil: Struggle for Italy. From Sicily to Tyrol 1943–1945 . Munich, Vienna: Langen-Müller 1983.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d 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. 70.
  2. ^ Christoph Penning: Count Anton Bossi-Fedrigotti - the South Tyrolean . In: Rolf Düsterberg (ed.): Poets for the "Third Reich". Vol. 3. Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2015, p. 49.
  3. ^ Christoph Penning: Count Anton Bossi-Fedrigotti - the South Tyrolean . In: Rolf Düsterberg (ed.): Poets for the "Third Reich". Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Vol. 3. Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2015, p. 54.
  4. ^ A b Christoph Penning: Count Anton Bossi-Fedrigotti - the South Tyrolean . In: Rolf Düsterberg (ed.): Poets for the "Third Reich". Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Vol. 3. Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2015, p. 58.
  5. ↑ Gerald Steinacher & Leopold Steurer: Believing in God and loyal to the leader. Count Anton Bossi-Fedrigotti . In: Günther Pallaver & Leopold Steurer (eds.): Deutsche! Hitler is selling you! The legacy of option and world war in South Tyrol . Bolzano: Raetia 2011, p. 229.
  6. ^ Christoph Penning: Count Anton Bossi-Fedrigotti - the South Tyrolean . In: Rolf Düsterberg (ed.): Poets for the "Third Reich". Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Vol. 3. Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2015, p. 59; see. Count Anton Bossi-Fedrigotti: Count Anton Bossi-Fedrigotti . In: Kurt Ziesel (Ed.): War and Poetry. Soldiers become poets - poets become soldiers. A folk book . Vienna, Leipzig: Luser 1940, p. 59 and Leopold Steurer: In the service of Hitler . In: ff - Das Südtiroler Wochenmagazin 50 (2010), p. 41.
  7. ^ A b Christoph Penning: Count Anton Bossi-Fedrigotti - the South Tyrolean . In: Rolf Düsterberg (ed.): Poets for the "Third Reich". Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Vol. 3. Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2015, p. 65.
  8. ^ Anton Graf Bossi-Fedrigotti: Standschütze Bruggler . Berlin: Zeitgeschichte 1934, p. 335, quoted from Penning (2015), p. 64.
  9. ^ Christoph Penning: Count Anton Bossi-Fedrigotti - the South Tyrolean . In: Rolf Düsterberg (ed.): Poets for the "Third Reich". Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Vol. 3. Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2015, p. 62f.
  10. ↑ Helmut Alexander: The Dolomite War in the "Tyrolean" film . In: Klaus Eisterer & Rolf Steininger (eds.): Tyrol and the First World War . Innsbruck: Austrian Studies 1995, p. 242.
  11. ↑ a b c d Christoph Penning: Anton Graf Bossi-Fedrigotti - the South Tyrolean . In: Rolf Düsterberg (ed.): Poets for the "Third Reich". Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Vol. 3. Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2015, p. 66.
  12. ↑ Hans Schafranek: Mercenaries for the "connection". The Austrian Legion 1933-1938 . Vienna: Czernin 2010, p. 34f.
  13. ^ Maria Keipert, Peter Grupp & Historical Service of the Foreign Office (ed.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871-1945 . Vol. 1. Paderborn: Schöningh 2000, p. 236; Bruno Berger & Heinz Rupp (Eds.): German Literature Lexicon. Biographical-Bibliographical Handbook . Vol. 1. 3. Edition Bern, Munich: Francke 1968, Sp. 825.
  14. ^ Christoph Penning: Count Anton Bossi-Fedrigotti - the South Tyrolean . In: Rolf Düsterberg (ed.): Poets for the "Third Reich". Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Vol. 3. Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2015, p. 67; Gerald Steinacher & Leopold Steurer: Believing in God and loyal to the leader. Count Anton Bossi-Fedrigotti . In: Günther Pallaver & Leopold Steurer (eds.): Deutsche! Hitler is selling you! The legacy of option and world war in South Tyrol . Bolzano: Raetia 2011, p. 212, 230.
  15. ^ Christoph Penning: Count Anton Bossi-Fedrigotti - the South Tyrolean . In: Rolf Düsterberg (ed.): Poets for the "Third Reich". Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Vol. 3. Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2015, p. 67.
  16. ^ Maria Keipert, Peter Grupp & Historical Service of the Foreign Office (ed.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871-1945 . Vol. 1. Paderborn: Schöningh 2000, p. 237.
  17. ^ A b Ernst Klee: The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 71.
  18. ^ Christoph Penning: Count Anton Bossi-Fedrigotti - the South Tyrolean . In: Rolf Düsterberg (ed.): Poets for the "Third Reich". Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Vol. 3. Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2015, p. 68.
  19. ↑ Report No. 6 of the VAA at AOK 2, First Lieutenant Bossi-Fedrigotti, from July 24, 1941 from Mohilew [Mogilew]. BArch-MA RH 20-2-1091, quoted from Penning (2015), p. 69. e
  20. ^ Christoph Penning: Count Anton Bossi-Fedrigotti - the South Tyrolean . In: Rolf Düsterberg (ed.): Poets for the "Third Reich". Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Vol. 3. Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2015, p. 70; Edmund Theil: Struggle for Italy. From Sicily to Tyrol 1943-1945 . Munich, Vienna: Langen-Müller 1983, p. 205.
  21. ^ Christoph Penning: Count Anton Bossi-Fedrigotti - the South Tyrolean . In: Rolf Düsterberg (ed.): Poets for the "Third Reich". Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Vol. 3. Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2015, p. 71; Edmund Theil: Struggle for Italy. From Sicily to Tyrol 1943-1945 . Munich, Vienna: Langen-Müller 1983, p. 312; Maria Keipert, Peter Grupp & Historical Service of the Foreign Office (ed.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871-1945 . Vol. 1. Paderborn: Schöningh 2000, p. 237.
  22. ^ Christoph Penning: Count Anton Bossi-Fedrigotti - the South Tyrolean . In: Rolf Düsterberg (ed.): Poets for the "Third Reich". Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Vol. 3. Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2015, p. 71.
  23. ^ Christoph Penning: Count Anton Bossi-Fedrigotti - the South Tyrolean . In: Rolf Düsterberg (ed.): Poets for the "Third Reich". Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Vol. 3. Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2015, p. 71; see. Heinz Brüdigam: The lap is still fertile ... neo-Nazi, militarist, nationalist literature and journalism in the Federal Republic . 2. edit again Frankfurt / M .: Röderberg 1965, pp. 160f., 200ff., 268ff.
  24. ^ Christoph Penning: Count Anton Bossi-Fedrigotti - the South Tyrolean . In: Rolf Düsterberg (ed.): Poets for the "Third Reich". Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Vol. 3. Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2015, p. 73; Gerald Steinacher & Leopold Steurer: Believing in God and loyal to the leader. Count Anton Bossi-Fedrigotti . In: Günther Pallaver & Leopold Steurer (eds.): Deutsche! Hitler is selling you! The legacy of option and world war in South Tyrol . Bolzano: Raetia 2011, p. 249.
  25. ^ A b Christoph Penning: Count Anton Bossi-Fedrigotti - the South Tyrolean . In: Rolf Düsterberg (ed.): Poets for the "Third Reich". Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Vol. 3. Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2015, p. 73.
  26. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-b.html
  27. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1948-nslit-b.html
personal data
SURNAME Bossi Fedrigotti, Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bossi-Fedrigotti von Ochsenfeld, Anton (full name); Herbstenburger, Toni (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian diplomat, author and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1990
Place of death Pfaffenhofen on the Ilm