Artur Zickler

Artur Zickler (born March 13, 1897 in Dresden as Friedrich Arthur Zickler ; † August 11, 1987 in Hamburg ), pseudonyms Artur Seelbach and Friedrich von Raehmitz , was a German journalist and writer.

Life

Zickler was a son of the carpenter Friedrich Moritz Zickler. After attending school, Zickler earned his living as a miner and showman . Around 1915 he was called up to take part in the First World War . After he refused to serve in the arms, he was admitted to a mental hospital, an experience that he later processed in the book Im Tollhaus .

From 1918 or 1919 Zickler worked as a journalist for the SPD newspaper Vorwärts . The closing lines of the poem “Das Leichenhaus”, which Zickler, as a young editor, published in Vorwärts on January 13, 1919, shortly after the Berlin Spartakus uprising was put down, are often cited to this day , about the irresponsibility of the leaders of the uprising - Karl Liebknecht , Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Radek  - who, in his opinion, had irresponsibly caused the deaths of many hundreds of workers because of the poorly prepared enterprise, while they themselves remained alive. The poem was entitled "The Morgue".

"Many hundreds of dead in a row" -
proletarians!
Karl, Rosa, Radek and Kumpanei -
nobody is there, nobody is there!
Proletarian!"

The poem later accused Zickler of having contributed to the further whipping up of the already tense climate between the conflicting parties in the capital of the Reich, which two days after the poem's publication resulted in the murder of Liebknecht and Luxemburg, with which it indirectly was partly responsible for this act.

Zickler was also one of the leading figures in the peace alliance of war participants .

In the 1920s, was Zickler, describes the Scholz as "Journalistic and rhetorically gifted political outsider" and its admirers in this time Kurt Tucholsky belonged to continue editor at forward before becoming a managing editor for the Scherl publishing appearing " The day “Changed. Karl Kraus described him like that in 1923. "Artur Zickler, and where the whole desire of coming up young European leaders embodied that in spirit Faszisten are." Attempts by Joseph Goebbels , him for the attack to win, pointed Zickler 1927 by itself. Instead, he worked in the following years with the hidden Strasser - brothers together and published essays and pamphlets against Nazism.

On May 1, 1933, he joined the NSDAP . After 1933 Zickler was briefly involved in the attack , then he was banned from working and after a series of odd jobs he was employed by Ullstein Verlag .

After the Second World War - in which his fiancée Gerda Ruth Schmidt (born May 19, 1905) during the attack on Dresden from 13/14 He died in February 1945 - Zickler moved to Cologne , where he worked as a novel and series writer at Neue Illustrierte .

Zickler was married three times.

Fonts (selection)

• Charge the tortured! History of a field hospital. From the diaries of a medical sergeant (1914–1918). With a foreword by Artur Zickler . The firn, Berlin 1918.
• In the madhouse . Singer, Berlin 1919.
• Reichswehr against Red Army. What happened in the Ruhr area . The firn, Berlin 1920.
• The bread roll. Paul's nasty songs . Forward, Berlin 1920.
• Socialization as a capitalist hoax or as a socialist people's redemption? A warning call to the workers . The firn, Berlin 1921.
• The leap into the world. A young worker novel . Dietz, Berlin, Stuttgart 1922. (Reprint 2009, ISBN 978-1-115-20378-4 )
• Handwritten recording by Artur Zickler 1924 ( Memento from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
• The call to the world. A life story of the present . Publishing house for cultural and economic tasks, Berlin 1929.
• Handling paper. A humorous textbook for everyone . Publishing house for cultural and economic tasks, Berlin 1930.
• Slieffen twice. In: European Review. Volume 13, edition 2. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1937, p. 671 ff.
• Wehrschriftthum I. In: European Review. Volume 13, edition 2. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1937, p. 579 ff.
• The joy of dress. For the 175 year old of the Cologne company Bierbaum-Proenen . JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 1963.

Novels in the Neue Illustrierte

Under the pseudonyms Artur Seelbach and Friedrich von Raehmitz

• The trip to Germany.
• Take your hat and go.
• Sybille returns.
• You will see many more beautiful days.

Memoirs in the Neue Illustrierte

• with Crown Princess Cecilie : Emperor of my soul.

Archival material

• Autobiographical note by Artur Zickler August 8, 1945. In: Bundesarchiv SAPMO, signature SgY 30.2052

Web links

• Artur Zickler. In: Der Spiegel . 29/1957.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Birth register StA Dresden III, No. 609/1897
2. ↑ Death register StA Hamburg-Barmbek-Uhlenhorst, No. 2066/1987
3. ↑ Berliner Soldateskamorde 1919. ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Chapter III, duckhome.de 
4. ↑ Complete as a facsimile: Illustrated History of the German Revolution. Internationaler Arbeiter-Verlag, Berlin 1929, p. 293.
5. ↑ Friedhelm Greis (ed.): The antimilitarist and pacifist Tucholsky. Röhrig-Verlag, St. Ingbert 2008, ISBN 978-3-86110-447-6 , p. 65.
6. ↑ The torch . 1923, p. 141.
7. ^ Käte Frankenthal : The threefold curse: Jew, intellectual, socialist. Memories of a doctor in Germany and in exile . Edited by Kathleen M. Pearle and Stephan Leibfried . Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1981, ISBN 3-593-32845-3 , p. 316.
8. ↑ On the Path of Virtue. In: Der Spiegel . 6/1952.
9. ↑ Summary: “Memories about anti-fascist currents in German circles of the military and bourgeoisie from 1922–1945. The origin of the poem, published in 'Vorwärts' in January 1919, called for the murder of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht. Relationship with Schleicher 1922–1934. First meeting with Goebbels. Cooperation with the Strasser brothers. Hitler declaration to a committee of industrialists that he would never take anti-capitalist measures. Beat up by SA . Editor in "Attack". The conspiracy against Hitler is being prepared in 1934. Committed to work at Ullstein-Verlag. Leaflets to 'German officers' with information from espionage materials ”.