Ascan Klée Gobert

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Ascan Klée Gobert (born March 19, 1894 in Hamburg ; † July 14, 1967 Hamburg) was a German writer , politician ( CDU ) and Hamburg senator . He was the father of the actor, director and artistic director Boy Gobert .

Life

Gobert was born in Hamburg as the son of the Hamburg lawyer Ascan Klée Gobert (1863–1937). During the First World War he was a pilot in Jagdstaffel 37 . After studying law, he received his doctorate from the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg in 1919 and then worked as a marine insurance salesman in Hamburg. In 1927 he founded his own company, but worked as a feature writer early on. During the Second World War he was a captain in the Hamburg Air Defense Command .

Already in 1937 Gobert published his first novel Glück durch Sibylle together with the illustrator Lotte Wellnitz . Several novels and short stories followed. In addition to his writing career, he worked for several years in Hamburg politics from 1946 onwards. From 1951 on, he chaired the main committee of the voluntary self-regulation of the German film industry . On January 3, 1957, he received the Great Federal Cross of Merit .

Gobert was married to Countess Maria von Haller-Hallerstein (d. 1937), they had two sons (Ernst Ascan, fallen in 1944, and Boy Christian) and two daughters (Silke and Sibylle).

Ascan Klée Gobert was buried in the forest cemetery in Hamburg-Volksdorf , but the grave no longer exists.

politics

Gobert was appointed to the Appointed Senate of the City of Hamburg under Rudolf Petersen on January 4, 1946 by the British occupying power . He accepted the successor to the post of Senator for Culture for the resigned Hans-Harder Biermann-Ratjen , but was not, as sometimes wrongly stated, the first post-war senator to this post.

From February to October 1946 he was also a member of the citizenship appointed by the British occupying power . Initially a member of the non-party faction , he moved to the CDU in spring 1946. As an opposition politician, he was also known for his joking comments: "The Hamburger is afraid of three things: drafts, wet feet and the SPD!"

After leaving the CDU at the end of the 1940s, Mayor Max Brauer offered him, after the mayor's election in 1949, to rejoin the Senate as President of the Cultural Authority. However, Gobert refused.

Works

  • Luck by Sibylle , Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1937
  • Blue Days , Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1941
  • The black ferry , Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 1947
  • Childhood in Twilight , Hamburger Bücherei, Hamburg 1946
  • The garden festival , Verlag Thorbecke, Lindau (B) 1949
  • The timetable , Boysen Verlag, Hamburg 1967
  • Zacke und Loch , Boysen Verlag, Hamburg 1972 (3rd edition)
  • The onion fish , Verlag Husum, Husum 2002 ( ISBN 3-89876-003-0 )

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information from the Federal President's Office
  2. ↑ Barbara Leisner, Norbert Fischer: Der Friedhofsführer - Walks to known and unknown graves in Hamburg and the surrounding area. Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-7672-1215-3 , p. 124
  3. ↑ According to information from the cemetery administration from July 2016
  4. ↑ Program reference to a reading by the historian Stubbe-da Luz in the Johanneum ( Memento from February 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Christof Brauers, The FDP in Hamburg 1945 to 1953, p. 237.
  6. ↑ Die Welt: Everything you always wanted to know about Hamburg , article from November 14, 2003.
  7. ↑ Christof Brauers, The FDP in Hamburg 1945 to 1953, p. 433.
personal data
SURNAME Gobert, Ascan Klée
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1967
Place of death Hamburg