August Abel

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August Abel (born December 19, 1887 in Gelsenkirchen , † August 18, 1962 in Frankfurt am Main ; pseudonym Ekkehart Wächter ) was a German politician ( Volksnationale Reichsvereinigung ) and journalist .

Live and act

After attending elementary school up to the age of 9 and secondary school up to the age of 15, Abel was trained at the Preparandie Langenhorst in the Steinfurt district and at the teachers' college. In his youth Abel, who spoke French fluently, was part of the French Foreign Legion .

From 1914 on, Abel took part in the First World War: after participating in the campaign in Belgium, the attack in Leuven (Dutch Leuven ) and the Battle of the Marne , he was assigned to the intelligence department. From 1916 Abel was editor of the Rheinisch Westfälische Zeitung in Essen. In the months from October 1918 to January 1919, Abel was head of the Berlin department of the RWZ in Berlin. From January to July 1919 Abel was a representative of major legal newspapers in Constance and at the peace negotiations in Versailles, then until July 1920 he was responsible for the foreign policy editor of the Deutsche Zeitung in Berlin. From October 1, 1920 to October 1, 1921 Abel was head of the Foreign Policy Department of the Bergisch Märkische Zeitung in Elberfeld. From October 1921 to April 1927 Abel was a freelance writer and editor of various newspapers. From April 1925 to November 1925 Abel undertook a long-distance ride from Berlin through Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria to Adrianople .

From April 1927 Abel was involved in the Young German Order . In this he not only took on the position of head of the Young German press service (press attendant), but also the function of the group's leading foreign politician, for which he made numerous trips abroad: For example, in 1928 Abel spoke to members of the British Legion in London about the possibility of Securing European peace through a Franco-German-British alliance. Abel held other large public lectures against the Treaty of Versailles and the Treaty of St. Germain in Paris. At the Luxembourg Front Conference in September 1928, Abel was a German speaker on the Vistula Corridor .

In 1930 he joined the People's National Reich Association , which briefly merged with the DDP to form the German State Party (DStP) in July 1930 . In the Reichstag election of September 1930 Abel was elected as a candidate for the state party for constituency 28 (Dresden-Bautzen) in the Reichstag , to which he was a member until the July 1932 election. He left the parliamentary group again on October 7, 1930 together with the other members of the National People's Association. As a member of parliament, Abel stood out, among other things, through his opposition to the growing National Socialism at the time: In May 1932, for example, he voted for the - later repealed - ban on the Sturmabteilung (SA), the party army of the NSDAP, which he called the “gravedigger of the Bundischen Thought ”called.

During the Nazi era, Abel emigrated to Tanganyika in 1934 , where he settled as a farmer. In 1936 he married. In September 1939 he was temporarily interned, and in July 1941 he was finally expatriated from Germany .

In 1948 Abel returned to Germany, where he again worked as a journalist. Numerous articles and lectures on political, economic and cultural issues in Africa followed.

In the Soviet occupation zone , his writing Am Krankbett des Abendlandes (NBD.-Nationaler Bücher-Dienst, Berlin 1935) was placed on the list of literature to be sorted out . In the German Democratic Republic , this list was followed by his foundations of Franco-German understanding (Jungdeutscher Orden, Ordensamt, Berlin 1930).

From 1951 until his death Abel lived in Frankfurt am Main.

Fonts

  • Basics of German-French understanding , 1930.
  • The Foreign Legion , 1931.
  • Versailles 1919 / Lausanne 1932. From Stresemann to Papen , Berlin 1932.
  • Hitler's foreign policy catastrophe , Berlin p. a. [1932].
  • At the bedside of the West , 1935.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bruno Jahn: The German-language press. A biographical-bibliographical handbook , 2005, p. 1281.
  2. ↑ On Abel's membership in the group of the Volksnationalen Reichsvereinigung see Reichstag-Handbuch 1930, p. 274.
  3. ↑ Klaus Hornung: Der Jungdeutsche Orden , 1958, p. 129.
  4. ↑ Michael Hepp / Hans Georg Lehmann: Expatriation Lists as published in the Reichsanzeiger, 1933–1945 , 1985, p. 530.
  5. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1948-nslit-w.html
  6. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1953-nslit.html
personal data
SURNAME Abel, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guardian, Ekkehart (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (DStP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Gelsenkirchen
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 1962
Place of death Frankfurt am Main