Aurelius Polzer

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Aurelius Polzer (before 1909)

Aurelius Polzer , sometimes also: Aurel Polzer , pseudonyms : Erich Fels , Arnim Stark , (born December 16, 1848 in Feldkirch- Tisis , Vorarlberg ; † May 2, 1924 in Graz ) was an Austrian poet and writer.

Life

The son of a tax officer attended grammar schools in Feldkirch , Innsbruck and Vienna , where he received a certificate of maturity in the summer of 1866 in the maturity exams (which only took into account written performance due to the war ) . From 1866 to 1870 he studied classical philology at the University of Vienna and then worked as a high school teacher in Czernowitz , Vienna, Reichenberg and Horn until 1887 . During his studies he became a member of the Teutonia Vienna fraternity in 1868, of the Braune Arminia Vienna fraternity in 1868 and later an honorary member of the Campia Vienna fraternity .

Polzer, exponent of the Los-von-Rom movement , called in 1885 for a mass conversion to the Protestant Church , the national church of the German people . The accompanying text Confess yourselves to the German national church! A warning to the Germans in the Ostmark was confiscated and Polzer's apprenticeship contract in Horn was terminated. In 1887 Polzer went to Graz, where he was managing director of the school association for Germans until 1888 and of the Südmark association , which he co-founded, from 1889 to 1903 . From 1889 he acted as editor of the Grazer Wochenblatt published by the Vereinigung Deutscher Turnerbund 1889 ( Steiermärkischer Turngau ) .

In January 1899, Polzer became chairman of the newly founded association of German nationalists in Styria, in May of the same year Polzer was arrested on suspicion of secret bundling and distribution of forbidden publications and convicted by the Graz Regional Court on June 8th for disseminating forbidden publications.

With his folkish poetry he represented the Pan-German idea.

With his combative songs, some of which were set to music by Anton Bruckner (1824–1896), Camillo Horn (1860–1941) and Wilhelm Kienzl (1857–1941), Polzer had an impact on his time. He is one of the intellectual trailblazers of National Socialism .

Fonts

  • Aurelius Polzer: Protagorean studies. In: Annual report of the kk Oberreal-Gymnasium in Reichenberg. Volume 3 (1875). Stiepel brothers, Reichenberg 1875, pp. 3–25 ( Scan  - Internet Archive ).
  • -: Emperor Josef II. A memorandum to celebrate the abolition of serfdom. Publishing house of the constitutional progress association, Horn 1881.
  • Armin Stark: For protection and defiance! German song from the Ostmark. Schmidt, Zurich 1884.
  • Call from the German East. Poems. 1884.
  • Adolf Hagen (di Adolf Harpf ), Erich Fels: Defense and weapons. German seals of the young Austria. Wigand, Leipzig 1885.
  • Erich Fels: In armor. Song of defiance from the beleaguered Ostmark. Richter, Hamburg 1887 (originally prohibited in Austria according to §§ 486 and 493 of the StPO 1873, RGBl. 1873/119).
  • Aurelius Polzer: Calendar of the school association for Germans. Danotta, Graz 1888-89 (?), ZDB -ID 2389007-1 .
  • -: Robert Hamerling . His essence and work. Described to the German people. Publishing house and printing company, Hamburg 1890.
  • - (Ed.): Remembrance days for the German people. Schönerer, Rosenau 1893.
  • -: Robert Hamerling as a German national poet. Troppau 1896.
  • -: Solstice. Nature and meaning of the Germanic festival of the summer solstice . In addition to an appendix of relevant sayings and poems. German printing association, Graz 1902.
  • -: In stormy night and sunshine. Poems and thoughts. Janotta, Graz 1907.
  • Erich Fels: The German song. Score. Music printing. In: Anton Bruckner , Victor Keldorfer (Hrsg.): Chorwerke. Volume 7. Universal Edition, Vienna 1911.
  • Aurelius Polzer: Harp Sounds from Iron Age. Songs, ballads and sayings from the war years 1914 to 1918. Deutsche Verein-Druckerei, Graz 1918.
  • Robert Hamerling, Aurelius Polzer (ed.): Ahasver in Rome. A poem in six songs. With an epilogue to the critics. Reclam, Leipzig 1921.
  • Carl-Wilhelm Gawalowski (1861-1945), Aurelius Polzer: German year book. Edition for coastal land. Deutsche Verein-Druckerei, Graz sa (also under the title: Südmark-Jahrbuch, ZDB -ID 1046848-1 , or earlier: Südmark-Kalender, ZDB -ID 2384954-X ).

Honors, awards, prizes

  • 1891 commemorative coin of the German Federal Graz on the occasion of the grains -Feier 1891
  • 1916: bust, made by August Kratzwohl (1865 – circa 1927), Graz
  • In Graz-Jakomini (VI. District) there was an Aurelius-Polzer-Gasse, which was renamed Neuholdaugasse in 1947 . The (historically older) Polzergasse on the Ruckerlberg in Graz-Waltendorf (IX. District), also dedicated to Aurelius Polzer, has kept its name to this day.

literature

  • Helge Dvorak, Christian Hünemörder (ed.): Biographical lexicon of the German fraternity. Volume I: Politicians. Part 4: M - Q. Winter, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-8253-1118-X , pp. 342-343.
  • Otto Rath: Aurelius Polzer (1848-1924). A bard for all of Germany. Political poetry in the tradition of the Wars of Liberation. Thesis. University of Graz, Graz 1992 ( online at OBV ).
  • Heimo Halbrainer, Gerald Lamprecht: “So that a thoroughly Christian environment was created for us children.” The Heilandskirche and its “Jewish Christians” between 1880 and 1955. Clio, Graz 2010, ISBN 978-3-902542-24-3 ( sparklingscience.at [PDF; 3.6 MB]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anton August Naaf :  German poetry. Aurel Polzer. In:  The Lyra. General German art magazine for music and poetry , No. 7 (812) / 1908/09 (XXXII. Year), January 1, 1909, p. 99/13, top left (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / lyr
  2. ↑ a b K (arl) -H (eing) Burmeister :  Polzer Aurelius. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 189.
  3. ↑ Matura exams. In:  Annual report on the kk academic high school in Vienna for the school year 1865–1866 , year 1866, p. 38 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / maintenance / jag
  4. ↑ a b Conversions and Persecutions. In: Halbrainer, Lamprecht: So that us children ..., p. 39.
  5. ↑ Grazer Wochenblatt. In: obvsg.at, Austrian Library Association, accessed on February 13, 2017.
  6. ↑ Graz daily report. (...) Association of the German Völkisch in Styria. In:  Grazer Tagblatt , morning edition, No. 16/1899 (XI. Year), January 16, 1899, p. 4, top center (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / gtb
  7. ↑ a b Graz daily report. (...) Aurelius Polzer's 50th birthday. In:  Grazer Tagblatt. Organ of the German People's Party for the Alpine Countries, morning edition, No. 347/1898 (8th year), December 16, 1898, p. 3 f. (top left) (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / gtb
  8. ↑ Harpf, Adolf. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 190.
  9. ↑ Graz daily report. (...) honor. In:  Grazer Tagblatt , Abend-Ausgabe, No. 44/1891 (Volume I), October 14, 1891, p. 3, bottom left (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / gtb
  10. ↑ Daily report. (...) A Styrian sculptor in need. In:  Grazer Tagblatt , evening edition, No. 39/1916 (XXVI. Year), February 8, 1916, p. 2, bottom left (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / gtb
  11. ↑ Otto Rath: Literary Traces. Heimat (spelling) in Graz street names. In: Gerhard Melzer: City Culture - City of Culture. An inventory on the occasion of the “European Cultural Month”, Graz, May 1993. Leykam, Graz 1994, ISBN 3-7011-7274-9 , p. 244.
  12. ↑ Alois Sillaber: Nomen est omen. Graz street names as a source of intellectual and ideological history in 1945. (...) 1945 - continuity and / or break? In: Friedrich Bouvier (Red.), Helfried Valentinitsch (Red.): Graz 1945 (= Historisches Jahrbuch der Stadt Graz. Volume 25, ZDB -ID 217827-8 ). City of Graz, Graz 1994, p. 655 f. ( Online at OBV ):
personal data
SURNAME Polzer, Aurelius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Polzer, Aurel; Stark, Arnim (pseudonym); Fels, Erich (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian high school teacher, poet and writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Tisis
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1924
Place of death Graz