Bernhard Payr

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Bernhard Wilhelm Karl Friedrich Erwin Payr (born October 3, 1903 in Graz ; † 1945 declared dead) was a literary and linguist who headed the main office of literature in the Rosenberg office .

Life

Bernhard Payr was the son of Erwin Payr , professor of surgery at Leipzig University, and Helene Steiner (1876–1952). He had a sister. As a student he attended the Thomas School in Leipzig , which he in 1923 with the matriculation examination completed. He then studied German literature, art history and philosophy at the Universities of Leipzig, Marburg and Munich and was founded in 1927 in Leipzig with a dissertation on ETA Hoffmann and Théophile Gautier Dr. phil. PhD . This was followed by training as a bookseller in Leipzig, Berlin, London and Paris. From 1930 to 1933 he was managing director of the Society of Friends of the German Library . At the beginning of August 1932 he joined the NSDAP (membership number 1.253.244). From autumn 1933 he was first a lecturer and then deputy state consultant in the Reich Office for the Promotion of German Literature in Saxony. From January 1, 1936, he headed the central editing department of the Reich Office for the Promotion of German Literature as the successor to Hellmuth Langenbucher . During the Second World War , after the campaign in the West, from 1940 onwards he acted as a special representative of the Rosenberg Office in Paris . In February 1943 he took over the management of the main office of literature in the office of Rosenberg.

He was declared dead on December 31, 1945 by the Berlin-Wedding District Court . Payr was married, the couple had two sons.

Fonts (selection)

  • ETA Hoffmann and Théophile Gautier: Ein Geisteswissenschaftl. Contribution z. comparison. History of literature , Noske, Borna-Leipzig 1927 (also Leipzig, Phil. Diss., 1927)
  • Théophile Gautier and ETA Hoffmann: A contribution to the history of ideas d. europ. Romanticism , In: Romanische Studien, Heft 33, Ebering, Berlin 1932 (published again in 1967)
  • People on the Edge of Time , Limpert, Berlin / Dresden 1936
  • The Office for the Preservation of Literature: Its history of development us Organization (with e. Vorw. Von Hans Hagemeyer ), Junker u. Dünnhaupt 1941
  • Phoenix or ashes? France's intellectual struggle for d. Collapse , Volkschaft-Verl., Dortmund 1942

literature

  • Jan-Pieter Barbian : Literary Policy in the 'Third Reich'. Institutions, competencies, fields of activity , book trade association, Frankfurt am Main 1993 (at the same time: Phil. Diss. University of Trier 1991), ISBN 3-7657-1760-6 , p. 392
  • Ernst Klee : The cultural 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. 451.
  • Gérard Loiseaux: La littérature de la défaite et de la collaboration. Fayard, Paris 1995 ISBN 2213592403 (Payr passim)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Jan-Pieter Barbian: Literary Policy in the 'Third Reich'. Institutions, competencies, fields of activity , Frankfurt am Main 1993, p. 392
  2. ^ Ernst Klee: The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 451.
  3. ^ Ernst Piper : Alfred Rosenberg: Hitler's chief ideologist . Karl Blessing Verlag 2009.
  4. ^ Ernst Klee: The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 452.
  5. ↑ Uwe Baur, Karin Gradwohl-Schlacher: Literature in Austria 1938-1945: Handbook of a literary system , Volume 1, Böhlau, 2008, p. 280
personal data
SURNAME Payr, Bernhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Payr, Bernhard Wilhelm Karl Friedrich Erwin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary and linguist
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: 1945