Bernhard Schottländer

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Bernhard Schottländer (born 1895 in Breslau ; died 1920 ) was a German politician of the USPD and journalist . He was tortured and murdered by Freikorps soldiers during the Kapp Putsch .

Life

Bernhard Schottländer, from the Schottländer family , came from one of the richest Jewish families in Wroclaw. He grew up in sheltered circumstances and, as a sickly boy, was always accompanied by his private tutor. A school colleague at the Johannesgymnasium Breslau was Norbert Elias . During the First World War , Schottländer was active as a pacifist and despite being physically handicapped, was drafted into military service. After the end of the war, in 1919 he became the founder and editor of the Schlesische Arbeiter-Zeitung . This was initially an organ of the USPD and after Schottländer's death became a regional newspaper of the KPD . In addition, Schottländer was a member of the Jewish socialist organizations Bund and Poale Zion . Though not an effective speaker, he found admirers among workers and intellectuals.

During the Kapp Putsch, putschists of the Freikorps “von Aulock” took control of Breslau on March 14, 1920 and arrested Scottish people and 30 other people. Schottländer was tortured and murdered by the coup plotters. More than three months later, on June 23, 1920, his mutilated body was found in the Oder about five kilometers northwest of Breslau. Although Schottländer's family did not announce the time of the burial, about 2,000 workers followed the funeral procession. According to the report by Ernst Toller , whom Schottländer had met in Heidelberg in 1917/18 , the Freikorpsführer von Aulock spent a few days in prison, but was then released with impunity for incapacity for prison. Another suspect, Hellmuth von Pannwitz , evaded an arrest warrant by fleeing to Poland . For the Jewish citizens of Wroclaw, the cool reaction of the rest of Wroclaw and the reports in the Schlesische Zeitung , which is now affiliated with the DNVP and denied any anti-Semitism in this context, was frightening. Bernhard Schottländer was the best known of a total of six Jews in Breslau who were murdered in the course of the Kapp Putsch.

Individual evidence

  1. Jump up ↑ Paul-Augustin Deproost, Laurence van Ypersele, Myriam Watthee-Delmotte: Mémoire et identité: parcours dans l'imaginaire occidental. University of Leuven, 2008. p. 266. Partial online view
  2. ^ Thomas Dunlap: Before the Holocaust: Three German-Jewish Lives, 1870-1939. Xlibris Corporation, 2011. ISBN 978-1-4568-1864-7 . Online partial view
  3. ^ Ernst Toller: Letters 1915-1939: Critical Edition. Wallstein Verlag, 2018. Partial online view
  4. ↑ Mark H. Gelber , Jakob Hessing , Robert Jütte : Integration and Exclusion: Studies on German-Jewish literary and cultural history from the early modern period to the present; Festschrift for Hans Otto Horch on his 65th birthday. P. 271. Online partial view

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personal data
SURNAME Schottländer, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (USPD) and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Breslau , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH 1920