Bruno Herbert Jahn

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Bruno Herbert Jahn (born January 22, 1893 in Cologne , † after 1943) was a German author . His most famous work is The Soldier's Wisdom from 1937.

Life

Bruno Jahn joined the First World War, first as a volunteer in the Cologne-based Prussian Pioneer Battalion No. 7 (1st Westphalian). And increased front-line service to pioneer - a reserve officer on. After the war he studied at Heidelberg University and received his doctorate in economics in 1920 with a contribution to the question of agricultural war profits .

After the takeover of the Nazis Bruno Herbert Jahn signed in October 1933, together with other 87 writers, the vow faithful allegiance to Adolf Hitler . In 1934 he published the "attempt at a rational justification" (so the subtitle of the book) of the Nazi ideology with the sense and morality of National Socialism . Jahn understood the defeat of the First World War in the sense of a social Darwinian evolutionary idea derived from Nietzsche as an opportunity to redevelop the "völkisch instincts" of the Germans . Although the First World War contributed to the formation of a national consciousness called “Herdungsgedanke” by Jahn , this initially could not prevail beyond the “field soldier” and was perished due to a lack of leadership . Only with the completion of the “herding” of the German people under National Socialism, the so-called “Führer herding” according to Jahn under Adolf Hitler, did the spirit of the front that arose in the world war return to the national community .

Bruno H. Jahn's best-known work is The Wisdom of the Soldier , which appeared in 1937 with a foreword by Commander-in-Chief Werner von Fritsch . Here he demanded that the youth receive a general and formal schooling that would guide them to consistent thinking, clear concepts and independent, systematic work. The book was positively reviewed by its editor-in-chief Eugen Bircher in the Allgemeine Schweizerische Militärzeitung (1938, Issue 6) as "witty" and had a circulation of 372,000 copies by the end of the war.

Jahn's further fate is unknown. According to the Wehrmacht Information Center Berlin (WASt), there is neither a death report nor a missing person report. Allegedly he died in a Soviet prison camp in Sambor , Galicia .

Several of his books published during National Socialism were explicitly placed on the list of literature to be segregated in the Soviet occupation zone after the end of the war . Jahn was one of the authors "whose entire production is to be permanently removed".

Fonts

  • The movement of the basic debt in the mayor's office Hubbelrath (district of Düsseldorf) 1910-1919, a contribution to the question of agricultural war profits , dissertation, Univ. Heidelberg, 1920
  • Advertisements through the shop window. A Store Salesman's Guide , 1926
  • Sense and morality of nationalism. Attempt to reasonably justify it , Cotta Verlag , Stuttgart 1934.
  • The soldier's wisdom. Attempt at an interpretation and classification , 1937
  • Pioneer Bombek , 1939
  • The Little Pioneer Book , with illustrations by Herbert Bartholomäus , 1944

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German loss lists of the First World War: Edition 417 of March 25, 1915 (Prussia 183), p. 5486 ( Krgsfr. Bruno Jahn - Cöln ).
  2. ↑ Henning Pietzsch: The experiences of the German soldiers at the front in the First World War and their ideologicalisation of the "front experience" in the twenties. ibidem, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-89821-427-3 , p. 29, note 7.
  3. ^ Author: Jahn, Bruno H. , Catalog for the libraries of the University of Heidelberg.
  4. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee : The culture 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. 279.
  5. ↑ Christiane Weller: World War Drama and National Socialism. In: The First World War in Drama. German and Australian perspectives. J. B. Metzler, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 978-3-476-04671-0 , pp. 201–222 (on Jahn: p. 202).
  6. ^ Dirk Richardt: Selection and training of young officers 1930-1945. On the social genesis of the German officer corps . Dissertation, Philipps University Marburg, 2002.
  7. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-i.html
  8. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1947-nslit-i.html
  9. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1948-nslit-i.html
  10. ^ Directory of the literature to be discarded. “Only for official use!” Magistratsdruckerei, Berlin, February 12, 1946, p. 41.
personal data
SURNAME Jahn, Bruno Herbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jahn, Bruno H .; Jahn, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH after 1943