Carl Rothe

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Carl Rothe (born January 28, 1900 in Aachen , † May 12, 1970 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German writer and cultural functionary.

Life

Rothe did his military service in Potsdam in 1918 and then studied history and economics at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität , among others with Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff , Werner Sombart , Hans Delbrück , Friedrich Meinecke , Otto Hoetzsch and Eduard Meyer , and at the University of Bonn . In Berlin he was a member of the Academic Freischar . In 1923 he received his doctorate as a historian.

From 1925 Rothe was active in cultural policy for the German National Sales Aid Association in Hamburg - he published, among others, Das Deutsche Unglück - Versailles 1919 (1927), From the Constitutions of the Great States (1927) - and wrote for various newspapers. Rothe participated in the establishment of the People's Conservative Party , which he led from 1930.

From 1933 to 1938 Rothe worked for the Volksbund für das Deutschtum abroad - he published, among other things, Law for Eupen-Malmedy (1936) in their series - and was also active in the Greater German Poet Meetings . He was not a member of the NSDAP . He had numerous foreign contacts, which he made on numerous trips abroad from 1941 to 1944 as General Secretary of the European Writers' Association. The writers 'association was officially founded in Weimar in 1942, but was already planned for the Weimar poets' meeting in autumn 1941. She published a magazine European literature , whose editor was Wilhelm Ruoff . Writers such as Felix Timmermans , Pierre Drieu la Rochelle , Robert Brasillach , Knut Hamsun , John Knittel , Lőrinc Szabó and József Nyírő belonged to the association's environment . It was founded by the German National Socialists as a counterpoint to the PEN Club, with Hans Carossa as President. On the one hand, Rothe allowed himself to be involved in the National Socialist cultural policy, on the other hand, he used freedom to help people who were in opposition to the National Socialists. He was friends with Caesar von Hofacker . From 1940 he lived in Überlingen on Lake Constance, where his house became a cultural center of the area.

In 1959, at the invitation of his friend Arnold Bergstraesser , Rothe was involved in setting up the research center for cultural studies in Freiburg im Breisgau, which later became the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute. He translated (and edited) the German history of the French conservative historian Pierre Gaxotte in the 1960s .

He was married to Martha von Beckerath since 1928. His son Arnold Rothe (* 1935) was a professor of Romance studies in Heidelberg.

Fonts

Novels

His novels were reprinted several times during World War II and also translated into Dutch and Finnish.

Others

  • The front of the unions . Diederichs, Jena 1932.
  • World war against German economy . Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg 1932.
  • Economic war and war economy. The role of national defense in the peace economy . W. Goldmann, Leipzig 1936. Was placed on the list of literature to be segregated in the Soviet occupation zone after the end of the Second World War.
  • Charles IV of Luxembourg, German Emperor and King of Bohemia . E. Runge, Berlin 1935.
  • Editor with Arnold Bergstraesser , Fritz Hodeige: Atlantic encounters - a gift to Arnold Bergstraesser . Rombach, Freiburg 1964.

Translations

  • As editor and translator from French: Maria Theresa : The mother and the empress. Letters from Maria Theresa to her children and confidants . Hans von Hugo Verlag, Berlin 1939. Reissued as The Mother and the Empress. Letters to their children and confidants . Herold-Verlag, Vienna and Munich 1968.
  • Pierre Gaxotte, History of Germany and the Germans . Rombach Verlag, Freiburg 1965, 1967.

literature

  • Jan-Pieter Barbian: Literary Policy in the Third Reich. Saur 1993, dtv 1995.
  • Manfred Bosch : Bohème am Bodensee: Literary life on the lake from 1900 to 1950. Libelle, 1997.
  • Rothe, Carl. In: German Biographical Encyclopedia . 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Saur, Munich. Vol. 8 (2007), p. 569. ( online ).
  • Dieter Oberndörfer: On the history of the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute. A documentation and personal memories. Freiburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-928597-61-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Noemi Kiss Who was Carl Rothe? leads, for example, to contacts with persons of the resistance like Adolf Reichwein .
  2. ↑ Gerhard Heller with Jean Grand: In an occupied country. Lieutenant Heller and the censorship in France 1940-1944 . From d. Franz. Transl. by Annette Lallemand-Rietkötter. Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1985, ISBN 3-404-65066-2 , p. 115.
  3. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1953-nslit-q.html
  4. ↑ a b http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-r.html
personal data
SURNAME Rothe, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 1970
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau