German Cultural Association (Austria)

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The German Cultural Association was a National Socialist association in Austria .

Club history

The German Cultural Association was founded in Vienna , Austria in 1928 , and was officially approved as an association in 1931. Alfred Rosenberg gave the founding lecture in Vienna . The headquarters of the state leadership was in Linz .

The German Cultural Association was affiliated with the German Association for German Culture (KdK). Like the KdK, the German Cultural Association was dissolved in 1934 and merged with the Reich Association “German Stage” to form the National Socialist Cultural Community (“NS-Kulturgemeinde”). The dissolution process was associated with the establishment of the "Rosenberg Office" (DRbg), later the " Rosenberg Office " (ARo).

In the early years of the German Cultural Association from 1928 onwards, work was sluggish because there were problems filling the federal leadership positions. The chairman of the first few years was Alfred Frauenfeld , then activities were suspended due to a lack of leadership. Frauenfeld was followed as chairwoman by the composer Josef Reiter (1931-1932), the writer Hermann Graedener (1932), the painter Hugo Hodiener (1932-1933) and finally the Linz secondary school teacher Anton Haasbauer (1933-1934).

After the NSDAP was banned, the German Cultural Association was also banned on March 12, 1933. It was officially deleted on August 4, 1934.

Before 1914 there was the New German Cultural Association , founded in 1907 by the folk-thinking Reichenberg city ​​doctor and alcohol opponent Gustav Rösler (1862-1946). The life reformer was concerned with the self-renewal of humans under racial criteria. The magazine was called New Life . Gustav Simons founded a parallel German cultural association in the German Empire in 1908 . In 1916, the New German Cultural Association was dissolved due to the war, but Rösler continued to publish in the Austrian national scene.

Association structure

Similar to the Kampfbund for German Culture , the German Cultural Association was divided into specialist and local groups.

The specialist groups were led by the respective specialist advisors. These goods:

The local groups and their local group leaders were:

Club activities

The main activities of the German Cultural Association were:

  • The foundation of the Ring of National Writers by the Literature Section on April 28, 1933
  • The establishment of the Ring of National Publishers and Booksellers in May 1933 by Karl Wache
  • The establishment of the art department of the German Cultural Association (reduced tickets for federal and private theaters as well as the concert hall)
  • The foundation of the Landeskampfbundorchester under the direction of Leopold Reichwein
  • Running the division of the Vienna PEN Club

literature

  • Amann, Klaus: The connection of Austrian writers to the Third Reich. Institutional and consciousness-historical aspects . (Athenaeum's monographs on literary studies. Literature in history, history in literature 16). Frankfurt am Main: Athenaeum. Chapter 1.2 "The Austrian offshoot of the 'Kampfbund'". Pp. 27-33.
  • Uwe Baur, Karin Gradwohl-Schlacher: Literature in Austria 1938–1945. Manual of a literary system. Volume 3: Upper Austria . Vienna 2014, Böhlau.
  • Johannes Sachslehner : Leader word and leader look. Mirko Jelusich. On the strategy of a bestselling author in the 1930s . (Literature in History - History in Literature 11). Königstein im Taunus 1958, Hain.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gregor Hufenreuter: Deutscher Kulturbund , in: Wolfgang Benz (ed.): Handbuch des Antisemitismus , Vol. 5, Organizations, Institutions, Movements , Berlin / Boston 2012, pp. 175–177.