Eberhard Taubert

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Eberhard Taubert (born May 11, 1907 in Kassel ; † November 2, 1976 in Cologne ) (pseudonym Dr. Erwin Kohl ; nickname Dr. Anti ) was a German lawyer. From 1933 to 1945 he was a high functionary in the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda involved in the implementation of National Socialist politics. Among other things, he wrote the screenplay for the anti-Semitic inflammatory film Der Ewige Jude and was the publishing director of the anti-Semitic Nibelungen publishing house belonging to the General Association of German Anti-Communist Associations . After 1945 Taubert was active in western secret services in activities against attempts at influence by the Soviet Union. He was an employee and advisor to the politician Franz Josef Strauss in the 1950s to 1970s.

Life

Weimar Republic

Eberhard Taubert was the son of a medical officer. He spent his youth in Rathenow . He then studied law in Kiel, Berlin and Heidelberg and was on 19 February 1931 in Heidelberg with the theme "The right of hunting lease in Prussia" to Dr. jur. PhD .

Taubert joined the NSDAP on November 1, 1931 ( membership number 712.249). At the same time he joined the SA , in which he was active with the rank of SA storm leader in the staff of the SA group Berlin-Brandenburg . At the beginning of 1932 Taubert became head of the legal department of the district administration of Greater Berlin. In addition, he was at this time "anti-Bolshevism consultant" to the local district leader Joseph Goebbels .

time of the nationalsocialism

With the establishment of the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda on March 13, 1933, Taubert took over as head of the "Department of General Domestic Policy" in which he was responsible for "opposing world views", "church affairs" and "Bolshevism at home and abroad" . According to his own statements, in the same year he founded the General Association of German Anti-Communist Associations , also known as Anti-Comintern , which was financed by the ministry. From August 1934 Taubert took over the management of the house publishing house ("Nibelungen-Verlag GmbH") and was also appointed head of the Anti-Comintern department in the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. From 1939 Taubert was also responsible for the " Institute for the Study of the Jewish Question ", which was later renamed "Anti-Semitic Action".

In Goebbels' Reich Ministry, Taubert was promoted to government councilor in 1936, and in 1938 - "in deviation from the principles of the Reich" - was promoted prematurely by Hitler to senior government councilor and in 1942 finally to ministerial director. His work in the early 1930s focused primarily on the management of the department "Active propaganda against the Jews", expanded by the responsibility for "Anti-Comintern", which practically the supervision of the propaganda activities of the ministry and its subordinate agencies against Jews and communists and intellectuals meant. In 1937 Taubert published the official guidelines of the Ministry of Press, Film and Radio and other propaganda agencies, in which the content, goals and form of their activities were prescribed and explained in outline. In 1942 he took over the management of the "Department East" (General Section Ostraum) in the Propaganda Ministry. This department, in which about 450 officials were subordinate to him, was entrusted with the management of all propaganda stations in the occupied eastern territories. At the beginning of 1943 the "East Department", which he headed in the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda , had 93 employees. There were also 350 other employees in the so-called “ Vineta ” organization, the “distribution body” of this department. His official contact at the Foreign Office in all matters related to the Eastern Territories was the future Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger .

Taubert was the author of the screenplay for the anti-Semitic propaganda film Der Ewige Jude - a film contribution to the problem of world Jewry (director: Fritz Hippler , 1940). The aim of this film was to educate the population psychologically to hate Jews. In special presentations, the work was specifically shown to SS people who were intended for use in task forces or as guards in concentration camps . In suggestive scenes that showed film recordings from Eastern European ghettos, Jews were alternately equated with rats and blowflies. In one of the film's inscriptions written by Taubert, for example, it says: “As parasites, rats have been with humans from the very beginning. They are deceitful, cowardly and cruel. Among the animals they represent the element of insidious, insidious decomposition. Nothing else than the Jews among the people. ”In Nazi circles, Taubert was therefore also referred to as“ Ratten-Taubert ”in order to refer to him from“ Wewelsburg-Taubert ”, the Commanders of the SS training facility on the Wewelsburg to distinguish. The political battle term "rats and blowflies" was later used in this combination by the CSU politician Franz Josef Strauss , who was advised by Taubert, and by Strauss' protégé Edmund Stoiber (Stoiber used the phrase in February 1980 to some editors of the Süddeutscher Rundfunk in Stuttgart) is used. For Taubert, anti-Semitism and anti-communism were inextricably linked, since “ Bolshevism is the work and weapon of Judaism ” (cf. Jewish Bolshevism ). On October 3, 1935, Joseph Goebbels praised Taubert as a "sympathetic fanatic". In 1940, Taubert was commissioned by Goebbels to be responsible for propaganda in occupied Norway as Nazi special leader .

Taubert was also the publishing director of the “ Nibelungen-Verlag ” founded by Goebbels' Propaganda Ministry in 1934 (based in Berlin and Leipzig). Between 1938 and 1944, this publisher played a major role in the distribution of anti-communist and anti-Jewish books (such as The Jew as a Criminal ). In 1936 Taubert also founded the magazine Contra-Comintern (editor-in-chief: Melitta Wiedemann ).

Parallel to his activities in the Propaganda Ministry, Taubert had been a member of the newly established People's Court from 1934 . From 1938 he was a judge at the 1st Senate of the People's Court and participated in death sentences against resistance fighters. Among other things, he was involved in the death sentence against Maurice Bavaud on December 18, 1939 , on November 27, 1942 in the death sentence against Helmuth Klotz and on January 11, 1943 in the death sentence against Marcel Gerbohay.

post war period

After the war ended in 1945 Taubert went into hiding, from then on called himself “Dr. Erwin Kohl ”and lived partly in Hamburg, temporarily outside of Germany in South Africa and Persia, where he advised the rulers there on the use of“ active propaganda ”, until he returned to the Federal Republic in 1950 from Iran . According to Patrick Major, Taubert was approached by the British secret service in 1946 and was employed by the US secret service CIC in 1947 .

As "Erwin Kohl" Taubert was one of the founders of the People's League for Peace and Freedom (VFF) in 1950 . The VFF saw itself as “the central anti-communist organization of the Federal Republic” and was supported and subsidized by the Federal Ministry for All-German Issues (forerunner of the Federal Ministry for German-internal Relations ). Mathias Friedel viewed the VFF as a replica of the "Antikomintern".

Taubert was the second chairman of the VFF until August 24, 1955. After his involvement with the Nazis became public, in particular his involvement in the death sentences of the People's Court , he had to resign. A week before his resignation, Ewert von Dellingshausen , the responsible officer in the “Ministry for All-German Issues”, who monitored and financially controlled the activities of the VFF, said in an interview: “I can tell you that the Ministry will not draw any conclusions of this kind towards Taubert becomes; because Taubert is a man we need and he is also indispensable. (...) Taubert has experience. "

In 1953 the British secret service included Taubert in the Naumann circle of ex-State Secretary Werner Naumann .

In 1958 Franz Josef Strauss (Minister of Defense from 1956 to 1961) brought him in as a consultant for his newly established department “Psychological Warfare”. Taubert maintained a liaison office in Bonn that worked for NATO on matters of psychological defense (PSV) .

Taubert was still a defense expert for a US secret service and in 1959 took on a job for the Iranian secret service (SAVAK) and other Middle Eastern intelligence services. Under the pseudonym Dr. From August 1961, Marcel Wallensdorfer gave Taubert a press service entitled Anti-Comintern Service .

As head of the legal department of the Pegulan-Werke in Frankenthal, he advised the chairman Fritz Ries on security issues.

Taubert was the founder and owner of the Markus-Verlag Cologne in 1955 .

After the social democratic-liberal government of Brandt took office, Taubert worked with right-wing journalists such as Hugo Wellems to overthrow the government in favor of a new government being formed by the CDU. In addition, he was active as a journalist against the APO .

After 1972 Taubert fell seriously ill and largely withdrew from public activities. In his last years Taubert made contact with openly right-wing extremist circles, such as Manfred Roeder . In April 1976, a few months before his death, he took part in a meeting of Thies Christophersen's citizens 'and farmers' initiative in Heligoland.

He died on November 2, 1976 as a result of a traffic accident. Three people attended his funeral.

Fonts

  • The right of hunting leases in Prussia. Dissertation, Giessen 1930.
  • Communism without a mask. 1935; again in 1955; 1957 (the latter udT you have unmasked. With changed layout)
  • The world Jewry as a starting point the Bolshevik danger . In: Zeitschrift für Politik (Berlin), vol. 29, 1939, pp. 246-253.
  • The Third World War does not take place . Bonn 1955.

See also

literature

  • Pigeon gnaws at the cabbage stalk . In: Der Spiegel . No. 42 , 1951 ( online - anti-communist Eberhard Taubert in action).
  • Bernt Engelmann : The new black book Franz Josef Strauss. 1980, ISBN 3-462-01390-4 , pp. 166-176.
  • Klaus Körner: Eberhard Taubert and the Nibelungen Verlag . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 12, 1997, ISSN  0944-5560 , p. 44–52 ( luise-berlin.de - mainly covers the period up to 1945).
  • Klaus Körner: From anti-Bolshevik to anti-Soviet propaganda, Dr. Eberhard Taubert. In: Arnold Sywottek (Ed.): The Cold War - Prelude to Peace? 1993, ISBN 3-89473-602-X , pp. 54-68. (mainly deals with the period after 1945) (Yearbook for Historical Peace Research, Volume 2)
  • Klaus Körner: The red danger. Konkret Literatur Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-89458-215-4 .
  • Mathias Friedel: The People's Federation for Peace and Freedom (VFF) - a partial study of West German anti-communist propaganda in the Cold War and its roots in National Socialism. St. Augustin 2001, ISBN 3-89796-054-0 .
  • Ernst Klee : The Personal Lexicon on National Socialism. 2003
  • Wolfgang Benz : Taubert, Eberhard . In: Handbuch des Antisemitismus , Volume 2/2, 2009, p. 819 f.

References and comments

  1. ↑ The German word: What causes Strauss to defame opponents as "rats"? In: Der Spiegel . No. 9 , 1980, pp. 33 ( online ).
  2. ↑ Birgit Aschmann: "Faithful friends ..."? - West Germany and Spain, 1945 to 1963 . F. Steiner, 1999, p. 100.
  3. ^ Hans-Adolf Jacobsen: National Socialist Foreign Policy, 1933–1938 . A. Metzner, 1968, p. 715.
  4. ↑ Jeffrey Herf : The Jewish Enemy. Nazi propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust . Harvard UP, 2006, p. 27.
  5. ↑ Bernt Engelmann , Lothar Menne: In good German . Bertelsmann, 1981, p. 132.
  6. ↑ Andreas Zellhuber: "Our administration is heading for a catastrophe ..." The Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories and German occupation in the Soviet Union 1941–1945. Vögel, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-89650-213-1 , p. 58. (Cited source: BA R 55/1435, p. 23.)
  7. ^ Bernt Engelmann : Black Book Franz Josef Strauss . 1980, p. 176ff.
  8. ↑ See black book Franz Josef Strauss .
  9. ↑ World Jewry ..., p. 246.
  10. ^ Diaries of Jos. Goebbels.
  11. ^ Klaus Körner: Eberhard Taubert and the Nibelungen-Verlag . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 12, 1997, ISSN  0944-5560 , p. 48 ( luise-berlin.de ).
  12. ^ Francis G. Gentry: The Nibelungen Tradition: An Encyclopedia . Routledge, 2002, p. 312.
  13. ^ Klaus Körner: Eberhard Taubert and the Nibelungen-Verlag . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 12, 1997, ISSN  0944-5560 , p. 45 ( luise-berlin.de ).
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  15. ↑ Klaus Pokatzky: "He is beheaded" . In: Die Zeit , No. 21/1991
  16. ↑ Herbert Linder: From the NSDAP to the SPD. The political life of Dr. Helmuth Klotz (1894-1943). (= Karlsruhe contributions to the history of National Socialism. Volume 3) Universitätsverlag Konstanz, Konstanz 1998, ISBN 3-87940-607-3 , p. 325.
  17. ↑ Klaus Urner: The Swiss Hitler Assassin . Huber Verlag, 1980, p. 167.
  18. ↑ taz , July 22, 2003, p. 11.
  19. ^ Bernard Ludwig: La Propagande Anticommuniste en Allemagne Fédérale. Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire, Volume 80, October – December 2003, p. 35.
  20. ↑ Michael R. Lang, Henryk M. Broder : Foreign in one's own country: Jews in the Federal Republic . Fischer, Ffm. 1979, p. 25.
  21. ^ Patrick Major: The Death of the KPD: Communism and Anti-Communism in West Germany, 1945-1956. Oxford University Press 1997, p. 269; Quote: "" Dr. Anti "already familiar as the inspiration behind the Nazi Antikomintern, had been approached in spring 1946 by British intelligence for information on Communist infiltration techniques, but in 1947 found employment with the Americans in CIC".
  22. ^ Kai-Uwe Merz: Cold War as Anti-Communist Resistance . R. Oldenbourg, 1987, p. 147.
  23. ↑ Gudrun Hentges in an interview with Felix Klopotek . In: Kölner Stadtrevue. 12/2002, p. 33.
  24. ↑ In an interview on November 21, 1969, the executive chairman H. Hämmerle stated: budget from 1951 to 1956 about 700,000 DM annually  , from 1957 to 1967 about 1.1 million DM annually
  25. ^ Mathias Friedel: The People's League for Peace and Freedom (VFF) . St. Augustin 2001, book cover: “Because he had already practiced anti-communism as a profession in Goebbels' Propaganda Ministry by setting up a propaganda agency there, the“ Antikomintern e. V. “, which the VFF can be regarded as a replica. Therefore the book deals with the construction and implementation of anti-communist enemy images by the Volksbund with regard to the Anti-Comintern as a model. "
  26. ↑ Nothing has changed . In: Der Spiegel . No. 34 , 1955, pp. 11 f . ( online ). We have to reach out to mothers and brides . In: Der Spiegel . No. 20 , 1989, pp. 45 ( online ).
  27. ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer, 2005, p. 618.
  28. ↑ We have to reach out to mothers and brides . In: Der Spiegel . No. 20 , 1989, pp. 45 ( online ).
  29. ↑ Jo Angerer: "Battle for hearts and brains" - The history of German war propaganda . In: Wissenschaft und Frieden , Edition 3, 1993, p. 24.
  30. ↑ Leo A. Müller : Gladio , the legacy of the Cold War. The NATO secret society and its German predecessors . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1991, p. 101.
  31. ↑ On the person . In: CrP-Informationsdienst 9, 1961, p. 116.
  32. ↑ Bernt Engelmann : The black cash book: The secret election workers of the CDU / CSU , Kiepenheuer & Witsch 1973, p. 91. rsv.daten-web.de (PDF)
  33. ^ Mathias Friedel: The People's League for Peace and Freedom (VFF). A partial study of West German anti-communist propaganda during the Cold War and its roots in National Socialism . St. Augustin 2001, p. 150.
  34. ↑ Jürgen Strohmaier: Manfred Roeder: Ein Brandstifter. Gaisreiter Verlag, 1982, p. 38.
  35. ↑ With the "peasantry" to Heligoland . In: taz , August 30, 1983, p. 3.
  36. ↑ Körner: From anti-Bolshevik to anti-Soviet propaganda, Dr. Eberhard Taubert . In: The Cold War - Prelude to Peace?
  37. ↑ under the author's name Goebbels, read out by him at the 1935 party congress
personal data
SURNAME Taubert, Eberhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kohl, Dr. Erwin (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, publisher, propagandist and politician (NSDAP)
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH 2nd November 1976
Place of death Cologne