Erich Karwiese

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Erich Karwiese (born October 16, 1870 ; † unknown) was a German lieutenant colonel and author.

Life

Karwiese embarked on a military career in which he was promoted to lieutenant colonel. During his time in Hameln , as captain and company chief in the 4th Hanoverian Infantry Regiment No. 164, he began to deal more intensively with the history of Hameln before the Thirty Years' War and the time of the Hamelin Fortress. He published two fundamental works on this. From the end of 1911, Karwiese was also responsible for building up the Young Germany Federation for Hameln, which was founded for the purpose of military training .

In addition, he was an active member of the Kyffhäuser Association of the German State Warrior Associations and published several works self-published by this association and with the approval of the Kyffhäuser Verlag. His writing Die Schicksalslinien in the history of the Germans appeared in an edition of at least 13,000 copies.

In 1925, Erich Karwiese also appeared in public with the patriotic play Vom Schäferjungen zum Feldoberisten .

Works (selection)

  • Old Hameln. History of the city up to the Thirty Years' War , Hameln and Leipzig, [around 1910]
  • Hameln Fortress 1618–1806 , Hameln and Leipzig, 1911
  • Regiment and garrison 4th Hanover Infantry Regiment No. 164 in Hameln. Memories of the Landwehr Battalion Hameln and the 2nd Hannoversche Inf.-Reg. (Waterloo) . Written for the centenary, Hameln, 1913
  • Our Army , ed. from the Central Committee of the German Red Cross Associations, Berlin, Heymann, 1915
  • Nature, purpose and goal of the German Warrior Association , Berlin, German Reich Warrior Association "Kyffhäuser", [around 1922]
  • From shepherd boy to field chief. Patriotic drama in four scenes from the time of the 30 Years War (Kyffhäuser-Bühne, vol. 5), Berlin, Kyffhäuser-Verlag, [1925]
  • The national reconstruction of Germany and the war clubs . In: Yearbook of the German War Association. Calendar for 1926.
  • The lines of fate in the history of the Germans , Berlin, self-published by the German Reichskriegerbund "Kyffhäuser", undated
  • The Kyffhäuser Memorial with the permission of the Kyffhäuser Verlag , Berlin, [around 1933]

Individual evidence

  1. Physical drill for hell