Erich Kern

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Erich Kern , actually Erich Knud Kernmayr (born February 27, 1906 in Graz , † September 13, 1991 in Kammer am Attersee) was an Austrian National Socialist functionary and right-wing extremist publicist whose writings a. a. were published by the publisher of the Deutsche National-Zeitung .

Life

The son of an employee first attended primary school for five years and then high school for five years, which he left with secondary school leaving certificate. He worked as an editor and became a member of the Austrian Communist Party ( KPÖ ). He was punished a total of eleven times for "communist activities", but also for theft and fraud, and was arrested in 1934 for communist activities. In March 1938 he became a member of the SA , which was illegal in Austria, and joined the NSDAP . On May 15, 1941, he was released from the SA because of his criminal record, among other things.

In 1936, Kern became deputy editor-in-chief of the Viennese editorial staff of the national newspaper (Essen). In 1938 he joined the editorial team of the newspaper Deutscher Telegraf as head of duty . In 1939 he acted as head of the Gau press office in the Gauleitung Vienna of the NSDAP. In 1940 he became head of the press office of the Saarland Gauleiter Josef Bürckel . In 1941 he joined a propaganda company of the Waffen SS as a war correspondent . In 1945 he had reached the rank of SS-Untersturmführer . In 1945/46, Kern was an American prisoner of war .

After World War II , his writings became Spain aflame! (1936), comrade, you have the floor ...! (1937), The Day of Our Lives. Novel of an Austrian Worker (1938), Fahne im Sturm (1940) and Lorraine (1942) added to the list of literature to be segregated in the Soviet occupation zone .

Kern was one of the founding members of the so-called Gmund Circle , a pool of former leading SS and NSDAP members, the right-wing society for free journalism and the Association of Independents . He was editor and from 1955 to 1958 editor-in-chief of the German soldiers newspaper . He published several newspapers of the extreme right, including from 1955 the association sheet of the mutual aid community of soldiers of the former Waffen SS ( HIAG ). Kern was also active in several right-wing extremist parties ( SRP , NPD , DVU ). In 1982 he was awarded the poet's stone shield from the Dichterstein Offenhausen association, which was banned in 1999 due to being re- employed by the National Socialists .

Rating

Kern's publications are permeated by the anti-Semitism of folk-nationalist propaganda, the whitewashing of the Wehrmacht and the Waffen-SS as well as other Nazi organizations. In his opinion, the Germans are the real victims of the Second World War. Several of his works have appeared in numerous editions (and are still being published), and they are still a permanent reference point for right-wing extremists today.

Publications

  • Sounding road ... vagabond songs , by Erich Knud. (Pseudonym). (Printing) Horst, Leoben 1934, StLBk .
  • The stone guides. Books of the young team, Volume 7, ZDB -ID 25968-8 . Enßlin & Laiblin, Reutlingen 1938, OBV .
  • The march into nowhere. Novel . Paul Zsolnay, Berlin / Vienna 1938, OBV .
  • Styrian novellas . Zsolnay, Berlin 1939. (Later under the title: The betrayed mountain. Styrian novels. Wiener Verlagsgesellschaft, Vienna 1943, OBV .)
  • Vienna . Ertl, Vienna 1940, DNB .
  • The golden gate. Novellas from Metz . Book trade house, Saarbrücken 1942, DNB .
  • Midsummer Night. Stories. Small book series Südost, Volume 35, ZDB -ID 1217089-6 . Wiener Verlagsgesellschaft, Vienna 1942, OBV .
  • The great intoxication. Russian campaign 1941-1945. Thomas, Zurich 1948. English: Dance of death. Translator Paul Findlay. Collins, London 1951, OBV .
  • The hard life. Excerpts from a diary from 1947 to 1950. Verlag Welsermühl, Wels 1950, OBV .
  • Heart in the barbed wire. Diana, Salzburg 1950, OBV .
  • The other Lidice . The tragedy of the Sudeten Germans. Welsermühl, Wels 1950, OBV .
  • Robert Hohlbaum 65 years. Welsermühl, Wels 1951, OBV -
  • Island of the Brave. Novel. Welsermühl, Wels 1951, OBV .
  • Book of Valor. Druffel-Verlag , Leoni 1953, OBV .
  • The clock stopped. Welsermühl, Wels 1953, OBV .
  • Home in the fire. Schild-Hefte , Volume 15. Schild-Verlag , Munich 1954, ZDB -ID 2462544-9 .
  • The thorn in the flesh. Foreign Legion novel. (Austrian edition). Welsermühl, Wels 1955, OBV .
  • White man - dead man? East Asia in upheaval. An eyewitness report. Welsermühl, Wels 1955, OBV .
  • The golden field. Novel from Ukraine. Sign, Munich-Lochhausen 1957, DNB .
  • People on the net. Novel. Welsermühl, Wels 1957, OBV .
  • Algeria on fire. A people is fighting for its freedom. Plesse-Verlag , Göttingen 1958, OBV .
  • City of no mercy. A novel about Berlin. Welsermühl, Wels 1959, OBV .
  • The big boilers. Will the German soldier remain an outlaw? First edition. Reichsruf series of publications, Volume 6, ZDB -ID 2197181-X . Reichsruf, Hanover 1960, ÖNB .
  • The last fight. Hungary 1944-45. 1st edition, Karl Waldemar Schütz , Göttingen 1960, ÖNB . (3rd edition, 1985: ISBN 3-87725-016-5 ).
  • Judgment day. A novella. Türmer-Verlag , Munich 1961, OBV .
  • From Versailles to Adolf Hitler. The terrible peace. Schütz, Göttingen 1961, OBV .
  • Sacrifice of a people. The total war. Schütz, Göttingen 1962, ÖNB .
  • General Helmuth von Pannwitz and his Cossacks. They fought for freedom and died in the west. Plesse, Göttingen 1963, OBV .
  • Germany in the abyss. The wrong judgment. Schütz, Göttingen 1963, DNB .
  • Betrayal of Germany. Spies and saboteurs against their own fatherland. Schütz, Göttingen 1963, OBV .
  • Battle in Ukraine 1941–1944. Plesse, Göttingen 1964, OBV .
  • Crimes against the German people. Allied atrocities documents 1939-1949. Schütz, Göttingen 1964, OBV . (8th edition, 1983: ISBN 3-87725-040-8 ).
  • Neither peace nor freedom. German fate of our time. Schütz, Göttingen 1965, OBV .
  • From Versailles to Nuremberg. The sacrifice of the German people. Schütz, Göttingen 1967, LOC .
  • The victory of the soldiers. Schütz, Göttingen 1969, DNB .
  • SPD without a mask. A political documentary. National-Verlag , Hanover 1970, ÖNB . 7th ext. Edition 1976 ISBN 3-920722-01-9 .
  • Perjury against Germany. A documentary about the political fraud. Schütz, Göttingen 1971, OBV .
  • Adolf Hitler and his movement. The party leader. (Hitler trilogy, 1.) Schütz, Göttingen 1970, ÖNB .
    • Adolf Hitler and the war. The general. (Hitler trilogy, 3rd) Schütz, Preußisch Oldendorf 1971, OBV . (3rd edition, 1978: ISBN 3-87725-003-3 ).
    • Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich. The statesman. (Hitler trilogy, 2.) Schütz, Göttingen 1971, ÖNB .; 3rd edition 1981 ISBN 3-87725-002-5 .
  • This is how Germany was betrayed. A documentary about treason in World War II. National-Verlag, Hanover 1971, ÖNB .
    • This is how Germany was betrayed. Documentary revision based on the latest historical research . Second improved edition. Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Rosenheim 1974, ISBN 3-920722-06-X .
  • Willy Brandt - appearance and reality. A documentation. National-Verlag, Rosenheim 1973, ISBN 3-920722-18-3 .
  • The adventure of truth. Task and obligation of a German publicist. 2., ext. Edition Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Rosenheim 1974
  • with Erich Kempka (arr.): The last days with Adolf Hitler. Schütz, Preußisch Oldendorf 1975, ISBN 3-87725-080-7 .
  • Field Marshal General Ferdinand Schörner . A German soldier's fate. Schütz, Preußisch Oldendorf 1976, ISBN 3-87725-083-1 and ISBN 3-920722-15-9 .
  • SPD, security risk for everyone. DVG, Rosenheim 1976, DNB .
  • The tragedy of the Jews. Fate between propaganda and truth. Schütz, Preußisch Oldendorf 1979, ISBN 3-87725-093-9 .
  • - (Ed.), Karl Balzer: Allied crimes against Germans. The secret victims. Schütz, Preußisch Oldendorf 1980, ISBN 3-87725-096-3 .
  • - (Ed.): Concealed documents. What is kept from the Germans. Second edition. FZ-Verlag , Munich 1988, ISBN 3-924309-08-6 .
    • Volume 2: Bernhard Steidle (Ed.): Hidden documents. What is kept from the Germans . FZ-Verlag, Munich 1995, OVB , ISBN 3-924309-26-4 .

literature

  • Gerhart Binder: Revision literature in the Federal Republic. In: History in Science and Education , Volume 17, ZDB -ID 124538-7 . Friedrich, Seelze 1966, pp. 179-200.
  • Karin Gradwohl-Schlacher: The Graz journalist and writer Erich Knud Kernmeyer. In: Historical yearbook of the city of Graz. Volume 20. 1989, ZDB ID 217827-8 . City of Graz, Graz 1989, pp. 111–125.
  • Ernst Klee : Erich Kern. In: Ernst Klee: The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Rolf Düsterberg : Soldier and war experience. German military memorial literature (1945–1961) on the Second World War. Motives, terms, evaluations. Niemeyer, Tübingen 2000, ISBN 3-484-35078-4 , p. 248.
  2. ↑ ZDB -ID 456725-0 .
  3. ↑ OBV .
  4. ↑ ÖNB .
  5. ↑ OBV .
  6. ↑ OBV .
  7. ↑ ÖNB .
  8. ↑ German Administration for Popular Education in the Soviet Zone of Occupation, List of Literature to be Separated, Transcript Letter K, pages 203-239 ,
    German Administration for Popular Education in the Soviet Zone of Occupation, List of Literature to be Separated , Transcript Letter K, pages 76-89 .
  9. ^ Walter Schuster: German national, National Socialist, denazified. Franz Langoth - a Nazi career . Archive of the City of Linz, Linz 1999, ISBN 3-900388-79-2 , pp. 246, 249, 278.
personal data
SURNAME Kern, Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kernmayr, Erich Knud (maiden name); Knud, Erich (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian publicist
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1991
Place of death Chamber on the Attersee