Erich Schairer

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Erich Schairer as a teenager
Erich Schairer with his sister Thusnelde and his parents, around 1900
Erich Schairer as a student in Tübingen in 1906. “ Fux Schairer [TRv]! s / l (his dear) farmer [TRv]! z for add. (as a kind reminder) SS 1906. "

Erich Schairer (born October 21, 1887 in Hemmingen near Stuttgart, † August 3, 1956 in Schorndorf ) was a German journalist and publicist .

Life

Schairer was the son of a teacher and first attended elementary school and grammar school in Esslingen am Neckar , from 1903 as a boarding school student at the Blaubeuren seminar , then as a student of philosophy and theology at the monastery in Tübingen . During his studies in 1905 Schairer became a member of the royal society Roigel . From 1909 on, he was vicar in Untertürkheim , Altensteig , Öhringen , Schwaikheim and Sulzbach an der Murr . During his time as a theologian, he met the theologian and philosopher Christoph Schrempf , who made Schairer decide to voluntarily end his theological career within the Württemberg regional church in 1911.

At the beginning of 1912 Schairer became a private secretary to Wilhelm Ohr in Munich. He then came to the Reutlinger Generalanzeiger as an editor , before becoming Friedrich Naumann's (1912–1914) private secretary as the successor to Theodor Heuss . In addition, he received his doctorate in 1913 on Friedrich Christian Daniel Schubart as a political journalist . After his time with Naumann, Schairer was briefly an editor at the Neue Hamburger Zeitung in October 1914 , before becoming private secretary to Ernst Jäckh in Berlin, for whose German-Turkish association he also managed the business until 1917.

In 1918, Schairer became - as successor to Jäckh and Heuss - editor-in-chief of the bourgeois-liberal Heilbronner Neckar-Zeitung . After a dispute with the publisher Viktor Kraemer over a censored glossary by Schairer, he founded his own weekly newspaper in January 1920, the left-wing socialist Heilbronner Sonntags-Zeitung , which was independent and free of advertisements. His credo was: "Fight churchism, capitalism, war and tyranny, for freedom of the mind, community economy, justice and peace." The paper developed into one of the "most important weekly papers in Germany" . In 1922 Schairer resigned from the Roigel after a dispute with Aktivitas . The reason for this was Schairer's repeated criticism of reactionary tendencies in the German student body.

On July 1, 1925, Schairer moved from Heilbronner Lerchenstrasse 31 to Stuttgart, to Lange Strasse 18. The Sonntags-Zeitung appeared in Stuttgart from 1925. Schairer temporarily resigned from publishing the newspaper in 1931 and hired himself as a freelance writer, but in 1932 he took over the editorial office again. In 1933 he came into conflict with the National Socialist rulers, whose rise he had foreseen and fought for many years. The Sonntags-Zeitung was able to continue running for a while with difficulties , but Schairer and his staff were exposed to repression. The newspaper was temporarily banned in March 1933, but the ban was lifted again in April 1933 subject to conditions. In 1934 Schairer formally resigned as editor again, although he continued to work on the newspaper to the same extent as before.

At the beginning of 1937 Schairer was banned from working and writing and was finally forced by the National Socialist press organization to sell his Sunday newspaper to a National Socialist front man. Richard Breitling received publishing rights and the inventory from Aalen. In the autumn of 1937 Schairer moved with his family to Lindau and tried to get by as a wine representative (whereby he knew how to use the contacts to his previous subscribers). His wife ran a pension in the rented house. In 1943 Schairer was hired as an assistant to the Reichsbahn.

After the end of the war, Schairer became editor-in-chief of the Schwäbisches Tagblatt in Tübingen in January 1946 and co-editor of the Stuttgarter Zeitung in September 1946 . Schairer made particular contributions to the preservation of the Cotta archive for the public by first acquiring it for the Stuttgarter Zeitung in order to later leave it to the German Literature Archive in Marbach am Neckar .

Schairer resigned on January 1, 1955 from his work as co-editor of the Stuttgarter Zeitung and died on August 3, 1956 in the Schorndorf district hospital.

Works

  • The suffrage. An overview by E. Sch. Reprint from the Reutlinger General-Anzeiger No. 90-97 of the year 1912. Reutlingen: Oertel & Spörer o. J. [1912?]
  • Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart as a political journalist. Tübingen: Mohr 1914 and Stuttgart: private printing 1984 (reprint)
  • Rathenau Breviary. Ed. E. Sch. Jena: Diederichs 1918 (= Deutsche Gemeinwirtschaft. Publication series. Ed. E. Schairer, issue 5)
  • Socialization of the press. Jena: Diederichs 1919 (= Deutsche Gemeinwirtschaft. Series of publications. Ed. E. Schairer, issue 12)
  • Hanging or upside down? Cultural grotesques by Adam Heller (d. I. E.Sch.). Heilbronn: Verlag der "Sonntags-Zeitung" undated [around 1924]
  • Why I didn't stay a pastor. Stuttgart: Verlag der "Sonntags-Zeitung" undated
  • With different eyes. Yearbook of the "Sonntags-Zeitung" 1920–1929. Stuttgart: Verlag der "Sonntags-Zeitung" 1929
  • Impiety. Stuttgart: Verlag der "Sonntags-Zeitung" 1932
  • Five minutes of German. A linguistic register of sins. Stuttgart: Turmhaus printing company 1951
  • Sebastian Blau / Erich Schairer (eds.), Des body and soul doctor Dr. Owlglass recipe book. Rhyming and narrated. Munich: Nymphenburger Verlagshandlung 1955
  • Five dozen or a full shock of double-shaking rhymes composed, with the necessary headings, a little orderly and on Shrovetide 1941 to his friend Dr. Owlglass respectfully and gratefully dedicated by Erich Schairer Doctor of Philosophy and the Liberal Arts Magister. Illustrations by Eberhard Schairer for Erich Schairer's 80th birthday on October 21, 1967. Stuttgart: Turmhaus-Druckerei 1967

literature

  • Koszyk, Kurt:  Schairer, Erich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 546 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Agathe Kunze: Erich Schairer in memory. From his writings - appreciations - memories . Stuttgart 1967
  • Will Schaber: The tightrope walker. The world and work of Erich Schairer (1887–1956) . 1981
  • Otto Borst: A force in itself . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung, December 19, 1981
  • Richard Schmid: Watch out, without stilts. Life and work of Erich Schairer . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung, May 19, 1982
  • L. Rohner: Dissident from Swabia . In: Die Zeit, March 25, 1983
  • Will Schaber: Erich Schairer . Ders .: Sunday newspaper . Both in: H. Donat, K. Holl: The peace movement . 1983, p. 332 for 361 ff.
  • Reinhard Appel: Memories of Erich Schairer . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung, October 21, 1967
  • Manfred Bosch (Ed.): With the typesetting machine into the opposition. Selection from Erich Schairer's Sunday newspaper 1920–1933 . 1989
  • Manfred Bosch, Agathe Kunze (ed.): I'm a journalist, nothing more. A life in letters . Silberburg-Verlag , Tübingen 2002
  • Andrea Weil: Oppose public opinion. Erich Schairer's journalistic opposition to the National Socialists 1930–1937. Lit-Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-8258-0863-1 .
  • Manfred Bosch: Erich Schairer (1887–1956) - as a journalist "brave with pen and spirit" . In: Angela Borgstedt et al. (Ed.): Courage proven. Resistance biographies from the southwest, Stuttgart 2017 ( S chriften political geography of Baden-Württemberg; 46), pp 389-398 ISBN 978-3-945414-37-8 .
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 599–600.

Web links

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  1. ↑ a b Uwe Jacobi: Heilbronn press story. In: Gerhard Schwinghammer (ed.): Heilbronn and Hans Franke. Publicist, poet and critic 1893–1964 . Verlag Heilbronner Voice, Heilbronn 1989, ISBN 3-921923-06-9 (Heilbronner Voice / Book Series, 3), p. 22 - p. 26, p. 24.
  2. ↑ cf. z. B. "With hat and bat" http://www.erich-schairer.de/maa/kap038.html
  3. ↑ a b http://heuss.stadtarchiv-heilbronn.de/index.php?ID=26836
personal data
SURNAME Schairer, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Hemmingen
DATE OF DEATH 3rd August 1956
Place of death Schorndorf