Ernst Buske

Ernst Buske (born October 25, 1894 in Bad Polzin , † February 27, 1930 in Wesermünde (today: Bremerhaven )) was a German lawyer and manager of various farmers' associations. Within the youth movement , he was one of the most important personalities of the late wandering bird and the Bündische Jugend . Until his untimely death, Buske was a federal leader of the German Freischar .

Life

In 1912 Buske joined the local group of the Alt-Wandervogel in Dramburger . After graduation in 1914, he studied in Berlin Jura and his doctorate in 1922 on "The explanation of the terms people, nation and state." He then earned his living as legal advisor and syndic of the Reichslandbund in north-west Germany.

Since 1917 Buske has been involved in the “Academic Community Skuld”, which emerged from the association of abstinent students, and he was its guild master until 1919. He was released from military service in the First World War due to his physical disability (one-armed situation).

As early as 1919, Buske had been elected federal leader of the adult wandering bird; He restructured the federal government with radical reforms and advocated, among other things, a separation of the federal government into a boys 'and a girls' union. In addition, under his leadership, all members over 20 years of age who were no longer active in a local group had to leave the federal government. At the federal week in the spring of 1920, these reforms were adopted by a large majority, whereupon many local groups and all girls' groups left the federal government and mainly joined the Wandervogel e. V. connected. In 1921, the Gau Rhineland, under the leadership of Robert Oelbermann, left the Alt-Wandervogel and founded the Nerother Wandervogel . Measured in terms of the number of members, the old wandering bird shrank very much, but this consolidated the remaining groups.

In 1923 Buske handed over the office of federal leader to Georg Götsch , but remained active in the federal leadership. At the beginning of August 1923, the Alt-Wandervogel, the "Wandervogel-Wehrbund", the "Wandervogel-Jungebund" and the "Schlesische Wandervogel - Jungsbund" decided to merge into a common union under the name "Wandervogel, German Young Society". The first federal leadership consisted of Hans Dehmel and Georg Weber. When Dehmel resigned from office in 1924, Buske took over this post on condition that the name of the association be changed to "Alt-Wandervogel, German Young Society".

Under Buske's direction, the "Alt-Wandervogel, German Young Society" held intensive talks with various youth associations about the formation of a joint "Hochbund". In 1926, the Alt-Wandervogel merged with the Greater German Scout Association to form the Association of Wandering Birds and Scouts . The new federation accepted girls again, and Hans Dehmel became the federal leader. A year later, the Bund changed its name to Deutsche Freischar after other groups had joined it. After Dehmel's resignation in April 1928, Buske was elected federal leader of the German Freischar. He held this office until his sudden death on February 27, 1930. He died in Wesermünde and was buried in his birthplace Polzin . Buske's last term of office was shaped by his efforts to unify the German Freischar and the disputes with Eberhard Koebel , which ultimately led to the separation of dj.1.11 . The opponent Koebel, better known by his journey name "tusk", paid tribute to Federal Leader Buske in an obituary:

“Ernst Buske's decision was respected and feared. He promised nothing, ordained little, but carried out everything. He had the decision-making and demeanor of a seasoned soldier. If such a leader dies without first thinking about this possibility, he leaves behind a rudderless ship. "

Publications

• About the concept of nation: With an appendix about nationality and the nationality principle . Diss. Jur. Breslau, Remmler, Geestemünde 1922
• with Karl Brandt : The German Agricultural Crisis and Overcoming it . Publishing house of the Landbund, Geestemünde 1924

literature

• Deutsche Freischar (Ed.): Ernst Buske to the memory . Emphasis. Self-published, Braunschweig 1984
• Hans-Gerd Warmann (Jack): Ernst Buske - a man with a broad view in: Idea and Movement, Issue 89, March 2010, ISSN  1435-8883
• Rolf Gardiner: In memory of a youth leader - Ernst Buske in: The collection, November 1956
• Special issue: Ernst Buske in: Team - Leaves for Youth Leadership, 1964

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Quoted from Werner Helwig: The blue flower of the wandering bird . Extended new edition, edited and provided with an afterword by Walter Sauer . Heidenheim an der Brenz 1980, p. 277