Ernst Frank (writer)

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Ernst Frank (born August 22, 1900 in Karlsbad ; † September 20, 1982 in Offenbach am Main ) was a Sudeten German writer and National Socialist .

Life

Frank was SdP district leader and NSDAP functionary as well as editor-in-chief of the Karlsbader daily newspaper . According to his own statements, he was co-owner of Adam Kraft's publishing house from 1934 onwards . Frank's works include the novel Comrades, We're Marching! (1936), Sudetenland - Deutsches Land, told the story of the Sudeten German liberation struggle and the novella Passionate Egerland, also published in 1941 . He wrote biographies, including about Goethe , Friedrich Ludwig Jahn , his friend Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer and his older brother Karl Hermann , who was German Minister of State for the Reich Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and was executed as a war criminal in 1946 .

Frank's family was evicted in 1945 and , according to him, his two-year-old daughter died. Frank himself was interned .

In the Soviet zone of occupation his writings were published The development of the Austro-Hungarian armed forces in the first two years of the war (1933), Hey, how the heroes fell in the dispute (1936), Comrades we march! Borderland German education section (1941), Sudetenland, German land. Narrated history of the Sudeten German freedom struggle (1943) and Not hammers Menschen (1943) put on the list of literature to be sorted out.

In 1952 Frank founded Heimreiter-Verlag , whose publishing program was shaped by Frank's past as a Nazi functionary. A “barely veiled allusion to the ' Ostlandreiter ' term” is seen in the publisher's name. The publisher was close to the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft and the Witikobund . Among other things, the publication series Sudetendeutsches Turnertum , writings of the Witikobund as well as stories and novels by the writer Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer were published.

Frank, who also published novels and short stories in his own publishing house, was a member of the Witikobund, member of the board of the Society of Friends of the Work of E. G. Kolbenheyer and in the “Dichterkreis” of the German Cultural Association European Spirit . In 1978 he was awarded the poet's stone shield from the Dichterstein Offenhausen association, which was banned in 1999 because of National Socialist re- activations .

In 1970 Franks Verlag merged with Frankfurt-based Orion Verlag to form Heimreiter Orion Verlag . According to Frank, the merger of the two publishers came about through the Deutsche Kulturwerk Europäische Geist. A previously sought merger with the Türmer Verlag by Herbert Böhme had failed.

After Frank's death, the publishing house was re-established in Kiel at the end of 1983 by the extreme right-wing publicist Dietmar Munier , whereby Munier took over some title rights.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andreas Luh: The German Gymnastics Federation in the First Czechoslovak Republic. From folk club operations to popular political movement . Oldenbourg, Munich 2006, p. 260.
  2. ↑ Manfred Jenke : The national right. Parties, politicians, publicists. Colloquium, Berlin 1967, p. 151.
  3. ^ Ernst Frank: Heimreiter-Verlag . In: Ernst Frank (Ed.): Almanach 1952/1977 des Orion-Heimreiter-Verlag Orion-Heimreiter-Verlag, Heusenstamm 1978, ISBN 3-87588-104-4 , p. 13.
  4. ↑ Ernst Frank: Men have always built. Autobiography. Offenbach, 1975.
  5. ^ German administration for popular education in the Soviet zone of occupation. List of literature to be discarded. 1946 , Polunbi, database writing and image 1900–1960.
  6. ^ German administration for popular education in the Soviet zone of occupation. List of literature to be discarded. 1947 , Polunbi, database writing and image 1900–1960.
  7. ^ German administration for popular education in the Soviet zone of occupation. List of literature to be discarded. 1948 , Polunbi, database writing and image 1900–1960.
  8. ↑ a b Hans Sarkowicz : The old right on new ways. What strategies right-wing extremist publishers use to search for readers , Die Zeit , 3/1987, January 9, 1987.
  9. ^ This assessment by Manfred Jenke: Conspiracy from the right? A report on right-wing radicalism in Germany after 1945. Colloquium, Berlin 1961, p. 358.
  10. ↑ Jenke: Conspiracy. 1961, p. 358 f.
  11. ↑ Jenke: Conspiracy. 1961, pp. 216, 386.
  12. ^ Frank, Heimreiter-Verlag , p. 14.
  13. ↑ Curt Vinz: Documentation of German-language publishers. 9th edition, Olzog, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-7892-7279-5 , p. 299.
personal data
SURNAME Frank, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sudeten German writer and National Socialist
DATE OF BIRTH 22nd August 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Carlsbad
DATE OF DEATH 20th September 1982
Place of death Offenbach am Main