Franz Zedtwitz

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Franz Xaver Graf von Zedtwitz (born March 12, 1906 in Vienna ; † June 22, 1942 near Sevastopol ) was a German zoologist and writer .

Life

Franz Zedtwitz was the son of Count Franz Joseph von Zedtwitz and his wife Gertrud Freiin von Suttner. Franz Zedtwitz was a student at the Jesuit high school Stella Matutina in Feldkirch from 1915 to 1920 . He completed a study of zoology and a PhD in 1929 at the University of Berlin with a work about Langschwanz- and voles to the Doctor of Philosophy . He married Ilse Woit; the couple had three children. Zedtwitz lived as a writer in Krugsreuth near Asch in the Sudetenland .

In addition to zoological works, Franz Zedtwitz wrote narrative animal and hunting books. He achieved his greatest success with the novel Feldmünster , published in 1940 , in which the dedicated Jesuit opponent Zedtwitz dealt with his school days in Feldkirch. The book was published by Nordland-Verlag , operated by the SS , was reprinted several times up to 1943 and was considered required reading in National Socialist circles in the fight against the Jesuit order .

Franz Zedtwitz, who also worked as a war correspondent , was killed in fighting on the Eastern Front in 1942 .

Works

  • Comparative measurements on murids and arvicolids , Jena 1929
  • Erzgebirgsjäger , Neudamm 1930
  • Across the animal world , Berlin 1932
  • Vogelkinder der Waikariffe , Berlin 1933
  • Swinging across fields and meadows , Berlin 1935
  • Wonderful little world , Berlin 1935
  • Mountain game , Berlin 1936
  • Animal stories , Berlin 1936
  • The German animal world , Berlin 1937
  • The chamois , Leipzig 1937
  • Animals of the homeland , Asch 1937
  • Magical Balkans , Berlin 1937
  • Aquarium, terrarium and birdcage , Berlin 1938
  • Experienced nature , Berlin 1938
  • Under the spell of the Poles , Berlin 1938
  • Gams in their mountain home , Berlin-Lichterfelde 1939
  • Kamerad Tier , Berlin 1939 (together with Curt Strohmeyer)
  • The fur hunter , Stuttgart 1939
  • The Fall of the Sun Realm , Verlag Buchmeister, Berlin 1939
  • Feldmünster. Novel from a Jesuit boarding school , Berlin 1940. New edition Berlin 2019. pdf ISBN 978-3-945980-36-1
  • The red clan , Stuttgart 1940
  • Character pictures from the German animal world , Stuttgart 1941
  • My green year , Berlin 1941
  • The wild hunter , Berlin 1944
  • The gray night terrors , Stuttgart 1951
  • Der Teufelsbock , Stuttgart 1954

literature

  • Bernhard Fabian : Handbook of German historical book collections in Europe. Volume 2, Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 1997. P. 101 ( online )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Herbert Märzhäuser: The representation of monasticism and monastic life in the German novel of the twentieth century. Frankfurt / Main u. Bern: P. Lang 1977. (= Würzburg university writings on modern German literary history. 1.) ISBN 3-261-00281-7 . P. 303 f .; Klaus Johann: Limit and stop: The individual in the “House of Rules”. To German-language boarding school literature. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter 2003. (= contributions to recent literary history. 201.) ISBN 978-3-8253-1599-3 . P. 513 f.
personal data
SURNAME Zedtwitz, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zedtwitz, Franz Xaver Graf von (birth name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German zoologist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 1942
Place of death near Sevastopol