Friedrich Carl Holtz

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Friedrich Carl Holtz (born April 17, 1882 in Raben Steinfeld , † April 27, 1939 in Berlin ) was a German, nationalist and anti-Semitic political writer and publisher.

Life

Holtz initially worked as a civil servant in the Hamburg state service, but left on December 31, 1913 on charges of embezzlement. After he had already participated in the China campaign in Tientsin as a volunteer in 1900/1901 and had returned unfit for war, he volunteered again at the beginning of the First World War . In 1915 he was employed as a trainer and in 1917, as a military journalist, he was appointed head of the mobile field newspaper Schützengraben in the 54th Division under General Oskar von Watter . At the end of 1918 he returned to his hometown Hamburg and was confronted with the consequences of the November Revolution "as a rabble uprising". As early as December 14, 1918, the first edition of Hamburger Warte appeared as a weekly newspaper, his “political campaign pamphlet” against Marxism and Judaism . With her he became "the best hated journalist of the Hamburg post-war period". Among other things, he turned in a special edition in March 1919 with an indictment against the "dictator Heinrich Laufenberg " as chairman of the workers 'and soldiers' council . In 1919 he became chairman of the German Bismarck League , one of the DNVP's own paramilitary organizations. The Jungdeutsche Warte was published for the Bismarck Youth (1920) . In 1920 he called for support for the Kapp Putsch and was therefore taken into protective custody for high treason . In 1922 the Hamburg waiting room was banned on the basis of the Republic Protection Act because of a hate article about the Rathenau murder . Holtz then evaded to Munich and published Fridericus there as a new anti- center , anti-pacifist and anti-Semitic weekly newspaper. He also founded Die Fackel as a side newspaper and as the second "patriotic weekly" in Berlin . In 1923 he moved to Berlin. after his weekly was banned in Bavaria because of his standing up for Erich Ludendorff . In 1927/28 he ran unsuccessfully for a DNVP Reichstag mandate in Berlin. In 1928 he called on the “national front” to rescue the “remote judges” in the Szczecin femoral murder trial , especially the main defendant, SA leader Edmund Heines . In 1929 he was involved in the founding of the German Aid Union in Hamburg , "so that the Reds' unions would be at the top". Holtz remained connected to his ethnic German and anti-Semitic tradition and welcomed the "new Germany" when the National Socialists came to power .

He finds his final resting place in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf .

Fonts

• Musketeer Plückhahn's war wedding , stories, 1917
• The Hamburg Revolution , Hamburg 1919. (with Hanns Prehn von Dewitz)
• Social democratic excellence that every German should know , Berlin 1930
• From my yellow folder. Political Streiflichter , 1st episode, Hamburg 1921; 2nd episode, Munich 1923
• Skin him! A serious, funny, wild and contemplative book , Berlin 1934
• Night of the nation. Memories , Berlin 1939

literature

• Wilhelm Fhr. Von Müffling: Pioneer and pioneer for the new Germany , Munich 1933, p. 36/37
• Kosch: Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon , 3rd edition, Vol. 8, Berlin-Munich 1981, Col. 67

Web links

• Literature by and about Friedrich Carl Holtz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Newspaper article about Friedrich Carl Holtz in the press kit of the 20th century of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .