Friedrich Joachim Klähn

Friedrich Joachim Klähn (born December 8, 1895 in Kiel , † December 19, 1969 in Hamburg ) was a German writer and propagandist.

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Klähn was the son of Friedrich Klähn and his wife Pauline, b. Burkhardt. His godfather was Joachim von Prussia .

In his youth, Klähn attended high school. At the beginning of the war in 1914, he received his secondary school diploma . During the First World War Klähn was used as a reporter and then as an officer in France . In the 1920s he wrote a book about the history of his regiment, Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 86, the proceeds of which he donated to a memorial to his regiment. This monument is still in Flensburg today .

Around 1930 Klähn joined the Nazi movement. In particular, he was involved in the Sturmabteilung (SA), the party's street combat organization, in which he reached the rank of SA brigade leader in 1938. For the SA he wrote a series of propaganda pamphlets that romanticized the SA service and the SA community. Since the late 1930s, he shifted the focus of his literary work away from (tendentious) non-fiction books to novels, short stories and short stories.

After the Second World War, Klähn only appeared in public to a limited extent. With the exception of one book in the 1950s, he did not publish any major works. A larger literary reception in secondary literature of the post-war period cannot be proven. In the Soviet zone of occupation and the German Democratic Republic, most of his books were officially reserved for removal from the libraries, although it is unclear to what extent this actually took place

Works (selection)

• History of the Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 86 in World Wars. Edited on the basis of the official war diaries , 1925.
• Sturm 138. Serious and cheerful things from SA life , Leipzig 1934.
• My friend. A handbook of experiences , 1934.
• Reichswehr and Reichsmarine , Leipzig 1934.
• Service pocket book for Sturmführer, Truppführer, Scharführer , Leipzig 1934.
• The good quarters, a cheerful amateur play for the SA ,
• Men, fighters, soldiers , 1938.
• Will and accomplishment. Order and implementation of cultural service organization in the SA , Munich 1938.
• Soldier and artist , 1939.
• Night over Malmaison. November 1914 , Munich 1940.
• Sergeant Weber , Munich 1940.
• The escape. Story from the Thirty Years War , 194 ?.
• Peter Pinkepank , Berlin 1941.
• The Banquet , 1942.
• The secret society. A schoolchildren's story from the pre-war period , Munich 1942.
• Timm the clumsy , 1943.
• Käp'n Kölschbach - The blockade breaker with the lucky hand , Biberach 1958.
• Say hello to my home. Friedrich Klähn. Letters 1914-1918 , 1997. (edited by Gerad Brömel)

Web links

• Literature by and about Friedrich Joachim Klähn in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-k.html
2. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1948-nslit-k.html