Friedrich Wendel

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Friedrich Wendel (born May 12, 1886 in Köslin ; † March 8, 1960 in Kiel ) was a social democratic journalist, author and head of the book club Der Bücherkreis .

Berlin time

Book cover: The bell ringing. Berlin 1927.

Friedrich Wendel, son of a master carpenter, completed an apprenticeship as a printer . In 1907 Lily Braun won it for the SPD . He was a soldier in the First World War . After the end of the war, Wendel was initially a member of the KPD in Berlin , but pursued an opposition party policy together with Karl Schröder , which in April 1920 led to the split of the KAPD . Wendel was a member - together with Arthur Goldstein - of the first executive committee of the KAPD. As editor of the Communist Workers' Newspaper , he sympathized with the Hamburg national Bolshevik direction of Heinrich Laufenberg and Fritz Wolffheim .

From 1924 to 1928 Wendel headed the social democratic book club Der Bücherkreis . From 1924 he published numerous articles in the journal Arbeiter-Jugend . Monthly magazine of the socialist youth workers in Germany . From 1923 to 1927 he also worked as an editor for the satirical newspaper Lachen links , which appeared for the first time on January 11, 1923 and as a replacement for the discontinued magazine Der Wahre Jacob . During this time there was a collaboration with the graphic artist Karl Schulpig , from whom the starting poster for the satirical sheet and the logo of the book circle come. From 1927 until the ban following the takeover on February 25, 1933, Friedrich Wendel took over the editor-in-chief of this magazine.

Wendel was one of the authors of the Berlin publishing house JHW Dietz Nachf. His specialty was political caricature : As the author of the book The 19th Century in Caricature , the program of the newly founded book circle started in 1925. A second collection of culture-critical caricatures appeared in 1927 under the title Das Schellengeläut , also in the Bücherkreis. Arthur Wellmann designed the cover . After taking power , Friedrich Wendel worked in Berlin from 1933 to 1945 as a photographer and insurance agent. ↓

Kiel time

Before the surrender he fled to Kiel, where he was one of the re-founders of the SPD organization. As early as May 1945, he met with other comrades in a so-called “Stubenzirkel” , from which the establishment of a local association emerged. In 1946 Wendel was appointed head of the press office of the city of Kiel by the mayor Andreas Gayk .

At the instigation of Andreas Gayk, the Society of Friends of Coventry was founded on April 2, 1947 in the Kiel trade union building with the aim of making a contribution to the reconciliation of the cities destroyed in the war. The former mayor Willi Koch took over the chairmanship and Andreas Gayk took over the presidency. Friedrich Wendel was appointed secretary of the company. When a policy of rearmament began in the Federal Republic of Germany with the establishment of the Blank Office in 1950, a conflict arose between Gayk and Wendel. Karl Rickers , long-time editor-in-chief of the Schleswig-Holsteinische Volkszeitung , writes in his memoir:

“Wendel was a strict pacifist and brought that into his work for the Conventry Society. But Gayk was anything but a pacifist; that was not compatible with his political realism. So it had to come to a conflict when the Federal Republic was militarized within the framework of NATO. "

After Gayk "tore the tablecloth between himself and Wendel", the latter lost his position as head of the press office and worked in the archive of the city of Kiel until retirement.

Friedrich Wendel was married. The couple lived near the Friedrich-Junge-Schule in a block of houses owned by the cooperative on the Westring in Kiel's Schreventeich district .

Publications

Self-employed

  • Karl Schröder; Friedrich Wendel: The nature and goals of the revolutionary company organization . Vogel, Neukölln 1920.
  • Socialism in the caricature from Marx to Macdonald . A piece of cultural history. With twenty contemporary caricatures. JHW Dietz Nachf., Berlin 1924.
  • History in anecdotes . JHW Dietz Nachf., Berlin 1924. (= The Small Series Volume 11)
  • Hans Baluschek . A monograph . JHW Dietz Nachf., Berlin 1924.
  • Martin Andersen Nexö : Bornholmer Novellen . Edited by Friedrich Wendel. JHW Dietz Nachf., Berlin 1924. (Unchanged reprint of the German translation published in 1924 by Friedrich Wendel. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1948)
  • The XIX. Century in caricature. Cover design by Hans Windisch . 1925.
  • Mac Mahon , the French Hindenburg . Publishing house for social science, Berlin 1925.
  • The citizen mirror. A collection of satirical anecdotes, epigrams, jokes and glosses . Introduced by Friedrich Wendel. Malik Verlag, Berlin 1925 and Norbertus, Vienna 1925.
  • The bell ringing. Caricatures critical of culture . (Cover design by Arthur Wellmann ) Der Bücherkreis, Berlin 1927.
  • The church in the cartoon. A collection of anticlerical caricatures, folk songs, proverbs and anecdotes. Verlag "Der Freidenker", Berlin 1927. (Second, revised edition. With 121 illustrations. 1928)
  • The legend of work . JHW Dietz Nachf., Berlin 1927.
  • The march of the red flags. A manifesto amateur play . Reich Committee for Socialist Educational Work, Berlin 192 ?.
  • The Red flag. A draft of their story as a contribution to the German flag issue . Auerdruck, Hamburg 1927.
  • The devil in the cartoon. Complaint by the writer Friedrich Wendel, supported by the Reich constitution, to the Reich Minister of Justice, the State Ministers of Justice, the honored members of the high houses of the German Reichstag and the various state parliaments, also to the Reverend members of the councils and general synods regarding the lack of protection of the devil from disdain and abuse through the written and drawn satire, especially the caricature, along with a suggestion, like all of Paragraph 166 of the RStGG. resulting calamities can be eliminated in one fell swoop . Publishing house "Der Freidenker", Berlin 1928. Archive.org
  • Wilhelm II . in the cartoon. With 186 illustrations . Paul Aretz, Dresden 1928.
  • The fashion in cartoon. With around 400 partly colored panels and text illustrations . Paul Aretz, Dresden 1928.
  • 50 years of True Jacob . A commemorative publication by JHW Dietz Nachhaben GmbH Berlin 1929. FES
  • 40 years of May Day celebrations - 1890 - 1930. “Munich Post” . JHW Dietz successor Berlin 1930.
  • The gendarme from Hildburghausen. A fluoroscopy . JHW Dietz Nachfol., Berlin 1932.
  • Hitler against the vital interests of Germany. The intended war against France, Russia and the border states . JHW Dietz Nachf., Berlin 1932.
  • Workers Travel and Hiking Guides. A guide to cheap travel and hiking. Responsible for the content .: Friedrich Wendel. JHW Dietz Nachf., Berlin 1932.
  • May day 1933. National holiday . JHW Dietz Verlag in commission, Berlin 1933.
  • The question of peace Herder and Kant in their relationship to nation-state sovereignty . Kiel Town Hall Society of Friends of Coventry, Kiel 1947. (= The notebooks of the Society of Friends of Coventry )

Articles (selection)

  • Our position on the trade unions and the General Workers Union . In: Report on the founding party convention of the KAPD on April 4 and 5, 1920 , pp. 28–35.
  • Criticism of the revolution . Kurt Wolff, Munich 1920, p. 25 ff.
  • Albrecht Dürer In: Arbeiter-Jugend , 16th year, 1924, issue 1, pp. 12-16. DigiZagazin
  • The landscape of the big city . In :: Arbeiter-Jugend , 16th year, 1924, issue 6, pp. 160–161. DigiZagazin
  • Arno Holz In: Arbeiter-Jugend , 16th year, 1924, issue 11, pp. 312-315. DigiZagazin
  • Emil Zola . In: Workers' Youth . 17th vol., 1925, pp. 43-48. DigiZagazin
  • Theodor Hosemann . In: Workers' Youth . Volume 18, 1926, Issue 1, pp. 15-18. DigiZagazin
  • The millennial tradition of May Day celebrations . In: Der Bücherkreis 4th vol. (1928) Heft 4, pp. 74–78.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Osterroth, p. 330.
  2. ^ Ossip K. Flechtheim : The KPD in the Weimar Republic . Junius, Hamburg 1986, p. 115f.
  3. ^ Hermann Weber, Andreas Herbst
  4. ↑ Julia Schäfer: Measure - drawn - laughed ; P. 47.
  5. ↑ Hans-Ulrich Schilf: The structure of the Kiel SPD 1945-1949 . In: We are the building people . Neuer Malik Verlag, Kiel 1985, p. 40f.
  6. ^ Karl Rickers: Memories of a Kiel journalist 1920-1970 . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1992, p. 294.
  7. ^ Karl Rickers: Memories of a Kiel journalist 1920-1970 . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1992, p. 294.
  8. ^ Library of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation : Friedrich Wendel - The Gendarme von Hildburghausen. A national sympathetic pamphlet. A fluoroscopy. Berlin, 1932.
personal data
SURNAME Wendel, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION social democratic journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Koslin
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 1960
Place of death Kiel