Fritz Büchner (journalist)

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Fritz Büchner (born August 24, 1895 in Offenbach am Main ; † August 8, 1940 in Kremsier , Moravia ) was a German journalist. The great-nephew of the writer Georg Büchner is one of the best-known opponents of National Socialism in his professional field. Büchner was close to the Bavarian People's Party and advocated the thesis that only a healthy state could resist this mass movement and therefore advocated the reintroduction of the Bavarian monarchy in conservative Bavarian circles .

Life

Private life

He was born to Wilhelm Büchner (1866–1952) and Auguste Mahr (1868–1949). His parents came from Rai-Breitenbach (today a district of Breuberg ) and Oberlahnstein (today a district of Lahnstein ). The family lived in Rai-Breitenbach. Wilhelm Büchner was a PhD philosopher and classical philologist and worked as a senior teacher and professor in Offenbach am Main and Darmstadt .

On March 19, 1921, Fritz Büchner married Florentine Röhrich (1896–1944) in Darmstadt. The couple had three children. His wife survived him by a little over four years and died in the air raid on Darmstadt .

Professional career

In 1914, after graduating from high school , at the beginning of World War I, he volunteered at a pioneer group . During his military service he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern as a lieutenant and fought in 1918 as a first lieutenant in the Baltic States . After the end of the war, he was also active in this region as a free corps fighter with a conservative-monarchist attitude.

During a traineeship at the Hessische Landeszeitung , in 1922/23 he was sued for libel by the Hessian State Office for Education (LfdB 34018). He then became a member of the editorial team at Münchner Neue Nachrichten (MNN) in 1925 and was promoted to editor- in- chief three years later on February 25, 1928 after Fritz Gerlich had resigned . On March 13, he was briefly detained with Erwein von Aretin , the head of the domestic affairs department of the MNN . Together with Anton Betz , the director of Knorr & Hirth Verlag, Paul Nikolaus Cossmann , and several members of the editorial team, Büchner opposed an attempt by Paul Reusch in May 1932 , which was based on the "Guidelines for the MNN's attitude in the political, economic and cultural field" tried to profile the newspaper as a propaganda medium for industrial interests and to put it on a path of tolerance towards the NSDAP . The line that did not conform to the regimen finally led to the dismissal of numerous employees in mid-March 1933 after the appointment of the Bavarian Reich Commissioner Franz Ritter von Epp at the instigation of the chief of the Bavarian police, Reinhard Heydrich . Büchner, Cossmann, Betz and others were taken into protective custody and Büchner had to leave Bavaria . In Stuttgart in 1935 he got a job as a lecturer at the Franckh'sche publishing bookstore and headed the publishing house from 1937.

Previously certified the Reich Minister of Justice Franz Gurtner , who frequently for political reasons Dismissed with recommendation to Defense Minister Werner von Blomberg for placement in the Wehrmacht mediated, in a letter dated 26 July 1936, the military district headquarters Darmstadt that it was in Büchner's a "perfect Character and capable head who should be considered for a leadership position ”.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Wolfskehl : Correspondence from Italy 1933–1938. Luchterhand, Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-630-80014-9 , p. 309.
  2. ^ Lothar Gruchmann : Justice in the Third Reich 1933-1940. Oldenbourg, Munich 2001, ISBN 978-3-486-53833-5 , p. 75.
personal data
SURNAME Büchner, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Offenbach am Main
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1940
Place of death Kremsier , Moravia