Fritz Mader

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Fritz Mader (born April 9, 1900 in Eschelbach / Öhringen , † 1998 in Waiblingen ) was a German artist, art educator and political functionary ( NSDAP ).

Live and act

Mader was a grandson of the preacher Philipp Friedrich Mader . He grew up in a national parsonage. At seventeen he volunteered to take part in the First World War , in which he was taken prisoner by the French . After his release from captivity he joined in 1920 a volunteer corps to. He then studied art at the academy in Stuttgart . His own artistic work as a painter received significant impulses from his teachers Arnold Waldschmidt , Alex Eckener , Gottfried Graf and Ludwig Habich . After completing his studies, Mader was accepted into the school service as a teacher. In the 1920s and 1930s he taught at the Uhland-Gymnasium in Tübingen , where he was finally made a civil servant.

Around 1930 Mader joined the NSDAP. In the party he held a number of functionaries. Until 1936 he was district leader in Nürtingen . Afterwards he was head of the Gau main office of the organization Kraft durch Freude .

From 1942 to 1945 Fritz Mader was professor for the field of "landscape" in the drawing and painting department of the newly formed State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart .

In 1945 Mader was captured by the Allies and interned for several years . In April 1948 he was subjected to a denazification process in front of the Degerloch Spruchkammer . In the grounds of the judgment he was held against:

“For a democratically feeling person, the tyranny was evident from the program and the entire behavior of the NSDAP from the beginning. The Betr. was able to oversee all of this even better than any other small Pg., even the behavior towards the political and racial opponents and the handling of the elections had to open his eyes as an artist. "

Nevertheless, he was seen as a comparatively "soft" and not fanatical district leader and classified as a minor. He was thus one of only two district leaders of the teachers' professional group who received this classification.

As early as 1951 Mader was allowed to work in the school service again: He got a job as a teacher at a school in Fellbach and in 1953 was again a civil servant. This comparatively very early re-civilization was attributed to the mild assessment in the context of his denazification proceedings. From 1959 until his retirement in 1963 Mader was then a senior teacher at the Friedrich-Schiller-Gymnasium in Fellbach.

Fonts (selection)

  • Caught in France . Belser, Stuttgart 1938.
  • Fritz Mader. Small selection of works , 1985.

literature

  • Artists of the World. A Bio-Bibliographical Index AZ , 2000.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Kermer : Data and images on the history of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart . Stuttgart: Edition Cantz, 1988 (= improved reprint from: Die Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart: a self-portrayal . Stuttgart: Edition Cantz, 1988), o. P. [10]
  2. ^ Arbogast: Dominion Instance , p. 234.
  3. ↑ a b Christine Arbogast: Ruling bodies of the Württemberg NSDAP: function, social profile and life paths of a regional NS elite 1920-1960 . Munich: Oldenbourg, 1998
personal data
SURNAME Mader, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist, art educator and political functionary (NSDAP)
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Eschelbach , Öhringen
DATE OF DEATH 1998
Place of death Waiblingen