Fritz Schettler

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Fritz Julius Alexander Schettler (born June 22, 1879 in Dresden ; † November 29, 1946 in the Soviet special camp No. 1 Mühlberg ) was a German newspaper publisher .

Life

Memorial cross for Schettler on the Johannisfriedhof in Dresden

After graduating from the Royal High School in Dresden, Fritz Schettler studied law and economics at the Universities of Kiel , Heidelberg and Leipzig from 1898 to 1903 . In 1900 he became a member of the Corps Suevia Heidelberg . In 1903, he put in Leipzig, the state examination and was at the university with the work "The specification purchase commercial law" Dr. jur. PhD.

After initially working as a trainee lawyer in Zwickau , he moved to Deutsche Bank in London. In 1906 he joined Liepsch & Reichardt , the Dresdner Nachrichten publishing house . Schettler was related to the owner Reichardt. In 1908 he became an authorized signatory at Liepsch & Reichardt .

In the First World War he took part first as a lieutenant in the reserve, later as a captain. On October 31, 1914, Schettler received the Knight's Cross, Second Class with Swords of the Royal Saxon Order of Albrecht .

In 1921 Schettler became the main editor and publisher of the Dresdner Nachrichten , a conservative and nationally oriented paper. He held both functions until the newspaper was closed in March 1943. The philologist Victor Klemperer often referred to articles from the Dresdner Nachrichten in his work LTI - notebook of a philologist , an analysis of the National Socialist ideology in language . In 1934 Schettler was the publishing director of Liepsch & Reichardt and at the same time an assessor at the Dresden Professional Court. In addition to the Dresdner Nachrichten , the publishing house published a number of other publications and periodicals and also acted as a printing house for other publishers.

After the end of the Second World War , Fritz Schettler was interned by the Soviet NKVD in special camp No. 1 in Mühlberg . He died there in 1946. Like all the other 6,700 victims in this camp, his body was given to a mass grave. At the Johannisfriedhof in Dresden-Tolkewitz he received a memorial cross from his family.

literature

  • Schettler, Fritz, Julius, Alexander . In: Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 , p. 1624.
  • Armin Danco: The Yellow Book of the Corps Suevia zu Heidelberg, 3rd edition (members 1810–1985), Heidelberg 1985, No. 831

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Initiativgruppe Lager Mühlberg e. V. (Ed.): Book of the Dead - Special Camp No. 1 of the Soviet NKVD, Mühlberg / Elbe , Mühlberg / Elbe, 2008, p. 163, ISBN 978-3-00-026999-8
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 67 , 824
  3. ^ Fritz Schettler: The specification purchase according to commercial law. Liepsch & Reichardt, 1905
  4. ↑ Mention of a foundation owned by Martha Schettler, b. Reichardt in: The administration of the city of Dresden for the year 1903 . Statistical Office Dresden, 1904.
  5. ^ Fritz Schettler: A war memory of the 6th battery from September 9, 1914 . In: Georg Siedel (Ed.): The Kgl. Saxon. 2nd field artillery regiment. No. 28, Wilhelm and Bertha v. Baensch Foundation, 1928, p. 232
  6. Jump up ↑ Erhard Roth: The awards of the Knight's Cross 2nd Class with Swords of the Royal Saxon Order of Albrecht in the First World War 1914-1918 . Phaleristischer Verlag Michael Autengruber, Offenbach 1997, p. 182, ISBN 3-932543-50-5
  7. ^ Helmut Fiedler: History of the Dresdner Nachrichten. Dissertation, Leipzig, 1939
  8. ^ Institute for Newspaper Studies at the University of Berlin (ed.): Handbook of the German daily press. Armanen-Verlag, Leipzig 1944 (7th edition), p. 184.
  9. ^ Reto Stein: Anti-Semitism in the German press from 1933-35 and its perception in the population. GRIN Verlag, 2003, p. 2, ISBN 9783638197854
  10. ^ Newspaper publishing house. Magazine for the entire newspaper industry. Volume 35, 1934, p. 185
  11. ^ Sperling's magazine and newspaper address book: Handbook of the German press . Volume 61, 1939, p. 534
  12. ^ Johannisfriedhof on dresdner-stadtteile.de
personal data
SURNAME Schettler, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schettler, Fritz Julius Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German newspaper publisher
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1946
Place of death Special camp No. 1 Mühlberg