Guarantor (keyword)

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The term guarantor , borrowed from French, is synonymous with guarantor , who guarantees that a certain thing is safe. As early as the time of National Socialism , guarantor - often also used in the sense of guarantee - became a popular catchphrase.

Keyword in National Socialism

The term is not yet used in Hitler's propaganda pamphlet Mein Kampf . However, Hitler often used Garant in his speeches and this expression became a buzzword : "Suddenly it was swarming with guarantors everywhere and the guarantors were ousted, although at the same time a bitter campaign against foreign words was in progress".

"Guarantee sounds more meaningful than guarantor", the Third Reich loved the "full sounding foreign expression", writes Victor Klemperer and adds in brackets: "Perhaps not everyone understands it, and it affects them even more."

According to a press statement from 1940, glorifying expressions such as “The youth is the guarantor of the people” and others should not be used in future: At a time when young people are not yet at the front, they should not be given any 'advance praise' in the press become.

Garant is also used in today's political and technical German language.

See also

Wiktionary: Garant  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cornelia Schmitz-Berning: Vokabular des Nationalozialismus , 2nd edition Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019549-1 , p. 248.
  2. ↑ W. Porzig: The miracle of language . Munich 1971, p. 312, quoted from Schmitz-Berning, p. 248.
  3. ^ Victor Klemperer: LTI - notebook of a philologist . Reclam-Verlag Leipzig 1975, ISBN 3-379-00125-2 , p. 19
  4. ↑ Cornelia Schmitz-Berning: Vokabular des Nationalsozialismus , 2nd edition Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019549-1 , p. 249.