Gau culture award
Gaukulturpreis was the name of a series of cultural prizes that were awarded by the Gauleiter of the NSDAP during the National Socialist era .
- Badischer Gaukulturpreis (donated 1936)
- Culture Prize of the Gau Hessen-Nassau (donated in 1939)
- Culture Prize of the Gaues Westfalen-Nord (donated in 1943)
- Culture Prize of the Gaues Westfalen-Süd (donated in 1939)
- Alsace District Culture Prize
- Gau culture award Halle-Merseburg (donated 1943)
- Upper Danube District Culture Prize (donated in 1941)
- Gau culture prize of Saxony (donated in 1943)
- Sudeten German Gau Culture Prize (donated 1939)
- Art Prize of the Gaues Weser-Ems (donated 1942)
- Art Prize of the Westmarkgau (donated in 1937)
(List is incomplete)
The Gauleiter was the founder. The awards were each the highest distinction in the district and were aimed at artists of all art forms. The award was part of Nazi propaganda . The conditions of the Baden Prize, for example, stipulate "Only those works are honored that have emerged from the spirit of the National Socialist worldview."
Award winners (selection)
- Alfred Zschorsch (Düsseldorf, 1938)
- Lulu von Strauss and Torney (Westphalia-North, 1943)
- Albert Mazzotti (North Westphalia, 1944)
- Fritz Nölle (South Westphalia, 1944)
- Max Jungnickel (writer) (Halle-Merseburg, 1943)
- Alfred Huth (composer) (Schleswig-Holstein, 1943)
- August Hinrichs (1943)
- Kurt Arnold Findeisen (Saxony, 1943)
- Richard Billinger (Upper Danube, 1941)
- Friederike Renate Stolz (Upper Danube, 1941)
- Rudolf Steinbüchler (Upper Danube, 1942)
- Hans Reinthaler (Upper Danube, 1943)
- Hermann Alker (Baden, 1936)
- Friedrich Roth (Baden, 1937)
- Ernst Krieck (Baden, 1938)
- Wilhelm Sauter (Baden, 1939)
- Otto Wacker (Baden, 1940, posthumous)
- Friedrich Spießer (1942, Alsace)
- Thor Groote (Hessen-Nassau, 1939)
- Fritz Schwarzbeck (Hessen-Nassau, 1940)
- Kurt Hessenberg (Hessen-Nassau, 1941)
- Hermann Stahl (writer) (Hessen-Nassau, 1943)
- Robert Lindenbaum (Sudetenland, 1940)
- Otto Pietsch (Sudetenland, 1942)
- Wolfgang Drost (Danzig, 1939)
- Max Halbe (Danzig, 1939)
- Fritz Pfuhle (Danzig, 1939)
- August Hinrichs (Weser-Ems, 1943)
- Karl Schäfer (musician) (Weser-Ems, 1943)
- Bernhard Winter (Weser-Ems, 1943)
- Georg Kulenkampff (Weser-Ems, 1944)
- Werner Beumelburg (Westmarkgau, 1937)
- Albert Bauer (Westmarkgau, 1940)
See also
literature
- Eva Dambacher: Literature and Culture Awards 1859–1949 . 1996, ISBN 3-929146-43-6 , pp. 53-55, 103, 105, 232
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm Rüdiger (Ed.): Young art in the German Empire. i. A. of the Reich Governor & Reich Leader Baldur von Schirach . Exhibition February - March 1943 in the Künstlerhaus Vienna. Ehrlich & Schmidt, Vienna 1943, short biography p. 66
- ↑ Schwarzbeck, Fritz . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 240 .
- ↑ a b c Wolfgang Drost. Preservation of historical monuments in Gdańsk under National Socialism - the importance of Willi Drost as a preservationist . In: Gerhard Eimer , Ernst Gierlich (Hrsg.): Art historian and monument conservator of the East: the contribution to the development of the subject in the 19th and 20th centuries . Kulturstiftung der Dt. Displaced persons, Bonn 2007, ISBN 3-88557-221-4 , p. 259 ( digital copy (excerpt) ).
- ↑ a b c Willi Drost. Reflections by a Danzig man at the beginning of the war. Diary entries from August 29 to September 19, 1939 . In: Andrzej Kątny (Ed.): Studia Germanica Gedanensia . No. 16 . Uniwersytet Gdański, 2008, ISSN 1230-6045 , p. 209 ( ug.edu.pl [PDF]).