Georg Löbsack

Georg Samuel Löbsack (born June 15 ^{. Jul} / 27. June  1893 ^greg. In Koblanowsfeld , Russian Empire ; † 2. October 1936 in Berlin ) was a German writer and journalist .

Life

Georg Samuel Löbsack attended the Friedensau / Burg Theological College , a mission seminar of the Seventh-day Adventists , and studied theology from 1907 to 1910 . He then worked as a journalist for various German newspapers in Lodz , Moscow and Saratov in the Russian Empire. In the First World War he fought as a Russian soldier on the Turkish front and fell ill with malaria and typhus. Service as a soldier of German nationality in the tsarist army was a painful experience for him.

In 1921/1922 Löbsack fled to Germany, settled in Berlin and published the magazine “Der Wolgadeutsche” here. He also lived in Magdeburg and from 1924 had temporarily edited the sheet “Der Harz” there. In 1936, under the influence of the writer and Germanist Josef Ponten , he published his autobiographical novel "Einsam fights das Wolgaland". Georg Löbsack is considered to be the protector of the Volga Germans , for whose homeland rights he fought. During his time in Berlin he organized charitable aid for the starving German population on the Volga. He is said to have a German nationalist attitude.

Works

• The Wolgaland is fighting lonely: A report from 7 years of war and revolution. Voigtländer, Leipzig 1936.
• Sons abandoned in their homeland. Schroeder, Halberstadt 1920.

literature

• Josef Ponten: From the correspondence between Georg Löbsack and Josef Ponten. In: Deutsche Post aus dem Osten 12, May 1940, pp. 3–8.
• Hans-Werner Retterath: “People on the way”. To develop an ethnic self-image. In: Russian-German Culture: A Fiction? Edited by Hans-Werner Retterath. Johannes Künzig Institute for East German Folklore, Freiburg 2006, ISBN 3-931905-45-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Georg Löbsack in the catalog of the German National Library
• Georg Löbsack in the Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon