Georg Stammler

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Georg Stammler , real name Ernst Emanuel Krauss , (born February 28, 1872 in Stammheim ; † May 16, 1948 in Giessen ) was a German writer and protagonist of the youth movement and the Völkisch movement , who wrote aphorisms, poems and stories.

Life

Ernst Emanuel Krauss was the son of an elementary school teacher. He was the second youngest of seven children. The family moved to Heilbronn, where he attended grammar school and graduated from high school. He was unable to study because of unknown “family circumstances” and so he completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller in Heilbronn and Esslingen from 1887 to 1890. Then he is said to have trained as a primary school teacher.

From 1892 onwards he was active in literature and lived between 1898/99 and 1908 as a writer and publisher and bookseller in Stuttgart. There he founded a “Wir-Bund” for young men and the “Wir-Verlag” in 1899, which, however, only published a few titles. From 1905 to 1908 he managed the office and as editor of the newsletter of the "Association for rural welfare in Württemberg and Hohenzollern", a corporate member of the "German Association for rural welfare and home care" founded by the folk writer Heinrich Sohnrey Managing Director of the Württemberg section of the “Association for the Mass Distribution of Good Folk Literature” and Secretary of the Württemberg Goethe Bund .

In 1908 he moved to Thuringia and worked as a substitute teacher and bookseller at the Wickersdorf Free School . There he married a teacher. Together with her he took up residence in the garden city settlement of Hellerau near Dresden in 1912 . He published the newsletters, held meetings and lectured.

The since 1913 Heidelberg-based bookseller and antiquarian Hans Christoph Schöll published end of 1913 (print titles in 1914) the first published under the pseudonym Georg Stammler book words to a group , the three others followed, including the signature house Buhler mountain . With programmatic pathos, the writings demanded the transfer of the individual allegedly uprooted by urbanization and economization into a solidarity national community. They were widely received within the Bundischen youth movement, especially since they also propagated settlement communities. A poem published in 1914 announced his later, aggressive anti-Semitism. In 1917 Stammler settled permanently in Thuringia. After the First World War, a group of close followers gathered around the poet in Mühlhausen / Thuringia . Together, under the name “Werkschar”, which was coined by Stammler, leaflets with the title Das neue Volk were published , which were intended to help set up a “ Werkschar” . In 1924 Urquell-Verlag, headed by Erich Röth , took over the rights to his books.

Krauss / Stammler became a member of the National Socialist Freedom Party (NSFB) , a political movement that was founded in October 1924 as a replacement organization for the banned NSDAP for the 1924 Reichstag elections as a list connection. From 1925 he headed the German reference weeks that he initiated and was active in volkish adult education . In addition, he was now regarded as one of the leading thought leaders of the national youth movement. As a close colleague of Bruno Tanzmann , he conducted various courses for the farmer's college movement . He was also a member of the radical ethnic group Artamanen .

In 1932, on his 60th birthday, an appeal was made in the newspaper asking for financial donations ("gift of honor") for the impoverished poet. After 1933, Stammler became a celebrated “National Socialist poet.” In 1940, together with archivist and poet Max Reuschle, he received the Swabian Poet Prize donated by the National Socialist Prime Minister Christian Mergenthaler .

After the war he gave up his stage name again. Ernst Krauss lived impoverished at Hohensolms Castle in Hesse and died in the Giessen University Clinic in 1948. His wife and a daughter had died years before him.

Publications

(Selection)

  • Words to a crowd . Schöll, Heidelberg 1914.
  • Twenty poems . Schöll, Heidelberg 1914.
  • House Bühlerberg . Schöll, Heidelberg 1915.
  • You and it. From the essence and from the community . Schöll, Heidelberg 1917.
  • Come on fire! Poems and sayings . Urquell-Verlag, Mühlhausen 1922.
  • German solstice . Urquell-Verlag, Mühlhausen 1922.
  • Today is the day - An anger and love game in rhyme courses . Urquell-Verlag, Mühlhausen 1922.
  • Trees, flags, guidelines. New songs and sayings . Urquell-Verlag, Mühlhausen 1923.
  • The new ducal era . German slogans and reproach. Urquell-Verlag, Mühlhausen 1924.
  • We take our hands . Urquell-Verlag, Flarchheim 1928.
  • The unknown. An Easter consecration game . Werkland-Verlag, Oberdorla 1929.
  • Kampf und Andacht - Poems , Werkland-Verlag, Oberdorla 1930.
  • Fire over the land! Political Confessions . Werkland-Verlag, Oberdorla 1931.
  • In the heartbeat of things . German confessions. Werklandverlag, Oppershausen 1934.
  • Quarrel and silence . Poems. Westermann, Braunschweig approx. 1936.

Web links

literature

  • Handbook on the “Völkische Movement” 1871–1918. Edited by Uwe Puschner, Walter Schmitz, Justus H. Ulbricht. KG Saur Verlag Munich 1996. ISBN 3-598-11241-6 , p. 927 f. (Short biography).
  • Albrecht Wacker, Horst Roller: reformer, poet, educator. Ernst Emanuel Krauss (1872-1948) alias Georg Stammler from Stammheim near Calw . In: Schwäbische Heimat vol. 64, Heft 3 (2013), pp. 327–333

swell

  1. ↑ State Archives Ludwigsburg , Spruchkammerver procedural file Ernst Emanuel Krauss EL 902/8 Bü 8707 ( online ).
  2. ^ Albrecht Wacker, Horst Roller: reformer, poet, educator of the people. Ernst Emanuel Krauss (1872-1948) alias Georg Stammler from Stammheim near Calw , in: Schwäbische Heimat, vol. 64, issue 3, 2013.
  3. ^ Uli Rothfuss : Authors Books Calw. A thousand years of literary and intellectual history in Calw and Hirsau , Tübingen 2001, p. 66
  4. ↑ Cf. the digitized address books of the city of Stuttgart from 1899 (first mention) to 1908
  5. ↑ This results in an evaluation of literary journals around 1900. Cf. Die Gesellschaft. Bi-monthly publication for literature, art and social policy , 15th year, vol. IV, booklet 4, 1899, pp. 279f. Online, Internet Archive
  6. ↑ Hermann Müller: The Esslinger Sieben , accessed on March 11, 2020. Cf. Georg Stöcker: Agrarian ideology and social reform in the German Empire: Heinrich Sohnrey and the German Association for Rural Welfare and Home Care 1896 - 1914 , Göttingen 2011, p. 106, note 468 and p. 113
  7. ↑ Wacker / Roller 2013. Cf. Ulrich Hohoff, Peter Vodosek (ed.): Sources on the history of the public libraries in Württemberg 1806-1918 , Stuttgart 1990, p. 67
  8. ↑ Wacker / Roller 2013
  9. ↑ Wacker / Roller 2013
  10. ↑ Detlef Heiden, Gunther Mai (ed.): National Socialism in Thuringia , Cologne-Weimar-Vienna, 1995, pp. 228 and 298
  11. ↑ Wacker / Roller 2013
personal data
SURNAME Stammler, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krauss, Ernst Emanuel (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and protagonist of the youth movement
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Stammheim
DATE OF DEATH May 16, 1948
Place of death Hohensolms