Georg Thiemann-Groeg

Georg Thiemann-Groeg (pseudonym: Edwin Gülcher ; actually: Georg Thiemann ; * 1881 in Silesia ; † 1953 ) was a German journalist , editor-in-chief of the National Socialist magazine Deutscher Beobachter. Newspaper of the German South West Africa and book author, director and teacher of a colonial training house and archive as well as founder of a private emigration agency, "colonial scientist", farmer and businessman .

Life

Georg Thiemann had lived for many years in the colony of German South West Africa , which was then subordinate to the German Empire . While still a teenager, he went in 1900 to South Africa to work as a businessman, meat - canner and oilseed earn -farmer money. From August 1907 to July 1909, a criminal case file against the businessman Georg Thiemann has been preserved in the Federal Archives in connection with the Reich Colonial Office .

Also at the time of the German Empire, the colonial politician Carl Peters lived in Hanover , after whom the former Karl-Peters-Platz in the southern part of Hanover was named during the First World War in 1916 .

Georg Thiemann allegedly only left South Africa after the First World War and at the beginning of the Weimar Republic to work as a journalist on the Caribbean islands in 1919 .

After the Karl Peters Monument was inaugurated in Hanover in 1935 at the time of National Socialism and Adolf Hitler had overturned the legal consequences of a disciplinary judgment against Peters by decree in 1937, the Gauleiter of the NSDAP / AO , Ernst Wilhelm Bohle , to Georg Thiemann, however, “a business newspaper did not want to approve for Africa ”, Thiemann turned around“ […] his first name Georg and from then on drew his Africa stories that appeared in foreign newspapers with WA Groeg ”.

In April 1939 Georg Thiemann-Groeg took over the management of the inaugurated in Hanover and named after Heinrich Ernst Göring , the father of Hermann Göring , Dr. HE Göring colonial house in Jägerstrasse 4 . The permanent exhibition Colonial Teaching Show, which was supposed to prepare future colonial officials and settlers , was shown there until the last year of the Second World War . The head of this colonial museum operated a “colonial training center” there, especially for technicians for future African service.

After the attack on the Soviet Union , the Barbarossa company , from autumn 1942 Thiemann-Groeg directed his training courses more and more towards Eastern Europe , especially the Ukraine and Crimea as well as the Caucasus region , for which he “[…] detailed Plans for Colonial Settlement ”.

The bombs from the air raids on Hanover during the World War left Thiemann's colonial museum "[...] only a heap of rubble", but after 1945 Thiemann directed it again in the ruins of the rear building, accessible through a gray wall from Fischerstrasse an “Africa Institute”, financed “by a small group of Africa-Germans and African-interested industrialists”.

Soon around 1,500,000 million people who wanted to emigrate from bombed Germany had announced their interests in Thiemann's private agency for emigrants to the South African Union , but Thiemann wanted to supply the Boers less with lawyers, merchants, civil servants and teachers of any “ race ”, but rather as a company “Export of German class people” above all the sought-after - German - technicians to South Africa, which then ruled for decades under apartheid .

Thiemann against "class human agency" wrote the Soviet Pravda : "Under the signboard seemingly respectable institutions and organizations advertising bases and secret meeting places for the scum are fascist dives in Bizonesien set up."

The "white race plans" of Georg Thiemann were submitted by the former head of the Guelphs , the former Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg , Ernst August III. , the South African Union President Jan Christiaan Smuts , when he visited the Guelph at his Marienburg Castle .

Georg Thiemann died in 1953.

Fonts (selection)

• as Edwin Gülcher:
  • Ride through fate. Roman , Hanover: Sponholtz, 1937
  • The magic stone. A story from the Kalahari [about the diamond finds in German South West Africa], Hamburg: Sauerberg, 1938
  • The Goldberg in the Kalahari. A novel from today's Southwest and South Africa , Hamburg: Willy Sauerberg, 1938
  • Blue fire. The story of a diamond and three girls, A novel from today's Southwest and South Africa , Hamburg: Sauerberg, 1938
  • The call from home: A Southwestern destiny, Roman, Berlin: H. Wigankow, [Leipzig: R. Streller], 1939
  • The Troelstra case , Berlin: H. Wigankow, [Leipzig: R. Streller], 1939
  • Ride through fate. Novel , field edition , Hanover: Sponholtz Verlag, 1940

literature

• oV : Export of German class people / Thiemann's dachshund worried , with a portrait photograph of the “colonial scientist ” Georg Thiemann, in: Der Spiegel from April 10, 1948, p. 6; PDF document or online version

Web links

• Erich Grosse, Inga-Dorothee Rost: traces of colonialism Third in Hannover "image of Africa" Empire / Colonial exhibitions in the Third Reich on the side geschichte-projekte-hannover.de of History at the University of Hannover 2004

Archival material

Archives by and about Georg Thiemann-Groeg can be found, for example

• as written material under the title criminal case against the businessman Georg Thiemann from August 1907 to July 1909 from the provenance of the Reichskolonialamt. Map collection, 1874-1942 (old pre-signature or file number KA V Case 5 b No. 8 ) in the Federal Archives, archival signature BArch, R 1001/4859
  • in the collection Georg Thiemann-Groeg there are also
    • several photocopies of documents entitled Acquisition of Colonial Territories from 1883;
    • The diary of the Hottentot captain Hendrik Witbooi in German South West Africa from the years 1884-1894 ;
    • "Horse breeding in North Cameroon". Memories of major d. R. a. D. Kurt Frhr. von Crailsheim, Hornberg, formerly head of the Golombe Stud (Cameroon), from the years 1910 - 1914, written down in 1939 ;
    • War news , newspaper from German South West Africa, year 1915, No. 3;
    • various pictures of people, including "[...] Hendrik Witbooi, Hottentot chief and family, mission colonist Dannert and wife, mission colonist Redecker from the Rhenish Mission Wuppertal-Barmen, Dr. Heinrich E. Goering, Reich Commissioner for German South West Africa, 4 Herero chiefs: Kambasembi, chief of the Waterberg Herereos, Manasse von Omaruru, Eduard and an unknown chief "

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Compare Harald G. Hentrich: Sales offer and explanations for the book Der Zauberstein ... ( Memento of the original from March 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from Antiquariat Hennwack on booklooker.de , last accessed on March 14, 2017 
2. ^ Thomas Keil: Postcolonial German Literature in Namibia (1920-2000) , dissertation 2002 at the University of Stuttgart, 2003; As a PDF document  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. the electronic library of the University of Stuttgart  
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k} o. V .: Export of German class people / Thiemann's dachshund worried , with a portrait photograph of the "colonial scientist" Georg Thiemann, in: Der Spiegel from April 10, 1948, p. 6 ; PDF document or online version
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Erich Grosse, Inga-Dorothee Rost: traces of colonialism Third in Hannover "image of Africa" Empire / Colonial exhibitions in the Third Reich on the side geschichte-projekte-hannover.de of History at the University of Hannover 2004, last accessed on 14 March 2017
5. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Janet von Stillfried : Nazi housing , in this: The Sachsenross under the swastika. Travel guide through Hanover and the surrounding area 1933-1945 , MatrixMedia-Verlag, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-932313-85-1 , pp. 84–95, especially pp. 92ff.
6. ↑ ^{a b} Compare the information from the German Digital Library , last accessed on March 14, 2017
7. ↑ ^{a b} Klaus Mlynek : Peters, Karl. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 499f.
8. ↑ Compare the information from the German Digital Library