Gerhart Drabsch

Gerhart Drabsch (born September 11, 1902 in Potsdam , † April 1945 near Luckenwalde ) was a German writer .

Life

Drabsch attended the Viktoriagymnasium in Potsdam. In the autumn of 1918 he served as an orderly at Army High Command 8 in Riga . After volunteering in the black Reichswehr in West Prussia in 1919/20 , he studied literature and history in Berlin, Munich and Heidelberg.

In 1926 he married his fellow student Karla (1902–1994), in 1927 and 1929 the sons Karl-Stefan and Manfred were born.

In November 1933 Drabsch joined the General SS voluntarily. He pursued an officer career in the Race and Settlement Main Office . As SS-Obersturmführer he worked for the implementation of the Germanization and settlement policy in Poland and the Czech Republic .

In autumn 1936, his wife's parents bought Teupitz Castle . There the couple opened a National Socialist workshop , which dealt with the production of blouses, clothes and tablecloths according to their own design.

In 1942 he was awarded the Hans Schemm Prize.

He fell as a storm man in the Waffen SS in the Halbe pocket . His grave is in the Waldfriedhof Halbe , row 8, stone 211, grave 617.

Drabsch's best-known work is the illustrated children's book The Indian History , which was reprinted several times and translated into Turkish, even after the war.

Publications

• Langemarck . In: Weißer Ritter Almanach 1924
• Manfred to Teja . (Liebesnovelle) In: Weißer Ritter Almanach 1925
• The Indian story . With woodcuts by Alfred Zacharias . Wiking Verlag Berlin 1935
• The castle . With woodcuts by Alfred Zacharias. Wiking Verlag Berlin 1939
• The Germans - the people of life . Industrial printing. Prague 1942
• The immortal puppet or about freedom of mind . With woodcuts by Hans Orlowski . Wiking Verlag Berlin 1944

literature

• Lothar Tyb'l: poetry and prose of horror . In: Left to Dahme and Spree . June / July 2014