Goetz Otto Stoffregen

Goetz Otto Karl August Stoffregen (born February 11, 1896 in Wunstorf , † November 11, 1953 in Gronau ) was a German writer , journalist and broadcast director . Stoffregen also published under the pseudonyms Friedrich Felgen , Orpheus der Zwote and Peter Silje .

Life

Stoffregen attended the Humanist High School in Hildesheim and after graduating from high school studied philosophy, history and art history at the universities in Berlin and Königsberg . In August 1914, he volunteered as a war volunteer and later became an officer. He was deployed several times on the Eastern and Western Fronts.

After the end of the First World War, Stoffregen was a member of the Freikorps Lüttwitz from 1918-19 . He took part in the fighting in Upper Silesia in the Border Guard East and in the self-defense of Upper Silesia . In 1923 he was a member of the Black Reichswehr and then became private secretary to Reinhold Wulle , a member of the Reichstag .

In 1924 Stoffregen began a career as a journalist. He became editor of the Ostpreußische Zeitung and in 1929 press chief of the National Emergency Aid . On August 12, 1930, Stoffregen founded the Reich Association of German Broadcasting Participants together with other journalists from the Hugenberg group and was elected its deputy chairman. In October 1930 he also took over the editor-in-chief of the association magazine Der Deutsche Sender . In December 1931, however, the National Socialists deposed the previous board of the association and took over management themselves. In January 1932, Stoffregen joined the NSDAP . At the end of 1932 he became head of culture for the Berlin and North German edition of the Völkischer Beobachter . He was also an employee of the Nazi papers The Attack and The Nettle .

On April 1, 1933, Stoffregen became director of the German broadcaster . Since July 1, 1933, he was SA • Member and Member of the later Cultural Committee of SA . In the course of the coordination of the Association of German Writers , he took over the chairmanship of the Association of Writers on May 4, 1933, which he transferred to the Association of German Writers on June 9, 1933 and was elected as its Reichsführer. In addition, Stoffregen became head of the Reichsschrifttumskammer in Berlin in 1933 until he was replaced by Martin Wülfing in 1937 . When the Reich Association of German Writers was incorporated into the Reich Literature Chamber, Stoffregen became a member of the RSK Presidential Council.

From 1935 until its dissolution in 1939, Stoffregen was a member of the Presidential Council of the Reich Broadcasting Chamber . In 1937 Stoffregen also took over the management of the Reichsender Berlin . He was responsible for the request concert for the Wehrmacht .

Publications

• Fatherland. A time novel . Bensheim, Trutzeiche-Verlag 1921.
• Experience and commitment. Poems . Wir Verlag, Berlin 1922.
• Chess to the king. Miniatures from the Seven Years' War and Frederician novels . Jungdeutscher Verlag, Berlin 1926.
• as Friedrich Felgen and others: First Lieutenant Schulz, a victim of the Femel lie. 2nd Edition. d. Book "Die Femeliegen". JF Lehmanns Verlag, Munich 1929.
• as Friedrich Felgen: What the people don't know . JF Lehmanns Verlag, Munich 1930.
• as Friedrich Felgen (Ed.): Femgericht. 3rd, heavily changed edition. d. Book "Die Femeliegen". JF Lehmanns Verlag, Munich 1930.
• as Orpheus the Zwote: These are things! Naughty verses . Brunnen-Verlag Willi Bischoff, Berlin 1932.
• You me too , political satirical poems, 1932.
• as Orpheus the Zwote: These are things! New cheeky verses . Brunnen-Verlag Willi Bischoff, Berlin 1933.
• Haunted France . Steegemann, Berlin 1934.
• Soldiers - comrades , screenplay for the film of the same name, together with Hans H. Fischer and Toni Huppertz , 1935.
• Haunted France. Five stories from the world war . Propylaea, Berlin 1936.
• The wandering musician. Fridericus novellas. Retold from an old chronicle . Franz Eher Nachf., Munich 1938 (11 editions until 1943)
• The fire site. Novella . Franz Eher Nachf., Munich 1938.
• D III 88 , texts on the film, 1939, e.g. B. the song text Flieger sind Sieger .
• The gun over! , Texts about the film together with Reinhold Fischer, 1939.

As editor

• as Friedrich Felgen among others: The Femeliege . JF Lehmanns Verlag, Munich 1928.
• Femgericht , political essays, 1930; 3rd edition, originally published as Die Femelüge .
• Revolt. Cross-section through revolutionary nationalism , Brunnen-Verlag Willi Bischoff, Berlin 1931, political essays and poems; contains the essay Die Justiz by Stoffregen himself , Warrior Mathematics by Ernst Jünger , the Nietzsche essay Seher des Reich by Curt Hotzel and contributions by Hans Henning von Grote and others.
• The swastika messenger. Calendar. Velhagen and Klasing, Bielefeld / Leipzig 1934 and 1935.
• German soldiers' song book . Mittler, Berlin 1941. New edition. 1943.

literature

• Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , pp. 595-596.
• Kürschner's German Literature Calendar : 1943 .
• Max Bonacker: Goebbels' man on the radio. The Nazi propagandist Hans Fritzsche (1900–1953) , Oldenbourg, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-486-58193-5 .
• Bernhard Sauer : Black Reichswehr and Fememicide. A milieu study on right-wing radicalism in the Weimar Republic . Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-936411-06-9 .

Web links

• Goetz Otto Stoffregen in the German biography

Individual evidence

1. ^ The German Leader Lexicon . Verlaganstalt Otto Stollberg, Berlin 1934, p. 479.
2. ^ ^{A b c d} Jan-Pieter Barbian : literary policy in the 'Third Reich'. Institutions, competencies, fields of activity . Revised paperback edition. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-423-04668-6 , p. 208.
3. ↑ Erich Stockhorst: 5000 heads. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 (unchanged reprint of the first edition from 1967). P. 414.
4. ^ Ansgar Diller: Broadcasting Policy in the Third Reich . (= Broadcasting in Germany. Volume 2). Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-423-03184-0 , pp. 31–34.
5. ^ Ansgar Diller: Broadcasting Policy in the Third Reich. 1980, p. 113.
6. ^ Ansgar Diller: Broadcasting Policy in the Third Reich. 1980, p. 113.
7. ^ Jan-Pieter Barbian: Literary Policy in the 'Third Reich'. Institutions, competencies, fields of activity. 1995, pp. 93-94.
8. ^ The German writer, October 1937.
9. ^ The German writer, January 1936.
10. ^ Joseph Wulf : Culture in the Third Reich . Band press and radio in the Third Reich. A documentation . Verlag Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-550-07055-1 , p. 305.
11. ^ Ernst Klee: The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. 2007, p. 596.