Guido K. Brand

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Guido Karl Brand (1932)

Guido Karl Brand (born May 20, 1889 in Rothenbuch ; † April 3, 1946 in Frankfurt / Oder ) was a German literary historian , war correspondent and writer .

Life

Guido Karl Brand was born as the third of six children of the country doctor Carl Ludwig August Brand from Leutershausen and his wife Maria Mayer from Marktschorgast . He studied theology and philosophy at the Julius Maximilians University in Würzburg. He submitted his dissertation before the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. His mission on the Western Front in Belgium probably brought him together with the family of his future wife from Stuttgart. On May 31, 1915, he married Elsa Clara Hlatki in Munich, whose brother Heinrich had died on her birthday, October 29, 1914, in Beacleare, Belgium, during the First Battle of Flanders . In 1916 he was listed in the city's population register as a ministerial advisor in the State Ministry.

In 1919 he received the Dr. phil. and moved to Berlin with his wife and son. In 1930 the work on Brand's most extensive work was completed, the literary history of 1880–1930 Werden und Wandlung . Now he worked for the Reichsbahn , created advertising material and accompanied the journey from the rail zeppelin on the Berlin – Hamburg route on June 21, 1931. In 1933 his book was published and was immediately banned again. The seizure of power by the National Socialists prompted the Brand family, now with two sons, to move to Budapest between 1934 and 1936 , where Brand looked for alternatives and collected material for novels such as In Mr. Hatvany's Hunting House . This takes place partly in the former place of residence of the brands in the 12th district of Hegyvidék , Istenhegy.

Ultimately, the decision was made to return to Berlin. Brand became commander in the 126-Deputy General Command of III. Army corps, set up in the Grunewald - Neuruppin area . During the German-Soviet War in 1941, his son Heinz Ludwig crashed as a pilot lieutenant and observer on duty near Murmansk . Brand was a war correspondent for the Todt Organization . The novel A Winter Without Mercy is dedicated to this event in 1943. Before the city apartment fell victim to the hail of bombs, the family was housed in a makeshift apartment in Werneuchen , an eastern suburb of Berlin, in 1944 . Brand's private library and archive comprised 4,000 volumes, including the Schedelsche Weltchronik . During a fire-fighting operation in Berlin, his belt lock prevented him from falling through a glass dome.

On April 2, 1945, brother Carl Valentin Brand , a general country doctor like his father, who was working in Lohr at the time, was murdered because he wanted to hand the city over to the US troops without a fight.

Brand was seen by his son in Neuruppin a month before his 56th birthday, shortly before the end of the war and still suffering from the injury. On October 16, 1945, Guido Brand was arrested in Eichwalde by the 1st Dept. of the operational sector of the NKVD in the city of Berlin as a “member of a fascist organization” and taken to the Rüdersdorf camp near Berlin . The index card from the central archive of the Federal Security Service (formerly KGB) records his death on April 3, 1946 in the camp near Frankfurt an der Oder , without any information on the course of his imprisonment, type of death and place of burial .

Works

Literary historical works

  • About me and my life . 1912.
  • On the problem of clarity in poetry . (Dissertation submitted for Dr. phil. In Würzburg, 1914.)
  • Article in Simplicissimus issue No. 26, 1915.
  • The foreign . 1921. (novella)
  • Ernst Lissauer . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart / Berlin 1923. (Developed from private correspondence, about Lissauer's works until November 1922.)
  • The myth of the inner man . The beautiful literature booklet No. 2, publisher Will Wesper, Leipzig 1924. (Review on the 60th birthday of Herman Stehr.)
  • The early completed . Walter De Gruyter & Co, Berlin / Leipzig 1929 [1928].
  • Becoming and changing . Kurt Wolff Verlag AG, Berlin 1933.

Literary and journalistic works

  • Have a good trip, Mr. Maier . 1938. (screenplay)
  • When a little girl plays . 1939. (screenplay)
  • Contributions in Simplicissimus issues No. 30, 33, 42 and 45, 1939
  • Contributions to Simplicissimus No. 5 and 6, 1940.
  • Brand / Primer: call home . Wilhelm Limpert Verlag, Berlin 1940. (War reports, front letters)
  • It's about Manuela . 1940. (detective novel)
  • In Mr. Hatvany's hunting lodge . Fritz Mardicke Verlag, Hamburg 1943. (detective novel)
  • A winter without mercy . Volk und Reich Verlag, Prague 1943. (War reporting)
  • Between domes and bunkers . NV Volk und Reich Verlag, Amsterdam 1944. (War reporting)
  • Advertising expenditure of the Deutsche Reichsbahn: travel pictures - German pictures . Row 5: Munich and the Bavarian Highlands and Row 6: Castles and palaces around Nürnburg . Before 1936.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ GRC tracing service receipt from 2016/2017 in the private ownership of the offspring
  2. ^ Inaugural dissertation to obtain a doctorate, submitted on April 28, 1914.
  3. ^ Population register of the Central and State Library, Berlin, 1920, 1923 + 1936, 1937–1943.
  4. ↑ Photo album in private ownership.
  5. ↑ Privately owned, photo album. Entry 1934/35.
  6. ^ Son Heinz Ludwig on the Hitler Youth excursion around Eger + in the Kuhlmühle Germany camp in 1935, privately owned picture album
  7. ↑ Information from the WASt for relatives from August 12, 2009.
  8. ↑ Photo album in private ownership.
  9. ^ Information from the DRK Tracing Service 2016 in the private possession of the descendants
  10. ^ Printout from the Friedrich-Alexander-Universitäts-Bibliothek, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Feb. 2009.

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personal data
SURNAME Brand, Guido K.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brand, Guido Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary historian and writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Rothenbuch , Bavaria
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: 1945
Place of death unsure: Berlin