Gustav silence

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Gustav Wilhelm Bernhard Stille (born November 21, 1845 in Steinau (Lower Saxony) ; † February 7, 1920 in Stade ) was a German physician and writer who, in addition to novels and plays in Low German , published writings on population policy and racial ideology with emphatically anti-Semitic tendencies.

Life

Born on November 21, 1845 in Steinau as the fifth son of a pastor, the strict Protestant family shaped the quiet childhood. He attended the Athenaeum grammar school in Stade , which he graduated in 1867 with the secondary school leaving certificate. During his studies in 1867 he became a member of the Germania Tübingen fraternity . After studying human medicine at the Universities of Tübingen and Kiel , Stille settled down as a practical country doctor near his birthplace Steinau from 1872 to 1903. He married a pastor's daughter, had three sons and began writing on the side.

In 1879 he was elected vice-president after participating in the "International Medical Congress of the Malthusian League" in Amsterdam. In his early literary work, Stille discussed socio-political issues, including neo-Malthusianism , the remedy of pauperism (Berlin 1880). Only after getting to know the anti-Semitic publicist Otto Glagau did he write with an anti-Semitic thrust on domestic, foreign and population policy. He believed that the solution to the social question was to be found in the struggle against the alleged connection between capitalism and Judaism .

Stille became known to a large audience with his book Der Kampf gegen das Judenthum , published in Leipzig in 1891 , which had eight editions by 1912. In it quietly propagated the lifting of the emancipation of Jews , exceptional laws against the “foreigners”, the fight against “ racial disgrace and mammon service” and ultimately the “fight against the Jewish power to its complete annihilation”. With his work Volkskraft und Weltpolitik , in 1897, he called for the abandonment of traditional colonial politics and instead expansion of living space in Eastern Europe and its " Germanization ".

From 1903, Stille only worked sporadically in Stade as a resident doctor and devoted himself to journalistic and political activities. He has now published the Anti-Semitic Yearbook , which appeared in Berlin and advocated the anti - Semitic German Social Party . In 1918 Kaiser Wilhelm II awarded him the honorary title of " Secret Medical Council " because of his work as a doctor and for "efforts to moderate ". Gustav Stille died of arteriosclerosis in Stade on February 7, 1920 .

In the Soviet occupation zone , his play Twee Feldgraue ( Pockwitz , Stade 1919) was placed on the list of literature to be sorted out.

In 1949 a street in Hamburg-Bergedorf was named "after the doctor and Low German writer" and was only renamed in 2006 after research by the historian Hans-Jürgen Döscher on Stille's anti-Semitic writings.

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  1. ^ Directory of the old men of the German fraternity. Überlingen am Bodensee 1920, p. 238.
  2. ↑ polunbi.de
  3. ↑ About the life of an anti-Semite from Stade. Historian Döscher on Gustav Stille  ( 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. (PDF; 28 kB). In: Stader Tageblatt , February 4, 2009.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / athe-stade.de  
personal data
SURNAME Silence, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stille, Gustav Wilhelm Bernhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic and writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Steinau (Lower Saxony)
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 1920
Place of death Stade