Hanns-Gerd Rabe

Hanns-Gerd Rabe (born April 24, 1895 in Osnabrück , † March 3, 1986 there ) was a German art critic, officer in the air force , author and teacher.

Life

Hanns-Gerd Rabe was born on April 24, 1895 in Osnabrück in the province of Hanover . In his youth, Rabe made friends with Erich Maria Remarque , which would be the beginning of a lifelong friendship.

During the First World War, Rabe received training as an observer in the Air Force Replacement Department 3, first at the Gotha airfield . Further training took place at the Schwerin-Görries airfield , where Anton Fokker had been teaching flying since the summer of 1913 and where the German Army had trained pilots and observers since 1916 . Rabe flew on the western front in 1918 as an observer with the pilot Peter Johannes u. a. in a Rumpler C.VII and a Hannover CL machine.

When, after the end of the war, his childhood friend Erich Maria Remarque continued his training as a Catholic elementary school teacher in January 1919 and became the spokesman for the student body, Hanns-Gerd Rabe represented interests in Hanover and Berlin with him.

Hanns-Gerd Rabe became a teacher at the Möser-Realschule am Westerberg and kept this position until 1945.

After the Second World War, Rabe worked as an art critic. He commented on the art market for many years and made a contribution to a reception of art and artists in the Osnabrück area. The artists featured in his book Osnabrück Art and Artists include Otto Knille , Hugo Ungewitter , Josef Meyenberg , August Wilhelm Remme , Wilhelm Tegtmeier , Bernhard Huys , Karl Allöder , Theo M. Landmann , Walter Mellmann and Ruth Landmann .

Also at Rabe's suggestion, Erich Maria Remarque was awarded the Justus Möser Medal by the City of Osnabrück in 1964 .

Publications

• Young teacher Erich Paul Remark , in: Merian booklet “Emsland”, No. 7, Hamburg 1971, p. 47.
• Night Reconnaissance . A Personal memoir of Hanns-Gerd Rabe, Aviation Department (A) 253. Transl. Peter Kilduff. Cross & Cockade Journal 14, No. 1, 1973.
• Erich Maria Remarque 1898-1970 , in: Niedersächsische Lebensbilder , Vol. 8. Ed. Edgar Kalthoff on behalf of the historical commission, August Lax Verlagsbuchhandlung, Hildesheim, 1973.
• Osnabrück art and artists. 1900-1970 , H. Th. Wenner, Osnabrück, 1974.
• The golden Saint Michael , Eicholt, Osnabrück, 1974.
• My Last Combat Flight . A Personal Memoir of Hanns-Gerd Rabe, Aviation Department (A) 253. Transl. Peter Kilduff. Cross & Cockade Journal 18, No. 3, 1977.
• Erich Maria Remarque and Osnabrück. A contribution to his biography. On his birthday on June 22, 1978, Osnabrück, 1978.
• Romance in Flanders , Verlag Das Viergespann, Frankfurt am Main, 1979.
• Otto Neumann. Life and soldier death of an Osnabrück wandering bird. From his letters and diaries, Druck Wegmann, Osnabrück 1980.
• Comments and Reminiscences, Flying as an Observer in Flieger -teilung (A) 253 . Trans. V. Peter Kilduff. Over the Front 17. No. 4. 2002.

literature

• The German air force in the First World War . By Niklas Napp, Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 2017, ISBN 978-3506-78666-1 .
• As if everything were the last time: Erich Remarque. A biography . By Wilhelm von Sternburg, KiWi-Taschenbuch, 2000, ISBN 978-3462-02917-8 .
• Eyes All Over the Sky: Aerial Reconnaissance in the First World War . By James Streckfuss, Casemate, 2016, ISBN 978-1612-00367-2 .
• Billy Bishop VC Lone Wolf Hunter . By Peter Kilduff, Grub Street Publishing, 2014, ISBN 978-1909-80813-3 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Erich Maria Remarque - Short biography in data , Erich Maria Remarque Peace Center, University of Osnabrück .
2. ↑ Erich Maria Remarque and his hometown , Anne Reinert, in: Osnabrücker Zeitung, August 11, 2014.