Hanns Max Hackenberger

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Hanns Max Hackenberger (born August 2, 1895 in Freiberg , Saxony ; died December 27, 1949 in Radebeul ; actually Johannes Max Hackenberger ) was a German writer and journalist.

Life

Max Hackenberger - police commander in Schwandorf 1945

Hanns Max Hackenberger came from a poor background. His parents were cigar makers. At the age of 20 he took part in the First World War and was wounded in 1916. In 1928 he joined the SPD . In 1932 he married Elsbeth Charlotte Hertel, who was 12 years his junior in Leipzig. Probably because of several cases of bill bruises and lack of rent payments, Hackenberger was wanted by the police since 1933. On October 18, 1936, the Gestapo tracked him down. The People's Court of Dresden sentenced him in 1937 to five years in prison for “treachery” in connection with “economic offenses”. Hackenberger was initially housed in Waldheim (Saxony), then in the Buchenwald , Groß-Rosen and Hersbruck concentration camps . During the detention, diary entries and poems such as The plaintive days were written. Verses from the Dark (1938).

After the Second World War in 1945, Hanns Max Hackenberger became police commander of the city of Schwandorf for six months . In 1946 he was imprisoned again, if only briefly: he had used a company car without permission in uniform. In that year he began his brief journalistic activity. He wrote first in newspapers in the American zone of occupation in Bavaria, and later in the Soviet zone of occupation . In 1947 he joined the Association of German Authors . Hackenberger was one of the features writers of the Neue Zeit . A typical text quote from an article about the hour before going to sleep , published in the Neue Zeit of August 9, 1949:

“In your opinion, the whole day is once again not worth having lived it, the hour before going to sleep generously amnesties your inadequacies e tutti quanti. It tilts the hodgepodge of all advantages and diagonals, the human being, by exactly 90 degrees from the vertical to the horizontal; If he doesn't let himself be hindered by tenants and rafters, he could look at the sky, at a few stars or at the moon. Conveniently, it offers him the opportunity to stretch out for the ceiling with a pleasant sigh, provided he is with whom he is not stuck under anyone. Certain of their possessions during the day, a hand tends to scurry after them in the hour before falling asleep, and this contemplative and sensual hour leaves the responsibility for feeling a second one to the owner himself. And doesn't it also have its physical meaning, that hour before going to sleep, in which man has to surrender to the law of fall, admittedly by goose feathers and springs? It is just as much the confessional of flirtatious secrets as it is the hole in the prudish fence through which the wishes, hidden in the light during the day, like newborn kittens, bravely fall into. However: anyone who anesthetizes this hour with overdosed drugs devalues ​​their possibilities and is a fool. "

The one in the upper Lößnitzer Eduard-Bilz-Straße 35 resident Hanns Max Hackenberger died in 1949 in the city hospital Radebeul at a miliary tuberculosis .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c according to Radebeul death register No. 724/1949.
  2. ^ SLUB Dresden: Estate of the journalist and writer Hanns Max Hackenberger - Mscr.Dresd.App.2005. Retrieved April 8, 2019 .
  3. ↑ When Hackenberger was arrested in 1937, his wife divorced him. In 1947 the two married again and divorced shortly before Hackenberg's death. Read about it in his estate.
  4. ^ Newspaper department at the Berlin State Library: ZEFYS newspaper information system - Berlin State Library. Retrieved April 8, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Hackenberger, Hanns Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hackenberger, Johannes Max (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiberg , Saxony
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1949
Place of death Radebeul