Hans Geisow

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Hans Geisow (born August 17, 1879 in Frankfurt am Main ; † January 15, 1939 there ) was a German chemist, sports official and National Socialist cultural politician. After the so-called seizure of power in 1933, the convinced National Socialist was briefly director of the Frankfurter Schauspiel .

Life

Geisow was related to Johann Wolfgang Textor on his mother's side . He studied chemistry at the University of Munich and received his doctorate in 1902. From 1904 he worked in the analytical laboratory of Cassella and was head of the analytical department of IG Farben from 1919 to 1931 .

From 1919 to 1930 he was President of the German Swimming Association when it grew into one of the largest German professional associations. The avowed National Socialist resigned as DSV President in 1930 as a result of the "Geisow Affair" after he had called for a "national sport in the sense of National Socialism" in an article for the association newspaper with the appeal "Swim Association awake!"

Geisow was one of the signatories of the petition of the Economic Policy Association Frankfurt am Main in 1931 . From 1931 he was the full-time head of the public education department in the Hessen-Nassau district and a member of the Kampfbund for German culture . After the seizure of power on March 28, 1933, he was appointed acting director of the Frankfurt theater. In his programmatic inaugural address on April 1, 1933, the day of the boycott of the Jews , Geisow underlined the “blood ties of art”, described world literature as the “invention of the liberal age” and declared Jews undesirable at the “German” municipal theaters .

As a result, the municipal theaters suddenly lost around 50 percent of their subscribers and got into a serious economic and artistic crisis, as all Jewish actors and directors were also laid off. Since Geisow also failed administratively in running the theater, he was dismissed in June 1933 and replaced by Hans Meissner , a favorite of the National Socialist Lord Mayor Friedrich Krebs . Geisow retired to Miltenberg , where he lived as a freelance writer until his death.

Works (selection)

  • The soul of the Third Reich , Leipzig 1933
  • That's how I became a National Socialist. A confession , Munich 1931
  • My book from the German Swimming Association , Berlin 1929
  • German sporting spirit. A book for every German , Stuttgart 1925
  • The old Textor, Frankfurt am Main 1924
  • From Goethe to Dante , Stuttgart 1923
  • (with Ernst Kaross) The Swimming , Stuttgart 1922 (plus various new editions)
  • Contributions to the knowledge of the rare inorganic acids , Munich 1902 (diss.)

literature

  • Hans-Georg John: The Geisow Affair and the German Swimming Association - On the way to the Third Reich? In: Giselher Spitzer , Dieter Schmidt (Hrsg.): Sport between independence and external determination. Festschrift for Hajo Bernett . Schorndorf 1986, pp. 154-170

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Janine Burnick, Jürgen Steen: The "seizure" of opera and drama. In: Frankfurt am Main 1933–1945. Institute for Urban History , October 21, 2014, accessed on March 7, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Janine Burnicki, Jürgen Steen: Visitors crisis of the Municipal Theater. In: Frankfurt1933–1945.de. Institute for Urban History, December 8, 2005, accessed on March 7, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Janine Burnicki, Jürgen Steen: The "cleansing" of the urban stages. In: Frankfurt1933–1945.de. Institute for Urban History, October 21, 2014, accessed on March 7, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Geisow, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist, writer and sports official
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1939
Place of death Frankfurt am Main