Hans Hermann Wilhelm

Hans Hermann Wilhelm (born November 30, 1892 in Buddenhagen , † July 1, 1975 in Berlin ) was a German writer .

Life

Wilhelm was born in 1892 as the son of a cantor in Buddenhagen ( Ostprignitz district ), which today belongs to Meyenburg . He studied German and philology in Berlin and Leipzig. Until 1940 Wilhelm held a position as a teacher in Berlin. Then he settled in Neustrelitz , Mecklenburg . He mainly wrote novels and dramas.

In 1945, towards the end of the Second World War, Wilhelm was arrested by the Soviets and interned first in special camp No. 9 Fünfeichen and then in special camp No. 2 Buchenwald . A number of his publications have been placed on the list of literature to be retired. After his release from the camp, Wilhelm lived again in Berlin.

In his 1974 detention report, Wilhelm compared the conditions of detention in the Soviet special camps with the concentration camps from the Nazi era .

Works

Freedom , novel, 1919
Be , novel, 1920
The awakening in the heath , 1933. Part I of the novel trilogy The Frickes
Ulrich von Hutten. The tragedy of the Reformation , drama, 1934
The legacy of the Frickes , 1934. Part II of the novel trilogy The Frickes
Seal in the Dawning , 1936
The Pagalunenhof , drama, 1938
The ways of the Brackenhoffs. A novel about Potsdam , 1939
The Saxon Lion , drama, 1941
The Frickes and the Ohlhofs , 1941. Part III of the novel trilogy The Frickes
The Fathers Guilt , 1943
Robert Wandelt , novel, 1944
Youth im Yoke , 1944
The end is not in sight , novel of a school, 1957
Without a stone and without a name: Records from Stalinist death camps in Germany , 1974

literature

Peter Walther (Ed.): Muses and Graces in the Mark. A historical writer lexicon , Berlin, Lukas Verlag 2002, ISBN 3-931836-69-X .
Kürschner's German Literature Calendar : 1943 .
Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania? A dictionary of persons , Temmen Verlag, 1995, ISBN 978-3861082-82-8 .

Individual evidence

^ List of literature to be sorted out , Berlin: Zentralverlag, 1946.
↑ Volkhard Knigge , Bodo Ritscher , Petra Haustein, Annette Kaminsky (eds.): Instrumentalization, repression, processing. The Soviet special camps in the social perception 1945 to today. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-8353-0051-4 . P. 124.

personal data
SURNAME	Wilhelm, Hans Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer
DATE OF BIRTH	November 30, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH	Buddenhagen
DATE OF DEATH	July 1, 1975
Place of death	Berlin

[1] List of literature to be sorted out , Berlin: Zentralverlag, 1946.

[2] Volkhard Knigge , Bodo Ritscher , Petra Haustein, Annette Kaminsky (eds.): Instrumentalization, repression, processing. The Soviet special camps in the social perception 1945 to today. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-8353-0051-4 . P. 124.