Hans Oehler

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Hans Oehler (pseudonym: Hans Rudolf ; * December 18, 1888 in Wildegg , Aargau ; † January 7, 1967 in Dielsdorf ) was a Swiss publicist , publisher and sympathizer of National Socialism .

Life

After studying philosophy , history , art and literary history in Munich , Grenoble , Leipzig , Berlin , Zurich and Paris , Oehler became a member of the “People's League for the Independence of Switzerland” and worked from 1911 to 1934 as a publicist in various German- Swiss daily newspapers. From 1918 to 1920 he was active in the weekly newspaper Das Freie Wort against the Versailles peace order and the League of Nations . From 1921 to 1934 he was co-founder and editor of the Swiss monthly magazine for politics and culture . He steered a Germanophile course, was an exponent of the Volksbund for the independence of Switzerland and is considered a pioneer of the front movement . In 1923 he met Adolf Hitler in Zurich . In 1929 and 1930, Oehler gathered the politically dissatisfied academic youth in the Oehler Club , where the idea of ​​founding the New Front later matured.

After his editorial team was withdrawn from him in 1934, Oehler published the frontist national notebooks he had founded himself until 1945 . In 1933 he became a member of the regional leadership of the National Front and in 1938, after the party had renounced National Socialist ideology , he was a co-founder of the "Bund loyal Confederates of National Socialist Weltanschauung". He was also a member of the “leadership group” of the “National Movement of Switzerland”, which was founded in the summer of 1940 and dissolved on November 19, 1940. In June 1947, the treason trial began of the Federal Criminal Court in train when it comes to federal prosecutors against Hans Emil Frei and 36 other defendants (including Oehler). Oehler was sentenced to two years in prison for endangering the country's independence .

Even after his release and the end of the war, Oehler held onto his convictions: he published in the German neo-Nazi magazine Nation Europa and, as a translator, edited the anti-Semitic book Nuremberg or the Promised Land by Maurice Bardèche, which had been crushed in France . In 1951 he founded the Brugg publishing house. The last years of his life were overshadowed by fruitless attempts at coping, financial difficulties, depression and illness . He died in 1967 in Dielsdorf in the canton of Zurich . His estate is in the Archives for Contemporary History at ETH Zurich and consists of various manuscripts and various correspondence.

literature

  • Peter Maibach: The time-critical content of Hans Oehler's journalism up to 1920 . Appendix: Directory of the estate of Dr. Hans Oehler (1888–1967), licentiate thesis University of Zurich 1986.
  • Beat Glaus: The National Front . 1969.
  • Walter Wolf: Fascism in Switzerland . 1969.
  • K.-D. Zöberlein: The beginnings of German-Swiss frontism. 1969.
  • Klaus Urner: “The founding of 'Switzerland. Monthly Issues for Politics and Culture '”, in: Swiss Monthly Issues 50, 1971 . Pp. 1064-1078.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Oehler, Hans. Archive for Contemporary History at ETH Zurich, accessed on July 25, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e Walter Wolf: Hans Oehler. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 12, 2015 , accessed July 25, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Oehler, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rudolf, Hans (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss publicist, publisher and sympathizer of National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Wildegg , Aargau
DATE OF DEATH 7th January 1967
Place of death Dielsdorf