Hans Queling

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Hans Queling (born April 8, 1903 in Krefeld , † September 12, 1984 in Jeserig / Fläming ) was a German reporter and travel writer .

Life

Youth and education

Born as the son of two teachers, he studied economics in Freiburg , Hamburg , Kiel and Berlin from 1922 . In the meantime he hired himself as a commercial clerk and employee in the Hamburg trade union building .

First trips

As early as 1925 he made his first trips to Greece, Egypt and Palestine, about which he reported in the local press. After his travel companion was killed in a desert storm on a North Africa expedition, Hans Queling returned to Germany.

In 1929 he made his first trip to India with five friends from the Nerother Wandervogel . He was accompanied by Peter Wolters, Fred Harmsen and Robert Oelbermann , to whom he later dedicated his second book. Queling spent 4 months in the house of Mahatma Gandhi during this stay , accompanied him on his travels through India and gave lectures himself on the necessity and economic organization of India's independence. During these trips Queling also met SC Bose and Rabindranath Tagore . His books Sechs Jungens tippeln nach India (1931) and Sechs Jungens tippeln zum Himalaja (1933) were published by the Frankfurt Societäts-Verlag about this experience .

India, Tibet Afghanistan

From 1932 Queling received a scholarship from the Abraham Lincoln Foundation and from 1934 worked in the editorial office of the Frankfurter Zeitung . This enabled him to spend his second time in India as a travel reporter from 1935 to 1937. During this time he undertook a. a. a research trip to Tibet, which is described in the book In the Land of Black Glaciers . Queling met the scientist Walter Norman Koelz , who documented rare birds and plants on behalf of the University of Michigan. He accompanied him on several expeditions.

From 1937 Queling was a correspondent for the Frankfurter Zeitung in Stockholm , where at the beginning of 1939 he received the offer to go to Afghanistan in order to undertake further trips from there and to report on it. The book "Adler, Berge und Menschen" was later published about this stay.

In 1940 he returned to Germany and was called up as a research associate in the broadcasting department of the Foreign Office . He worked closely with the later Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger and met Subhas Chandra Bose, who was already known to him from India .

Work in the GDR and break through the border to the West

After the end of the war, Queling was initially head of the Agriculture and Food Department in the Belzig district office from 1945 to 1948 in what would later become the GDR . There he met his wife, with whom he ran a farm in the small town of Jeserig / Fläming.

On January 3, 1965, Queling succeeded in "breaching the border" to West Berlin . He first traveled to his sister in Holland, the well-known violinist Riele Queling . Then he met his friend Paul Sethe for the last time in Hamburg , who put him in touch with Marion Countess Dönhoff . On January 29, 1965, he returned to East Berlin and was sentenced in the subsequent criminal proceedings - represented by lawyer Wolfgang Vogel - on May 6, 1965 to a suspended sentence for a passport violation. Because of his acquaintance with Countess Dönhoff, Hans Queling only found occasional "politically correct" publications in Die Zeit after his return to the GDR .

Works

  • Six boys head to India. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 1931
  • Six boys tip over to the Himalayas. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 1933
  • Six boys tip over to India and the Himalayas. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 1931
  • In the land of black glaciers. A research trip to Tibet. Frankfurt a. M. 1937
  • Adler mountains and people. By plane and caravan into the vast unknown mountain world of Afghanistan. Radebeul 1958

Translations

  • Zes jongens tippelen naar Voor-Indië
  • På eventyr i India
  • Tramping orchestra
  • Hans traver til Tibet

literature

  • Lothar Günther: From India to Annaburg. Indian Legion and prisoners of war in Germany. Verlag am Park, Berlin 2003, p. 17 ff.
  • Lou Marin: The enemy of my enemy is my friend? The 1939 Gandhi-Bose controversy and the ideological foundations of Subhas Chandra Bose's collaboration with the Nazis in 1941-43. izw No. 291 - March 2006, pages 10-13
  • Jan Kuhlmann: Subhas Chandra Bose and the India policy of the Axis powers. Berlin 2003
  • Otto Weinreich , Günther Wille u. a .: On musicology 1909-1960. P. 288 (about Riele Queling)

Web links

  • Hans Queling on literaturport.de; accessed on December 21, 2015

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from May 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ http://www.zeit.de/suche/index?searchtype=on&q=Queling&fr=cb-gwpze
personal data
SURNAME Queling, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German reporter and travel writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Krefeld
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1984
Place of death Jeserig / Fläming