Harboe Kardel

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Harboe Kardel (born November 25, 1893 in Nortorf ; † November 6, 1982 in Aabenraa , North Schleswig , Denmark ) belonged to the German minority in North Schleswig, was a teacher, publicist and editor-in-chief who was strongly committed to National Socialism in North Schleswig. He was the local group leader of the NSDAP von Gravenstein in Denmark.

life and work

Harboe Kardel grew up in a German-minded family in Tondern and attended a grammar school in Husum . After passing his high school diploma and taking part in the First World War on the Western Front - rank of lieutenant - Kardel studied philology and Protestant theology in Kiel from 1919 to 1921 and passed his assessor examination in 1923. He then initially worked in a Flensburg press office. In 1926 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on the subject: "The City of Kiel in Literature" for Dr. phil. From 1927 to 1929 Kardel was head of the daily newspaper Neue Tondernsche Zeitung in Tondern .

Kardel was an early functionary of a National Socialist group in North Schleswig, the National Socialist Working Group North Schleswig (NSAN). This was united with other National Socialist groups to form the National Socialist Front in 1934. Due to an intervention by the Gauleiter of Schleswig-Holstein, Hinrich Lohse , a unified National Socialist party, the NSDAPN, was founded in 1935, the first local group leader of which in Gravenstein was Kardel. In 1934 Kardel took over the editing and later the chief editor of the daily newspaper of the German minority in North Schleswig , the Nordschleswigsche (n) Zeitung , based in Aabenraa, since 1933 the mouthpiece of National Socialism. Kardel also lived in Aabenraa during this time. He took over a management position in the Schleswigschen Kameradschaft (SK) , the Nordschleswigschen SA . From 1937 to 1944 Kardel published many articles in the National Socialist monthly magazine Junge Front , which was aimed at young people from North Schleswig and was published by the North Schleswig National Socialists.

Kardel published books in German during the Nazi era. In his Nordschleswig book he praised the Hitler state and its leader. The book Denmark under German protection, which was published to coincide with the occupation of Denmark by German troops, was propaganda work for the expansionist policy of National Socialism; it justified Germany's attack on Denmark. At a reception on April 9, 1940 for the invasion troops in the German house in Appenrade, Kardel greeted the attack on Denmark by the Wehrmacht.

After 1945 he was interned for a long time as a follower of the National Socialists. In 1948, Kardel had to justify himself in the trial against the “ethnic group leadership” (the German ethnic group in North Schleswig). In this trial, also known as the “Little Nuremberg Trial”, he was sentenced to six years in prison as a responsible employee of the “Nordschleswigsche Zeitung”. From 1950 to 1957 he worked as a teacher in Schleswig-Holstein and then lived until his death in Aabenraa .

Even after 1945, Harboe Kardel wrote and edited a large number of books and articles, the majority of which deal with borderland topics or with topics of German and Danish culture. As a contribution by the German minority in North Schleswig, the apologetic book Five Decades in North Schleswig appeared in the writings of the local history study group for North Schleswig . In it he speaks for the period from 1933 to 1945 of the conflict between the people of North Schleswig between their “state” and “national duties”. The ethnic group had to accept everything that happened “as the coastal dwellers in the west had to endure the storm surge.” “There was no alternative”. The activity of the ethnic group in collaboration with the occupying power and in supporting the Second World War was described by Kardel as an activity of a "moderate line" of the National Socialists. Jörn-Peter Leppien disapproved of the book and wrote, for example, in his review of the book published in 1972: “It is far more worrying that the chronicler Harboe Kardel selected and“ prepared ”his material in such a way that some facts are bathed in pink light, viewed in daylight, shows more of a black or brown color ”.

Publications

  • The city of Kiel in literature. Philological dissertation in Kiel 1921, excerpt printed Nölke, Bordesholm 1921.
  • The Reserve Field Artillery Regiment No. 17. Gerhard Stalling, Oldenburg iO Ua 1922.
  • The North Schleswig Book. Heimat und Erbe publishing house, Flensburg 1938.
  • Denmark under German protection. The historic days in North Schleswig in words and pictures. Together by Harboe Kardel, Viggo Jürgensen, Verlag der Nordschleswigschen Zeitung, Apenrade 1940. (With a picture of Adolf Hitler on the book cover, which bears the signature: "The leader who commissioned the German armed forces with the protection of Danish neutrality.")
  • The legacy in Tønder. A family novel from our day. (as Hans Hoyer) Christian Jensen-Verlag, Breklum 1970, ISBN 3-7793-1200-X .
  • Five decades in North Schleswig. A contribution to the history of the political organizations of the German ethnic group in North Schleswig from 1920-1970. In: Writings of the local history study group for North Schleswig issue 22, Apenrade 1971.
  • Grenzlandmelody in major and minor. Experiences and observations of a journalist on the German-Danish stage. Karl Wachholtz, Neumünster 1975.
  • My Husum diary. Experiences of a high school student in Husum from 1911 to 1914. Husum-Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Husum 1975, ISBN 3-88042-011-4 .
  • Under the spell of the bright nights. The wanderings and changes of the painter-poet Holger Drachmann. Husum-Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Husum 1978, ISBN 3-88042-052-1 .

literature

  • Yearbook Democratic History Volume 20. Here especially the contribution by Torben Mayer: The German minority in North Schleswig and the coming to terms with one's own National Socialist past. Accessible online via the digital archive of the Yearbook for Democratic History
  • Jörn-Peter Leppien : Review of Kardel's book “ Five decades in North Schleswig. A contribution to the history of the political organizations of the German ethnic group in Northern Schleswig 1920-1970 , Apenrade 1971 «in the journal for Schleswig-Holstein history (ZSHG) Volume 97 (1972), pp. 275-280. online as a pdf in the digital offer of the State and University Library Hamburg - Carl von Ossietzky [1] . (This review deals in detail with Harboe's role in the Nazi era.)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.graenseforeningen.dk/leksikon/k/all/6499
  2. ↑ Torben Mayer: The German minority in North Schleswig and the coming to terms with one's own National Socialist past. In: Democratic History , Volume 20, pp. 245–284, here p. 273. Online (PDF; 1.6 MB)
  3. ↑ Torben Mayer: The German minority in North Schleswig and the coming to terms with one's own National Socialist past. In: Democratic History Volume 20, pp. 245–284, here p. 261. Online (PDF; 1.6 MB)
  4. ↑ Torben Mayer: The German Minority ... , p. 253.
  5. ↑ Torben Mayer: The German Minority ... , p. 261.
  6. ↑ Torben Mayer: The German Minority ... , p. 253 and p. 261.
  7. ↑ Torben Mayer: The German Minority ... , p. 265.
  8. ^ Review of the book by Jörn-Peter Leppien in the Journal for Schleswig-Holstein History (ZSHG) Volume 97 (1972), pp. 275–280.
  9. ↑ accessed on March 17, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Kardel, Harboe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, editor-in-chief
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Nortorf , Germany
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 1982
Place of death Aabenraa