Heinrich Reister

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Heinrich Reister (born January 24, 1913 in Ókér ( German  Alt-Keer , today Zmajevo ), Batschka , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary ; † April 10, 1988 in Herrnberchtheim ) was an association functionary in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia , German-speaking author and from 1941 to 1943 head of the Office for Press and Propaganda in the Volksbund of Germans in Hungary and then a member of the Waffen SS . He also worked as a teacher in Prigrevica and Herrnberchtheim.

Life

Heinrich Reister had already shown himself to be open to work in the German ethnic group as a young man. He initially held a teaching position in Prigrevica , from which he was transferred to Montenegro "because of the defense of his nationality" , whereupon he left the teaching company. In the 1930s he joined the renewal movement , which competed with the conservative Swabian-German Cultural Association for the representation of the German minority in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia . Reister published together with Jakob Awender , Gustav Halwax , Fritz Metzger in the publications Volksruf and Volk und Arbeit articles on ethnic-national topics such as “ racial hygiene ”, “ blood and soil ” and eugenics . Their wives were also involved in the editorial work and supported the National Socialist movement “from the perspective of women”, with the “ethnic German woman” being described as the “source of the eugenic and racial revival of the national community”. From 1937 to 1938 Reister was a member of the Volksruf editorial team. In 1958 he commented on his work with the innovators with the words: "We wanted to use our youthful idealism, all of our time and energy for the concerns and tasks of our ethnic group within our ethnic organization, and we did so."

After the Kulturbund was taken over by the innovators at the end of the 1930s, Reister became the organization's propaganda leader. In this function, in 1940, together with the new federal organizer Josef Beer, he carried out a large-scale membership canvassing, so that the Kulturbund had 200,000 members by the end of the year, although the family members of the members were included.

The German Reich demanded according to the August 1939 closed German-Soviet border and friendship treaty the resettlement of Bessarabian Germans from the Kingdom of Romania in the German Reich. In order to cope with this task, the “ German ethnic group ” in Yugoslavia set up resettlement camps in Zemun , a district of Belgrade, and in Prahovo near the Bulgarian - Romanian border in the summer of 1940 , in which the 140,000 resettlers are housed and transported to the intended settlement areas were fed. The “ethnic group leader” Josef Janko appointed Reister as the “team leader” of Prahovo.

When the German Wehrmacht marched into Yugoslavia in 1941 , the "ethnic group leadership" , including Reister, barricaded themselves in the Habag House (cultural and cooperative center of "AGRARIA") in Novi Sad . Together with Johann Wüscht and Josef Beer, Reister negotiated with the Serbian commander of the Petrovaradin Fortress and managed to get around 100 old and frail people from among the 400 “ethnic Germans” held hostage by the Serbian forces to the Habag House and the rest could be supplied with meals from there daily. After the appearance of German troops on the southern bank of the Danube in the Petrovaradin district, the "German Civil Guard" set up by Josef Janko occupied several public buildings, freed hostages and, after negotiations, disarmed two Serbian regiments.

After the annexation of the southern Batschka to the Kingdom of Hungary , Reister took part in an " official training course " in Lechnitz (northern Transylvania ) on September 29 and 30, 1941 and then took on leadership roles in the Volksbund of Germans in Hungary . In his new function as head of the Office for Press and Propaganda in Budapest , he accompanied the Hungarian "ethnic group leader" Franz Anton Basch from May 9 to 11, 1942 on his visit to the southern Batschka and the "Mitte" area, then from 30 to 11 May 1942 May 31, 1942 on his tour of the Buchenwald area . From June 19 to 21, 1942, both of them visited northern Transylvania . Reister spoke at numerous events, including on occasions such as the Führer birthday ; on December 21, 1942, in the first Christmas message broadcast in German on Hungarian radio, he spoke about "Christmas 1942, which the German people will celebrate during the war". Staff leader Josef Schönborn announced in November 1943 that Reister had joined the Waffen SS on November 13, 1943 . Franz Herberth took his place.

From 1947 Reister worked as a teacher in Herrnberchtheim in Central Franconia , now a district of Ippesheim . From 1956 to 1972 he held the honorary post of First Mayor in Herrnberchtheim, and from 1959 he held a mandate in the district council of the Uffenheim district . On April 22, 1985 Reister was one of the founding members of the local association Uffenheim, City and State of Free Voters Bavaria , of which he was parliamentary group leader until his death. Hildegard Schlez was appointed as his successor.

Reister was also involved as the district home keeper of today's Uffenheim administrative community and in choirs (partly as choir director) such as the Herrnberchtheimer choir , the Liederkranz Gnötzheim and the Gülchsheimer Musikanten . In the 1970s and 1980s, he organized for the home and museum association Uffenheim and surroundings - Gollachgaumuseum folklore evenings , among others, the Winsheimer singers and Ochsenfurter Trachtenverein .

Heinrich Reister was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit . He died on April 10, 1988 in Herrnberchtheim.

Publications

Books:

  • The big contingent. Text and image design: Heinrich Reister, Leopold Egger. German ethnic group in Yugoslavia, State Propaganda Office, 1941.
  • First State Youth Day Magocs 1941. With Bruno Klein. National Propaganda Office of the People's League of Germans in Hungary, Budapest 1941.
  • Picture calendar for the Volksbund der Deutschen in Hungary. Born in 1942. Novi Sad, 1941.
  • Volksdeutscher Calendar 1943: Yearbook of the German ethnic group in Hungary . People's League of Germans in Hungary, Centrum-Verlag AG, Budapest 1942.
  • Councilor Albrecht Eyring. Man and work. (Festschrift for the memorial ceremony 1950.) Herrnberchtheim 1950.
  • Plant a tree. Bad Windsheim 1984.

Essays:

  • The ethnic German home front ready for any task! In: Deutsche Zeitung, Budapest (DZB), “Organ of the German Ethnic Group in Hungary” of August 9, 1942, p. 5.
  • Volkish socialism indeed. In: DZB of October 18, 1942, p. 1.
  • Faith and Sacrifice. In: DZB of October 25, 1942, p. 1.
  • The administrator. In: DZB of November 8, 1942, p. 3.
  • The inner front. In: DZB of November 24, 1942, p. 1.
  • Women and mothers of the people. In: DZB of December 6, 1942, p. 3.
  • Our front vacationers. In: DZB of December 20, 1942, p. 1.
  • The year of probation. In: DZB of January 3, 1943, p. 2f.
  • The victim curve rises. In: DZB of January 10, 1943, p. 3.
  • The field post letter. In: DZBV January 17, 1943, p. 1f.
  • Ethnic group in action. Total commitment from home. In: DZB February 21, 1943, p. 1f.
  • Neighbor self-help. In: DZB of March 7, 1943, p. 1.
  • Mute and dogged. In: DZB of March 14, 1943, p. 5.
  • Eternal life - eternal struggle. In: DZB of April 25, 1943, p. 3.

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ Apart from "Volksgruppenführer" Franz Anton Basch , no leaders of the Volksbund were ever brought to justice in Hungary or anywhere else. Basch was sentenced to death in Hungary in 1946. Proof: GC Paikert: The Danube Swabians. German Populations in Hungary, Rumania and Yugoslavia, and Hitler's impact on their Patterns. Springer Science & Business Media, 2012, ISBN 94-011-9717-2 , p. 200.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Philipp Sandles: The Batschka. German settlement area in Southeast Europe. Edited and supplemented by Brigitte and Gunther Wolf. Geretsried 2005, p. 141.
  2. ^ Marius Turda: The History of East-Central European Eugenics, 1900-1945: Sources and Commentaries. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015, ISBN 1-4725-3136-1 , p. 522.
  3. ^ Franz Wilhelm: Rumaer Documentation 1745-1945. Volume II, 1998, p. 144.
  4. ↑ Bundesarchiv Ost - Documentation No. 57/58. In: Franz Wilhelm: Rumaer Documentation 1745–1945. Volume II, 1998, p. 144.
  5. ↑ Časopis za suvremenu povijest (Journal of Contemporary History) , issues 1–3. Institut za historiju radničkog pokreta Hrvatske (Institute for the History of the Croatian Labor Movement), 1999, p. 593.
  6. ^ Valentin Oberkersch : The Germans in Syrmia, Slavonia, Croatia and Bosnia. Donauschwäbisches Archiv, Donauschwäbische Kulturstiftung, Working Group for Donauschwäbische Heimat- und Volksforschung, 1989, p. 257.
  7. ^ Mariana Hausleitner : The Danube Swabians 1868–1948. Your role in the Romanian and Serbian Banat. Steiner, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-515-10686-3 , p. 244.
  8. ^ Johann Böhm : The German ethnic group in Yugoslavia 1918-1941: domestic and foreign policy as symptoms of the relationship between the German minority and the Yugoslav government. Peter Lang Verlag, 2009. ISBN 3-631-59557-3 , p. 322.
  9. ^ Valentin Oberkersch : The Germans in Syrmia, Slavonia, Croatia and Bosnia. Donauschwäbisches Archiv, Donauschwäbische Kulturstiftung, Working Group for Donauschwäbische Heimat- und Volksforschung, 1989, p. 281.
  10. ^ Arnold Suppan : Hitler - Beneš - Tito: Conflict, War and Genocide in East Central and Southeast Europe. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2014. ISBN 3-7001-7560-4 , p. 1027.
  11. ^ A b c Klaus Popa : Völkisches Handbuch Südosteuropa. Online encyclopedia of ethnic German Southeast Europe. Letter R. pp. 23-25.
  12. ↑ Lóránt Tilkovszky: Hungary and the German "ethnic politics" 1938-1945 . Böhlau, 1981, p. 270.
  13. ^ The FWG local association Uffenheim city and country. In: fwg-uffenheim.de
  14. ↑ Harald J. Munzinger: Medals of Honor for the commitment in the district. In: nordbayern.de from July 19, 2013.
  15. ^ Marie Rienecker: Wallmersbach. A farming village in the Franconian Gollachgau. Schmidt, 1989, pp. 223-225.
  16. ↑ Helga Schneider: Piece of the past is over . Paid content. In: Main-Post dated December 3, 2006.
  17. ↑ Gülchsheim musicians. History. In: guelchsheimer-musikanten.de from February 17, 2017.
  18. ↑ The search for truth drives the homeland researcher. In: Uffenheim local press, undated.
personal data
SURNAME Reister, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German association functionary in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, German-speaking author and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Zmajevo , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1988
Place of death Herrnberchtheim