Heinz Wismann (Ministerial Councilor)

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Heinz Wismann (born September 16, 1897 in Münster , † 1945 ) was a German studies scholar and, as a ministerial advisor, head of the literature department in the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda .

Life

Wismann, son of the railway inspector Heinrich Wismann, attended the humanistic high school in Berlin and Münster. From September 1914 he took part in the First World War as a war volunteer , including the winter battle in Champagne (1914/15) and the advance in Serbia (autumn 1915). In 1915 he was promoted to lieutenant. He was awarded the Iron Cross II. Class and the Wound Badge .

From 1920 to 1925 he worked as a businessman. From 1925 to 1929 he studied philosophy, art history, history and archeology at the universities of Berlin and Heidelberg . He then worked for newspaper publishers. On February 16, 1933, he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD.

In April 1933 Wismann was appointed to the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, where he headed the Literature Department (since October 1934 the Literature Department ). In July 1935 he was promoted to Ministerial Counselor. At the same time he was vice-president of the Reichsschrifttumskammer (RSK) , headed initially by Hans Friedrich Blunck and since 1935 by Hanns Johst , and as such also represented in the management of the Reich Office for the Promotion of German Literature , which is part of the Propaganda Ministry . Wismann had to relinquish the management of the Reich Office in March 1934 after internal power struggles between Goebbels and Rosenberg. He lost the other posts at the end of October 1937 because he had concealed his previous marriage to a “half-Jewish woman”; his successor was Karl Heinz Hederich .

In the National Socialist campaign of the " Aryanization " of the Springer publishing house , Heinz Wismann apparently held back.

From 1934 Wismann was married to Gertrud Hüssener for the second time; the classical philologist Heinz Wismann is his son.

Publications

  • Britain's domestic coal economy during the war . Hagen 1921.

literature

  • Jan-Pieter Barbian : Literary politics in the Nazi state. From synchronization to ruin. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2010

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Burned, stolen, saved! Book burnings in Germany . An exhibition of the Friedrich-Ebert Foundation on the occasion of the 70th anniversary (publications of the library of the Friedrich-Ebert Foundation, vol. 13). Bonn 2003, p. 17 ( PDF )
  2. ↑ Bernhard Metz, "At your holidays, Germania, where you are a priestess." German literature in the time of National Socialism . University of Konstanz 2002, p. 29 ( PDF )
  3. ^ Dietmar Dürr, The Rosenberg Office in National Socialist Literary Policy . Master's thesis, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn, 1994, esp. 48ff. ( PDF )
  4. ^ Dietmar Dürr, The Rosenberg Office in National Socialist Literary Policy . Master's thesis, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn, 1994, 66ff. ( PDF )
  5. ^ Heinz Sarkowski, Der Springer-Verlag: Stations of His History , Vol. 1, Part 1. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer, 1992 ( ISBN 3-540-55221-9 ), pp. 342–343 Google books
personal data
SURNAME Wismann, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German specialist in German and Ministerialrat
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster
DATE OF DEATH 1945