Herbert Scurla

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Herbert Scurla (born April 21, 1905 in Kleinräschen , today part of Großräschen ; † April 7, 1981 in Kolkwitz ) was a German economist and writer. At times he used the following names as pseudonyms: Karl Leutner; K. Th. Lysander; Harry Droll; Peter Petersen; Rudiger; R. Claus; Leopold Kanter; Herta Falkenstein.

Life

Scurla attended high school in Senftenberg , where he graduated from high school in 1923. He then studied economics in Berlin and was the main advisor for the German Academic Exchange Service from 1930 to 1943 . On May 1, 1933 , he joined the NSDAP , membership number 2,583,383. In 1934 he became a lecturer at the German University of Politics in Berlin. In addition, he was in 1934 Councilor in the Reich Ministry of Science, Education and Culture . As the main clerk for cultural questions within the Reichsrundfunkkammer he supervised the ideological orientation of the broadcast programs. In 1939 he was promoted to the Upper Government Council and special advisor for Eastern issues. In this position, after a trip to Turkey in 1939, he wrote the so-called Scurla report, in which he reported on the employment of professors who had been expelled from Germany at Turkish universities. They had sought refuge there between 1933 and 1945 . Scurla assessed the refugees and family members depending on their proximity to National Socialism or their Jewish origin. The background to this was that the Germans tried to displace the refugees and replace them with scientists loyal to the Nazis.

Scurla's promotion to the Ministerialrat was rejected by Martin Bormann in 1942 because before 1933 he was one of "the outspoken opponents" of National Socialism. In 1943 Scurla became an honorary professor at Berlin University .

After the end of the war, Scurla's writings The Basic Thoughts of National Socialism and Abroad ( Junker and Dünnhaupt , Berlin 1938) and The Third Front. The intellectual foundations of the propaganda war of the Western powers (Stubenrauch, Berlin 1940) in the Soviet occupation zone were placed on the list of literature to be segregated.

Scurla did an apprenticeship as a carpenter and from 1946 worked as a publishing editor , including at the Nation's publishing house . From 1952 he lived as a freelance writer in Cottbus .

As a member of the block party NDPD , he was a member of the leadership of the Kulturbund of the GDR in the Cottbus district , where he was deputy chairman of the German Writers' Association . He published in various GDR newspapers under the pseudonym "Karl Leutner". In 1971 he was awarded the Johannes R. Becher Medal , in 1974 he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit .

Scurla emerged primarily as a narrator, essayist, editor, biographer and political writer. He wrote biographies about Alexander von Humboldt , Wilhelm von Humboldt and Rahel Varnhagen .

His grave is in the central cemetery in Cottbus .

Works

  • German students abroad. An attempt to quantify the number of Reich German students studying abroad . In: German Student Union. Journal of student self-help work . de Gruyter, Berlin Volume 5, 1931, pp. 147-160.
  • Extent and direction of interstate student migration . Triltsch, Würzburg 1933 (Leipzig, Univ., Diss., 1933)
  • The basic ideas of National Socialism and abroad . Junker and Dünnhaupt, Berlin 1938. (= publications of the German University of Politics 1)
  • The third front. Spiritual foundations of the propaganda war of the western powers . Stubenrauch, Berlin 1940. (= series of publications by the German Academic Exchange Service 4)
  • The French cultural institutes abroad. A contribution to French cultural propaganda. Zeitschrift für Politik , Volume 31, 1941, pp. 139–159
  • British cultural institutes abroad. ibid. pp. 499-505
  • England 1941. in Friedrich Berber Ed .: Yearbook for Foreign Policy. In consultation with the Federal Foreign Office . 8th year 1942. August Gross, Berlin
  • University and Science in National Socialist Germany . From: Spirit of the times . November 1941.
  • Memories of his own life by KA Varnhagen von Ense. [Arr. and. introduced by Karl Leutner = Herbert Scurla]. Verlag der Nation , Berlin 1950. (= life pictures of great Germans )
  • Triumph and truth. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1951 (= National Heritage 3)
  • Ernst Moritz Arndt. The champion for unity and democracy . Congress publishing house, Berlin 1952.
  • Alexander von Humboldt Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1955. (Licensed editions: Claassen 1982, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag 1984)
  • Encounters with Rahel. Rachel Levy's drawing room . Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1962. (Licensed editions: Claassen 1978, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag 1980)
  • Wilhelm von Humboldt. Werden und Wirken Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1970. (Licensed editions: Claassen 1976, Heyne 1984)
  • The brothers Grimm. Ein Lebensbild Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1985. (Licensed editions: Dausien 1986 and 2000)
  • as Karl Leutner: Germans we are proud of. 1st episode: Biographies of Ulrich von Hutten , Alexander von Humboldt , Friedrich Froebel and others Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1955, ext. New edition ibid. 1960 - 2nd episode: Georg Friedrich Händel , Johann Sebastian Bach , Christoph Willibald Gluck , Karl Friedrich Zelter , Ludwig van Beethoven , Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann , Albert Lortzing , Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , Robert Schumann , Johannes Brahms . ibid. 1957.
  • as editor: Discoveries on four continents (on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the death of Alexander von Humboldt) Verlag der Nation Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1959; Alexander von Humboldt Views of Nature Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1959; Travels for Orient Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1961; Beyond the Stone Gate Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1963; Im Lande der Kariben Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1964; Travels in Nippon Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1968 (most recently 1990); Im Banne der Anden Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1971; Between Cape and Kilimanjaro Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1973; In the Kingdom of the King of Kings Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1976; On a cruise through the Südsee Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1977; Through the Land of the Aztecs Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1978 (last updated in 1987)
  • posthumously: Klaus-Detlev Grothusen , ed. and introduction, Ruşen Keleş (collaborator): The Scurla report. Report of the Upper Government Council Dr. rer. pole. Herbert Scurla from the Foreign Department of the Reich Ministry of Education in Berlin on his business trip to Ankara and Istanbul from May 11th to 25th 1939: "The activities of German university lecturers at Turkish scientific universities". Dağyeli, Frankfurt 1987 ISBN 3924320470

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  1. ↑ “Scurla, Herbert. Cottbus. Born April 21, 1905 in Grube Ilse, Kalau district. “(Federal Ministry for All-German Issues (Ed.): SBZ-Biographie . 3rd edition, 3rd German Federal Publishing House, Berlin 1964, p. 322.)
  2. ↑ Herbert Scurla. In: lr-online.de. Lausitzer Rundschau , April 22, 2010, accessed on January 18, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Bernd Marx: His heart beat for Leichhardt. In: lr-online.de. Lausitzer Rundschau , May 14, 2005, accessed on January 18, 2018 .
  4. ↑ SBZ biography , p. 322
  5. ↑ a b c d e Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 562.
  6. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-s.html
  7. ↑ Scurla denounced the emigrants, especially the Jewish or non-Nazi academics, officially, in great detail
personal data
SURNAME Scurla, Herbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Karl Leutner (pseudonym); K. Th. Lysander (pseudonym); Harry Droll (pseudonym); Peter Petersen (pseudonym); Rüdiger (pseudonym); R. Claus (pseudonym); Leopold Kanter (pseudonym); Herta Falkenstein (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Großräschen
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1981
Place of death Kolkwitz