Hermann Harder

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Hermann Harder (born February 16, 1901 in Spandau ; missing since October 10, 1944 in Petrellen in Lithuania ) was a writer and poet of National Socialism .

Life

After studying German and English and obtaining a doctorate to become a Dr. phil. Harder was a teacher in Berlin. As early as 1929 he had published a volume of poetry Sternbilder der Jugend . In 1932 he published The Sunken City. A novel from the coming prehistoric times .

In 1934 the church musician Hugo Distler set Harder's propagandistic Trutzlied Germany and German-Austria to music , with the 2nd stanza: "Brothers in the brother country, / lifts the sun sign!", Which, according to Fred K. Prieberg, means the Nazi swastika . After the " Anschluss of Austria " to the German Reich , the song was reprinted in the magazine Musik und Volk on April 1, 1938 because of its current reference .

In 1936 Harder published a poem “ To the Führer ” in National Socialist Education : “We love you Führer because we love Germany. / We fight for you because you fought for Germany. / We die for you because you make Germany great. "

Harder has been missing in Petrellen, Lithuania since October 10, 1944. He was officially declared dead by the Bochum District Court with effect from December 31, 1945.

In the post-war period, the following writings from Harder were placed on the list of literature to be discarded in the Soviet occupation zone : Kant and the warbler (Leipzig 1933), Elevation of the Heart (Potsdam 1937), and in 1952 in the GDR The Germanic Heritage in German Poetry by the Early to the present (Potsdam 1939).

Works (selection)

  • 1932 The sunken city. A novel from the coming prehistoric times
  • 1933 Kant and the warbler , novel
  • 1936 Elevation of the Heart , Poems
  • 1937 The religion of the Teutons
  • 1937 Irish Homecoming , short story
  • 1939 The Germanic Heritage in German Poetry from the Early Period to the Present: An Overview
  • 1939 son of the earth , poems
  • 1943 Walther von der Vogelweide, the singer of the Reich. His life in his works
  • 1943 Pilgrimage to Berlin: 3 stories from the age of Frederick the Great and Goethe , published in 1944
  • 1944 The Doctor in the Red Skirt and other short stories
  • 1944 The sunken city. Tale from the early Bronze Age

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , entry Harder, Hermann , p. 216.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Klee: The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 216.
  2. ↑ Compare the evidence in the catalog of the German National Library
  3. ↑ Compare the evidence in the catalog of the German National Library
  4. ↑ Complete text of the 2nd and 3rd stanzas in Fred K. Prieberg: Handbuch German Musicians 1933–1945 , CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, pp. 1.190-1.191.
  5. ^ A b Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, p. 1.191.
  6. ↑ Complete text from Joseph Wulf : Literature and Poetry in the Third Reich. A documentation , Sigbert Mohn Verlag, Gütersloh 1963, p. 359, also abbreviated by Ernst Klee: Das Kulturlexikon zum Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 216.
  7. ^ List of literature to be sorted out 1946 .
  8. ^ List of literature to be sorted out 1948 .
  9. ^ List of the literature to be discarded 1953 .
  10. ↑ Compilation based on the entries in the DNB .
personal data
SURNAME Harder, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and lyric poet in the time of National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Spandau
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: 1944