Hermann Popert

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Hermann Martin Popert (born November 12, 1871 in Hamburg , † February 5, 1932 in Altona ; pseudonym Fidelis ) was a German lawyer , judge and writer . His novel Helmut Harringa (1910) was a great success, especially in the youth movement .

life and work

Popert came from a Jewish merchant family, attended a private school and the Wilhelm Gymnasium in Hamburg . After graduating from high school, he studied law in Strasbourg and Munich . He did his doctorate in Leipzig and after his legal clerkship worked as a legal assistant and lawyer in Hamburg. From 1903 to 1910 Popert was a district judge and district judge in Hamburg. From 1907 to 1910 he belonged to the Hamburg citizenship , where he joined the United Liberals under Carl Wilhelm Petersen and Carl Braband . In 1910/11 he worked as a trainee in a Munich publishing house.

Popert campaigned against alcohol and nicotine abuse. He was a member of the committee of the General German Central Association for Combating Alcoholism and the Order of the Good Templars , gave speeches and published numerous brochures. In 1910 the Dürerbund published Popert's novel Helmut Harringa. A story from our time for the German people , which developed into a great success and appeared in the 310th thousand in 1925.

The hero of the novel, Helmut Harringa, a young, blond East Frisian , competes in the episode plot against the " degenerations " of industrial modernity, against alcoholism , crime, premarital sex and prostitution in the big city, but also against the mixing of the Nordic with others , allegedly "inferior" races , which are embodied mainly by Slavs , southerners and Asians. According to Christoph Klotter and Niels Beckenbach, the novel offers “a conglomeration of anti-modern fears and racist projections, underlaid by Germanism in a simple postcard format; it is an appeal to primitive feelings, a mixture of anti-modernity and resentment against foreign ethnic groups, racism with the handbrake still on. ”As a life-reforming “ figure of light ”, Harringa became a leading figure in the German youth movement . The youth moved Werner Helwig ruled in 1960: "For everything that was once walking bird or movement at all costs, is and remains the novel by this author a stronghold of the future proclamation." Poperts Jewish was later by Hans Blüher taken as a reason the novel as To designate "from corrupted blood".

Popert gave a speech on abstinence , land reform and social policy at the Freideutschen Jugendtag on the Hohe Meissner in 1913 . After the success of the novel, he resigned as a judge and, together with Hans Paasche, founded the Vorruppbund and the life-reforming and pacifist magazine Vorrupp , which appeared from 1912 to 1921. Popert published in it under the pseudonym Fidelis and campaigned for a peace of understanding during the First World War . His "German pacifism" tried to combine patriotism with a verbal commitment to peace. He advocated government policy, but rejected annexations. His pacifism was also expressed in his Diary of a Sighted One (1920) and in his drama Wenn (1922).

Due to the inflation Popert got into economic difficulties and was again a district judge in Hamburg from 1923 to 1930.

Works

  • Hamburg and the alcohol. Gräfe, Hamburg 1903.
  • The next practical goal of the abstinence movement. Lecture given on the second German Abstinententag at Altonar on July 16, 1904. 2nd edition, Flensburg 1904.
  • We and the alcohol capital. Lecture given on September 30, 1904 ... , Flensburg 1904.
  • A step on the way to power. A word to the German abstainers and the German supporters of women's suffrage, lecture given at the 5th German Abstinententage in Flensburg on July 27, 1907. Gustav Fischer, Jena 1907.
  • What does our time want from the German student body? Lecture given in the large auditorium at Kiel University on February 7, 1908. Gustav Fischer, Jena 1908.
  • Helmut Harringa. A story from our time. , Dresden 1910.
  • Corps pub. Verl. Der Zukunft, Berlin 1911.
  • The Schifferer case. Wigand, Leipzig 1912.
  • Which 's the hardest pressing. Wigand, Leipzig 1912.
  • and Hans Paasche: The Vorrupp. G. Wigand, Leipzig 1912.
  • The song of the white art. Vertupp-Verl, Hermann 1913.
  • Free German future. Greetings to the centenary on the Hoher Meissner. Wigand, Leipzig 1913.
  • Big cleaning. E. Billing with d. Forgeries and Falsehoods against d. "Freidtsch. Jugendtag “ad vanguard group have been spread. Vorrupp-Verl, Hamburg 1913.
  • The “vanguard” and the women's movement. 2nd Edition. Janssen, Hamburg 1914.
  • Auxiliary notes for the training personnel ... Recruit depot 2 of the reserve battalion Res.-Inf.-Rgts; No. 107. [sn], [sl] 1915.
  • The victim's reward. Janssen, Hamburg 1917.
  • Parental duty. 2nd Edition. A. Janssen, Hamburg 1917.
  • Freedom and fatherland. Janssen, Hamburg 1918.
  • Hague. A. Janssen, Hamburg 1918.
  • Solf and the colonial war goal. A. Janssen, Hamburg 1918.
  • "To Eternal Peace". A. Janssen, Hamburg 1918.
  • The next practical goal of the abstinence movement. Lecture go. ... 2nd edition. Janssen, Hamburg 1919.
  • Erzberger's basic idea. A. Janssen, Hamburg 1919.
  • Jesus Christ. 2nd Edition. Janssen; Vorrupp-Verlag, Hamburg 1919.
  • Moorland. Open letter to Alfred H. Fried. Janssen, Hamburg 1919.
  • Spartacus in the youth movement. Vorrupp-Verl, Hamburg 1919.
  • Our goals and ways. Janssen, Hamburg 1919.
  • Freiburg states. Jansen, Hamburg 1920.
  • Diary of a sighted person, 1914-1919. A. Jansen, Hamburg 1920.
  • If ... a patriotic dream; 5 elevators. Hemp, Hamburg 1922.
  • Hamburg and the trash fight. In 2 books. German Poet's Memorial Foundation, Hamburg-Grossborstel 1926.
  • Film issues. German Poet's Memorial Foundation, Hamburg-Grossborstel 1927.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph Klotter and Niels Beckenbach: Romance and violence. Youth movements in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften / Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 9783531176444 , p. 144.
  2. ↑ Quoted from Gerhard Kratzsch: Kunstwart and Dürerbund. A contribution to the history of the educated in the age of imperialism. Vandenhoeck u. Ruprecht, Göttingen 1969, ISBN 9783525361252 , p. 287 ff.
  3. ^ Christian Niemeyer: Nietzsche, the youth and the pedagogy. An introduction. Juventa Verlag, Weinheim 2002, ISBN 9783779910879 , p. 138.
  4. ↑ Helmut Donat and Karl Holl (ed.): The peace movement. Organized pacifism in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Econ, Berlin 1983, p. 308.
personal data
SURNAME Popert, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Popert, Hermann Martin; Fidelis (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German judge and writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH February 5, 1932
Place of death Altona