Hugo Hertwig (writer)

Hugo Wilhelm Heinrich Hertwig (born March 31, 1891 in Saalfeld ; † April 12, 1959 in Berlin ) was a German writer and life reformer who founded a rural commune near Itzehoe .

The son of Remscheid's town planning officer began studying law at the University of Jena in 1911 , after a year he switched to philology and, after dropping out, worked in the administration of Itzehoe. In 1914 he volunteered for service in the local artillery regiment. In 1919 he moved in with two friends in Hagen with the artist Max Schulze-Sölde , whom he persuaded to conduct an agricultural settlement experiment. They moved to Itzehoe in 1920 and bought a farm, the Lindenhof , in Wilstermarsch near Kleve for 80,000 marks . There they tried a communist community with agriculture and home education. Even nudism and free sexuality (presumably) belonged to the house was painted cubist in garish colors. The experiment failed in the course of 1920 due to internal tensions and a lack of experience with agriculture. Hertwig moved via Itzehoe to his future wife Maria Reps in Prerow , where he again planned a communist settlement. In 1930 he settled at the Schlachtensee and began to write novels about doctor biographies ( Robert Koch ) as well as writings on medical medicine . His medicinal herbalism experienced many editions.

Publications

• Healthy through medicinal plants. Old and new knowledge about the fight of the plant against disease and about the power to shape human fate. Verlag für Kulturpolitik, Berlin 1935; continued in 1954 as Knaur's medicinal plants book. A house book of naturopathy. Knaur, Munich / Zurich 1954; reissued until 1981.
• Man's love life. Schaffer, Berlin 1940; last: Praxis-Verlag, Tübingen 1949.
• How do I become 100 years old? Decker, Regensburg 1953.

literature

• Ulrich Linse : Back, oh human, to mother earth. Rural communes in Germany 1890–1933 . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-423-02934-X , esp. Pp. 142–156.
• Reimar Möller: The painter Max Schulze-Sölde in the Wilster Marsch - an agrarian-romantic “noble communist” settlement experiment on the “Lindenhof” in Kleve. In: Democratic History. Vol. 10 (1996), pp. 125-140 ( digitized version ).