Hugo Linhard

Hugo Linhard (born March 4, 1896 in Achern ; † October 2, 1950 in Pömbsen , Westphalia) was a German literary and SD functionary. Linhard became famous as the General Secretary of the National Socialist Association of German Writers (RDS) .

Live and act

After attending school, Linhard learned the profession of industrial clerk. From 1914 to 1918 he took part in the Reserve Field Artillery Regiment 55 in World War I , in which he was promoted to lieutenant in 1918 . Linhard then belonged to the Oven Freikorps until the end of 1920 . In the 1920s he made a living as a buyer. In October 1930 Linhard joined the National Socialist movement and joined the NSDAP ( membership number 312.492). In 1931 he was also admitted to the Schutzstaffel (SS) (membership number 36.109), in which he had been a member of the security service of the SS (SD) since January 1934 .

When the Reich Association of German Writers was founded on June 9, 1933, a few months after the National Socialists came to power in the spring of 1933, Linhard was given the post of General Secretary of this body. According to the task of the National Federation, the German literary world within the meaning of National Socialist ideology same switch , Linhard promoted as the person responsible for the practical organization of the Association of writers who were ideologically on the Nazi line, and took journalists who divergent views represented, with disbarment or failed them membership in the Reich Association, which was a prerequisite for being allowed to publish during the Nazi era . In his capacity as an SD member, Linhard was also the liaison between the Reich Chamber of Culture and the SD main office .

In March 1938, Linhard joined the Wehrmacht as an officer . For this purpose he gave up his post as general secretary of the RDS and his membership in the SS and SD. In the Second World War he was promoted to captain.

On May 5, 1934, Linhard married Dorothe Richter for the first time. On March 3, 1947, he married Yvonne Hedwig Baronin von Korff (born February 13, 1913 in Riga), a daughter of Boris Constantin Porter Friedrich von Korff (1883-1946), in Flensburg.

literature

• Jan-Pieter Barbian: Literary Policy in the Third Reich. Institutions, competencies, fields of activity , 1993.
• Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels: Archive for the history of the book industry , Vol. 40, 1993.