Jürgen Hahn-Butry

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Jürgen Hahn-Butry (* July 7, 1899 in Berlin , † February 15, 1976 in Hersel ) was a German journalist, publicist and writer with a focus on the soldier novel. During the National Socialism he was a leading member of the authors' association "Team". In the Second World War he took part as a member of the propaganda company . In the Federal Republic of Germany he made a name for himself with anti-communist propaganda and worked as a publicist.

Life

The son Diederich Hahn took part in the First World War as a volunteer from 1917 and after the end of the war he joined the Freikorps Lichtschlag . He worked as a journalist during the Weimar Republic and was involved as a speaker and author in the nationalist movement . He worked on Theodor Fritsch's magazine Der Hammer - Blätter für deutsche Sinn . From 1929 he called himself Hahn-Butry. From 1931 he also wrote for the Nazi newspaper The Attack .

During the Nazi era , Hahn-Butry founded the authors' association “Team”. This association emerged from a group of frontline writers who had met regularly in Berlin in 1934/35 to exchange experiences. As far as the content and some of the members of the group were concerned, the “team” was closely related to soldier nationalism . In 1937, Hahn-Butry ensured that the group was affiliated to the National Socialist War Victims Fund (NSKOV). From now on, writers were also accepted who had not been at the front, but who distinguished themselves through their participation in the Nazi movement. Hahn-Butry acted as deputy to Otto Paust , who had been appointed leader of the “team”, and published anthologies with texts by the members.

In June 1938, Buderose Castle near Guben was handed over to the “crew” as the “Front Dichterheim” under the patronage of Alfred Rosenberg . Hahn-Butry lived in the castle with his wife for a few months in 1938, and in 1939 the Rosenberg Office held a conference on the great German philosopher Immanuel Kant there . With the beginning of the Second World War, numerous writers from the “team” were deployed as front reporters . Hahn-Butry himself was a war correspondent for the OKW from 1939 to 1945 . As a member of the propaganda company , he reported on the Balkan campaign with Panzer Group 1 in 1941 and from the Caucasus in 1942 . Hahn-Butry and Wilfred von Oven describe the operation with Panzer Group 1 or "Panzer Group von Kleist" (after Commander-in-Chief General Ewald von Kleist ) in the jointly written book Panzer am Balkan. Adventure book of the tank group von Kleist (1941). The song composed by Hahn-Butry at the end of the work exemplifies the propaganda character of the book:

"For whoever dares to make a pact with England / Must feel the German sword all the hardness [...] The spirit of the Führer carries us and drives us / We are the Kleist Panzer Group."

From 1943 he worked in the propaganda replacement and training department in Potsdam.

After 1945 Hahn-Butry was a co-founder of the People's League for Peace and Freedom (VFF) and its president from 1950 to 1951. In May 1951 criminal charges were brought against Hahn-Butry as chairman of the VFF . The reason was a leaflet distributed by the VFF , in which Günther Gereke was denounced as "Moscow's most dangerous agent". Hahn-Butry successfully appealed against the court ruling: the proceedings were discontinued in August 1954. For the Federal Center for Homeland Service he wrote leading articles on the basis of contracts for work until the beginning of 1955, which were widely distributed. Since 1957 he has been editor of the journals Afrika-Bulletin , Afrika-Schnellbrief and the CDU -near European View . From 1966 to 1971 he was an extraordinary member of the old gentlemen's association of the Association of German Students in Bonn .

Hahn-Butry's pseudonym at that time was "Der deutsche Rufer". Under the pseudonym “D. Rufer ”he published a propaganda brochure about the former chairman of the NPD , Adolf von Thadden, after the war . Both this politician biography and correspondence show that Hahn-Butry sympathized with the NPD .

Around 1967 Hahn-Butry published the book Uncomfortable Truths , in which it “u. a. about the reasons and causes which, from his point of view , would have contributed to the election successes of the NPD in recent years, as well as about the relationship between Germans and their country ”.

In the Soviet occupation zone , the works published by Hahn-Butry were The Book of the German NCO (Franke, Berlin 1936), The team, Frontsoldaten tell of everyday life at the front (4 volumes, Limpert, Berlin 1936-1938) and Prussian-German field marshals and Grand Admirals (Safari, Berlin 1938) and the writings he wrote Der Soldat (Oehmigke, Berlin & Breslau 1937), General von Reyher (Franke, Berlin 1937), Hans Christian's Homecoming (Franke, Berlin 1938), Landsknecht - no, Soldat! (Franke, Berlin 1939), Panzer am Balkan (with Wilfred von Oven , Limpert, Berlin 1941) and Der Fllandrische Fähndrich (Janke, Leipzig 1944) put on the list of literature to be sorted out. In the German Democratic Republic , this list was followed by his “Georgette, der Unteroffizier… and I” ( Rather , Munich 1937).

Hahn-Butry was less to be attributed to National Socialism - he was never a member of the NSDAP - but to a soldierly nationalism, the focus of which, similar to Ernst Jünger , was the idealization of the trench community of the First World War.

See also

Works

  • Erich Neumann, Jürgen Hahn-Butry: Yellow against yellow. A fantastic novel. Moewig & Höffner, Berlin 1935
  • Jürgen Hahn-Butry (Ed.): The book from the German non-commissioned officer, P. Franke, Berlin 1936
  • Jürgen Hahn-Butry: General von Reyher. Historical novel. Franke, Berlin 1937
  • Jürgen Hahn-Butry (ed.): Prussian-German field marshals and grand admirals. Safari, Berlin 1937
  • Jürgen Hahn-Butry: The soldier. How the modern soldier was and is, Oehmigke, Berlin 1937
  • Jürgen Hahn-Butry (Ed.): The team. Front soldiers talk about everyday life at the front. 4 volumes, Wilhelm Limpert, Berlin undated (1936–1938)
  • Wilfred von Oven & Jürgen Hahn-Butry: Tanks in the Balkans. Adventure book of the tank group Kleist , Limpert, Berlin 1941
  • Jürgen Hahn-Butry: Der Flanders Fähndrich, Janke, Leipzig 1944
  • Jürgen Hahn-Butry, Hans Joachim Köhler: Hanover's noble warmblood, Siep, Hamburg 1949
  • Arthur-Heinz Lehmann, Jürgen Hahn-Butry: The happiness of this earth, Siep, Hamburg 1949
  • Jürgen Hahn-Butry: Inconvenient truths. European point of view, Hersel 1967

literature

  • Nicolaus Neumann, Jochen Maes: The planned putsch. The rights in the FRG, their backers and their organization. Konkret Buchverlag , Hamburg 1971, p. 116
  • Friedrich Carl Badendieck: On the death of Jürgen Hahn-Butry. In: Academic papers . 79th year 1977, p. 27
  • Daniel Klünemann: Jürgen Hahn-Butry, the front poet. in Rolf Düsterberg , Ed .: Poet for the "Third Reich", Vol. 2 .: Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology. Nine author portraits and an essay on literary societies to promote the work of ethnic poets. Aisthesis Verlag , Bielefeld 2011, ISBN 978-3-89528-855-5 , pp. 79-106
  • Armin Mohler: The Conservative Revolution in Germany 1918–1932, outline of their world views. Stuttgart 1950

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daniel Klünemann: Jürgen Hahn-Butry - the front poet . In: Rolf Düsterberg (Ed.): Poets for the "Third Reich". Volume 2. Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2011, p. 84.
  2. ^ Daniel Klünemann: Jürgen Hahn-Butry - the front poet . In: Rolf Düsterberg (Ed.): Poets for the "Third Reich". Volume 2. Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2011, p. 86.
  3. ^ Daniel Klünemann: Jürgen Hahn-Butry - the front poet . In: Rolf Düsterberg (Ed.): Poets for the "Third Reich". Volume 2. Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2011, p. 87f.
  4. ↑ Jürgen Hahn-Butry u. Wilfred von Oven: Tanks in the Balkans. Adventure book of the tank group von Kleist . Berlin: Limpert 1941, p. 227f. Quoted in Klünemann (2011), p. 93.
  5. ↑ verdict Hanover Regional Court of 5 April 1952. BAK, 137/1028, p 4. Zit. N. Klünemann (2011), p.98.
  6. ^ Daniel Klünemann: Jürgen Hahn-Butry - the front poet . In: Rolf Düsterberg (Ed.): Poets for the "Third Reich". Volume 2. Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2011, p. 98f.
  7. ^ Daniel Klünemann: Jürgen Hahn-Butry - the front poet . In: Rolf Düsterberg (Ed.): Poets for the "Third Reich". Volume 2. Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2011, p. 102f.
  8. ^ Daniel Klünemann: Jürgen Hahn-Butry - the front poet . In: Rolf Düsterberg (Ed.): Poets for the "Third Reich". Volume 2. Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2011, p. 103.
  9. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-b.html
  10. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-m.html
  11. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-f.html
  12. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1947-nslit-m.html
  13. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-o.html
  14. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-h.html
  15. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1947-nslit-h.html
  16. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1948-nslit-h.html
  17. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1953-nslit-h.html
  18. ↑ cf. Daniel Klünemann, pp. 79-108
personal data
SURNAME Hahn-Butry, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 15th February 1976
Place of death Hersel