Jakob Kinau

Jakob Kinau (born August 28, 1884 in Hamburg-Finkenwerder ; † December 14, 1965 in Hamburg ) was a German seaman , sergeant in the Imperial Navy , writer , publisher and customs officer .

Origin and education

Jakob Kinau's parents were the deep-sea fisherman Heinrich Wilhelm Kinau and Metta, b. Holst, his brothers the writers Johann Wilhelm Kinau alias Gorch Fock and Rudolf Kinau .

Kinau attended elementary school and then a seafaring school, later a customs school. He worked in the deep sea fishery in the North Sea and acquired the patent as a captain on a small voyage. He did his military service in the Imperial Navy. Later he worked for the Hamburg water customs authority .

In the first World War

From 1916 to 1918 Kinau was embarked as a miners' mate on the auxiliary cruiser SMS Wolf (1913) . He processed the experiences of this trip literarily in his work Adjutant des Todes. Wolf's diary , published in 1934 by Quickborn Verlag in Hamburg.

Writing activity

After the end of the war Kinau was again a customs officer; his last rank was customs inspector . From 1920 to 1934 he was chairman of the union of water customs officers of the German Reich . From 1924 to 1944 he was active as a writer and editor; his works dealt exclusively with topics of seafaring . In 1925 he published the work of his brother Gorch Fock. In 1939/40 he published four novels in the series War Library of German Youth , which was financed by the High Command of the Navy for propaganda purposes. In 1950 his late work Leegerwall appeared as a sequel to Die See ruft .

Works

• The sea is calling , Hamburg 1924
• Free water , Hamburg 1926
• Adjutant of death , Hamburg 1934
• Gorch Fock , Munich 1935
• Buccaneers , Hamburg 1938
• The struggle for maritime domination from the Hanseatic League to World War I , Munich 1938
• Jumping out of the gods' hands , Hamburg 1939
• Breakthrough to Oslo , Berlin 1940
• With Käppen Jonas on a submarine hunt , Berlin 1940
• Outpost boat "Seehund" , Berlin 1940
• The Tiger of the Fjords , Berlin 1941
• Non-verifiable land , Hamburg 1942
• Leegerwall , Hamburg 1950
• Upwussen an de Elv , Hamburg 2003 (together with Gorch Fock and Rudolf Kinau )

Editing

• Gorch Fock : Complete Works, Hamburg
  • 1 (1925)
  • 2 (1925)
  • 3 (1925)
  • 4 (1925)
  • 5 (1925)
• Gorch Fock: A ship! A sword! A sail! , Munich 1934 (published together with Marie Luise Droop )
• Gorch Fock: seafaring is necessary! , Hamburg 1944 (published together with Maria Kinau)

literature

• German Literature Lexicon . Biographisch-Bibliographisches Handbuch , 3rd edition, Bern 1981, p. 1163.
• Werner Schuder (Ed.): Kürschner's German Literature Calendar. Nekrolog 1936-1970. Berlin / New York 1973, p. 339.
• Peter Wanjek: Bibliography of German book novels 1900–1945 , Wilfersdorf 1993, p. 293f.
• Appendix: Crew list of the auxiliary cruiser "Wolf", in: Fritz Witschetzky : The black ship , Stuttgart 1926, after p. 320 [Kinau is listed as no. 303].

Literature about Jakob Kinau

• Reinhard Goltz: The god of home, the best comrade and the killed unionist. The writers Johann, Rudolf and Jakob Kinau in the Nazi era , in: Low German in National Socialism. Studies on the role of regional culture in fascism / ed. by Kay Dohnke, Norbert Hopster and Jan Wirrer, Hildesheim a. a. 1994, pp. 342-386.

Web links

• Biographical information at kinau-haus.de