Jan Scheinost

Jan Scheinost

Jan Scheinost (born February 23, 1896 in Sušice , Austria-Hungary , † May 22, 1964 in Tuchoměřice , Okres Praha-západ ) was a Czechoslovak Roman Catholic publicist and journalist.

Life

Jan Scheinost was a grandson of Adalbert Scheinost, one of the founders of the SOLO match factory . After studying philosophy and history at the Charles University in Prague , Scheinost was a teacher at the grammar school in Sušice (Schüttenhofen) in the Bohemian Forest from 1919 to 1922 . He founded a specialist Catholic publisher that published pamphlets for the German and Czech pilgrims from southwestern Bohemia who visited the pilgrimage church of the Holy Guardian Angels and the Rock Mother of God in Strašín , a few kilometers from Schüttenhofen.

In the years 1923 to 1927 Scheinost and the writer and doctor Jaroslav Durych (1886 to 1962) published the magazine "Rozmach" (upswing). In the years 1928 to 1929, as general secretary of the National Fascist Society in Bohemia in Prague, Scheinost was in connection with Radola Gajda (Rudolf Geidl) publisher of magazines, editor and editor-in-chief of Czech daily newspapers. He wrote under the pseudonym Babička. Scheinost became a member of the Czech People's Party in the Czechoslovak Republic in 1930, which existed until 1939.

After the German occupation of the Czech Republic , Scheinost became editor-in-chief of the newspaper Národní politika (National Politics) in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia . Until 1942 he was a committee member of the party "Národní souručenství" (National Community). Because of his pro-German, aiming for reconciliation, he was imprisoned by the Czech authorities after 1945 and spent ten years in prison in Prague with interruptions.

Works were u. a.

• Kulturní politika v obcích (Cultural policy in the municipalities), 1923

Awards

• Order of Honor Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice (For Church and Pope).
• New Year's Order

literature

• Ferdinand Seibt , Hans Lemberg , Helmut Slapnicka (ed. On behalf of the Collegium Carolinum ): Biographical lexicon for the history of the Bohemian countries. Volume III: N - Sch. K. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2000, p. 624.
• Rudolf Sitka: The places of grace of the Sudetenland. Verlag M. Renner, Kempten 1954. (Place of pilgrimage Straschin near Schüttenhofen p. 62 and 63.)
• Johanna von Herzogenberg : Between Danube and Moldau - Bavarian Forest and Bohemian Forest. The Mühlviertel and South Bohemia. Prestel Verlag, Munich 1968. (Schüttenhofen and its economic importance, pp. 112–118.)
• Folklore working group for the middle Bohemian Forest eV (Hrsg.): In the land of the Künischen free farmers - home book for the middle Bohemian Forest (district Bergreichenstein and adjacent areas). Grafenau in Bayern 1979. (City of Schüttenhofen pp. 510-514.)
• Karl Haas: Fates in the Wottawatal. Reutlingen 1974. (Family names in Schüttenhofen p. 88.)

Web links

• Literature and other media by and about Jan Scheinost in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic
• Martin Zückert, Laura Hölzlwimmer: Religion in the Bohemian countries 1938-1948. Dictatorship, war and social change as a challenge for religious life and church organization. Oldenbourg, p. 39.