Johannes Tiedje

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Johannes Tiedje (born October 7, 1879 in Skrydstrup , North Schleswig ; † May 19, 1946 in Flensburg ) was a Schleswig - German ministerial official, pastor and district administrator of Flensburg .

Life

Tiedje came from a North Frisian family. His father Detlef Peter Wilhelm Theodor Tiedje (1840-1917) had a Danish Abitur and in 1864 was a Danish officer in the Second Schleswig War and later pastor in Øsby near Hadersleben.

Johannes Tiedje attended the Royal Prussian Gymnasium Johanneum in Hadersleben (today Haderslev Katedralskole). He studied theology , philosophy and economics . From 1905 to 1908 he was the educator of the sons of Landgrave Friedrich Karl von Hessen -Kassel-Rumpenheim. From 1910 to 1915 he was pastor in Königsberg (Prussia) .

In 1909 he condemned the Germanization policy in North Schleswig in five articles in the " Christian World " and pleaded for better treatment of the Danish ethnic group and for peaceful, cultural debate instead of coercion. The government-loyal press and the German organizations in North Schleswig reacted with outrage, but conciliatory forces gathered in the North Schleswig Pastors' Association and in the Association for German Peace Work in the North Mark . Tiedje also worked for the dissemination of NCCR Grundtvig's thoughts in Germany and in 1927 published his writings on the home folk high school movement : Writings on popular education and folkness I – II .

In the Versailles peace delegation , appointed by the German Foreign Ministry, he was represented as an expert for North Schleswig. He became a member of the DDP and was from 1922 to 1934 as a ministerial advisor in the Reich Ministry of the Interior, among other things, responsible for German work .

In February 1933 he took over the leadership of the Federation of German East at the suggestion of Rudolf Hess . Later he approached the Confessing Church .

After the end of the Second World War, Tiedje was appointed District Administrator of Flensburg by the British military administration in autumn 1945 . Both before and after the war he defended the Danish minority in southern Schleswig. In the spring of 1946 he joined the Südschleswigschen Verein . Shortly afterwards he had to give up his office as district administrator for health reasons and died in May of the same year.

During the First World War, Tiedje accused the Danes of “ racial disgrace ” by fraternizing with the Slavs . After the Second World War, as District Administrator of Flensburg, he expressed himself against the settlement of German refugees from the eastern regions: “That we Low Germans and Schleswig-Holsteiners lead a life of our own that in no way wants to be seized by the mulatto breed that the East Prussians simply do in the mix of peoples. ” Very large parts of the population, however, grappled with the wave of refugees, as their number was very large and the refugees were unevenly distributed within West Germany . About 1.6 million locals and 1 million refugees lived in Schleswig-Holstein; Almost as many refugees as locals were housed in South Schleswig .

Tiedje line

Tiedje line (red) and Clausen line (blue) in comparison.
Voting area in Schleswig

Tiedje became famous for the Tiedje line named after him , which was a counter-proposal to the Clausen line for the demarcation between Germany and Denmark . However, due to the political situation after the First World War, his proposal was not taken into account in the referendum in Schleswig in 1920.

The Tiedje Line ran north of today's Danish cities of Hoyer , Tondern , Rapstedt and Tingleff and met the Flensburg Fjord south of Gravenstein . It is considerably longer and more irregular than the Clausen line that forms the border today. Tiedje intended that the German minority in Denmark and the Danish minority in Germany should be roughly the same size in absolute terms. However, areas with a Danish majority south of the Tiedjelinie would have come to Germany.

The line also played a role in the interwar period , as areas near the border with a German majority in the referendum (Tondern, Hoyer, Ubjerg and Tingleff) had come to Denmark. The German minority in Denmark and political forces in Schleswig-Holstein were hoping for a border revision by 1945.

Works (selection)

  • German Freemasonry , Marburg, Christian World, 1913
  • The German note on Schleswig (publisher), Charlottenburg, DVG for politics and history, 1920
  • Conditions in North Schleswig , Bremen, Carl Schünemann, 1925
  • The diplomatic files of the Foreign Office on the history of Article V of the Peace of Prague (PDF; 357 kB) . Published by Walter Platzhoff, Kurt Rheindorf, Johannes Tiedje on behalf of the German Foreign Office. With a historical introduction by Walter Platzhoff. Berlin 1925.
  • Volkheit, writings on popular education and nationality (editor), Jena, Diederichs, 1927

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eric Kurlander: "Multicultural and Assimilationist Models of Ethnopolitical Integration in the Context of the German Nordmark, 1890-1933" in: The Global Review of Ethnopolitics . Issue 1, No. 3, March 2002, pp. 39-52. P. 48, fn. 22. online (pdf) ( memento of the original dated June 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ethnopolitics.org
  2. ^ Ingo Haar: Historians in National Socialism. German history and the "national struggle" in the east . P. 179 f. on-line
  3. ↑ Localism, Landscape, and the Ambiguities of Place: German-speaking Central Europe, 1860-1930 . David Blackbourn & James N. Retallack, University of Toronto Press, 2007, p. 129 ( ISBN 0802093183 )
  4. ↑ German history from the margins . Neil Gregor, Indiana University Press, 2006, p. 88 ( ISBN 0253347432 )
  5. ↑ Upwardly mobile workers. How flight and displacement radically changed German society after 1945 . FAZ, August 20, 2008

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personal data
SURNAME Tiedje, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ministerial official
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Skrydstrup
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1946
Place of death Flensburg