Josef Beer (functionary)

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Josef Beer (born March 6, 1912 in Fehértemplom ( German:  Weißkirchen ), Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary ; † February 20, 2000 ) was an association official in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and a German author.

Life

Beer belonged to the leadership of the National Socialist- oriented renewal movement in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia . After the Swabian-German Cultural Association was taken over by the movement, Beer became secretary of the management from January 1, 1939, from 1941 general secretary and organizational head or head of staff of the federal government, as well as deputy of the “ ethnic group leader ” in Serbia and the Banat, Josef Janko .

After the “seizure of power” by the innovators in the Kulturbund, Beer sent a list of books from which lecturers at Kulturbund events were supposed to gain their material; These included various Nazi literature such as Hitler's Mein Kampf , Goebbels Vom Kaiserhof zur Staatskanzlei , Rosenberg's The Myth of the 20th Century, as well as anti-Semitic titles such as Protocols of the Elders of Zion and others. From 1940 onwards, Beer played a key role in large-scale membership recruitment for the Kulturbund.

At the end of the Second World War , Beer fled to Germany and worked from 1953 to 1977 as a consultant for load equalization issues in the load equalization office in Baden-Württemberg. He lived in Aidlingen and worked as an author on the historical development of the German minority of Yugoslavia .

Publications

  • Danube Swabian contemporary history at first hand. Working group for Donauschwäbische Heimat- u. Folk research in the Danube Swabian Cultural Foundation. Munich 1987. 271 pages.
  • Main compensation. Landsmannschaft der Donauschwaben in Baden-Württemberg eV, Stuttgart 1961.
  • Build and settle. Landsmannschaft der Donauschwaben in Baden-Württemberg eV, Stuttgart 1955.
  • Local reports on the crimes against the Germans by the Tito regime from 1944 to 1948. Donauschwäbische Kulturstiftung, Munich 1991.
  • White Book of Germans from Yugoslavia / Local reports 1944 - 1948. 1992.
  • Home book of the city of Weisskirchen in the Banat. Salzburg 1980, with Hans Diplich et al. 668 pages.
  • The ordeal of the Germans in communist Yugoslavia four volumes, Donauschwäbische Kulturstiftung, Munich 1991, et al.

rating

The historian Johann Böhm stated: “In the Federal Archives in Bayreuth there are several records from him [Beer] on the historical development of the German ethnic group from 1918 to 1945 in Yugoslavia [...]. Although he admits that he belonged to the leadership of the Nazi renewal movement after 1935 and acted as deputy leader of the ethnic group in the Banat from 1941, that the pioneers of this movement “felt like National Socialists” and that they “planted fire in other hearts out of inner conviction “Had. Nevertheless, Beer played down his National Socialist past. Instead of dealing critically with this time, he still believes in 1958 that “he will think back to this time throughout his life”, when he was allowed to proclaim “the idea of ​​blood-based ethnicity” to the German minority in the Croatian region [...]. "

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b On the "disappearance" of the German-speaking minorities. A difficult chapter in the history of Yugoslavia 1941–1955. Foundation Flight, Expulsion, Reconciliation (Berlin) and Donauschwäbisches Zentralmuseum (Ulm) 2016, ISBN 978-3-946867-00-5 , p. 136.
  2. ^ Valentin Oberkersch : The Germans in Syrmia, Slavonia, Croatia and Bosnia. Donauschwäbische Kulturstiftung, Working Group for Donauschwäbische Heimat- und Volksforschung, Munich 1989. ISBN 3-92627-607-X , p. 250.
  3. ↑ Ekkehard Völkl , Zsolt K. Lengyel: Westbanat, 1941–1944: the German, the Hungarian and other ethnic groups. Rudolf Trofenik, 1991. ISBN 3-87828-192-7 , p. 94.
  4. ^ Oskar Feldtänzer : The Danube Swabians in the interwar period and their relationship to National Socialism. Felix Ermacora Institute, Research Center for the Peoples of the Danube Monarchy, 2003. P. 75.
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Gleich: War in the Balkans: the Yugoslav tragedy and its roots. Österreichische Landsmannschaft, 1994. p. 17.
  6. ↑ a b Valentin Oberkersch: The Germans in Syrmia, Slavonia, Croatia and Bosnia. Donauschwäbische Kulturstiftung, Working Group for Donauschwäbische Heimat- und Volksforschung, Munich 1989. ISBN 3-92627-607-X , p. 257.
  7. ^ Josef Janko : The way and the end of the German ethnic group in Yugoslavia. Stocker, 1982. p. 204.
  8. ^ Johann Böhm : The German ethnic group in Yugoslavia 1918-1941: Domestic and foreign policy as symptoms of the relationship between the German minority and the Yugoslav government. Peter Lang, 2009. ISBN 3-63159-557-3 , p. 24.
  9. ↑ Carl Bethke : (Not) a common language? Aspects of the German-Jewish Relationship History in Slavonia, 1900-1945. LIT Verlag Münster, 2013. ISBN 3-64311-754-X , p. 213.
  10. ↑ Wilfried Kniesel, Rosemarie Karjung: Donauschwäbische Familiengeschichtsforschung: Festbuch for the tenth anniversary of the AKdFF with the list of its members. Working group Donauschwäbischer Familienforscher, 1985. p. 179.
  11. ^ Johann Böhm: The German ethnic groups in the independent state of Croatia and in the Serbian Banat: their relationship to the Third Reich 1941-1944. Peter Lang, 2012. ISBN 3-63163-323-8 , p. 13.
personal data
SURNAME Beer, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German association functionary in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and German author
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Fehértemplom , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 2000