Josef Schmidt (functionary)

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Josef "Sepp" Schmidt (* 19 February 1913 in Orczyfálva ( German  Orzydorf ) Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary ; † 19th February 1993 in Moosburg ) was 1940-1944 school official functionary under the Nazi " ethnic group tours " of Romanian Germans , Hungarian Germans and Croatian Germans and from 1978 to 1986 Federal Chairman of the Banat Swabian Landsmannschaft .

Life

Josef Schmidt was the son of the principal teacher and cantor Philipp Schmidt and his second wife Margaretha (née Korek). The father was of peasant descent and came from the nearby town of Sándorháza (German Alexanderhausen), the mother from the community Várboksán (German Romanian Bogschan). After the early death of the father in 1921 and the impoverishment of the maternal side due to the circumstances of the war, the family got into financial difficulties. The attempt to emigrate to the United States failed, after which the mother worked as an educator. Schmidt first visited in his home village of the Hungarian kindergarten and elementary school, it came in Várboksán in a German-speaking Einklassenschule and temporarily in the local Romanian elementary school, then in the German-language school Sándorháza that after the Treaty of Trianon now in the Kingdom of Romania to lay Name was Șandra. From 1924 Schmidt attended the secondary school in the city of Timișoara and the adjoining boarding school of the teacher training institute. In 1928 he joined the Wandervogel movement in the city and became the leader of the group in 1931/32, and also took part in trips with the local singing group. He was well networked in German national circles. In 1932 he completed his teacher training in the city. As the best in school, he received an offer for further studies in Münster , which he turned down; instead he worked as a teacher in Remetea Mică , where the tenor was also the head of the male choir. In 1936 he married Käthe Hügel, who came from a farming family from Lovrin .

In 1940, at the age of 27, he joined the Gauschulamt Banat in Timișoara as managing director and in 1942 in the same capacity in the education office of the German ethnic group in Romania , based in Brașov . The affiliated 11 district offices for around 600 schools with around 1,600 teachers and 60,000 German-speaking school children have been under the leadership of the ethnic group since April 1942 . From 1941 to 1944 he was head of the state school office of the German ethnic group in Hungary . 1942/1943 he directed the Nazi reform school of German public school in the Serbian Novi Sad . On April 28, 1943, Schmidt was awarded the badge of honor by the Hungarian German ' ethnic group leader ' Franz Anton Basch . On November 13, 1943, he joined the Waffen SS . In the summer of 1944 Schmidt was posted to the education authority of the German ethnic group in Croatia . From there he went to Vienna , where he became the school representative of the Volksbund for Germanness Abroad (VDA) under the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle . His relatives fled from the advancing Red Army in autumn 1944 as part of the evacuation of the German ethnic group from the Banat . After the Second World War he came to Bavaria with his family, where he worked as a teacher and headmaster in Buchberg from December 1945 . Here, too, he was the leader of the men's choir.

Schmidt had been a member of the Banat Swabian Landsmannschaft since 1948 . From 1966 to 1974 he was first state chairman of the Bavarian section, then from 1978 to 1986 national chairman, his successor was Jakob Laub . He has been a member of the board of directors of the Working Group Danube Swabian Teachers (ADL) since it was founded and was the editor of the quarterly Donauschwäbische Research and Teacher Papers , as well as the editorial staff of the magazine globus and the Banater Post . He was a member of the advisory board of the Baden-Württemberg state sponsorship for the Danube Swabians . He worked in various functions in the Federation of Expellees Bavaria, including temporarily as its chairman. He was a member of the Board of Trustees and Presidium of the House of the German East in Munich.

Works (selection)

  • An imperial “introspection” concerning the settlement of the Banat. In: German-Hungarian Heimatblätter, Volume 1, Budapest 1929, pp. 211–214.
  • Re-Germanisation of the state school system. In: The German teacher. Journal of the German Education in Romania. I, Issue 8-10, October-December 1941, pp. 288-304.
  • The German educators from Swabian Turkey meet. In: Deutsche Zeitung , Budapest, May 6, 1942, p. 3.
  • The German education in the service of the homeland. With Wilhelm Zimmermann, provincial administrator of the German Education Association. In: Deutsche Zeitung, Budapest, May 30, 1942, p. 3.
  • Our ethnic group needs German teachers. In: Deutsche Zeitung, Budapest, May 10, 1942, p. 5.
  • The Danube Swabians in France and overseas. In: Josef Schmidt, Johann Weidlein: The Donauschwaben 1944–1964. Contributions to contemporary history. Munich 1968, pp. 129-133.
  • Danube Swabian reading sheets for school and home. Munich 1958.
  • Danube Swabians - Romanians - Southern Slavs. With Anton Tafferner, Josef Volkmar Senz . In: Donauschwäbische Posts, issue 41, Freilassing 1960.
  • Nikolaus Hans Hockl died 20 years ago . In: Banater Post from February 15, 1967; Donauschwäbische teacher's papers, 1967, issue 2.
  • The Danube Swabians 1944–1964. Contributions to contemporary history. Series of publications by the Working Group on Donauschwäbischer Lehrer Volume 4, with Johann Weidlein, Munich 1968.
  • Ödenburger Heimatstube in Bad Wimpfen. In: Südostdeutsche Vierteljahresblätter 4, Munich 1974, pp. 278f.
  • The Banat Church Books. An inventory of the filmed Banat church records in the library of the Institute for Foreign Relations . Stuttgart 1979.
  • Alphabetical directory of the Banat Swabians based on the census of the Kingdom of Greater Romania. Munich 1980.
  • Small Banat reading sheet in words, pictures and numbers. With Heinrich Lauer , Munich 1982.
  • On the Danube and Tisza. Banat reading book. With Horst Fassel , Munich 1986.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Schmidt, Josef (Sepp) . In: East German Biography (Kulturportal West-Ost)
  2. ↑ Südostdeutsche Vierteljahresblätter 2, Munich 1995, p. 169. In: Klaus Popa : Völkisches Handbuch Südosteuropa. P. 56f.
  3. ↑ Wigant Weltzer: ways, wrong ways, ways home. Schools, educational institutions and educational institutions of the Volksbund der Deutschen in Hungary, 1940-1944. Rothenburg ob der Tauber 2005, p. 89. In: Klaus Popa: Völkisches Handbuch Südosteuropa. P. 56f.
  4. ^ Deutsche Zeitung , Budapest, April 30, 1943, p. 4. In: Klaus Popa: Völkisches Handbuch Südosteuropa. P. 56f.
  5. ^ Deutsche Zeitung, Budapest, November 14, 1943, p. 4. In: Klaus Popa: Völkisches Handbuch Südosteuropa. P. 56f.
  6. ^ The previous federal chairmen. In: Country team of the Banat Swabians
  7. ^ Klaus Popa: Völkisches Handbuch Südosteuropa. P. 56f.
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Sepp (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German school official Nazi functionary of the German ethnic groups in Romania, Hungary and Croatia as well as federal chairman of the country team of the Banat Swabians
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Orczyfálva , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH 19th February 1993
Place of death Moosburg on the Isar