Karl Busch (writer)

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Karl Matthias Busch ( pseudonym : Karl Matthias Buschbecker ; * July 15, 1899 in Trier ; † May 28, 1942 in Berlin ) was a German journalist , writer and politician ( NSDAP ).

Life

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Activities as a Nazi editor after 1933

Karl Busch was the son of a high school teacher . After attending elementary school and the humanistic grammar school, he was drafted into military service in 1915 and took part in the First World War as a soldier , most recently as a lieutenant in Infantry Regiment No. 30 . During the war he was wounded four times and was awarded the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class as well as the Wound Badge . After the end of the war he was a Freikorps officer in Berlin, Silesia and the Baltic States. In 1923 he was convicted by a French court martial.

Busch studied law and economics at the universities in Vienna and Bonn . From 1924 to 1925 he was SA leader. In 1925 he became a member of the NSDAP, later the party's local group leader in Barmen . From 1929 he was editor of the party newspaper Völkischer Beobachter ; In the following years he was a member of the editorial offices of other party newspapers. From March 1933, Busch was a member of the Prussian state parliament . He was a close confidante of Robert Ley and in 1933/34 became chief editor of the central organ of the German Labor Front, Der Deutsche . Busch later rose to head the Office for Propaganda and Press of the organization Kraft durch Freude and was a member of the Reich leadership of the NSDAP .

In addition to journalistic work, Karl Busch published various National Socialist propaganda writings, including a. about the activities of the organization Strength Through Joy. In addition, two novels were created under the pseudonym Karl Matthias Buschbecker , of which the volume , which appeared in 1936 and was reprinted several times until the Second World War ... as our law dictated, is a typical example of the National Socialist novel about the party's fighting time between 1919 and 1933.

Fonts

  • ... as our law commanded . Buchmeister-Verlag, Berlin 1936 (under the name Karl Matthias Buschbecker).
  • Under the sun gear. A book of strength through joy . DAF publishing house, Berlin 1938.
  • And yet the heart beats at the limits . Gutenberg, Berlin 1939 (under the name Karl Matthias Buschbecker).
  • After the "Happy Islands", with KdF. Flagship "Robert Ley" ... Zeitgeschichte-Verlag, Berlin 1940.

After the end of the war in the Soviet zone of occupation, these writings were placed on the list of literature to be sorted out.

literature

  • Ernst Kienast (Ed.): Handbook for the Prussian Landtag , edition for the 5th electoral period, Berlin 1933, p. 314/315.
  • Bärbel Holtz, The Protocols of the Prussian State Ministry , Hildesheim: Olms-Weidmann, 2001 (Acta borussica Volume 12 / II) ISBN 3-487-12704-0 , p. 539
  • Lexicon of National Socialist Poets. Biographies, analyzes, bibliographies. Ed. Jürgen Hillesheim , Elisabeth Michael. Königshausen & Neumann , Würzburg 1993 ISBN 3884795112 pp. 94-99 online

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Bärbel Holtz, The Protocols of the Prussian State Ministry , p. 539
  2. ^ German administration for popular education in the Soviet occupation zone, list of literature to be sorted out. Transcript letter B, pages 17-64. In: polunbi.de. 1946, accessed December 3, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Busch, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Busch, Karl Matthias (full name); Buschbecker, Karl Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, writer and politician (NSDAP), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH trier
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1942
Place of death Berlin