Karl Götz (writer)

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Karl Götz (born March 11, 1903 in Neubolheim , † February 9, 1989 in Stuttgart ) was a German National Socialist writer, teacher and cultural functionary.

Life

Karl Götz was born in 1903 in Neubolheim (today in Herbrechtingen) as the son of a locksmith and a factory worker. In the years 1917 to 1923 he first attended the Protestant teacher training institute in Denkendorf (preparatory institute) and then the Protestant teacher training college in Künzelsau . He then went to the United States for two years, returned to Germany in 1926 and became a teacher in Dinkelsbühl . In 1929 he went to Palestine and taught at a temple society school in Bethlehem . After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, he returned to Germany, became a teacher in Stuttgart and joined the NSDAP . In 1935 he was appointed councilor in Stuttgart. He also became a member of the Reichsschrifttumskammer , the Reichsluftschutzbund and the NSV . In the National Socialist Teachers' Association , Götz became a guru for border and international Germanism. He also became a cultural councilor at the German Institute for Foreign Affairs (DAI) . On behalf of the DAI, Götz traveled through Europe, Latin America, the USA and Canada - e.g. B. to Winnipeg , where he gave slide shows about the new Germany and distributed propaganda material to the Canadian National Socialists. Götz was also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Erwin von Steinbach Prize of the Alfred Toepfer Foundation FVS Karl Götz belonged to the circle of friends of the "Brothers Grimm of the East" Alfred Karasek and Walter Kuhn .

Götz was very productive as a writer. In 1934 and 1939 he received the Volksdeutsche Literature Prize and in 1941 the Wilhelm Raabe Prize for his novel The Great Homecoming .

During the Second World War, Karl Götz was involved in the management of a DAI commission to document the resettlement in occupied Poland. In 1941 he volunteered for the Wehrmacht and served with the rank of rifleman as a front-line fighter in Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union. In the same year Götz became a member of the SS , was commissioned to “write about Russian Germanness ” and accompanied Heinrich Himmler on a trip through the occupied territories. On his personal assignment, he set up teacher training institutions in the German language islands of Prischib (Пришиб, Башкортостан ) and Selz (Лиманское). Götz compiled a “Bibliography of Soviet literature in German in the libraries of German villages in Russia” and was appointed “Inspector of all ethnic German educational and cultural work in Transnistria and the Ukraine ”. He then belonged to the staff of the SS Brigade Leader Horst Hoffmeyer and in 1944 to a staff company of the Waffen-SS at the main office of the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle .

After the end of the Second World War Götz was interned from 1945 to 1947, but from 1948 he worked again as a teacher and writer. In the Soviet occupation zone, Götz was put on the list of those authors "whose entire production is to be permanently removed". All of Götze's works also appear on the list of blocked authors and books of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education. From 1962 to 1983 he was editor of the Swabian Heimatkalender , which was created in cooperation with the Swabian Albverein and the Swabian Heimatbund . He was also a member and in the main committee of the Swabian Alb Association under the association's chairman Georg Fahrbach , a prominent representative of nature conservation during National Socialism . On Götz's 70th birthday in 1973, Fahrbach published in the albums of the Albverein a tribute to what he saw as a "truly deserving man" and paid homage to Götz as an "advocate of a healthy outlook on life" and a "courageous fighter and loyal son of his homeland". In 1975 he was awarded the ring of honor of the right-wing extremist organization Deutsches Kulturwerk Europäische Geist , and in 1980 he was awarded the poet's stone shield from the Dichterstein Offenhausen association, which was banned in 1999 due to being re- engaged by the National Socialists . Götz was one of the signatories of the Heidelberg Manifesto .

Karl Götz died on February 9, 1989 in Stuttgart.

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • The Germanness in Palestine , 1930
  • The German in Palestine. Compiled for youth and people , 1932
  • The children's ship. A book from the wide world, from children and from Germany , 1934
  • Colonist children go to Germany , 1936
  • Brothers over the sea. Fates and Encounters , 1938
  • The Heimstätter. A German Fate in Canada , 1940
  • German achievement in America , 1940
  • The Great Homecoming , novel, 1941
  • If it weren't for hope. One of many told , Roman, 1952
  • Fifty years of youth hiking and youth hostels. 1909-1959 , 1959
  • Hans Reyhing . The Voice of the Alb , biography, 1963
  • Georg Fahrbach . In: Georg Fahrbach on the occasion of his 60th birthday on April 6, 1963 (Festschrift). Schwäbischer Albverein, Stuttgart 1963, pp. 7–32.
  • The golden morning. Cheerful stories from a poor childhood , 1965
  • Swabian from A to Z. A cheerful knowledge of languages ​​and people for Swabians and non-Swabians , 1970, exp. New edition 1987
  • Cheerful home. Happy calendar stories and all kinds of reflective wisdom and sayings , ed. 1974 (abridged licensed edition 1977)
  • At midday. Happy youth in a serious time 1975
  • All about buses with KG “D'Leut über d'Leut, sellamol and today” , record, 1979
  • The happy year. A whole book full of cheerful stories and all kinds of wisdom to read and read aloud, to make you happy and make you happy , ed. 1980
  • I like German. Stories of the splendor and misery of our language , 1981
  • KG tells cheerful and contemplative things , 2 records, 1984
  • In the Sunset. Experienced a lot and told it just like that , 1985

literature

  • German Literature Lexicon . KG Saur Verlag GmbH & Company, Walter De Gruyter Incorporated, p. 436 f.
  • Gerd Simon : Chronology of Karl Götz online
  • Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 (= The time of National Socialism. Vol. 17153). Completely revised edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-17153-8 .
  • Katja Gesche: Culture as an instrument of foreign policy in totalitarian states. The German Foreign Institute 1933-1945 . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-412-01206-8
  • Heiner Jestrabek : Karl Götz. In: perpetrators, helpers, free riders. Volume 1. Nazi victims from the Eastern Alb . Verlag Freiheitsbaum, Reutlingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-86281-008-6 , pp. 125-138
  • Nikolaus Barbian: Foreign cultural policy and "Germans abroad" in Latin America 1949-1973 . Springer Verlag, 2014, ISBN 3-658-05247-3
  • Frank Görlich: Popular propaganda and anti-Semitism in the weekly newspaper “Der Deutsche in Transnistrien”, 1942-1944. In: Wolfgang Benz / Brigitte Mihok (eds.), Holocaust on the Periphery. Jewish policy and the murder of Jews in Romania and Transnistria 1940-1944. Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2009, pp. 95–110

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Directory of the literature to be sorted out, Only for official use !, Magistratsdruckerei, Berlin, February 12, 1946, p. 32.
  2. ^ Austrian Federal Ministry for Education (ed.) (1946). List of blocked authors and books. Relevant for bookshops and libraries . Vienna: Ueberreuter. P. 24.
  3. ^ Georg Fahrbach: Karl Götz zum 70th , in: Blätter des Schwäbischen Albverein , 79th vol. 1 (1973), p. 17; Sheets of the Swabian Alb Association-online (TIFF)
  4. ↑ Walter von Goldenbach, Hans-Rüdiger Minow: “Deutschtum awake!” From the inner workings of the state Pan-Germanism. Dietz, Berlin 1994, p. 362, ISBN 3-320-01863-9 .
  5. ^ SHB - Deceased honorary chairmen and honorary members .
  6. ↑ Walter von Goldenbach, Hans-Rüdiger Minow: “Deutschtum awake!” From the inner workings of the state Pan-Germanism. Dietz, Berlin 1994, p. 362, also fn. 219, ISBN 3-320-01863-9 .
personal data
SURNAME Götz, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German National Socialist writer, teacher and cultural functionary
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Neubolheim
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1989
Place of death Stuttgart