Karl Itzinger

Karl Itzinger (born February 26, 1888 in Ried im Innkreis , † April 13, 1948 in Linz ) was an Upper Austrian newspaper publisher and writer. He also wrote under the pseudonym Kunz Iring .

biography

Karl Itzinger was an editor and newspaper publisher in Wels . He published the “Bauern-Zeitung” , the “ Innviertler Volksblatt” and the “ Mühlviertler Volksblatt” . Under the pseudonym Kunz Iring , he published propaganda in the national-esoteric Munich Ludendorff- Verlag. Itzinger became known in the 1930s through the trilogy of novels "A people stands up" , which after 1945 became the subject of scientific research in the context of the study of National Socialist literature. In the last phase of the Austro-Fascist government of Kurt Schuschnigg - before the annexation of Austria - the first part of the trilogy ( "The Blood Court at Haushamerfeld" ) was temporarily banned.

After the end of the war, Itzinger's writings Not und Kampf deutscher Bauern (1935), The Habsburgs in the History of the Germans (1936), and Never Again Habsburg! (1937), From Traitor to Holy? (1938) and diary from February 10 to March 14, 1938. An overview of the last years of struggle and the first days of victory (1938) in the Soviet occupation zone was added to the list of literature to be discarded.

Itzinger was reported by the police and public prosecutor's office in 1947 under the Prohibition Act and an application was made to transfer him from the Glasenbach internment camp to the regional court prison. His widow wrote to the “Central Commission for Combating Nazi Literature”, headed by Josef Bick , with the request that the works of her deceased husband could be re-published by Leopold Stocker Verlag . She was of the opinion that her husband's books could not convey any National Socialist sentiments, because the subject of the books came "from the time 1625. You really cannot attribute any dangerous tendency to the books."

But the commission was aware of Itzinger's Nazi past. Itzinger was a member of the staff of the illegal SA upper group Austria and leader of the " Freikorps Oberland ". After the National Socialists came to power, he made a career. He became SA-Obersturmbannführer, honorary district training leader of the NSDAP for Linz-Stadt from 1938 to 1939 and Gau main office leader for the rural education and training from 1942 to 1944. Towards the end of the war he was in Lambach as a trainer and head of a Volkssturm unit .

Itzinger's National Socialist past was then forgotten. Only in 2012 did the literary scholar Christian Schacherreiter and the historian Hannes Koch again shed light on Itzinger's past. They found the National Socialist actions and ideas of Karl Itzinger, which is also clearly visible in his writings, clearly documented.

In Frankenburg am Hausruck there is an "Itzingerweg" which is named after Karl Itzinger. Itzingerstraße in Ried im Innkreis, named in 1981 after "the poet of the Frankenburger dice game Karl Itzinger" , was dedicated to the Pattigham priest Josef Itzinger (November 17, 1918 - February 28, 2012) by a municipal council resolution of July 5, 2012 Member of the "Austrian Freedom Movement" in the days of the decline of the German Reich and after the end of the war made great contributions to rebuilding democracy.

His granddaughter Irmtraud Greifeneder-Itzinger (born April 18, 1944) is the author of dialect poems and children's books. Since 1988 she has been a board member of the Stelzhamerbund , an association of friends of Upper Austrian dialect.

Works

• Itzinger, Karl (under the pseudonym Kunz Iring): Distress and struggle of German farmers: (Peasant wars). - Munich: Ludendorffs Verlag, 1935. - 48 pp.
• Itzinger, Karl (under the pseudonym Kunz Iring): Never again Habsburg! / Iring, Kunz; Dietrich, B. - Munich: Ludendorffs Verlag, 1936. - 64 pp. (Ent .: The Habsburgs in the History of the Germans / by Kunz Iring. The road to the Jesuit dictatorship in Austria 1918 - 1935 / by B. Dietrich)
• Itzinger, Karl (under the pseudonym Kunz Iring): From traitor to saint? : Charlemagne's betrayal of his ally. - Munich: Ludendorffs Verlag, 1938. - 35 pp.
• Itzinger, Karl: The blood court at Haushamerfeld. From the times of suffering and heroism in the country above the Enns: a novel. - 1. – 20. Th. - Graz: Leopold Stocker Verlag , 1933. - ( A people stand up ; Part 1). - ( The novel was published as early as 1925 under the title “Der Bauerntod”. The 1940 edition was published under the title “Das Blutgericht am Haushamerfeld or Das Frankenburger Würfelspiel ”. )
• Itzinger, Karl: It has to be! The struggle of a German people for freedom, faith and home. Novel. - Graz: Stocker, 1933. - 421 pp. - ( A people stand up ; Part 2)
• Itzinger, Karl: To the last. The end of a German struggle for freedom, faith and home. Novel. - Graz u. Leipzig: Stocker, 1937. - 315 pp. - ( A people stand up ; Part 3)
• Itzinger, Karl: The heretic prince. Novel of a change of mind. - Graz u. Leipzig: Stocker, 1941. - 384 pp.
• Itzinger, Karl: Diary from February 10 to March 14, 1938. An overview of the last days of the fight and the first days of victory. Contemporary history publisher Ernst Seidl, Linz ad Donau 1938.

Web links

• Itzinger Karl. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1965, p. 46.
• Memorial page on the homepage of the dialect poet Irmtraud Greifeneder-Itzinger
• Since 1925, the play “ The Frankenburger Würfelspiel ”, based on the novel “Der Bauerntod” by Karl Itzinger, has been performed every two years on the natural open-air stage in Frankenburg ( see below ) by the amateur theater “Würfelspielgemeinde” .
• Frank Westenfelder: Genesis, problems and effects of National Socialist literature using the example of the historical novel between 1890 and 1945. - Frankfurt a. M. (et al.): Lang, 1989. - 439 pages - ISBN 3-631-40732-7 . (Zugl .: Karlsruhe, Univ., Diss., 1987)
• Historical novel project , Institute for German Studies at the University of Innsbruck
• Literature by and about Karl Itzinger in the catalog of the German National Library

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1. ^ List of literature to be discarded. Published by the German Administration for Public Education in the Soviet Occupation Zone. Preliminary edition as of April 1, 1946. - Berlin: Zentralverlag, 1946. - No. 5554 - 5558
2. ↑ Quoted from: Claudia Wagner: The Central Commission for Combating Nazi Literature - Literature Cleaning in Austrian . - thesis. - University of Vienna, 2005. p. 45.- ( Title reference to the diploma thesis supervised by Murray G. Hall. Complete text as PDF file)
3. ^ Koch Hannes; Karl Itzinger - local poet and National Socialist, pp. 97–105. as well as chess rider Christian; National Socialist Ideology in Karl Itzinger's Peasant War Trilogy, pp. 106–109. Both in: Museum Innviertler Volkskundehaus (ed.); The Bundschuh 15, local history from the Inn and Hausruckviertel, 15th edition, Ried i. I. 2012.
4. ↑ Upper Austria. Volksbildungswerk Ried i I./Gottfried Gansinger; Meeting point of Mrs. Ried i. I./Education Center St. Franziskus Ried i. IN THE. u. T., Menschlichkeit und Toleranz, Innviertel without xenophobia and fascism (association) (ed.); VerGegenKunft, The history of National Socialism in Ried as reflected in contemporary historical activities 2002–2013, Festschrift on 10 years of contemporary history in Ried iI, Ried i. I. 2013, 128 pp.
5. ^ Ried municipal office: Itzingerstraße ( [1] )