Karl Neuscheler

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Karl Neuscheler (born August 14, 1897 in Pfullingen ; † unknown) was a German journalist , newspaper scientist and National Socialist ( SA brigad leader, NSDAP district leader and holder of the golden party badge ).

Life

Neuscheler attended grammar school in Cannstatt and studied at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen and the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich with a major in German and a minor in Romance and Slavic studies .

At the First World War he took 1915-1918 as a cadet in the Infantry Regiment 124 or lieutenant in part; his left hand was paralyzed by a war wound.

After completing his doctorate at the University of Munich in 1923, he initially devoted himself to the book trade , worked for several book publishers and product ranges , and finally as a publishing director.

On January 1, 1930 Neuscheler joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP). In 1932 he founded the NS -Gau newspaper Bodensee-Rundschau (Konstanz), whose main editor he became. From 1933 to 1940 Neuscheler was the chief editor of the Baden NS district organ Der Führer (Karlsruhe). In 1935 he took on a teaching position for practical newspaper studies at the University of Heidelberg , but from 1937 onwards he stopped doing it because of his activity as Moscow correspondent for the Völkischer Beobachter and the attack .

Shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War , Neuscheler switched to the editorial management of the Vienna edition of the Völkischer Beobachter as deputy chief editor . At the Institute for Newspaper Studies at the University of Vienna , he was also head of Department I (“Research and Promotion of International Newspaper”); The main focus of his teaching activities there included editorial practice in general, newspaper design, departmental politics and the work of the political editor.

In 1941 Neuscheler published the propaganda brochure The Greatest Slavery in World History, which he had recorded according to the information provided by the Austrian émigré and Soviet citizen Kajetan Klug in Eher Verlag . Factual report from the penal areas of the GPU on the system of forced labor in the Soviet Union , which had a circulation of at least 650,000 and was placed on the list of literature to be sorted out in the Soviet occupation zone after the end of the war .

From October 9, 1941 to March 31, 1944, Neuscheler represented the Völkischer Beobachter, the official deputy chief editor Theodor Seibert, who had been drafted into the Wehrmacht since May 1941 .

On November 9, 1942 he was appointed brigade leader of the Sturmabteilung . On April 15, 1944, Neuscheler became NSDAP district leader in Freiburg im Breisgau , with which he also gave up teaching in Vienna. Neuscheler took up the position as "War District Leader" for the duration of the war on behalf of the senior division leader Wilhelm Fritsch, who was appointed Reichsleitung.

In the 1950s he worked as an advertising consultant and copywriter.

Fonts

  • Gerhart Hauptmann and Leo Tolstoy . Dissertation, Munich 1923.
  • Doctor Johann Faust. A Swabian-German folk play (= Munich amateur plays; H. 19). Ch.Kaiser, Munich 1926.
  • King or fool. A comedy (= Munich amateur plays; H. 20). Ch.Kaiser, Munich 1926.
  • Lucien Romier: The man of today . Translated from the French by Karl Neuscheler. N. Kampmann, Freiburg im Breisgau, 1930.
  • Kajetan Klug: The greatest slavery in world history. Factual report from the penal areas of the GPU Recorded by Karl Neuscheler. Rather publishing house, Berlin 1941.

literature

  • Katharina Kniefacz: “Vienna 'School' of Newspaper Studies? The Institute for Newspaper Studies in the Nazi Era and its PhD students ”, in: Andreas Huber, Katharina Kniefacz, Alexander Krysl, Manès Weisskircher: University and Discipline. Members of the University of Vienna and National Socialism . Lit-Verlag, Vienna and Berlin 2011, p. 90f. ISBN 978-3-643-50265-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Gerd R. Ueberschär : Freiburg in the air war: 1939-1945 . Ploetz, Freiburg im Breisgau and Würzburg 1990, p. 168.
  2. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-k.html
  3. ^ Austrian National Library, ANNO Historical Austrian newspapers and magazines: Völkischer Beobachter
personal data
SURNAME Neuscheler, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Pfullingen
DATE OF DEATH 20th century