Karl Otto Paetel

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Karl Otto Paetel (born November 23, 1906 in Berlin , † May 4, 1975 in New York ) was a German journalist and publicist . He was an important representative of national Bolshevism .

Life

Karl O. Paetel began a traineeship at the Deutsches Tageblatt in 1927 and became an editor there. From 1928 to 1930 he studied history, German and philosophy at the Berlin University and at the School of Politics .

Paetel belonged to the Bündische Jugend . He came to the League of Kings through a Bible study group (BK) . Here he founded a local group in Berlin-Charlottenburg in 1925. The Bund der Köngener joined the German Freischar in 1926 together with other leagues . Paetel was excluded from the German Freischar in 1930 due to an anonymous article in the magazine Die Kommenden , in which Paul von Hindenburg's signature under the Young Plan was sharply criticized. In the same year he lost his scholarship for participating in a demonstration against the Peace Treaty of Versailles .

He became a major thought leader in revolutionary nationalism and national Bolshevism. He was in close contact with the socialist youth movement , published the magazines Politische Zeitschriftenschau and Das Junge Volk and stood against both the democracy of the Weimar Republic and the NSDAP .

Ernst Jünger had hired him as editor-in-chief of the alliance-revolutionary magazine Die Kommenden as early as 1930 . In December 1930 he founded the Social Revolutionary Nationalists Group . In 1931 the journal Sozialistische Nation followed . On January 30, 1933 (the day Hitler came to power ), Paetel published The National Bolshevik Manifesto .

In 1933 he was banned from writing, which he did not comply with. There were several arrests. Accused of the treachery law , he fled to Prague in 1935 and worked there on the New World Stage . He then fled to Paris via Sweden .

He traveled illegally from Paris to Germany several times. In 1936 he founded the papers of the Socialist Nation . Associated with illegal alliance groups, he advocated infiltration of the Hitler Youth . In Paris in 1937 he met the national revolutionaries Ernst Niekisch and Harro Schulze-Boysen . Until 1940 he was of central importance for the Bündi living in exile and supplied the Bundi groups in Germany with national revolutionary writings. A few months before the start of World War II , he organized a 14-day conference with opposition Hitler Youth leaders in Paris. The group of participants was called the Socialist Nation group and cooperated with the association The Gray Circle and a formation called the Black HJ . Many participants between the ages of 17 and 22 were college and high school graduates. Most of them belonged to the German Young People , the Hitler Youth and the NS Student Union . A central theme was the "existence of rebellious youth groups". There were reports from groups with the names Die Geusen , Der Orden , Die Gehteten , Die Kolonne X , and the name Edelweiss was also mentioned.

After breaking out of internment by the French police in May 1940, he began to flee to New York via southern France and Spain . There he resumed his journalistic activities and worked as a correspondent . In 1943 he married his fiancée Elisabeth Zerner.

After the war he published the magazine Deutsche Gegenwart and wrote a lot about Ernst Jünger. The biography of Ernst Jünger: The Change of a German Poet and Patriot was published in 1946.

Paetel became an American citizen , founded and ran a German press club and, as head of the “German Forum”, was committed to a national Bolshevik view of German Nazi history . In 1965 he published Temptation or Chance? On the history of German national Bolshevism . Karl Otto Paetel died on May 4, 1975 in Forest Hills , New York City. His grave is in Wendershausen at the foot of Ludwigstein Castle .

Works

  • Ernst Jünger: the change of a German poet and patriot. Repr. Of the orig. New York, Krause, 1946. Fölbach, Koblenz 1995. ISBN 3-923532-30-X .
  • Social Revolutionary Nationalism. Reprint of the Flarchheim / Thuringia edition, Verl. Die Kommenden, 1930. Helios, Mainz 1986. ISBN 3-925087-04-4 .
  • Journey without time - an autobiography . Verlag G. Heintz, Worms 1982. ISBN 3-921333-90-3 .
  • Temptation or Chance ?: On the history of German national Bolshevism . Musterschmidt, Göttingen 1965. (New edition: National Bolshevism and National Revolutionary Movement in Germany. History - Ideology - People ). Verlag Siegfried Bublies, Schnellbach 1997, ISBN 3-926584-49-1 .
  • Youth in Decision: 1913, 1933, 1945 . 2nd, greatly expanded edition of youth movement and politics . Voggenreiter, Bad Godesberg 1963.
  • Beat - an anthology. Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 1962 (as editor).
  • The image of the people in the German youth leadership . Voggenreiter, Bad Godesberg 1954.

literature

  • Rebellion movement among German youth revealed. In: Sonntagsblatt zu Staatszeitung und Herold , New York, April 1, 1945
  • Germany report by the international office of the Socialist Nation group . Quoted in ibid., 1945
  • Siegfried Mielke (Ed.) With the collaboration of Marion Goers, Stefan Heinz , Matthias Oden, Sebastian Bödecker: Unique - Lecturers, students and representatives of the German University of Politics 1920 - 1933 in the Resistance to National Socialism , Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3- 86732-032-0 , p. 372 ff.
  • Winfried Mogge:  Paetel, Karl Otto. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , pp. 757 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of the German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, p. 546f.
  • Steffen Steffensen: Karl O. Paetel (1906–1975). Journalist and writer , in: Willy Dähnhardt ; Birgit S. Nielsen (Ed.): Exile in Denmark: German-speaking scientists, artists and writers in Danish exile after 1933 , Heide: Westholsteinische Verlagsanstalt Boyens, 1993 ISBN 3-8042-0569-0 , pp. 603-605

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefan Breuer / Ina Schmidt: The Coming ones . Wochenschauverlag, Schwalbach 2010. ISBN 978-3-89974-529-0 , p. 385.
  2. ^ Louis Dupeux: National Bolshevism in Germany 1919-1933 . Book guild Gutenberg, Munich 1985, p. 291.
  3. ^ Diethart Kerbs: Walter Reuter: Berlin - Madrid - Mexico, 1906-2005. A life from Graubünden origins. In: Botho Brachmann, Helmut Knüppel, Joachim-Felix Leonhard and Julius H. Schoeps (eds.): The art of networking. Festschrift for Wolfgang Hempel . Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-86650-344-X , p. 116 ( online [PDF; accessed April 17, 2013]).
personal data
SURNAME Paetel, Karl Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and publicist; National Bolshevik
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 4th 1975
Place of death new York