Karl Schodrok

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Karl Paul Anton Schodrok (until 1939: Sczodrok ; born January 2, 1890 in Neisse , Neisse district , province of Silesia ; † February 24, 1978 in Würzburg ) was a German teacher, editor , publisher and publicist .

Life

Youth and education

Karl Sczodrok was born in the Upper Silesian town of Neisse in 1890 as the son of Robert Sczodrok and Anna, née Scheithauer. From 1896 to 1904 he was a student at the Catholic elementary school in Neisse. He then attended the preparatory institute for three years until 1907 and the Prussian teachers' seminar in Ziegenhals in the Neisse district from 1907 to 1910 . After the first teaching examination in 1910, he was an elementary school teacher in Bolatitz in the Hultschiner Ländchen from June 1, 1910 to March 31, 1914 . One of the students in Bolatitz was August Scholtis . Here he passed the second teaching examination in 1913 and was employed as a teacher in Gleiwitz from April 1, 1914 .

During the First World War , Sczodrok was a frontline soldier in the mountain artillery from 1915 to 1918 and took part in the fighting in the Vosges , Italy, Macedonia, Albania and Montenegro. After the end of the war, Karl Sczodrok married Stephania John in Breslau in 1919 . From 1920 to 1921 he studied for a few semesters at the University of Breslau .

Working in Upper Silesia

From 1921 to March 31, 1923, he continued to teach in Gleiwitz. From April 1, 1923 to July 31, 1930 he was rector of Colonowska in the district of Groß Strehlitz and then from August 1, 1930 to March 1, 1937, he was appointed rector of the Voigt School for Boys in Opole . From March 1, 1937, he was employed as a district school board member and, after October 1, 1937, as an administrator for the Opole II school supervisory board.

Since the poet lawyer Joseph von Eichendorff spent the last years of his life in Neisse, Sczodrok's birthplace, he dealt with his life and work in Silesia. Karl Schodrok was co-founder and from 1929 to 1969 editor of the Eichendorff almanac Aurora , which was published under his editorship in Opole and, after 1953, in the Upper Palatinate . In 1931 he and Adolf Dyroff founded the Eichendorff Foundation in Opole and in 1935 the Eichendorff Museum in Neisse, for which he had already received the collections of the poet's grandson Karl von Eichendorff in 1931 . In 1936, Willibald Köhler took over the management of the Eichendorff Museum in Neisse .

After 1933 he joined the Reichsschrifttumskammer (RSK). In 1935 he was accepted into the NSDAP , with retroactive effect from May 1, 1933. From 1936 he was head of the Office for Upper Silesian Regional Studies in Opole, which published the people's calendar and monitored the Polish publications on Silesian topics and forwarded it to the Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage in Berlin-Dahlem and to the Hermann Aubins Institute at the University of Breslau. In 1936 he protected the dissident Victor Kaluza ( SPD ) from being expelled from the Reichsschrifttumskammer. Later, Schodrok also stood up for the dissident and editor Karl Okonsky (SPD) when he was supposed to be banned from writing .

In the period before the referendum in Upper Silesia he was editor of the weekly Der Schwarze Adler in Katowice from 1919 to 1921 . From 1922 to 1940 he worked in Opole as publisher and editor-in-chief of the cultural magazine Der Oberschlesier and from 1940 to 1942 of the Silesian Voice . In the spring of 1940 he changed the family name to Schodrok . He was a member of the cultural advisory board of the Provincial Association of Upper Silesia, head of the Association for Upper Silesian Local Studies , was appointed to the supervisory board of the Neißer Heimgarten Cooperative and was entrusted by the authorities with the honorary management of the Office for Upper Silesian Regional Studies in Opole. In 1943 the Silesian Voice was discontinued by the Nazi rulers. Schodrock was a member of the Historical Commission for Silesia .

After the end of the war

The family left Opole in 1945 while fleeing and expelling Germans from Central and Eastern Europe 1945–1950 , traveled west, arrived in Regensburg and then lived in Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate . When the denazification process was completed in 1947, Karl Schodrok was employed as a district school council in Neumarkt. After retiring in 1957, the family moved to Würzburg .

In 1952 he was active in the reorganization of the Eichendorff Foundation , became its chairman and worked in Würzburg in 1969 to transform it into the Eichendorff Society . From 1953 to 1969 he was editor of the Eichendorff almanac Aurora . In 1952 he founded the Kulturwerk Schlesien , which has had its headquarters in Würzburg since 1957, and was the editor of the quarterly Silesia magazine from 1956 . When the Landsmannschaft der Oberschlesier was founded in 1950, he appeared there as an author, speaker and editor.

In 1955 him the president awarded Theodor Heuss , the Federal Cross of Merit of the Federal President of the Order, and in 1959 Heinrich Lubke the Order of Merit 1st class.

Awards

  • 1955: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
  • 1959: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
  • 1972: Upper Silesian Culture Prize of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
  • 1968: Golden City Seal of the City of Würzburg

Publications (selection)

  • Upper Silesia's fateful hour . Wroclaw 1919.
  • "The Upper Silesian". Monthly notebooks of the Upper Silesian Heimatbund . Federation of the German East . Association for Upper Silesian Local Studies. Opole 1919–1939.
  • as publisher: Gustav Eisenreich : Nature and landscape in Upper Silesia . Opole 1927.
  • as publisher: Oberschlesische Dichterbüchel . Schlesien-Verlag, Breslau 1942.
  • Eichendorff - “No poet let go of his homeland yet” . Publishing house of the Church Aid Agency, Munich 1950.
  • Thoughts and songs. Eichendorff's religious creed . Habbel, Regensburg 1950.
  • The experience of the Upper Silesian referendum. Presented in agreement with the Silesian Landsmannschaft to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Upper Silesian referendum of March 20, 1921 . Silesian Cultural Center, Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz 1951.
  • Eichendorff in the flow of time . In: Aurora 14 (1954), pp. 7-10.
  • Joseph von Eichendorff (= Göttingen working group . Series of publications . Issue 56). Holzner, Würzburg 1955.
  • Joseph von Eichendorff's commitment to home. On the 100th anniversary of the poet's death on November 26, 1957 (= Oberschlesische Schriftenreihe . Werkheft 3). Landsmannschaft der Oberschlesier eV, Bonn 1957
  • Eichendorff and Saint Hedwig . 1959.
  • Daniele Varè and the partition of Upper Silesia in 1922 . In: Silesia. Art, science, folklore - Lower Silesia, Upper Silesia, Sudeten Silesia . Volume 13 (1968), Issue 3, pp. 129-138.
  • University professor Dr. phil. Herbert Schlenger in memory . In: Schlesischer Kulturspiegel . 4 (1969), pp. 1-2.
  • Creative Silesia. Literature, fine arts, music. Also about Johannes Nucius . Carl, Nuremberg 1970.
  • with Alfons Hayduk (ed.): Schlesische Studien. Karl Schodrok on his 80th birthday (= Silesia . Episode 7). Delp, Munich 1970, ISBN 3-7689-0063-0 .
  • Alfons Hayduk in memory . In: Schlesien 17 (1972), pp. 197-201.
  • as publisher: Contributions to Copernicus 1473–1973 (= series of publications Kulturwerk Schlesien. Special issue ). Kulturwerk Schlesien, Würzburg 1973.
  • Essays, In: Hugo Weczerka (Hrsg.): Handbook of historical sites . Volume: Silesia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 316). Kröner, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-520-31601-3 ;
    • Lubowitz (Łubowice, Kr. Ratibor ) . Pp. 304-305.
    • Matzdorf (Maciejowiec, Kr. Löwenberg ) . Pp. 312-313.
    • Wall (Pilchowice, Kr. Löwenberg) . P. 313.
    • Waltersdorf (Nielestno, Kr. Löwenberg) . P. 559.
    • Welkersdorf ( Rząsiny , Kr. Löwenberg) . P. 564.
    • Wiesenthal (Bystrzyca, district of Löwenberg) . Pp. 565-566.
    • Zobten am Bober (Sobota, Kr. Löwenberg) . Pp. 583-584.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Short biographies - Schodrok, Karl. DeutschesFachbuch.de, archived from the original on February 17, 2013 ; Retrieved April 28, 2015 .
  2. ^ Fifty Years of the Historical Commission for Silesia . In: Yearbook of the Schlesische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Breslau, Volume 17, 1972, list of members p. 415.
  3. ^ Pia Beckmann : Greetings for the 50th anniversary of the Silesian Cultural Center (lecture on the occasion of the ceremony on June 1, 2002 in the Tosacana Hall of the University of Würzburg). In: Würzburg medical history reports 22, 2003, p. 582 f.
personal data
SURNAME Schodrok, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sczodrok, Karl (until 1939); Schodrok, Karl Paul Anton (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher, editor, publisher and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Neisse , Neisse district , Province of Silesia
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1978
Place of death Wurzburg