Karl Schworm

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Karl Schworm (born April 14, 1889 in Odernheim , † May 6, 1956 in Lochham near Munich ) was a German National Socialist , writer and local poet.

Life

As the son of a shoemaker, he first learned his father's craft; But when he was no longer able to pursue this profession as a result of an accident, he became an accountant and businessman and finally, on June 1, 1933, chief editor at Eher-Verlag in Munich , the party publisher of the NSDAP .

Schworm was a member of the German-Völkischer Schutz- und Trutz-Bund (DVSTB) and joined the NSDAP on October 24, 1921 (re-entry on February 1, 1929). In the same year he founded a local branch of the party in Odernheim . After a temporary expulsion from the Palatinate in 1923 as a result of the occupation of the Ruhr , Schworm returned with his family to Odernheim at the end of 1924, where he wrote articles for the Völkischer Beobachter and for newspapers in the Palatinate until 1933 . He also worked as a cooperative calculator. From September 1932 to May 1934 he was chairman of the investigative and arbitration committee (USchlA) of the NSDAP in the Alsenz district . He was also a member of the following NS organizations: NS-Fliegerkorps , NS-Volkswohlfahrt , NS-Reichsbund for physical exercises , Reichskolonialbund , Reichsluftschutzbund and Volksbund for Germanness abroad . After moving to Munich, Schworm continued to work as a lecturer at the central publishing house of the NSDAP .

Schworm wrote folk-national stories and novels . The first novel of the Odernheimer literary active since 1916 came out in 1922 under the title Durch Meere und Wüsten . A year later his second novel, Der Schmied vom Rhein , was published, which was immediately banned in the French-occupied territory. In 1928, the novel There is a crown in the deep Rhine appeared in book form . In this aggressively anti-Semitic text “Schworm propagates the National Socialist worldview and central demands of the party. The people of another race are consistently yes depicted as criminal and violent, as devilish [...]. "The 1940 novel also published the fires are entglommen ... the Brits reveals itself in the face of Nazi typical elements of racial ideology, stylization enemy of the people, glorification of the German, “Aryan” fighter and glorification of the Führer as propaganda literature.

On the occasion of Schworm's 50th birthday, Eher-Verlag published a collection of novels by the poet under the title The Colorful Chest in 1939 , for which he received the Kurt Faber Prize (2,000 RM ) in 1940 alongside Friedrich Rech . Together with Hermann Gerstner he published German poets of our time in 1939 .

denazification

After his property and house were seized by the French occupation authorities, Schworm and his wife moved in October 1945 to live with their daughter in Lochham . His chronic joint gout was becoming more and more restrictive: at the end of 1945 he was almost completely paralyzed. In the course of the denazification proceedings against him, he confirmed his numerous memberships in Nazi organizations in the registration form on May 4, 1946. When asked which group he fits into, he replied: “None. I believe that I can count myself among the Germans who wanted the best. ”In addition to several so-called Persilscheine , Schworm also sent the Arbitration Chamber two letters in which he pointed out his financial and health situation and specifically asked for a classification that would suit him continues to allow his writing activity and thus "the only, in itself only low income opportunity". On October 11, 1948 Schworm was finally classified in the group of fellow travelers (IV) and fined 50 DM . The reasons for the verdict referred only to his membership in the NSDAP and the NSFK , not to his lecturing work and propaganda texts.

Literary work after 1945

Both the historical novel Horen und Demonen and the anthology Gazvögel - Funny Stories from the Palatinate , which were both written between 1945 and 1948, were not published. In the 1950s, Schworm worked on several novels from Hermann von Schmid's homeland . At this time he also published in Palatinate newspapers and magazines (partly under the pseudonym Karl Disenberger). In 1953 his novel Under the Stars of Home was published. In view of a poem written by Schworm for Hans Grimm's birthday , Stefanie Bluhm states regarding Schworm 's attitude to the German past and National Socialism : “The lines of the poem for Hans Grimm indicate that he [Schworm] did not accept the outcome of the war and his hope relied on the other former National Socialist writers in order to point the 'misled Germanic' back on the right path. "

Karl Schworm died in Lochham on May 6, 1956.

Others

His writings Der Schmied vom Rhein (1923), Die Bunte Truhe (1939), Die Feuer ist ausglommen (1940), Das Schilderhaus von Frozzelborn (1941), Es ist ein Krone im Rhein (1943) und Land were published in the Soviet occupation zone my fathers (1943) placed on the list of literature to be discarded; in the German Democratic Republic still came Karl von Moller (1941) to do so.

Works

  • Through seas and deserts , 1922
  • The blacksmith from the Rhine. Novel from Germany's present and future , 1923
  • There is a crown in the deep Rhine. Novel from the German past and future , 1926. 26 episodes in the Völkischer Beobachter , 1928 book edition, the 3rd edition in 1943 had the subtitle A book of German longing and fulfillment
  • The last Christmas drink. Historical narratives , 1938
  • German poets of our time , together with Hermann Gerstner, Eher, 1939 a. ö.
  • The colorful chest - German stories , 1939
  • The fires are escaped ... novel from the great struggle against the dictators of the earth, which began in 1914 , 1940
  • People of my fathers. People's and borderland-German fate , 1940
  • Happy feast. A colorful series of humorous events prepared , 1940
  • Karl von Möller. For the 65th birthday of the Danube Swabian poet and ethnic German pioneer , 1941
  • The Frozzelborn Shield House. Delightful Stories , 1941
  • The bewitched cow skin. Cheerful stories , 1943

literature

  • Stefanie Bluhm: Karl Schworm - the editor of the party publisher. In: Rolf Düsterberg (ed.): Poets for the "Third Reich". Vol. 2. Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology. Aisthesis Verlag, Bielefeld 2011, pp. 207–229.
  • Karl Schworm. In: Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stefanie Bluhm: Karl Schworm - the editor of the party publisher . In: Rolf Düsterberg (Ed.): Poets for the "Third Reich". Volume 2. Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2011, pp. 208f.
  2. ^ Stefanie Bluhm: Karl Schworm - the editor of the party publisher . In: Rolf Düsterberg (Ed.): Poets for the "Third Reich". Volume 2. Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2011, pp. 208–210.
  3. ^ A b Stefanie Bluhm: Karl Schworm - the editor of the party publisher . In: Rolf Düsterberg (Ed.): Poets for the "Third Reich". Volume 2. Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2011, p. 216.
  4. ^ Stefanie Bluhm: Karl Schworm - the editor of the party publisher . In: Rolf Düsterberg (Ed.): Poets for the "Third Reich". Volume 2. Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2011, p. 214f.
  5. ^ Stefanie Bluhm: Karl Schworm - the editor of the party publisher . In: Rolf Düsterberg (Ed.): Poets for the "Third Reich". Volume 2. Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2011, pp. 208, 210.
  6. ^ Stefanie Bluhm: Karl Schworm - the editor of the party publisher . In: Rolf Düsterberg (Ed.): Poets for the "Third Reich". Volume 2. Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2011, p. 212.
  7. ^ Stefanie Bluhm: Karl Schworm - the editor of the party publisher . In: Rolf Düsterberg (Ed.): Poets for the "Third Reich". Volume 2. Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2011, p. 218ff.
  8. ↑ reporting form Karl Schworm from 04.05.1946.SprKA. Quotation from Bluhm (2011), p. 222.
  9. ↑ Schworm to the Spruchkammer dated October 3rd, 1948. SprKA. Quotation from Bluhm (2011), p. 223.
  10. ^ Stefanie Bluhm: Karl Schworm - the editor of the party publisher . In: Rolf Düsterberg (Ed.): Poets for the "Third Reich". Volume 2. Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2011, pp. 221–225.
  11. ↑ Schworm: "Hans Grimm the poet von Volk ohne Raum on March 22, 1950!" LBSH, Cb 65.51: 143. Quotation from Bluhm (2011), p. 227.
  12. ^ Stefanie Bluhm: Karl Schworm - the editor of the party publisher . In: Rolf Düsterberg (Ed.): Poets for the "Third Reich". Volume 2. Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2011, p. 227.
  13. ^ German administration for popular education in the Soviet occupation zone, list of the literature to be sorted out, letter S. Zentralverlag, Berlin 1946.
  14. ^ German administration for popular education in the Soviet occupation zone, list of literature to be sorted out, letter S. Zentralverlag, Berlin 1948.
  15. ^ German administration for popular education in the Soviet occupation zone, list of literature to be sorted out, letter S. Zentralverlag, Berlin 1953.

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personal data
SURNAME Schworm, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German National Socialist, German author and local poet
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Odernheim
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1956
Place of death Lochham near Munich