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Karl Wache (born April 26, 1887 in Vienna ; † April 30, 1973 in Vienna ) was an Austrian librarian, writer and National Socialist.

Life

After graduating from high school , Karl Wache studied literature and philosophy at the University of Vienna , where he became a member of the Corps Hilaritas and the Corps Saxonia Vienna . To the Dr. phil. with a doctorate and as a middle school teacher, he made his first attempts as a writer in literary magazines. Returning home from the First World War as a heavily wounded and highly decorated officer, he entered the service of the Vienna University Library . He rose from academic librarian to senior state librarian.

Wache was a member of the German Community (Austria) , an anti-socialist and anti-Semitic secret society , which u. a. also Engelbert Dollfuss , Robert hollow tree , Emmerich Czermak and Hermann Neubacher belonged. Wache was the office manager of the German Community in Vienna's Elisabethstrasse, his office secretary was Engelbert Dollfuss. Wache was also a member of the Austrian German Cultural Association (Österreich) , founded in Vienna in 1928 , an organization that was affiliated with the National Socialist League for German Culture in Germany. From 1931–1933 he was a specialist advisor for libraries in the German Cultural Association, at the same time that Josef Weinheber was a specialist advisor for literature there. Wache was therefore also a contributor to the communications of the Kampfbund for German Culture . In connection with his work for the Kampfbund, he joined the NSDAP on November 14, 1932 and received membership number 1,308,753.

As part of National Socialist organizational work, numerous National Socialist company cell organizations were founded in Austria in the early 1930s. One of these was built in 1932 at the library of the University of Vienna. This cell had 12 members, including Karl Wache and Robert Hohlbaum . In 1933, Wache founded the Ring of National Booksellers and Publishers, the goals of which he himself describes in his essay The cleansing of the German book system from the Jewish spirit in the German Empire and we Austrians : “The long-awaited cleansing of our German literature from alien and foreign races was able to take action in the German Reich thanks to the purposeful leadership of Adolf Hitler, “is the introductory sentence referring to the book burning in Germany in 1933 . “Just as these books were eradicated from the world, this foreign tangle should also be banished and erased from German intellectual life.” In this context, Karl Wache praises the book burning in Germany in 1933 and gives a detailed recommendation of those Austrian artists who the well-deserved “death by burning” had been “neglected” so far.

In 1934 the German Cultural Association in Vienna was incorporated into the National Socialist cultural community . Karl Wache and Josef Weinheber were still very active in this, which had a negative effect on Wache's professional career because of their journalistic activities: He was opposed to him because of the publication of the book Deutscher Geist in Österreich (1933), which he dedicated to Adolf Hitler , and because of its publication of an article in a newspaper banned in the corporate state (Austria) in 1934 initiated a disciplinary investigation. Wache was then removed from service on May 22, 1934 and his salary was reduced to two thirds. At first he tried unsuccessfully to counter it, but in June 1934 applied for permanent retirement , which was granted. After the annexation of Austria in 1938, Wache was re-employed by the National Socialists and transferred to the Reich civil servant status in July 1939.

After ongoing internal disputes about the post of library director, which Wache had hoped for after the Anschluss, but which he did not get because of technical deficits and official deficiencies, he finally left the library service in 1941 and volunteered for military service. He did military service in the field post office in Vienna until March 6, 1944, when he returned to the library service. In June 1945 he was dismissed from the civil service, especially because he trainers and district office manager of the NSDAP in Gau was Vienna. 1946 put on the list of banned authors and books , wrote essays on cultural history; however, in 1947 he was recognized as having a lower burden and was retroactively retired , with all of his remuneration paid back.

Memberships

Works

  • My world and other stories , Villach: Publishing house of the war newspaper of the kuk 10th Army (around 1918).
  • Roland. Novel from the Carolingian era , Vienna: Zöllner Verlag, 1923.
  • The Austrian novel since the neo-baroque , Leipzig: Staackmann, 1930.
  • The bad Heinzelmann. Dream, fairy tale or spook? , Heidelberg: Verlag Deutsche Kulturgemeinschaft, 1932.
  • German spirit in Austria. A handbook of the völkisch life of the Ostmark , Dornbirn: Burton, 1933.
  • "The cleansing of the German book system from the Jewish spirit in the German Empire and we Austrians". In: Messages of the Kampfbund for German Culture . Episode 3 June 1933. Linz: Combat League for German Culture. Pp. 6-11.
  • Baucis and Philemon. Comedy in 5 Acts , Vienna: European Publishing House, 1954.
  • Fair of Viennese Literature , Vienna: Bergland Verlag, 1966.
  • Portraits of poets from old and new Vienna , Vienna: Bergland Verlag, 1969.
  • Revolution in Olympus , Vienna: Bergland Verlag, 1971.

literature

  • Uwe Baur and Karin Gradwohl-Schlacher: Literature in Austria 1938-1945. Manual of a literary system. Volume 3: Upper Austria . Böhlau. Vienna 2014.
  • DBE - German Biographical Encyclopedia (2008). Second, revised and expanded edition. Volume 10 Thies - Zymalkowsi. Ed. Rudolf Vierhaus. Berlin: De Gruyter.
  • Johann Gunert (1974): “In Memoriam Karl Wache”. In: Gunert, Johann (ed.). Yearbook of the Grillparzer Society . Third episode. First volume. Vienna: mountainous country. P. 275.
  • Johannes Sachslehner (2011): "Wache, Karl". In: Killy Literature Lexicon . Volume 12 Vo-Z. Second edition. Berlin / Boston: De Gruyter. Pp. 43-44.
  • Robert Stumpf (2007). "Knowledge stores in times of political upheaval: Fragments of the history of the Vienna University Library in 1938 and 1945". In: Announcements of the Association of Austrian Librarians . Volume 60. Issue 1. pp. 9–29.
  • Robert Stumpf (2008). "Building blocks for the increase in knowledge: Alois Jesinger and the Nazi opposition at the University Library Vienna (1938–1945)". In: Announcements of the Association of Austrian Librarians . Volume 61. Issue 4. pp. 9–40.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 75/21; 152/379.
  2. ^ Stumpf, Robert (2007). "Knowledge stores in times of political upheaval: Fragments of the history of the Vienna University Library in 1938 and 1945". In: Announcements of the Association of Austrian Librarians . Volume 60. Issue 2. S. 11.
  3. ^ Stumpf, Robert (2007). "Knowledge stores in times of political upheaval: Fragments of the history of the Vienna University Library in 1938 and 1945". In: Announcements of the Association of Austrian Librarians . Volume 60. Issue 2. S. 11.
  4. ↑ Baur, Uwe & Gradwohl-Schlacher, Karin (2014). Literature in Austria 1938-1945. Manual of a literary system. Volume 3: Upper Austria . Vienna: Böhlau. P. 53.
  5. ^ Stumpf, Robert (2008). "Building blocks for the increase in knowledge: Alois Jesinger and the Nazi opposition at the University Library Vienna (1938–1945)". In: Announcements of the Association of Austrian Librarians. Volume 61. Issue 4. P. 13.
  6. ^ Karl Wache (1933). "The cleansing of the German book system from the Jewish spirit in the German Empire and we Austrians". In: Messages of the Kampfbund for German Culture. Episode 3 June 1933. Linz: Combat League for German Culture. Pp. 6-11.
  7. ↑ Baur, Uwe & Gradwohl-Schlacher, Karin (2014). Literature in Austria 1938-1945. Manual of a literary system. Volume 3: Upper Austria . Vienna: Böhlau. P. 54.
  8. ↑ Baur, Uwe & Gradwohl-Schlacher, Karin (2014). Literature in Austria 1938-1945. Manual of a literary system. Volume 3: Upper Austria . Vienna: Böhlau. P.56.
  9. ^ Stumpf, Robert (2007). "Knowledge stores in times of political upheaval: Fragments of the history of the Vienna University Library in 1938 and 1945". In: Announcements of the Association of Austrian Librarians. Volume 60. Issue 2. P. 18.
personal data
SURNAME Watch, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian librarian and writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 1973
Place of death Vienna