Waldemar Schütz

Karl Waldemar Schütz (born October 9, 1913 in Dausenau an der Lahn ; † September 9, 1999 in Raubling near Rosenheim ) was the owner of various right-wing extremist publishers, a member of the NSDAP , the Waffen-SS , the DRP and the NPD and publisher of Deutsche Nachrichten , the party newsletter of the NPD.

Life

Schütz attended elementary school in Dausenau and the upper secondary school in Bad Ems . He then completed an apprenticeship as a publishing clerk and editor and joined the editorial team of the Lahn newspaper. Schütz was a member of the Hitler Youth from 1928 and later also received the golden HJ badge. Active as a journalist until 1937, he was finally employed as a junker. On November 1, 1936, he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 3,186,496). As a member of the Waffen SS (SS no. 372.395; member of the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler ) he went to war in 1939 and eventually became the leader of a Tiger tank company . He was badly wounded five times. On April 20, 1944 he was promoted to SS-Hauptsturmführer . From 1945 to 1946 he was an American prisoner of war .

From 1947 Schütz worked as a self-employed businessman and founded the Plesse publishing house and the Göttingen publishing house in 1949 or 1950 together with Leonhard Schlueter . According to the British secret service, in 1953 he had contacts with the Naumann Circle , an association of old Nazis around the former State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Propaganda, Werner Naumann , who wanted to infiltrate the FDP . In 1955, the stand of his Plesse publishing house at the Frankfurt Book Fair was removed by booksellers and subsequently no longer admitted to the fair by the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels, after which he founded the K. W. Schütz publishing house ; his authors include, for example, Hans Grimm ( People without Space ) , State Secretary a. D. Werner Naumann, Flieger-As Hans-Ulrich Rudel and Jochen Stern (And the West is silent. Experiences, reports, documents about Central Germany 1945–1975).

The KW Schütz publishing house mainly published authors from the right-wing extremist spectrum, the mutual aid community of members of the former Waffen-SS , the order community of knight cross bearers and the Deutsche Wochen-Zeitung , including Peter Kleist , former personal advisor to Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and founding member of the Society for Free Journalism , Georg Franz-Willing , employee at the Institute for Historical Review , Erich Kern , Adolf von Thadden , Rolf Kosiek , Paul Hausser , Kurt Meyer , Felix Steiner and the former SS-Obersturmführer Ernst-Günther Krätschmer , the founded the Gaeta Aid to secure the release of Walter Reder . In the spring of 1992 the KW Schütz publishing house was taken over by the right-wing extremist Nation Europa publishing house, which continues to run some of the Schütz titles.

From June 15, 1955 to May 5, 1959, Schütz was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament for the German Reich Party (DRP) (3rd electoral period). He moved up for Johannes Hertel . From June 6, 1967 to June 20, 1970, Schütz was an NPD member again in the state parliament in Lower Saxony (6th electoral period).

From 1961 to the dissolution of the party in 1964, Schütz belonged to the party leadership of the DRP. In the internal party disputes, he belonged to the group around Adolf von Thadden . In 1964 Schütz was a member of the founding board of the NPD; later he headed the press and information department of the NPD. Schütz is counted among the small leadership group that determined the policy of the DRP from 1955 and - largely identical in terms of personnel - controlled the NPD in the 1960s.

Since August 1955 Schütz was responsible for the DRP party newspaper “Der Reichsruf”. From 1957 onwards, under the leadership of Schütz, the newspaper was expanded into a “more generally oriented weekly newspaper”, with which “obviously a broader layer of right-wing extremists outside the DRP” was to be addressed. In 1959 he co-founded the " Deutsche Wochen-Zeitung " (DWZ), which he ran for more than 25 years. The DWZ cooperated closely with the Reichsruf. On January 1, 1986, Schütz sold DWZ, which was threatened with recruitment, to Gerhard Frey , but remained co-editor. After the founding of the NPD, “Der Reichsruf” was converted into the NPD newspaper “ Deutsche Nachrichten ”, whose publisher was Schütz. Schütz was also head of the National Publishing House.

In mid-1960 criminal proceedings were initiated against Schütz. The subject of the proceedings was the publication of the publication Waffen-SS in action by Paul Hausser , which was made up with Siegrunen and the SS motto “ My honor means loyalty ”. The book had previously been indexed by the federal inspection agency for writings harmful to minors. Until 1955, Schütz was the editor of the mutual aid community of the members of the former Waffen SS (HIAG). He left because of his involvement in the DRP, as the HIAG avoided contact with right-wing extremist parties in its public image.

On November 29, 1964, Schütz founded the Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft Rosenheim (DVG) (with today's headquarters in Preussisch Oldendorf ), whose business he managed until shortly before his death. The DVG publisher's distribution is handled by the former NPD functionary Erwin Höke's "Kölle-Druck", which has existed since 1947 and who in 1993 handed over his share of the business to his son Rainer. Schütz was also a co-owner of Kölle-Druck in Preussisch-Oldendorf. In 1993 and 1994 the print shop was searched and around 3,000 copies of the magazine Die Bauernschaft von Thies Christophersen were confiscated. Christophersen's The Auschwitz Lie was also printed here. In the building of Kölle-pressure there is also the German book delivery from Peter Dehoust and 1985 by contactor under the motto "veritas - iustitia - futurum" into being called Association of Culture and History, Archives of time .

Schütz dedicated the last 15 years of his life to contemporary history. His aim was to “secure a true image of history and convey the real German conditions in the 20th century for future generations” from the point of view of his National Socialist worldview, since Schütz believes that the historical image had been systematically falsified after 1945. In addition to maintaining and expanding a specialist library for history, politics and military science as well as a newspaper and document archive, the editing of historical revisionist publications, including the quarterly German History in the 20th Century , played an important role.

The "Society for Free Journalism", of which Waldemar Schütz has been deputy chairman since 1992, awarded him the Ulrich von Hutten Medal in 1979 . Schütz's successor in the “Archive of Time” was Hans-Ulrich Kopp .

literature

Jens Mecklenburg (Ed.): Handbook of German Right-Wing Extremism , Elefanten Press, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-88520-585-8 , p. 426 f.
Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 349.

Web links

KW Schütz publishing house in apabiz

Individual evidence

^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Second updated edition. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 564, source BA N 1080/272.
↑ Joachim R. Stern, And the West is silent. Experiences, reports, documents about Central Germany 1945–1975 in KW Schütz Verlag, Preußisch Oldendorf 1976, ISBN 3-87725-081-5 ; updated again published as: Jochen Stern: And the West was silent: the SBZ / GDR 1945–1975. Experiences - Reports - Documents in the OEZ-Berlin-Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-942437-22-6 .
^ ^A ^b Peter Dudek, Hans-Gerd Jaschke : Origin and development of right-wing extremism in the Federal Republic. To the tradition of a special culture. Volume 1, Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1984, ISBN 3-531-11668-1 , p. 250.
↑ Dudek, Jaschke, emergence , p. 271.
↑ Karsten Wilke: The mutual aid community (HIAG) 1950–1990. Veterans of the Waffen SS in the Federal Republic . Schöningh, Paderborn / Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-506-77235-0 , p. 84, 143 (also dissertation, Bielefeld University, 2010).

personal data
SURNAME	Schütz, Waldemar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schütz, Karl Waldemar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (DRP, NPD), MdL, right-wing extremist book and newspaper publisher
DATE OF BIRTH	October 9, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dausenau
DATE OF DEATH	September 9, 1999
Place of death	Raubling near Rosenheim

[1] Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Second updated edition. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 564, source BA N 1080/272.

[2] Joachim R. Stern, And the West is silent. Experiences, reports, documents about Central Germany 1945–1975 in KW Schütz Verlag, Preußisch Oldendorf 1976, ISBN 3-87725-081-5 ; updated again published as: Jochen Stern: And the West was silent: the SBZ / GDR 1945–1975. Experiences - Reports - Documents in the OEZ-Berlin-Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-942437-22-6 .

[Dudek-Jaschke-250-3] A ^b Peter Dudek, Hans-Gerd Jaschke : Origin and development of right-wing extremism in the Federal Republic. To the tradition of a special culture. Volume 1, Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1984, ISBN 3-531-11668-1 , p. 250.

[4] Dudek, Jaschke, emergence , p. 271.

[5] Karsten Wilke: The mutual aid community (HIAG) 1950–1990. Veterans of the Waffen SS in the Federal Republic . Schöningh, Paderborn / Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-506-77235-0 , p. 84, 143 (also dissertation, Bielefeld University, 2010).