Klaus Eck (journalist)

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Klaus Eck , also Nikolaus Eck , (born November 8, 1881 in Tölz , † May 21, 1929 in Munich ) was a German journalist and publisher . He was best known as the editor of the Miesbacher Anzeiger , who from 1919 to 1921 enabled Ludwig Thoma to publish anti-Semitic and anti-socialist texts anonymously.

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Klaus Eck was born on November 8th, 1881 in the (then market ) Tölz as the son of Klaus and Ursula Eck. He grew up in Festenbach (today the municipality of Gmund ); his father is said to have been the ducal master brewer, if one can follow the obituary of the Munich-Augsburger Abendzeitung .

Klaus Eck was brought up "at Schwaiger in Schaftlach"; he was supposed to work as a farmhand in a farm. However, his ability to write in writing soon seemed to have emerged, so that he was hired as a volunteer at the "Oberbaÿerischen Gebirgsboten" of Ernst Vogler (Holzkirchen) . From 1906 he worked for Miesbacher Anzeiger, which he took over from March 1919 to July 1922 as a leaseholder and also chief editor.

On August 7, 1907, Klaus Eck married Maria Hilgnrainer from Waakirchen in Schaftlach. A total of eleven children were born from this marriage.

In the course of the first Soviet republic in Munich, Eck was arrested by Red Guards in Miesbach on April 21, 1919 (Easter Monday), released again and arrested again the following day because he had written an article "Lache Bajazzo" in the Miesbacher Anzeiger, which was subject to censorship fell victim. Eck was brought to Munich with the Red Guard Ernst Lacher, but there he was acquitted by a revolutionary tribunal after two days in custody. By order of Rudolf Eg (e) lhofer , the 23-year-old city commander and commander of the “Red Army” of Munich, he was sent back to Miesbach together with Lacher and 30 soldiers with the order to disempower the 80 Red Guards who were there but did not succeed. He put these experiences down in the booklet “The Spartakl Rule in the Bavarian Oberland”.

In the period that followed, Eck shaped the Miesbacher Anzeiger into a right-wing propaganda journal by giving authors such as Ludwig Thoma , Bernhard Stempfle and Dietrich Eckart the opportunity to publish anti-Semitic and anti-socialist articles under pseudonyms; some of these articles came from himself. The Miesbach pharmacist Fritz Salzberger kept the connection with Ludwig Thoma. The authorship of Ludwig Thomas was suspected by many, but was not disclosed by Eck in various lawsuits, always claiming that these articles were written by himself. The Miesbacher Anzeiger experienced a strong increase in circulation under Eck; he was even known across the empire. In July 1922, however, the publisher's owner, Creszentia Mayr, separated from Eck.

After November 9, 1923 (the suppression of Hitler's attempted coup ), the “ Völkischer Beobachter ” (VB), the NSDAP's fighting newspaper since December 18, 1920 , was also banned. In the spring of 1923, however, two rotary printing machines were purchased for the VB in order to be able to print the VB in large format and as a daily newspaper. The printing took place in the Munich book trade house M. Müller & Sohn , at that time already owned by Adolf Müller . These printing machines were no longer fully utilized, which is why Adolf Müller (as publisher) and Klaus Eck (as editor) came up with the idea of ​​creating a jacket newspaper with local editions for the Munich area. The first of these newspapers (first edition on November 29, 1923) was "Der Oberbayerische Gebirgs = Bote", which was created through the almost unchanged takeover of the previous head from the "Oberbaÿerischen Gebirgsboten". After taking over or setting up new local newspapers, these were combined to form the “Bavarian newspaper block”. The character of the common part of the jacket, produced in the book trade, was no longer anti-Semitic / anti-socialist from the start, but rather close to the Bavarian People's Party , i.e. Christian conservative, anti-Bolshevik and skeptical of the emerging National Socialists. This is all the more astonishing as all the books and magazines of the National Socialist publisher Franz Eher Nachhaben were printed in the book trade building .

The “Bavarian Newspaper Block” was a great success; Eck was even able to establish a Miesbacher Zeitung in 1924 and then take over the Miesbacher Anzeiger in 1929 , the name of which then only appeared in the subtitle. When Eck died in May 1929, the newspaper block covered an area from the Ammersee to the Chiemsee and from the Hallertau to the Karwendel . From January 1, 1928, every weekend in all editions there was a page “White-blue gallows humor”, which, in addition to short stories, always showed one or more caricatures by the painter Emil Kneiß . This page was also taken over by other publishers such as Otto Morsak for the Grafenauer Anzeiger .

Eck died on May 21, 1929 after an operation; he left his wife Maria with eleven children - the youngest was just six years old. Eck's funeral brought together a "seemingly endless procession of mourners", in whose ranks there were members of the state and district councils, mayors, representatives of peasant professional organizations and numerous delegations from traditional costume associations in the Oberland.

Works

  • The Spartakl rule in Bavaria. Oberland Miesbach around 1920
  • Excerpts from the Miesbacher Anzeiger: Collected essays with serious, cheerful, satyrical and similar content. Published by the publishing house of Miesbacher Anzeiger under the editorship of Klaus Eck Miesbach in 1921
  • The most fragrant from the Miesbacher Anzeiger: collected essays serious, cheerful, satyrical and similar content Miesbach 1921
  • What a mess !: Old Bavarian from the darkest times of the system (Ed. By Dr. Wilhelm v. Kloeber) K. Röhrig Verlag Munich 1938 Illustrations by Eduard Thöny

literature

  • Volkert, Wilhelm: All articles from the Miesbacher Anzeiger 1920/21. Piper Munich [u. a.] 1989 ISBN 978-3492032766
  • Kirmayer, Sieglinde: The "Miesbacher Anzeiger" - Heimat- und Kampfblatt 1874 - 1950. (Typescript: Dissertation)
  • In short, Hermann: The Buzi painter, life and work of Emil Kneiß (1867–1956). Volkverlag Munich 2018 ISBN 978-3-86222-266-7
  • Without an author: Müller Adolf: His work and work up to the age of fifty. Munich 1938
  • Hanfstaengl, Ernst: 15 years with Hitler: Between the White and the Brown House. Piper Munich [u. a.] 1970

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Death of Klaus Eck in the mirror of the press. Retrieved April 15, 2020 .
  2. ^ Information from the Miesbach City Archives from April 2, 2020
  3. ↑ Langheiter, Alexander: 900 years Miesbach: History & Culture Guide . Maurus-Verlag, Miesbach 2013, p. 265 .
  4. ^ Resident registration card for Klaus and Maria Eck; Sent by the Munich City Archives on December 17, 2019 Signature: DE-1992-EWK 76 / E 12
  5. ↑ www.historisches-lexikon-bayerns.de
  6. ^ Report on Stresemann's appearance in Munich. Retrieved April 14, 2020 .
  7. ↑ White-blue gallows humor January 1, 1928. Retrieved April 23, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Eck, Klaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eck, Nikolaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Toelz
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1929
Place of death Munich