Kurt Koelsch

Kurt Kölsch (born June 10, 1904 in Kaiserslautern , † July 29, 1968 in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse ) was a German politician of the NSDAP and a writer. He was the Gau culture warden of the Gau Westmark .

Life

Kölsch was trained at the teacher training institute in Kaiserslautern under Ernst Christmann and passed his state examination in 1924. In his youth he was first in the DVP , then active in the national movement . There he was involved in the Völkisch Block . As a teacher in the Palatinate, he became acquainted with Josef Bürckel , who introduced him to the NSDAP -Rheinpfalz and the National Socialist teachers' association in 1930 . In December he was appointed head of the Race and Culture Department by Bürckel.

He was involved in the NSZ Rheinfront and was the author of the Völkischer Beobachter . He also worked as a poet; was chairman of the Literary Association of the Palatinate . He rose quickly and was given a leave of absence from the teaching post in order to act as cultural supervisor. He was responsible for the Kampfbund for German Culture , the Reich Association of German Stage , the Nazi cultural community , Kraft durch Freude and the Reich Chamber of Culture . He also became editor of the magazine Die Westmark .

In addition, he was a consultant at the Saar Palatinate regional office of the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda , head of the Combat League for German Culture of the Westmark, chairman of the Saar Palatinate People's Education Association , regional leader of the Volksbund for Germanism abroad and regional director of the Reich Chamber of Literature .

After the Second World War he first worked as a Wingert contactor , but was then hired again as a teacher. In addition, he worked as a writer who had primarily devoted himself to dialect . He was also active as a local SPD politician.

Honourings and prices

• Kurt Faber Prize 1944
• Palatinate dialect poet contest 1964

Works (selection)

• with Rupert Rupp (Hrsg.): Voice of the Westmark: A selection of Palatinate-Saarland poetry. NSZ-Verlag, Neustadt ad Haardt 1934.
• Praise of the homeland: poems. Hausen Publishing Company, Saarlouis 1935.
• Games and calls . Hausen Publishing Company, Saarlouis 1936.
• The Trifels: Ballads . Hausen Publishing Company, Saarlautern 1938.
• Galicia Germans Homecoming: A Diary . Westmark-Verlag, Neustadt 1940.
• Creative Westmark: speeches, essays, poems . Westmark-Verlag, Neustadt 1940.
• Exit and return home: poems and ballads . Kraft, Karlsbad / Leipzig 1942.
• In the middle of the war . Publishing house Deutsche Volksbücher, Stuttgart 1944.
• Constellation of the Lyre. Poems from 7 years . Kessler-Verlag, Mannheim 1954.
• Pälzer Bauregaarte: The dialect poems of Peter Luginsland . Hünenburg-Verlag, Stuttgart 1956.
• with Oskar Bischoff: Pälzer Hausschadull: Poems in dialect . The literary association of the Palatinate, Landau 1963.
• The green cantor: poems from the last decade . Palatinate publishing house, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1968.

literature

• Wolfgang Freund: People, Empire and Western Frontier. German studies and politics in the Palatinate, Saarland and annexed Lorraine 1925–1945 (=  publications of the Commission for Saarland State History and Folk Research . No. 39 ). Commission for Saarland State History and Folk Research, Saarbrücken 2006, ISBN 3-939150-00-2 , p. 183-184 .
• 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. ^ Matthias Martin Becker: "565 Proleten in die Luft": The national revolution marches through Ludwigshafen. Textarbeit.net, accessed on September 29, 2012 (1994–1996). 
2. ↑ Helga Strallhofer-Mitterbauer: Nazi literature prices of Austrian authors . Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-205-98204-5 , p. 86 .