Kurt Voss (journalist)

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Kurt Voss (also: Kurt Voss , * 15. September 1896 in Hattingen at the Ruhr ; † 7. September 1939 southwest of Piotrkow in Poland ) was a German journalist and NS - editor in chief , which cultural policy especially after the seizure of power as an opponent of the time mainly active in Hanover avant - garde of the 1920s and 1930s.

Life

Born at the time of the German Empire , Kurt Voss volunteered for military service in World War I after graduating from high school in 1914 , during which he was promoted to lieutenant at the age of 19 and last worked as a company commander .

At the time of the Weimar Republic , Voss began studying literary and art history as well as philosophy in 1919 and was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. In the same year the young man in Hanover received the post of editor of the feature pages at the Hannoversche Kurier .

Already in the Roaring Twenties Kurt Voss stood out as a committed critic , soon also as a resolute opponent of the avant-garde art scene in Hanover. In 1931 he rose to head of the features section of the Hannoversche Kurier. In the same year Voss was temporarily secretary of the cultural ring , the organ of various Hanoverian cultural associations. Even more convinced of the possibilities of the " great power broadcasting", Voss, also in 1931, became a co-founder of the broadcasting committee of Nordische Rundfunk AG (NORAG), which operates from Hamburg .

After the seizure of power by the National Socialists in 1933 and the rapid "forced resignation" of the "chief editor" Walther Jänecke , Voss, who joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1933 and adopted its ideology , succeeded Jänecke as chief editor at the Hannoversche Kurier on. Only a few months later, Voss was in August 1933 Head of the department "Artistic literature of Nazi culture monitoring committees of the province of Hannover ." In addition, he became the section leader of the NS- Kampfbund for German culture , he was a co-founder of the Lower Saxony State Theater .

Just a few days after the German invasion of Poland at the beginning of World War II , Kurt Voss fell southwest of the Polish town of Petrikau in early September 1939.

literature

  • Henning Rischbieter : Hannoversches Lesebuch, or: What was written, printed and read in and about Hanover , Vol. 2: 1850 - 1950 , 2nd edition, Hanover: Schlütersche, 1991, ISBN 3-87706-359-4 , pp. 290f .
  • Ines Katenhusen : Art and Politics. Hanover's confrontations with modernity in the Weimar Republic , at the same time a dissertation at the University of Hanover under the title Understanding a time is perhaps best gained from her art , in the series Hanoverian Studies, series of publications by the Hanover City Archives , Volume 5, Hanover: Hahn , 1998, ISBN 3-7752-4955-9 , pp. 511-526 et al.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Hugo Thielen: Voss, Kurt. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 650.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Hugo Thielen : VOSS, Kurt. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 372; Preview over google books
  3. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Jänecke, (2) Walter. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 321; Digitized via Google books
personal data
SURNAME Voss, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Voss, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and nationalist cultural politician in Hanover
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Hattingen on the Ruhr
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 1939
Place of death near Petrikau , Poland