Louis Satow

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Louis Franz August Satow (born June 20, 1880 in Lübeck ; † May 27, 1968 in Hamburg ) was a German educator , publicist and publisher .

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Louis Satow was born in Lübeck, where he completed the teachers' seminar from 1897 to 1900 and passed the first state examination. From 1902 he worked there as an assistant teacher at a school for the deaf and mute, but moved to Hamburg, where he passed the second state examination in 1904. In the same year he received the special qualification for teaching speech and hearing impaired people in Berlin . In Hamburg he was given a position as a lifelong civil servant at the school for the deaf and mute on Bürgerweide.

In the decades that followed, Satow was involved in several left-wing workers' organizations that were considered reform-oriented and free-thinking. In the beginning he gave lectures at events for employees in the Berlin association Neue Frei Volksbühne under the chairmanship of Bruno Wille and wrote for the first time contributions for the monthly association publication "Die Kunst dem Volke". Before the outbreak of the First World War , he joined the Altona local branch of the DFG . Secured financially by the apprenticeship, Satow campaigned increasingly for the peace movement during the war, but their efforts were unsuccessful. In 1930 he took over the chairmanship of the North German Working Group of the DFG after Friedrich Bloh , which had around 30,000 members in 300 local groups. In addition, Satow supported the German Monist Association .

Satow, who had been a member of the SPD since 1918 , resigned from the party in 1931 due to an incompatibility resolution against the DFG. After the seizure of power , the police authorities reported the educators to the school authorities for an "anti-state attitude". In September 1933, he had to retire on the basis of the law to restore the civil service with half pension. For tactical reasons, he joined the National Socialist teachers' association , from which he was expelled in 1934. He was banned from working as a writer.

Satow acted as the spokesman for the Free Religious Community of Hamburg, against which a ban was pronounced in 1935 on the basis of “illegal political machinations”. Together with his friend and patron, the dentist Theodor Hambroer , located Satow committed over the Freemasons to the rising sun in the White Rose Hamburg . Because of the illegal activity, the Gestapo repeatedly questioned Satow. After the end of the Second World War , he was not given a new apprenticeship position due to age. He made requests for redress for political persecution that were not fully complied with.

In 1947 Satow founded the Hamburg culture publisher Satow , which published books by Hans Fülster , Wilhelm Lamszus , Otto Lehmann-Rußbüldt and Erich Lüth . His friend Max Zelck , who headed the youth welfare office in Hamburg, made contact with the Jugendweihe working group , which published its periodicals at Satow. Satow wrote some new small contributions for the works or used texts that had already been written. He also participated in the newly founded Monistenbund, which he could not reactivate in Hamburg.

Works

As an author, Satow wrote several works. His anthology, The Holy Earth , published for the first time in 1912 and containing forewords by Otto Ernst , was published in ten editions by 1924. In 1919 Satow published the series Culture and Time Issues for the first time . The book series was published by Ernst Oldenburg Verlag in Berlin and had authors such as Albert Görland , Helene Stöcker and Gertrud Woker . In 1923 he operates as editor of the monthly "Let there be light! Sheets for humanity, freedom and progress" (published from 1870 to 1927). The most important own work Hypnotismus und Suggestion. Cultural psychological considerations was published in 1923 in German and English. The author did not describe any new theories on mass psychology. Based on existing theories of Gustave Le Bon and other psychologists, he presented in a generally understandable, clear and urgent manner that he considered current developments in economics and politics and the First World War to be dangerous and irrational.

From 1941 to 1945 Satow worked as a legally independent commercial writer. During this time he revised a literary catalog written in 1936 for work libraries . After the end of the war he published the issues of culture and time in his own publishing house .

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SURNAME Satow, Louis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Satow, Louis Franz August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pedagogue, publicist and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 1968
Place of death Hamburg