Margarete Dierks

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Margarete Dierks , née Nax, (born March 7, 1914 in Metz- Sablon; † July 15, 2010 in Darmstadt ) was an anti-Semitic poet, journalist and biographer who was caught up in the ideology of National Socialism .

biography

Before 1945

After attending the Queen Luise School in Wilhelmshaven and the Sophia School in Hanover , Dierks passed the school leaving examination in 1933. She resigned from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in 1932 and joined the Ludendorffschen Tannenbergbund , for which she appeared as a speaker.

From 1933 she studied history, German and philosophy, first in Göttingen, then in Rostock from the summer semester of 1934. In 1937 she became a member of the Association for German God Knowledge . In 1938 she published the book Home to German Celebrations in the German Revolution publishing house and dedicated it to “the German clan!”.

In 1938 she received her doctorate at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Rostock with the topic The Prussian Old Conservatives and the Jewish Question 1810/1847 . In her work, which was positively discussed by the anti-Semitic magazine Weltkampf , she presented Jewish emancipation and the “ Jewish question ” from a national perspective .

On April 1, 1940, she was admitted to the NSDAP (membership number 8.004.469).

After 1945

After the end of the war, Dierks was interned for 2½ years and denazified in 1948 . In the 1950s she entered into correspondence with National Socialists and representatives of the emerging New Right such as B. Hans Grimm , in whose Lippoldsberg Poet Days she regularly participated, and was to be found in Unitarian circles.

Dierks had also worked as a freelance journalist for the Darmstädter Tagblatt , which was discontinued in 1986, since the 1950s and regularly published Reality and Truth in the newspaper published by the Free Academy Association .

In 1986 the Lambert Schneider publishing house published her biography on Jakob Wilhelm Hauer , which was written from the religious perspective of the German Unitarians and with the claim to acquit Hauer of the charge of involvement in National Socialism.

In 1989 she published the autobiographical book Jugend in Schlesien by Ilse Langner , with whom she had been friends for several years and which she had entrusted with organizing her life's work in the 1970s and 1980s.

There was a scandal in the middle of 2000. Dierks was u. a. was invited by the Lord Mayor of Darmstadt, Peter Benz, to an event in the Darmstadt house of the German Academy for Language and Poetry , against which several left-wing groups protested; There were arguments in the Darmstadt city council. Eventually the event was canceled.

Margarete Dierks died on July 15, 2010 in Darmstadt. Her burial took place at sea .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Prussian old conservatives and the Jewish question 1810/1847 , Rostock 1939.
  • The narrative attitude as a design principle , Göttingen 1997.
  • Gift of friend , Göttingen 1997.
  • ... because it is completely natural , Darmstadt 1996.
  • Lichtwandel , Darmstadt: Justus-von-Liebig 1994.
  • (Ed.): Educated without being learned , Darmstadt 1991.
  • They went ahead , Darmstadt 1990.
  • Fewer and fewer words , Darmstadt 1986.
  • Jakob Wilhelm Hauer , Heidelberg 1986.
  • In the Odenwald, landscape and people in the work of the painter Johannes Lippmann , Fischbachtal / Odw. 1985.
  • Children's Worlds , Weinheim 1985.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Connoisseur of children's books. Obituary: Margarete Dierks was a poet, journalist and biographer - www.echo-online.de ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ A b Karla Poewe: New Religions and the Nazis . Routledge, New York / London 2006, p. 19.
  3. ↑ Horst Junginger: From the Philological to the Volkish Religious Studies . Franz Steiner Verlag , Stuttgart 1999, p. 190.
  4. ^ Karla Poewe: Liberalism, German Missionaries and National Socialism. In: Ulrich vander Heyden (ed.), Holger Stoecker (ed.): Mission and power in the change of political orientations. Franz Steiner Verlag, 2005, p. 649.
  5. ↑ Horst Junginger: From the Philological to the Volkish Religious Studies . Franz Steiner Verlag , Stuttgart 1999, p. 7.
  6. ↑ Monika Melchert: The playwright Ilse Langner . Trafo, Berlin 2002, p. 167.
personal data
SURNAME Dierks, Margarete
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Metz
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 2010
Place of death Darmstadt