Martin Schwaebe

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Martin Schwaebe

Martin Schwaebe (born May 8, 1911 in Wiesdorf , † 1985 ) was a German editor and politician ( NSDAP ).

Live and act

Schwaebe joined the Nazi movement in the late 1920s. As a “political discovery” Robert Leys came in 1929 as a local editor for the National Socialist newspaper Westdeutscher Beobachter . In 1933 he was promoted to editor-in-chief of the newspaper. In 1934 Schwaebe was appointed chief press officer of the Cologne / Aachen district. He used his position of power to accompany the investigation launched by the Gestapo and the public prosecutor's office in 1935 against 2,500 homosexual priests and monks in the Rhineland with a filth campaign; especially in May 1937, the West German observer opened up almost every day with denouncing headlines. He also wrote a monograph on this.

In 1934 he also took over the management of the Cologne Research Institute for Newspaper Studies : As the managing director of this scientific institution, he decided in the following years on the structure and content of Cologne newspaper studies without being authorized to examine or publish it himself. After Martin Spahn left in 1940, Schwaebe merged the research institute with the Cologne University Institute.

On August 5, 1943, Schwaebe joined the National Socialist Reichstag as a replacement for the resigned MP Konrad Volm , in which he represented constituency 20 (Cologne-Aachen) until the end of Nazi rule in spring 1945.

Fonts

  • The truth about the morality trials , [Cologne]: Westdt. Observer, Gauverl. d. NSDAP, Cologne-Aachen 1937.
  • National Socialist Gaudienst , 1937.

literature

  • E. Kienast (ed.): The Greater German Reichstag 1938, IV. Electoral period, R. v. Decker's Verlag, G. Schenck, June 1943 edition, Berlin

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ralf Georg Reuth: Goebbels. Diaries 1924-1945 , 1992, p. 1012.
  2. ^ Detlev Müller / Jürgen Müller: "sinned on Tuesdays, confessed on Wednesdays". The morality trials against the Catholic Church in the years 1936/37 , in: Cornelia Limpricht, Jürgen Müller, Nina Oxenius: “Seduced Men”. The life of Cologne homosexuals in the Third Reich . Cologne 1991, pp. 76-81
  3. ↑ Stefanie Averbeck: Communication as Process , 1999, p. 114.
personal data
SURNAME Schwaebe, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German editor and politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesdorf
DATE OF DEATH 1985