Matthias Giljum

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Matthias Giljum (born April 9, 1902 in Elemér ( German  Elemer ), Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary ; † 1980 , São Paulo , Brazil ) was Federal Secretary of the Swabian-German Cultural Association in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia , chairman of the Danube Swabian Landsmannschaft in Upper Austria and editor-in-chief the Brasil-Post , a German-language newspaper in Brazil.

Life

Giljum was born in 1902 as the fifth child of Danube Swabian parents. His father Michael Giljum ran a small farm with his mother Barbara (née Neuhaus). He attended grammar school and the commercial academy in Zrenjanin (German Großbetschkerek ) and studied from 1921 at the University of World Trade and Philosophy in Vienna . When he returned to the Banat , he initially worked for the German cooperative association of Novi Sad (German Neusatz ) and Apatin. In 1932 he became Federal Secretary of the Swabian-German Cultural Association, which he expanded between 1932 and 1938 into a comprehensive cultural community organization of the Yugoslav Germans . Giljum was the editor in charge of the educational monthly Our School and worked on the cultural magazine Volkswart .

When the innovators , captured by the National Socialists, returned to the Kulturbund in 1939, they exerted heavy pressure on President Johann Keks and Giljum, under whom they resigned from their offices in August 1939. Sepp Janko became the new president of the movement. In October 1939 Giljum took over the management of the German School Foundation , which endeavored to expand the German school system in Yugoslavia. After the German invasion of Yugoslavia , the organization expanded to Hungary, for which he moved to Budapest in 1942 . In the winter of 1944, he fled the approaching eastern front to Linz in Austria .

After the Second World War , Giljum was chairman of the Danube Swabian Landsmannschaft of Danube Swabians in Upper Austria until September 2, 1951 . He was succeeded by Fritz Klingler as chairman and Hans Moser as managing director. From there, Giljum emigrated to Brazil in 1951, where he first worked for the Leopoldina publishing house . In 1961 he took over the management and, together with Klaus Dormien, the editing of Brasil-Post , a German-language weekly newspaper in Brazil. He left his typewritten memories on Danube Swabia in a different way , which remained unpublished.

Remarks


Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Marius Turda: The History of East-Central European Eugenics, 1900-1945: Sources and Commentaries. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015. ISBN 1-47253-136-1 , pp. 357f.
  2. ↑ Marco Leitl, Rudolf Müller: Family book of the Catholic parish Deutsch-Elemer in the Banat and its branches. 1790-1944. 2007, ISBN 3-83701-286-7 , p. 142.
  3. ↑ a b c Giljum, Matthias . In: East German Biography (Kulturportal West-Ost)
  4. ^ Marius Turda: The History of East-Central European Eugenics, 1900-1945: Sources and Commentaries. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015. ISBN 1-47253-136-1 , p. 524
  5. ^ Oskar field dancer , Georg Wildmann : From the early history of the Danube Swabian country team in Upper Austria .
  6. ↑ Ursula and Klaus Dormien: Brasil-Post. Profile and history.
personal data
SURNAME Giljum, Matthias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Giljum, Matz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Association official, editor-in-chief
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Elemér , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH 1980
Place of death São Paulo , Brazil