Walter Paul Kettel

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Walter O. Paul Kettel , also Paul Karl Hornschu (born March 5, 1899 in Weimar , Thuringia ; † January 4, 1977 in Hamburg-Volksdorf ) was a teacher, independent entrepreneur for the advertising agency Kettel and Mohr in Hamburg, as well as a publicist and author of numerous children's , Homeland and specialist books.

Life

Walter Otto Paul Kettel was born in 1899 as the son of the city garden inspector Franz Kettel and his wife Lina. Schmidt was born in Weimar. His grandfather Carl Kettel was a co-founder and chairman of the SPD Thuringia .

After completing the Weimar elementary school (Herderschule), he attended the secondary school in Weimar. In 1912 he joined the Jungdeutschland-Bund and in 1915 he moved to the fourth grade of the teachers' college. In 1917 he was called up for military service. After the war he resumed teacher training in 1918 and in 1919 he started teaching in Weimar. In the following years numerous activities in the youth movement of that time . In 1919 he was a co-founder of the Freedom Association for Human Culture . In 1920, after making the acquaintance of Friedrich Muck-Lamberty , he was a co-founder and leader of the Neue Schar Weimar . In 1921 he married Marie Rost, a teacher without office, who was also an active member of the Weimar New Group . In the same year he switched to the Fernbreitenbach elementary school . 1922 Transfer from the SPD to the USPD Fernbreitenbach by the end of 1924, after fundamental differences of opinion with the local population, political and educational content, transfer to Apolda at his own initiative . 1925 first chairman of the non-profit garden city settlement Apolda GmbH . In addition to his school activities from 1926 to 1929, he carried out the building project for the Apolda garden town. 1930 Transfer to the staff of the newly built "Bergschule" Apolda. 1933 Dismissed from civil service by the Reich Governor of Thuringia Fritz Sauckel .

As a result, his passion, writing, contributed more and more to the livelihood of the family, which had grown to five people through the birth of two sons and a daughter. The first book projects as well as various articles and picture contributions for the press and radio emerged. By working on the book: Battle for the Sea of ​​Air , he finally got to know Ernst Heinkel . He employed him in his Rostock plant in 1938, where he took over the management of the press and propaganda department in autumn 1938. Soon, however, his political past caught up with him, and Ernst Heinkel's attempts to hold onto him were unsuccessful. Paul Kettel had to leave the Heinkelwerke. He found a new field of activity in the advertising department of the Großeinkaufsgesellschaft Deutscher Consumvereine Hamburg, as head of the GEG news service department. In 1945 he founded the Kettelwerbung GmbH, which he later became the M. u. K.-Verlag für Marketing GmbH followed. On November 10, 1961, he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon for his decisive contribution to the development of the “Hamburg Advertising School” .

Fonts

  • with Fritz Scheffel: The trip to parsley and other puppet pieces . Knabe Verlag, Weimar 1934
  • Kasperl cheap. A puppet theater and what goes with it . Knabe Verlag Weimar 1934.
  • We Thuringians (= German People, Volume 7). Edwin Runge, Berlin 1935.
  • Schlumm flies to America Thienemann, Stuttgart 1935.
  • There is a fire in Burgheim . Illustrations by M. Wulff. Enßlin & Laiblin, Reutlingen 1935.
  • Wife cunning and loyalty to women in the German Middle Ages . (Pseudonym Karl Paul Hornschu) Weimarer Druck und Verlagsanstalt, Knabe Verlag Weimar 1935. (Only a few copies received after printing, at the behest of the Reichsschrifttumskammer , the entire edition forbidden and destroyed.)
  • The cave gang from Oberwiesenbach . Images v. Richard Sapper. Enßlin & Laiblin publishing bookstore, Reutlingen 1936.
  • Two storm into happiness . Ensslin & Laiblin, 1936.
  • German house industry . Craftsmen, also professions that have died out, in words and pictures. Leipzig, Bibliographical Institute 1936.
  • Märten builds automobiles. A book about the development and nature of modern automobile construction . Enßlin & Laiblin, Reutlingen, 1937 (book for young people, describes the apprenticeship training in a car factory (Opel) in narrative form).
  • Battle for the sea of ​​air. History of aviation from the beginnings to the present in contemporary reports and documents . The cultural-historical document books Ebenhausen, Langewiesche-Brandt, 1937.
  • The boys from the Lindenhof . With pictures by M. Wulff. Ensslin & Laiblin, 1937.
  • Comradeship of the air. Festschrift on the occasion of the fiftieth birthday of Dr.-Ing.EH, Dr. Phil.HC Ernst Heinkel, with drawings and tables by Ernst Udet , Paul Kettel, Peter Supf , and Heinz Orlovius, Wiking Verlag Berlin . 1938.
  • Advertising bridges national borders . Advertising verb Hamburg / Schleswig-Holstein, 1951.
  • Hamburg commercial advertising . Advertising Association, 1952.
  • Advertising in the light of criticism . Kulturbuch-Verlag, 1953.
  • Advertising planning. Advertising knowledge - advertising practice. I . Kulturbuch-Verlag, 1954.
  • Spread advertising material successfully . Kulturbuch-Verlag, 1957.
  • with Paul Quensel: cheerful and contemplative stories . Publisher DR.L. Nonnes-Erben, 1963.
  • with Alf Schreyer: The Hamburg forest villages and the neighboring Stormarn . M u. K-Verlag, 1968.
  • with Alfred Pohlmann and Alf Schreyer: Experienced Alster landscape . M u. K Hansa-Verlag, 1969.
  • Experienced romantic Holstein. Forays back and forth through Ostholstein . M u. K Hansa-Verlag, Hamburg 1970.
  • Bergstedt. The 850 year history of a parish village . M u. K Hansa-Verlag, Hamburg 1973.
  • Upper Alster Nature Park. Local recreation gem in north-east Hamburg . MuK Hansa, Hamburg 1976.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical data of Walter Otto Paul Kettel in: Root princesses, detectives and a youth library full of adventure. The history of the Gebrüder Knabe Verlag Weimar .: Book accompanying the exhibition in the Weimar City Museum (November 28 , 2009 - February 14, 2010) , by Jens Kirsten, Knabe Verlag Weimar, 2009, page 140
  2. ↑ Office of the Federal President
  3. ↑ Entry in dnb: Weibeslist and woman loyalty in the German Middle Ages: 100 Kurzweil. Stories v. clever u. foolish, loyal and vicious women and Men, citizens, etc. Farmers, knights, etc. Priests; According to German poet d. 11-15 Century redesigned; Vol. 1 / Paul Karl Hornschu. Weimarer Druck- u. Verl. Anst, Weimar 1935 ( dnb.de [accessed January 7, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Kettel, Walter Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kettel, Walter Otto Paul (maiden name); Hornschu, Paul Karl (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publicist and author of numerous children's, homeland and specialist books
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar
DATE OF DEATH 4th January 1977
Place of death Hamburg-Volksdorf