Paul Schall

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Paul Schall (born June 15, 1898 in Strasbourg , † October 16, 1981 in Karlsruhe ) was an autonomist Alsatian politician and journalist .

Paul Schall

1919–1939: The Alsatian autonomist

The trained technical draftsman became interested in journalism from an early age. From 1918 to 1925 he was editor and caricaturist of the political-satirical weekly D´r Schliffstaan (The Grindstone) and since 1925 editor-in-chief of " Zukunft ", the press organ of the Alsace-Lorraine Home Association . In the paper that appeared up to its banning in 1927, Schall claimed the status of a national minority within the Third French Republic for the inhabitants of Alsace and Lorraine , whose religious, linguistic, cultural and ultimately also political peculiarities were to be respected by the French central government.

Together with Hermann Bickler , Schall took part in the first congress of the right-wing autonomist group Breiz Atao ("Bretagne forever)" in Rosporden on September 11, 1927 . On his initiative, a « Comité des minorités nationales de France » ( Committee of the Minority Peoples of France ) was founded there on September 12, 1927 , which called on Catalan , Breton , Flemish and Corsican autonomists in France to become “separatists” and get away from it France to solve. On September 25, Schall, together with Karl Roos and René Hauss, founded the "Independent State Party for Alsace-Lorraine" (ULP), which called for a broad right of self-determination for Alsace-Lorraine. After the future was initially banned on November 12 , Schall was arrested on December 30, 1927, as were 23 other Autonomists between November 1927 and March 1928. In the subsequent Colmar conspiracy trial on May 24, 1928, Schall was sentenced to 1 year imprisonment and a 5 year residency ban in Alsace for conspiracy against the state security ( atteinte à la sûreté de l'Etat ). However, he was released the following July due to an amnesty , and the court judgments were finally overturned in 1931 by pardoning all the autonomists convicted in Colmar. Between 1928 and 1931, Schall was one of the spokesmen for the Independent State Party . However, he was ousted from this leading position in the following years, first by Karl Roos and later by Hermann Bickler.

In 1939, Schall was arrested, initially imprisoned as one of the Nanziger in Nancy , later relocated to southern France and liberated by German troops in 1940.

1940–1945: The collaborator

When he returned to Alsace, Schall signed the Three Ears Manifesto ( Manifeste des Trois-Épis ). He joined the NSDAP and was appointed deputy editor-in-chief of the “Strasbourg Latest News” and district leader of Molsheim . In 1942, Schall succeeded Hermann Bickler as district leader of Strasbourg. On the occasion of a speech on February 14, 1943, he claimed to have already taken part in National Socialist meetings in Kehl , Offenburg and Freiburg in the 1930s and to have met Adolf Hitler at that time. He supported the politics of Gauleiter Robert Wagner until the end and in 1945 made daily appeals to the Alsatian population from a radio station in Hesse.

After 1945: exile in Germany

On September 4, 1947, Schall was sentenced to death in absentia by a French court (alongside Hermann Bickler , Friedrich Spieser and a few others) for treason. He had fled to Württemberg and finally received German citizenship in 1956 . Until 1970 he was editor-in-chief of the magazine "Der Westen". Paul Schall died in 1981.

Fonts

  • End of democracy? A timely investigation . Neuer Elsässer Verlag, Strasbourg [no year, approx. 1935]
  • Against reaction and Bolshevism. The 10 points of the Autonomous Delegates Day of November 29, 1936 and the speech by editor Paul Schall on the political situation . Strasbourg 1936.
  • Towards the Alsatian front . ELZ publishing house, Strasbourg 1937.
  • Karl Roos and the struggle of the loyal Alsace . Alsatia, Colmar 1941.
  • Two years of National Socialist development in Alsace . Oberrheinischer Gauverlag, Strasbourg undated [env. 1942]
  • Arnold Lauth (pseudonym): Mai's Foreign Pocketbooks No. 23: Strasbourg and Alsace . Volk und Heimat Verlag, Buchenhain 1962.
  • Eamon de Valera and Ireland's struggle for freedom . Zeitbiographischer Verlag, Kreuzweingarten 1964.
  • Arnold Lauth (pseudonym): Brief history of Alsace . Academic Association Kyffhäuser, 1968.
  • Bruno Kray (pseudonym): Europe against, without, with England? Zeitbiographischer Verlag, Kreuzweingarten 1969.
  • Alsace: yesterday, today - and tomorrow? Society of Friends and Supporters of the Erwin-von-Steinbach-Foundation, Filderstadt-Bernhausen 1976.
  • Brief history of Alsace . Erwin von Steinbach Foundation, Frankfurt 1978.
  • Eckartschriften Issue 66: Alsace-Lorraine. Protection Association of the Austrian Landsmannschaft, Vienna 1978.
  • Mystery Ireland. A people in conflict. Arndt-Verlag, Vaterstetten 1979.

In the Soviet zone of occupation were the end of democracy? , Against the Alsatian Front and put Karl Roos and the struggle of the loyal Alsace on the list of literature to be sorted out in 1946 .

literature

  • Lothar Kettenacker: National Socialist Volkstumsppolitik in Alsace . Deutsche Verlagsanstalt , Stuttgart 1973 (Studies on Contemporary History. Published by the Institute for Contemporary History ), ISBN 3-421-01621-6 (also published in French)
  • Karl-Heinz Rothenberger: The Alsace-Lorraine home and autonomy movement between the two world wars . Peter Lang, Frankfurt a. Main 1976 (Europäische Hochschulschriften, 42), ISBN 3-261-01485-7
  • Philip Charles Farwell Bankwitz: Alsatian autonomist leaders 1919-1947 . The Regents Press of Kansas, Lawrence 1978, ISBN 0-7006-0160-0
  • Kurt Hochstuhl: Between Peace and War: Alsace in the years 1938–1940. A contribution to the problems of a border region in times of crisis . Peter Lang, Frankfurt 1984, ISBN 3-8204-8254-7 (European university publications , 250)
  • Christopher J. Fischer: Alsace to the Alsatians? Visions and Divisions of Alsatian Regionalism, 1870-1939 (Studies in Contemporary European History, Vol. 5). Berghahn, New York-Oxford 2010. ISBN 978-1-84545-724-2

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fischer: Alsace to the Alsatians? , Pp. 159-162. Berghahn, New York-Oxford 2010; On the basis of a publication in this paper, Schall was convicted in 1918 by a Strasbourg court for causing public nuisance ( outrages aux bonnes moeurs ). He himself assessed his portrayal as political satire. Philip Charles Farwell Bankwitz: Alsatian autonomist leaders 1919-1947 . The Regents Press of Kansas, Lawrence 1978, p. 16.
  2. ^ Karl-Heinz Rothenberger: The Alsace-Lorraine home and autonomy movement . Peter Lang, Frankfurt / M. 1975. pp. 137-138
  3. ^ Alsace-Lorraine communications . Complete volume 1928. Elsaß-Lothringischer Hilfsbund-Verlag, Berlin. P. 20
  4. ^ Karl-Heinz Rothenberger: The Alsace-Lorraine home and autonomy movement . Peter Lang, Frankfurt / M. 1975, pp. 133, pp. 158-162; Philip Charles Farwell Bankwitz: Alsatian autonomist leaders 1919-1947 . The Regents Press of Kansas, Lawrence 1978, p. 28
  5. ↑ Elsaß-Lothringische Mitteilungen , complete volume 1928, p. 356
  6. ^ Lothar Kettenacker: National Socialist Volkstumsppolitik in Alsace . Deutsche Verlagsanstalt , Stuttgart 1973 (Studies on Contemporary History. Published by the Institute for Contemporary History), p. 287 and p. 315, note 72.
  7. ^ Philip Charles Farwell Bankwitz: Alsatian autonomist leaders 1919-1947 . The Regents Press of Kansas, Lawrence 1978, pp. 104 and 111.
  8. ↑ The West. Bulletin of the Working Group The West, consisting of the Society of Friends and Sponsors of the Erwin-von-Steinbach-Foundation (emerged from the Federation of Elsaesser and Lothringer eV and the Federation of Expellees from Alsace-Lorraine and the Western States eV) and the Erwin-von Steinbach Foundation . Place of publication Bretten 1951ff. ISSN  0179-6100
  9. ↑ named after Erwin von Steinbach , who represents the Strasbourg cathedral as a symbol of Alemannic culture
  10. ^ Austrian edition of History of Alsace in short version
  11. ^ Database font and image 1900-1960
  12. ↑ Rothenberger names oral and written surveys and the like as sources. a. Schalls, Robert Ernsts and Friedrich Spiesers and in several places gives their view of an event as fact without comment
personal data
SURNAME Schall, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Alsatian politician and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1981
Place of death Karlsruhe