Paulus Buscher

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Paulus Buscher , according to the death certificate actually Paul Karl Daniel Buscher (born August 26, 1928 in Barmen ; † October 10, 2011 in Koblenz ) was a German artist, author and alliance resistance fighter during the Nazi era . He himself always rejected the term edelweiss pirate , which the Gestapo used as a swear word for him and his group , and felt it was a “stigma”.

Life

In February 1943 he was relegated to school on November 1, 1929 because he was a member of the German Youth Union . From 1942 to 1944 he was held in Gestapo and camp detention several times for sabotaging and fighting HJ and Wehrmacht facilities . His father, co-founder of the SS in Wuppertal at the time , handed him over to the military police at gunpoint. After a few days, Buscher deserted and fought on the Allied side towards the end of the war . In 1946 he studied art for two semesters with Otto Pankok and Otto Coester . From 1947 to 1949 he completed internships, then became an editorial assistant for a newspaper. From 1950 to 1956 Buscher studied art for twelve semesters and became a master student of Jupp Ernst and Wilhelm Wagenfeld . From 1956 to 1991 he ran a studio for fine and applied arts, worked as an architect, designer, photographer, painter and graphic artist for West German and foreign clients.

Buscher was married and had four sons.

Fonts

  • The Helle-Hirsch booklet . = Puls 15 (1987), ISSN  0342-3328
  • The stigma. Verlag Bublies , Koblenz 1988, ISBN 3-926584-01-7
  • Cliques and gangs of resistance parasites . In: Wir Selbst 1 (1988), pp. 16–35 (also as a special edition)
  • Helmut "bright" Hirsch, a young Jew and an alliance artist in the resistance . In: Hinrich Siefken (Hrsg.): Resistance to national socialism: Art and resistance . Iudicium, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-89129-232-5
  • Bright deer. Jew artist dj.1.11 resistance fighter - betrayed murdered - betrayed forgotten . Stone tablet documentation, Bielefeld 1996, ISBN 3-9315-9767-9
  • Bündische Jugend, Bündische activities ... against Gestapist falsifiers of history . Media Consult Buscher, Baden-Baden 2004, ISBN 3-932896-02-5 (CD-Rom)
  • Alliance opposition. The unicorn is an armed horse 1942–2010 . Media Consult Buscher, Baden-Baden 2011, ISBN 978-3-932896-03-3

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personal data
SURNAME Buscher, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist and edelweiss pirate
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Barmen
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 2011
Place of death Koblenz