Richard Scheid

Richard Scheid (born on May 11, 1879 in Koblenz ; died on February 19, 1962 in Munich ) was a German author, trade unionist, politician of the USPD and Minister for Military Affairs after the November Revolution in Bavaria in 1919.

Life

Scheid attended school in Koblenz , Oberlahnstein , Ahrweiler and Prüm . He then completed an apprenticeship as a pharmacist and worked for six years as a pharmacist in Karden on the Moselle , Idar , Koblenz, Königsberg , Hanover and Zurich before moving to Munich in 1900 to study art and literary history. In the same year a volume of poetry was published with the title Madonna . In 1901 he tried his hand at publishing a literary magazine. Avalun - A yearbook of new German lyrical word art , in which Scheid's poems were also printed, would not have been of minor significance in terms of literary history if Else Lasker-Schüler had not offered Scheid the poems of her first volume of poetry on the advice of her friend Peter Baum for publication in Avalun . Scheid refused, however, and the volume of poems Styx was published by Axel Juncker in Berlin at the end of 1901 . After the publication of her volume of poetry, the angry poet now confidently wrote to Scheid:

“Noble Avalun Knight!

You have done me a lyric pain! Had already opened up a fairy tale to you about my poetry publication - diploma. Reason and now the withdrawal of my verses. I hate you! I secretly envy you - because of your office - would have liked to have become a soldier - just to beat me with you. - These days my publisher is sending 62 lyric soldiers into the world to defeat you, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia.

Is your Avalun coming in? "

With the 62 lyrical soldiers the 62 poems of the volume Styx were meant. In fact, Avalun magazine was n't even a year old.

In the following years Scheid turned to politics, became a trade unionist, from 1911 municipal representative in Munich City Hall, member of the USPD and, after the November Revolution , a government representative at the Deputy General Command of the I. Bavarian Army Corps in Munich. He reached the climax of his political career in 1919 when he was nominated Minister for Military Affairs in the cabinet of Eisner's successor Martin Segitz after the assassination of Prime Minister Kurt Eisner by the Council Congress . In fact, he was practically the only minister in this cabinet who actually took over the business of government. But only for a good two weeks, namely from March 1 to March 17, 1919.

But after 1933 even a brief activity in a council government was enough to be persecuted by the National Socialists. Scheid was arrested three times and imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp for four years . Some of the poems composed there were included in the anthology De profundis published by Gunter Groll in 1946 .

Works

• Madonna. Poems. Pierson, Dresden 1900.
• as Jakob Andries: The Dream Ship. Love poems. Private print, Munich 1960.
• Poems of Persecution. With a title page by Willi Geiger. Private print by the friends, Munich 1959.

Editor:

• Avalun. A yearbook of new German lyrical word art. Munich 1901, ZDB -ID 282687-2 .

literature

• Petra Ernst: Scheid, Richard. In: Wilhelm Kühlmann (Ed.): Killy Literature Lexicon . Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area. 2., completely revised Ed. De Gruyter, Berlin 2011, vol. 10, p. 284 f.
• Kerstin Decker : My heart - nobody. Propylaea, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-549-07355-1 , pp. 100, 123.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Occasionally, 1876 is mentioned as the year of birth, as in Max Geißler : Guide through German literature of the 20th century. 1913, sv
2. ↑ Quoted from: Decker: My Heart - Nobody. Berlin 2009, p. 123.
3. ^ Johannes Merz: Kabinett Segitz, 1919. In: Historisches Lexikon Bayern , accessed on July 16, 2015.