Robert von Radetzky
Robert Wilhelm von Radetzky (born October 11, 1899 in Moscow , † October 27, 1989 in Berlin ) was a German poet and politician ( CDU ).
Life
Von Radetzky was the son of a German-Baltic family who emigrated to Brussels in 1905 . He was married to Else Raddatz († 1992). The couple had two children, Helga and Edgar.
Von Radetzky graduated from the German school in Brussels. He went to Riga at the end of 1918 and took part in the Russian Civil War in the Baltic State Army . As early as January 1919 he was captured by the Red Army and brought before a criminal tribunal in Velikiye Luki . After his release from prison in 1921, he moved to Berlin in 1923, where he had contacts with anarchist circles, including Erich Mühsam . He published his first novel On the Edge of the Sidewalk in 1932 in the anarchist guild of libertarian book lovers . During the time of National Socialism he studied economics in Berlin and turned to Christianity . Radetzky took part in the resistance against National Socialism. He belonged to the Red Shock Troop group and acted there, for example, as a distributor of the newspaper of the same name.
In 1945 he became a member of the CDU in Berlin-Britz. Among other things, he worked as a press officer in the German Central Administration for Health Care in the Soviet Zone of Occupation. He became a Neukölln City Councilor for Education and a member of the Berlin House of Representatives . Von Radetzky is a co-founder of the Free University .
Works (selection)
He wrote numerous volumes of poetry after 1945 and translated from Russian and French.
- To the dead friends. Baden-Baden, Minerva (1947)
- The poet's stage. (1947, as editor)
- Salt and bread. (1957)
- Under the seal of the sundial. (1960)
- Equinoxes. Berlin Colloquium (1963)
- Flowing track. (1967)
- River under the ice. (1978)
- Before the wheel breaks. (1982)
- In the end. St. Michael, Bläschke, (1980)
- Silver rope and golden bowl. (1986)
- Down from the bird's flight. (1987)
literature
- Dennis Egginger-Gonzalez: The Red Assault Troop. An early left-wing socialist resistance group against National Socialism. Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3867322744 , pp. 368, 463, 482f., 504 [book also contains a short biography].
- Werner Breunig, Siegfried Heimann , Andreas Herbst : Biographical Handbook of Berlin City Councilors and Members of Parliament 1946–1963 (= series of publications by the Berlin State Archives . Volume 14 ). Landesarchiv Berlin , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9803303-4-3 , p. 213 (331 pages).
- Wilhelm Bortenschlager : History of the spiritual poetry , Verlag Bläschke, 1977, ISBN 3-87561-596-4 , page 119 ff
- Carola L. Gottzmann , Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . De Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019338-1 , p. 1044 f .
Web links
- Literature by and about Robert von Radetzky in the catalog of the German National Library
- Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Robert Wilhelm von Radetzky. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Radetzky, Robert von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Radetzky, Robert Wilhelm von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German poet and politician (CDU), MdA |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 11, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 27, 1989 |
| Place of death | Berlin |