Siedlinghauser district

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The Siedlinghauser Kreis was initiated by the country doctor Franz Schranz (* 1894 in Bad Wurzach , † 1961 in Siedlinghausen ), who moved to the small village of Siedlinghausen near Winterberg in 1921 . It was a kind of private circle that had a certain influence on the social science discussion throughout Germany. The Circle of Friends met in Siedlinghausen for the purpose of scientific, political and artistic conversation without fixed rules or appointments.

The trend, largely influenced by constitutional lawyer Carl Schmitt , welcomed the majority of the fall of the Weimar Republic in 1933 and hoped for an authoritarian Christian state. As the dictatorship progressed, tensions within the circle also increased, with deep rifts opening up on political grounds between supporters and opponents of the regime. In the period from 1939 to 1945 it was a little quieter in the Schranz house. After the end of the war, the circle of friends revived. Other illustrious friends met for the first time in Siedlinghausen. Only in 1961, with the death of Franz Schranz, the circle dissolved.

In the spring of 1931 Schranz got to know the constitutional lawyer Carl Schmitt, who taught in Berlin, through the theology professor Paul Simon , a relative of the Siedlinghausen artist Eugen Senge-Platten . A little later, Schmitt accepted an invitation to Siedlinghausen for the first time. There began a friendship that lasted lifelong. The contact to the poet Konrad Weiß came about through Schmitt.

Famous lawyers, painters, musicians, writers, philosophers and local politicians belonged to Franz Schranz's circle of friends. From 1933 to 1961, among others, Carl Schmitt, Albert Mirgeler , Ernst Jünger , Friedrich Georg Jünger , Josef Pieper , Karl Caspar , Maria Caspar-Filser , Armin Mohler , Fritz Neumeyer , Ernst met in Siedlinghausen in the Schranz house and the Senge-Platten studio Niekisch , Jost Trier , August Wenzinger , Friedhelm Kemp , Konrad Weiß and Franz Hengsbach .

Schranz, who was interested in literature and worked as a writer himself, was close friends with Konrad Weiß and his neighbor Eugen Senge-Platten. He also supported both financially. The friends went on several cultural trips together. The experiences of the trips were published in Konrad Weiß 'travel book Deutschlands Morgenspiegel .

On September 17, 2011, the Siedlinghauser Kreis memorial was inaugurated at the Siedlinghausen cemetery .

literature

  • Ulrich Fröschle : Friedrich Georg Jünger (1898-1977) . Annotated directory of his writings, p. 27 ff. Deutsche Schillergesellschaft, 1998, ISBN 3929146886
  • Armin Mohler , Carl Schmitt : Carl Schmitt - correspondence with one of his students , p. 98 ff. , Akademie-Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3050027738
  • Alexander Jaser, Ingeborg Villinger (eds.): Correspondence between Gretha Jünger and Carl Schmitt 1934 - 1953 , p. 84 , Akademie-Verlag, 2007, ISBN 305004294X
  • Egon Peifer: Eugen Senge-Platten , Schmallenberger Sauerland, Almanach 1990, pp. 193-216, Schieferbergbau-Museum Schmallenberg-Holthausen
  • Josef Pieper : Autobiographical Writings , Volume 10 (Supplementary Volume 2), p. 182 , Meiner Felix Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3787316493
  • Sauerländer Heimatbund (Ed.): The doctor Dr. Karl Schranz and the "Siedlinghauser Kreis" in Sauerland 2/2005, p. 76 (PDF; 5.6 MB)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Volker Jakob: The illustrious friends of Dr. Schranz (PDF; 185 kB)
  2. ↑ Franz Mickus: A place of remembrance for the "Siedlinghauser circle". Sauerland 2011/3: 188–190.