Siegfriedkap-Hardenberg

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Siegfried cap-Hardenberg , actually Siegfried cap , (born February 9, 1915 in Hardenberg ; † May 25, 1989 ) was a German journalist and publisher.

Life

Cap-Hardenberg was born as Siegfried cap. In 1948 he added “Hardenberg” to his place of birth.

Cap was a son of Friedrich Wilhelm cap and his wife Emilie, nee Voss. In his youth he attended elementary school for four years and then a high school for nine years, which he left with the Abitur.

In the 1930s, cap began working as a journalist. He found his first employment with the Velberter Zeitung and a newspaper in Düsseldorf . From April 6, 1936 to March 25, 1939, he did military service in the Air Force . On August 31, 1937, ie after the four-year entry ban that came into force in 1933 had expired , he applied for admission to the NSDAP, into which he was admitted to the NSDAP, dating back to May 1, 1937 under the professional title of " Editor " with membership number 4,696,622 has been. In his denazification process, he denied membership in the NSDAP, but declared that he had already been "recorded by party organization" in 1933. He joined the General SS on February 15, 1934 (SS No. 144.344).

On April 1, 1939, cap became editor of the Egerer Zeitung , a German-language daily newspaper that appears in Eger in the Sudetenland.

During the Second World War , from 1940 to 1944, cap was used as a war reporter ("Einsatzführer Wort") in various war reporting companies. There is evidence of reports from the theater of war on the island of Crete in 1941, in which he reported, for example, about the boxer Max Schmeling , who was deployed as a paratrooper in Crete. In 1942, as a member of the PK, he published the article “This is how the model continues to work - The legacy of fighter pilot Werner Mölders ”, which appeared in the magazine Der Adler (No. 25, 1942 of December 8). Furthermore, Kappes deployments in Yugoslavia (1941) and Romania (1944) emerge from the files.

At the end of World War II cap fell into Allied captivity. After his release, he first went into hiding in a village in the Siegerland. He was now called Siegfried K. Hardenberg. In the denazification process that took place there, he described himself as an "actor and writer". The biography submitted by him for the procedure does not contain any references to writing or acting. So far there is no evidence at all.

Cap began working as a freelance journalist again. In 1949 he was hired as editor-in-chief of the Siegen newspaper , which had just been allowed again after the home newspapers were banned . However, he had to give up this position two weeks after taking office. Subsequently he was editor-in-chief of other newspapers and magazines in other places.

On July 1, 1958 ,kap-Hardenberg founded the publishing house blick + bild ( blick + picture, publishing house for political education, S. cap KG ) in Kettwig , whose owner and publishing director he became. In the first years of its existence, the publishing house, which had its headquarters in Velbert by 1968 at the latest, devoted itself to the publication of city and district monographs, local history works and commemorative publications for industry. During his time in Kettwig ,kap-Hardenberg sat for the CDU in the district council of the Düsseldorf-Mettmann district from 1961 to 1964 .

In 1962kap-Hardenberg took over the publishing house for political education Dr. Chamberlain , whom he integrated into his own publishing house. With the Kämmerer publishing house, the publishing rights for the German edition of the documents from Malta and Yalta passed into Kap-Hardenberg's possession. With the acquisition of these rights, an expansion of the publishing program began: in 1964 this was further expanded with the introduction of the paperback series In the center of discussion and the inclusion of fiction and illustrated books.

The documentation of German-language publishers from 1968 and 1974 lists, among others, the following persons as main authors of Kap-Hardenbergs Verlag: Alexander Evertz , Nerin E. Gun , Sven Hassel , Edwin Erich Dwinger , Friedrich Lenz , Henry Picker , Gustav Sichelschmidt , Saint Loup, Erich Stockhorst , Jurij A. Treguboff , Robert Jan Verbelen , Hans Otto Wesemann and Fritz Wiedemann .

A number of the authors who publish in Kap-Hardenbergs Verlag were classified by critics as belonging to the right-wing extremist spectrum. Cap-Hardenberg itself also belonged to the Society for Free Journalism, which the Ministry of Justice assessed as right-wing extremist .

In addition to being a publisher, Kap-Hardenberg was also an author himself. Among other things, he wrote the pamphlet Wohin drives Deutschland? from 1973. He also published the book A Myth is Destroyed about the Spanish Civil War and the air raid on Gernika . Walther L. Bernecker classified it in those "pseudo-historical representations from the right-wing camp" whose main intention was to "relieve the German position as much as possible". It delivers "stereotypical repetitions of scientifically long refuted claims". According to Birgit Aschmann , this book maintains legends and conveys the “old Franco-National Socialist view” of the Spanish Civil War.

Cap-Hardenberg spent the last years of his life in Spain. From there he continued to write for magazines of the German right. For example, on the occasion of the death of Rudolf Hess in 1987, he made two articles in a special issue of the right-wing extremist magazine Nation und Europa . In the article "Rudolf Hess is dead - now he is free" he questioned the legality and legitimacy of the Nuremberg judgment against Hess from 1946: "Victory justice and revenge buried him alive in Spandau [...]". He claimed expressions of solidarity that numerous Spaniards had shown publicly on the occasion of the news of Hess' death. He joined the creation of legends about an "integration figure of many right-wing radicals".

Cap published several political articles in the revisionist Ostpreußenblatt . In 1978, on the occasion of the first anniversary of the death of the writer Frank Thiess, he wrote an extensive article that turned against the " collective guilt thesis ". In 1988 a contribution "The Demon of Yalta" appeared, with which the author also advertised his corresponding book publication.

Publications

  • Men in the background. Tirelessly day and night - this is how the ground personnel of our Air Force work. In: Der Adler from October 1, 1940
  • "The bombs were in the middle of the target. German fighter planes over England - fighters attack us!", In: Junge Welt . A yearbook for our boys. Tales from war and peace, interesting facts from nature and history, occupations, sport and play , Vol. 5 (1941), pp. 94-105
  • Paratroopers on Crete, in: The Nuremberg Calendar Man for 1942 , F. Willmy, Nuremberg 1942
  • PK report by war reporters Helmut Grosse (picture) and Siegfried cap (text): The end of a British tanker - the air force smashes supplies for North Africa. In: Der Adler No. 25 from December 8, 1942
  • The heart of the Brandenburg Sauerland , Dortmund magazine publisher, Dortmund 1953
  • The book of the Altena district , self-published by the Altena district administration in Westphalia, Altena 1953
  • In the wreath of wooded heights. The Siegerland. Monograph of the economic area Siegen, Olpe, Wittgenstein , Dortmunder Zeitschriftenverlag Schinker, Dortmund 1955
  • (together with Erhard Krieger and the Verkehrsverein Velbert eV) Velbert. The industrial city of Niederberg between the Rhine, Ruhr and Wupper , Verlag des Verkehrsverein, Velbert 1956
  • (as editor) Where is Germany going? , Blick und Bild, Velbert 1973
  • A myth is destroyed. The Spanish Civil War, Guernica and anti-German propaganda , Kurt Vowinckel Verlag , Berg am Starnberger See 1987
  • Life for freedom. The German uprising in 1813. 36 documents of the Wars of Independence in facsimile prints; Appeals, edicts, pamphlets, songs and newspapers , Türmer Verlag , Berg am Starnberger See 1989
  • Land between the Ruhr and Lenne. The book of the district and the city of Iserlohn , ed. from the district and city administration of Iserlohn, Dortmunder Zeitschriftenverlag, Dortmund 1954
  • (and others) Rudolf Heß , Nation und Europa - German monthly books , special issue October 1987, Türmer Verlag, Straubing 1987
  • The Yalta Documents: Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin at the Crimean Conference in February 1945; selected documents from July 17, 1944 to June 3, 1945; German edition after the original edition of the American State Department , Druffel-Verlag , Leoni am Starnberger See 1987, which appeared in book form at the beginning of 1956

literature

  • Curt Vinz, Günter Olzog (ed.): Documentation of German-language publishers. Günter Olzog, Munich / Vienna 1968, p. 122f; 13th edition, mi-Redline Wirtschaft, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 978-3-636-03019-1 , ISSN  0931-7538 .
  • Volker Kluge : Max Schmeling. A biography in 15 rounds. Structure, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-351-02570-X , p. 505.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bundesarchiv Berlin: Inventory 3100 (NSDAP central file), index card for Siegfriedkap (currently available as microfilm: 3100 L 27 "Kapp, Edelharda bis Kappeler, Julius").
  2. ↑ Bundesarchiv Berlin: BDC: Reichskulturkammer-Akt (RK) on Siegfried Cap: Application for admission to the Reichsschrifttumskammer from April 17, 1942.
  3. ↑ Bundesarchiv Berlin: inventory 3100 (NSDAP central file), index card for Siegfriedkap (currently available as microfilm L 27) and R 55/236232, p. 60ff. (= Documents of the Reich Ministry of Propaganda on cap).
  4. ↑ Bundesarchiv Berlin: R 55/236232, Bl. 60ff. (= Documents of the Reich Ministry of Propaganda on cap).
  5. ^ "Take your choice of Reports on Maxie", in: San Jose News from May 30, 1941 digitized .
  6. ^ See Siegener Zeitung, November 5, 1949.
  7. ↑ Regional dictionary of persons on National Socialism in the old districts of Siegen and Wittgenstein, article Siegfried cap (-Hardenberg) .
  8. ↑ Regional dictionary of persons on National Socialism in the old districts of Siegen and Wittgenstein, article Siegfried cap (-Hardenberg) .
  9. ↑ Volker Kluge: Max Schmeling. A biography in 15 rounds. , Berlin 2004, p. 505; Documentation by German-language publishers , p. 122.
  10. ↑ See the HP of the CDU Kreis Mettmann: www.kreis-mettmann.de accessed on February 5, 2014 .
  11. ↑ Documentation of German-language publishers, p. 122f.
  12. ↑ So the Federal Ministry of Justice 1993, see: German Bundestag 12th electoral period, printed matter, 12/5758, 23 September 1993, answer of the federal government to the small question of the MP Ulla Jelpke and the group of the PDS / Linke Liste, printed matter 12 / 5606, p. 2, [1] .
  13. ↑ Walther L. Bernecker, The historical processing of the Spanish civil war in (West) German historiography, in: Wolfgang Asholt / Rüdiger Reinecke / Susanne Schlünder (eds.): The Spanish civil war in the GDR . Strategies for intermedial memory formation, Frankfurt 2009, pp. 35–55, here: p. 44.
  14. ↑ Birgit Aschmann: As proud as a Spaniard. Genesis and shape of the German image of Spain in the post-war period . In: Birgit Aschmann / Michael Salewski: The image of "the other": political perception in the 19th and 20th centuries . Franz Steiner Verlag, 2000, p. 98.
  15. ↑ Maik Baumgärtner / Jörg Diehl / Julia Jüttner, Verfassungsschutz and NSU: The enemy is listening in, in: Der Spiegel , see: [2] .
  16. ^ Nation and Europe, special issue, pp. 5f.
  17. ↑ Armin Nolzen on: Paetzold, Kurt / Weissbecker, Manfred: Rudolf Hess. The man at Hitler's side, Leipzig 1999, in: [3] .
  18. ↑ Indispensable Positions, in: Das Ostpreußenblatt, 29 (1978), No. 49, p. 10 .
  19. ↑ Der Ungeist von Yalta, in: Das Ostpreußenblatt, 39 (1988), No. 6, p. 3 .
  20. ↑ Interpreted in: Fernando Esposito : Mythische Moderne. Aviation, fascism and the longing for order in Germany and Italy. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2009, p. 288.
personal data
SURNAME Cap-Hardenberg, Siegfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cap, Siegfried (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Hardenberg
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 1989