Wilhelm Diess

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Wilhelm Diess (Wilhelm Dieß) (born June 25, 1884 in Bad Höhenstadt , Lower Bavaria , † September 13, 1957 in Munich ) was a German narrator, lawyer and theater director.

Life

Wilhelm Diess was born as the son of an elementary school teacher and attended the Royal High School in Passau . He then studied law in Munich, where he became a member of the KBSt.V. Rhaetia became. During the First World War Diess served in the Royal Bavarian 16th Reserve Infantry Regiment , where he was temporarily the superior of Adolf Hitler . After the war, he opened a law firm in Munich and, after the Second World War, became a ministerial advisor in the Bavarian judiciary - and later also in the ministry of education. He was chairman of the Bavarian State Association for Homeland Care , Honorary Professor for Copyright and Inventor Law at the University of Munich , General Director of the Bavarian State Theater and a member of the Academy of Fine Arts. Max Friedlaender , the "adversary and duo friend" from the Bavarian Lawyers' Association, describes him as follows:

“Wilhelm Diess, a young lawyer from Lower Bavaria, very massive with a strange, thick, barely hairy skull, an intelligent and artistically interested guy, brilliant narrator of funny stories, who went through the war, had become an officer and social democrat. For a while he gave political speeches from the people (...). He knew how to influence people ... "In the late period of the Weimar Republic" ... he had meanwhile changed from a socialist to a nationalist with a bit of anti-Semitic influence, although his wife was half-Jewish. "

His talent lay in the spontaneous presentation of impromptu stories that had actually happened or that he had even experienced himself. He managed to incorporate his own comedy into his stories and to accurately portray people and things from his homeland in just a few sentences. His friends were so enthusiastic that they secretly stenographed his stories and later persuaded him to publish these stories, he became a so-called "narrator against his will".

His stories are not in the Bavarian dialect, but the sentence structure is reminiscent of the Bavarian dialect, which certainly contributed to the great appeal of his stories.

Prof. Diess died on September 13, 1957 in Munich and was buried in the Bogenhausen cemetery.

Published works

as paperback: Wilhelm Dieß: Stegreifgeschichten . DTV, ISBN 3-466-10053-4 .
  • The confession
  • The Lightning
  • Madeleine Winklholzerin
  • The little stable
  • Tiberius is joking

Honors

Streets and paths were named after Wilhelm Diess both in places in his region of origin, Lower Bavaria (e.g. in Passau , Simbach or Kößlarn ) and in his later work (Munich). The Wilhelm-Diess-Gymnasium in Pocking also bears his name.

Awards

  • Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Order of Merit ( 1956 )

literature

  • Carl Schramm: Wilhelm Diess . In: Archive for Copyright, Film, Radio and Theater Law (UFITA) . tape 24 , 1957, pp. 293-296 . [Obituary]

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nö: Wilhelm-Diess-Gymnasium celebrates its 30th name day. pnp.de, November 25, 2016, accessed November 25, 2016 .
  2. ^ Hitler's Regiment , Süddeutsche Zeitung, October 8, 2014
  3. ↑ Max Friedlaender: Memoirs. (PDF (1.0 MB)) BRAK , accessed on May 16, 2013 (p. 79).
  4. ↑ ibid. P. 124
  5. ↑ billiongraves.de: Wilhelm-Diess
  6. ↑ The namesake of our school. Wilhelm-Diess-Gymnasium Pocking, accessed on May 16, 2013 .

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personal data
SURNAME Diess, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES This, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German narrator, lawyer and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Höhenstadt
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1957
Place of death Munich