Wilhelm Frantzen

Wilhelm Frantzen (born June 4, 1900 in Uelsen ; † October 7, 1975 in Braunschweig ) was a German Nazi functionary, painter, draftsman and teacher.

Life

The family of Frantzen, who was born in the county of Bentheim , moved to Dortmund in 1903 , where he graduated from high school in 1919 . He then studied at the handicrafts and arts and crafts school in Dortmund and at the art academy in Kassel . In 1922 he passed the drawing teacher examination there.

From 1923 to 1927 Frantzen worked as a drawing teacher in Dortmund and Gronau (Westphalia) . From 1927 to 1939 he worked as a teacher in Hannover busy and entered 1932 in the National Socialist Teachers League (NSLB) one for which he as Gau for art education worked. During the time of National Socialism , he joined the Sturmabteilung (SA) in November 1933 , with the rank of squad leader , followed in 1937 by Frantzen's entry into the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP).

Between 1934 and 1939 he was also a specialist advisor for art education at the higher schools in the provinces of Hanover and Schleswig-Holstein and a member of the Prussian Pedagogical Examination Commission . From 1939 to 1940 Frantzen took part in the Second World War for the first time . At the same time he had 1939-1942 a provisional professor at the created by the Nazi regime and after the Nazi Reich Minister of Science, Education and Popular Culture named Bernhard Rust College of Teacher Education in Braunschweig and was from 1940 to 1945 consultant for art and Handicraft lessons at general schools in the city. From 1942 until the end of the war in 1945 Frantzen was a drawing teacher at the Gaußschule Gymnasium am Löwenwall and, at the same time, had been teaching architectural graphics at the Technical University of Braunschweig from 1943 . In 1944 Frantzen took part in the Great German Art Exhibition in Munich. In the final phase of the Second World War from 1944 to 1945 he was again a participant in the war.

Because of his Nazi past, he was suspended from the service from the end of the war until 1950 , and from 1950 until his retirement in 1961 he worked at the Gauss School, most recently as a senior teacher .

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Frantzen created paintings, watercolors, drawings and etchings. He was certified as having an extraordinary talent for drawing . The majority of his works are attributed to the New Objectivity . He often chose landscape ( Harz , travel studies from Upper Bavaria and the Salzkammergut ) and architectural motifs (war ruins, cemeteries and industrial buildings in Braunschweig). He also made animal and plant studies and portraits. The Städtisches Museum Braunschweig has several of his pictures of the war-torn Braunschweig.

literature

• Franz-Josef Christiani: The draftsman Wilhelm Frantzen (1900–1975). Landscape and architecture. Städtisches Museum Braunschweig (= work reports, publications from the Städtisches Museum Braunschweig, 55), Braunschweig 1987.
• Peter Lufft : Frantzen, Wilhelm. In: Luitgard Camerer , Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (eds.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 , p. 75 .
• Erika Eschebach : Frantzen, Wilhelm . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 44, Saur, Munich a. a. 2005, ISBN 3-598-22784-1 , p. 144.
• Frantzen, Wilhelm . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 148-149 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Braunschweig City Museum , Prüsse Foundation (publisher): October 15. The destruction of the city of Braunschweig in 1944. Hinz und Kunst, Braunschweig 2019, ISBN 978-3-922618-34-8 , p. 115.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} N. N .: 50 years of the Gaußschule 1909–1959. Festschrift of the Gaußschule Braunschweig on the 50th anniversary, Braunschweig 1959, p. 97.
3. ↑ Eckhard Schimpf : "Burning Braunschweig": The picture that must not be shown. In: Braunschweiger Zeitung of September 7, 2019.