Wilhelm Ihde

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Wilhelm Ihde , pseudonyms Axel Old and Thomas Trent (* 1883 or 29. August 1899 in Liege , † 11. March 1968 in Goettingen , 1977 or 1986 ), was during the time of National Socialism , among others, managing director of the Reich Chamber , employees of the Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and propaganda and crime novelist . After the end of the war he published books for young people and non-fiction .

Life

Ihde initially worked as a bank clerk. In 1930 he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 350.772); He was also a member of the SA and university group leader of the NS student union in Cologne. In 1933 he joined the SS (No. 47.727), in which he achieved the rank of Sturmbannführer .

In 1931 Ihde worked as the main editor at the Lower Saxony daily newspaper in Hanover. In 1935 he became chief executive of the Reich Association of the German Press . Between 1937 and 1943 Ihde was the managing director of the Reichsschrifttumskammer. On the day of the “Anschluss” of Austria , Ihde was informed by Hans Friedrich Blunck , who had previously been in Austria, how to deal with Austrian writers and what illegal preparatory work had been done. More precise coordination followed. On March 18, 1938, as managing director of the Reichsschrifttumskammer, he signed the resolution to expel Gottfried Benn from the Reichsschrifttumskammer and thus forbid him to pursue any further professional activities within the jurisdiction of the Reichsschrifttumskammer. On September 12, 1939, Ihde wrote a report on the ethnic writer Reinhold Wulle , which was based on a collaboration between the RSK, Abbot VIII des Promi, the party official examination commission, the Gestapo, the SD and the Reichsführer SS. Ihde noted that Wulles had a harmful effect on the public and recommended the exclusion from the RSK as well as a review of the political reliability of the two publishers whose main author was Wulle. In 1941 Ihde rejected a petition from the writer Alfred Mombert , interned in France, with the words "We basically do nothing for Jews".

In 1944, the president of the Reichsschrifttumskammer, Hanns Johst Ihde, denounced Ihde to the SS personnel office for non-SS behavior and failure to leave the church.

After the end of the war Ihde lived in Göttingen and worked as an editor and translator for the local youth book publisher W. Fischer. He also published numerous youth and non-fiction books under the pseudonym Thomas Trent .

reception

The head of the Reich Criminal Police Office (Office V of the RSHA) , who was executed in 1945 for collaborating with the assassins of July 20, 1944 , and Arthur Nebe, a “passionate reader of crime novels” and his personal assistant, Teichmann, expressed themselves “enthusiastically” about individual works by Ihdes. After the war, Ihdes novels were banned in very few cases.

The crime writer and sociology professor Horst Bosetzky , who became known under the pseudonym -ky, picked up in 1995 in his documentary novel “Wie ein Tier. Der S-Bahn Mörder ”about the serial killer Paul Ogorzow on Ihdes“ Death drove on the train ”.

Works (selection)

  • with Günther Gentz: Handbuch der Reichsschrifttumskammer. Publishing house of the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels . 1942
  • Axel Alt: "Death drove on the train". Retold the files of the criminal police. Hermann Hillger publishing house, Berlin-Grunewald and Leipzig 1944.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Personal data on Ihde at the German National Library
  2. ↑ a b c d Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 275.
  3. ↑ a b Joseph Wulf : Culture in the Third Reich. Literature and poetry. Frankfurt M / Berlin 1989, p. 213.
  4. ^ Joseph Wulf: Culture in the Third Reich. Literature and poetry. Frankfurt M / Berlin 1989, pp. 221, 223, 225.
  5. ^ Joseph Wulf: Culture in the Third Reich. Literature and poetry. Frankfurt M / Berlin 1989, p. 134.
  6. ^ Joseph Wulf: Culture in the Third Reich. Literature and poetry. Frankfurt M / Berlin 1989, pp. 215-217.
  7. ↑ Personal data on Thomas Trent at the German National Library.
  8. ↑ The game is over - Arthur Nebe. Splendor and misery of the German criminal police (part 18), Der Spiegel , No. 5/1950 [1]
  9. ^ Carsten Würmann : Great moments for murderers. On dealing with the National Socialist past in the detective novel [2] , literaturkritik.de, No. 9/2005
personal data
SURNAME Ihde, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alt, Axel (pseudonym); Trent, Thomas (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author during the Nazi era
DATE OF BIRTH uncertain: 1883 or August 29, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Liege
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: March 11, 1968 or 1977 or 1986
Place of death Goettingen