Wilhelm Klute

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Wilhelm Klute (born October 9, 1895 in Jerichow ; † May 19, 1974 ) (pseudonym "Bürger") was a German political activist ( NSDAP , DSP) and 1957 candidate for the DP on the state list (27/48) of North Rhine-Westphalia .

Life

Klute worked in the NSDAP until 1932, for which he a. a. appeared as imperial speaker. Professionally, he was employed by the IHK Berlin, which is why he used the code name "Citizen" for camouflage purposes - since NSDAP membership was officially undesirable there.

In the summer of 1932, Klute and Arno Franke initiated the founding of the German Socialist Workers' Party, a split from the NSDAP. The new party, whose leadership the two also took over was due to dissatisfaction of Klute and Franke and the run of them the wing of the Berlin NSDAP with the course of the party leadership of the NSDAP to Adolf Hitler and in particular rejection of the political line of the Berlin Gauleiter Joseph Goebbels founded been. By the time it was forcibly dissolved in the spring of 1933, it had a membership of 1,500 to 2,000. Kurt Koszyk characterized the party profile as "strongly nationalistic" and "anti-Semitic". In a press release on the occasion of the founding of the DSP, Klute told the assembled journalists that the founding of the new party had become "necessary" because the "old style National Socialists" believed "that the NSDAP was fighting to create a community of all Germans "gave up. That is why Hitler will not achieve the goal "what he initially set for himself". The men of the newly founded party left Hitler not only for tactical, but also for programmatic reasons. The NSDAP's program contradicts itself on many points. In contrast to this, the German Socialist Party had "now worked out a clear program" that "made no concessions to any person or profession". The aim of the DSP is to catch the masses who "can no longer believe in the words of the leaders [of the NSDAP]." Kurt von Schleicher , who was working on a concept in 1932 that was aimed at gradually weakening the NSDAP politically by splitting it up and thus ultimately rendering it harmless, became aware of these processes and Klute came into contact with him in order to help him Purposes. Klute was also in contact with Friedrich Wilhelm Heinz at this time.

In the three quarters of a year that passed between the founding of the DSP and its violent break-up after the National Socialists came to power in the spring of 1933, the party waged a private war in Berlin with the Berlin Gauleitung of the NSDAP under Goebbels for the favor of the nationalist-minded section of the socialist workers, the It was part of the general process of disintegration of the NSDAP in the second half of 1933 and resulted in a number of similar developments (decline in membership of the SA party army from autumn 1932; resignation of the head of the NSDAP's organization, Gregor Strasser , from his party offices in December 1932; appeal by the NSDAP member of the Reichstag Andreas von Flotow to give up the NSDAP as a party in January 1933 and to transform National Socialism into a "movement"; "Stegmann revolt" of the SA in Franconia around Wilhelm Stegmann against the Franconian Gauleiter Streicher in January 1933, etc.). Goebbels noted in his diary about Klute's efforts to politically ditch the water of the NSDAP in Berlin that the latter was "revolting" against the NS party and called him a "renegade". He also noted it on his blacklist ("This will make him sick.")

In autumn 1932 Klute became editor of the magazine Der deutsche Weg (subtitle: Kampfblatt für Deutschen Sozialismus ; supplementary title: Organ of the National Socialist Opposition ), which appeared on a weekly basis from September 9, 1932 and was the official organ of the DSP. Goebbels assessed this newspaper as "of course only against me" and filed at least one lawsuit against it because of an attacking article.

The left-liberal magazine Die Weltbühne classified the Deutsche Weg as an organ that represents “absolutely fascist [sic!] Thoughts”. According to the Weltbühne, the group around Franke and Klute “separated from the Hitler party because it lost faith in its revolutionary power”. The leading personalities of the DSP characterized the magazine as "long-time functionaries of the NSDAP and SA people" who had "some" attachments in Berlin and Saxony.

After the Second World War, Klute lived in Dortmund, where he became the owner of the Wilhelm Klute company and co-owners of W. Klute and B. Krüger. Chemical-metallurgical laboratory was. His job title was “Expert and sampler for ores, metals, scrap metals and residues”. Politically, he was a member of the DP and later the CDU . In 1957 he ran for the DP for the Bundestag without success.

literature

  • Kurt Koszyk : Between the Empire and the dictatorship. The social democratic press from 1914 to 1933. Heidelberg 1958, p. 240.
  • Dieter Fricke (Ed.): The bourgeois parties in Germany: Handbook of the history of the bourgeois parties and other bourgeois interest organizations from Vormärz to 1945. Volume 2, 1968, p. 411.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date and place of birth according to: Klute, Wilhelm . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Kaaserer to Kynast] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 632 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 508 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]). ; Date of death after metal. Volume 28, 1974, p. 563, message "Wilhelm Klute †", where it says that Klute died on May 19, 1974 after a "short serious illness" and that he was 79 years old (from which the identity arithmetically Wilhelm Klute, who died in 1974, with Wilhelm Klute, born in 1895, who ran for the Bundestag in 1957); Koszyk (see below) also expressly mentions that the Klute in question lived in Dortmund after 1945 in his consideration of the newspaper published by Klute in 1932/33.
  2. ↑ Oliver Reschke: The struggle for power in a Berlin workers' district. 2008, p. 227.
  3. ^ Marjatta Hietala: The new nationalism in journalism Ernst Jünger and the circle around him. 1975, p. 100.
  4. ↑ Detlef Schmiechen-Ackermann : Cooperation and demarcation. Civil groups, Protestant parishes and the Catholic social milieu in the confrontation with National Socialism in Hanover , 1999, p. 93; Dieter Fricke (Ed.): The bourgeois parties in Germany , Volume 2 (entry "NSDAP"), p. 411.
  5. ↑ Gerhard Granier (editor): Finding aid for inventory N 42, estate of Kurt von Schleicher, Federal Archives, 1980, p. 5.
  6. ↑ Susanne Meinl: National Socialists against Hitler: the national revolutionary opposition around Friedrich Wilhelm Heinz , 2000, p. 183.
  7. ↑ Elke Fröhlich (ed.): The diaries of Joseph Goebbels. Tape. 2 / II, pp. 353 and 359.
  8. ↑ Elke Fröhlich (ed.): The diaries of Joseph Goebbels. Volume 2 / II, p. 359 and p. 365.
  9. ↑ The world stage . Complete reprint of the years 1918–1933, 28th year (1932). 1978, p. 866.
  10. ↑ Klute, Wilhelm . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Kaaserer to Kynast] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 632 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 508 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Klute, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Citizen (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political activist (NSDAP, DSP)
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Jerichow
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1974