Wilhelm Kotzde-Kottenrodt

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Rudolf Wilhelm Kotzde-Kottenrodt (actually: Wilhelm Kotzde ; born March 1, 1878 in Gohlitz / Havelland ; † September 4, 1948 in Ebnet / Breisgau ) was a German teacher , writer and publicist .

Life

After the village school in Gohlitz, Kotzde attended the secondary school in Nauen from 1886 to 1893 . He then moved to the preparatory institute in Berlin and, from 1896, to the local seminar for city school teachers. At Easter 1899 he joined the Berlin community service as a teacher, which he gave up in 1907 for health reasons. From 1909 Kotzde was a freelance writer and publicist and settled in Rathenow . As early as 1908 he published the “Mainzer Volks- und Jugendbücher” and from 1909 the “Deutsche Jugendbuch” founded by him.

After Kotzde had moved to World War I in 1914 , he was wounded and ill in Flanders. In 1915 he came back to Rathenow and completed his novel “Frau Harke” there, which he had started in 1914 before the outbreak of war.

In 1918 he moved to the Black Forest , where he became a member of the German Association . He became the founder of the ethnic youth organization Adler und Falken and after the First World War leader of the Artamans . In May 1920 he got to know Adolf Hitler at an event organized by the German-Völkischer Association in Munich. Since 1921, all of Wilhelm Kotzde's writings have been listed as valuable literature in the Völkischer Beobachter . In 1929 he became the patron of the German falconry .

In 1932 Kotzde changed its name to Kottenrodt and appeared under the double name Kotzde-Kottenrodt . In 1933 he joined the NSDAP and became an honorary member of the NS teachers' association . In 1934 he held a position as a consultant for German nationality in a ministry, and in 1939 he became an employee at the Institute for Research and Elimination of Jewish Influence on German Church Life .

In 1927 the folklorist Robert Mielke (1863-1935) founded the Wilhelm-Kotzde-Congregation (later Wilhelm-Kotzde-Kottenrodt-Congregation ) in order to promote the literary work and his ethnic ideology. In 1951 the former falconry head Karl Dietrich (1899–1983) was re-established. In addition to Kotzde-Kottenrodt's writings, right-wing extremist or ethnic authors such as Hans Venatier , Hans Heyck , Heinrich Zillich and Theodor Seidenfaden were also published .

His writings Deutsche Führer und Meister , Zwischen Lötz, Lanke und Luch and Die liebe Frau von der Geduld were put on the list of literature to be sorted out in the Soviet occupation zone after the end of the Second World War . Kotzde-Kottenrodt was the father of the sculptor Ulrich Kottenrodt (1906–1984) and Wilhelm Kottenrodt (1904–1981), who headed a sculpture school in Aschaffenburg .

Fonts

  • On the Schill train, 1907.
  • Duke Wittekind, 1910.
  • History of the stick trumpeter Kostmann, 1910.
  • And the earth is German! From the time of German greatness, 1912.
  • The god who made iron grow wanted no servants. Brief history of the wars of freedom 1813–1815, 1913.
  • Von Bismarck's, 1914.
  • The trip to the antsmen (with drawings by Arpad Schmidhammer ), 1913
  • Mrs. Rake. Novel of a landscape. 1915
  • From Liège to Flanders. Hero struggles 1914/15, 1915.
  • The Wittenbergisch Nachtigall, 1917.
  • The pilgrim, a story from the Rhine, 1918.
  • Wilhelm Drömers Victory Walk, A Life Story, 1919.
  • Wolfram , a Wartburg novel, 1920.
  • The lost Junker, 1923.
  • The castle in the east. The fate of a knighthood, 1925.
  • Lupold on the Staufen, 1927.
  • The Lady of Patience, 1928.
  • Midsummer night. By Ulm Masters, 1929.
  • Mathilde Rehfot's three journeymen, 1932.
  • Wilhelmus von Nassauen . A man and a people, 1933.
  • German leaders and masters, individual historical images from the present and the past, 1937.
  • Heinrich , the German King, 1936.
  • Between Lötz, Lanke and Luch. From the Märkische Heimat, 1938.
  • Master Erwin , story about a German. Alsatian Trilogy Volume 1, 1944.
  • Jakob Sturm , lawyer for the Reich. Alsatian Trilogy Volume 2 (announced for 1945, no longer published) .
  • Brosi von Kolmar, The Way to Germany. Alsatian Trilogy Volume 3 (no longer published) .

Magazine editor

  • Mainz folk and youth books, from 1908
  • Patriotic picture books, from 1912
  • Young girls books, from 1913
  • The fight for the youth publication, 1913

literature

  • Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . Fourth volume. Kleimon to Minnich. Sixth completely revised and greatly increased edition, Reclam, Leipzig, 1913, p. 53.
  • Krannhals, Woldemar Alexander: And the earth is German! The poet Wilhelm Kotzde-Kottenrodt and his work , Stuttgart, Verlag JF Steinkopf , 1933
  • Klaus Mohr, On Singing and Dancing in the Hohenloher Land. The singing weeks and singing meetings of Hanna and Heinrich Mohr de Sylva from 1925-1962. A description in words and pictures based on the files and pictures left in the Mohr house , Tübingen-Kilchberg 2009. With the chapter "The leading figure 'Father Kotzde' and his worldview". Excerpt from Klaus Mohr's website , accessed on April 28, 2019
  • The German wanderer. On the 65th birthday of Wilhelm Kotzde-Kottenrodt , Sturmhut-Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau, 1943
  • Entry "Kotzde-Kottenrodt" in Killy: Literature Lexicon

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Kotzde-Kottenrodt: Mrs. Harke. Novel of a landscape. Published by JF Steinkopf in Stuttgart, 5th edition 1926, p. 6.
  2. ↑ Klaus Mües-Baron: Heinrich Himmler: Rise of the Reich SS (1910-1933) , V & R unipress (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht), Göttingen, 2011 ISBN 978-3-89971800-3 , p 363. With reference to Jackel / Kuhn ( Ed.), Hitler. All records 1905-1924
  3. ^ Hinrich Jantzen: Biographies and contributions to the sociology of the youth movement , Volume 2, Dipa, Frankfurt am Main, 1974, ISBN 978-3-76380252-4 , p. 202
  4. ↑ Hans Prolingheuer, We went astray , Cologne 1987, p. 150.
  5. ^ German administration for list of literature to be sorted out . Popular education in the Soviet zone of occupation. Zentralverlag, Berlin 1946
personal data
SURNAME Kotzde-Kottenrodt, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kotzde, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher, writer and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Gohlitz / Havelland
DATE OF DEATH September 4, 1948
Place of death Ebnet / Breisgau