Wilhelm Löbsack

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Wilhelm Löbsack (born May 12, 1908 in Marburg an der Lahn , † March 9, 1959 in Düsseldorf ) was a German author and Nazi propagandist who was also called Danziger Goebbels .

Life

Löbsack joined the NSDAP in 1930 and, under the Gauleiter of Danzig Albert Forster, was a long-time Gau trainer in the local Reich Propaganda Office. As part of this activity, he taught the ideological orientation of the Nazi organizations in the sense of National Socialism for their functionaries who were sent to trainings. He worked as a Forster biographer, a corresponding publication in Nazi style appeared in 1934. His inflammatory anti-Semitic attacks earned him the nickname "Danziger Goebbels". In a 1936 address to the NSDAP local group Petershagen, for example, he described the Jews as "racial defenders" and "fraudsters" and demanded "a recognizable brand" for customers of Jewish merchants.

After the beginning of the Second World War , Löbsack remained district training manager in the newly created Gau Danzig-West Prussia. In addition, the Gau training or Gauamtsleiter was appointed "General Referee for Ethnicity Issues" and ran a "Germanization program" with Gauleiter Forster from mid-December 1940. In the NSDAP party newspaper Der Danziger Vorposten of May 13, 1944, there is an article written by Löbsack with the title “Juda before the Fall”, in which he propagates the murderous Nazi Jewish policy with hardly any clauses : Core areas of “Jewish agglomeration” are “neutralized” “As it is now happening with Jewish settlements in Hungary. Thus, as he blatantly sums up in this article, "in these countries alone five million Jews have been eliminated".

After the end of the war, Löbsack was imprisoned for 38 months in Nuremberg for holding "2000 Nazi speeches", according to the magazine Der Spiegel . After his release he lived with his mother in Hamburg-Curslack . From 1949 to 1951 he wrote stories for the crime novel series Frank Kenney . Crime adventures of today and tomorrow . Since the series appeared without naming the author, he gave the pseudonym Rud Lerk in correspondence with readers . At the beginning of the 1950s he belonged to the men's club in Hamburg, which was initiated by the former high-ranking Nazi functionary Gustav Adolf Scheel and was closely connected to the Naumann district .

The figure Löbsack found its way into the novels The Tin Drum and Dog Years of the Danzig trilogy by Günter Grass .

Fonts (selection)

  • Albert Forster, Gauleiter of Danzig. Hanseatic Publishing House, Hamburg 1934.
  • On the duties and responsibilities of the political leader. Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg 1935.
  • The National Socialist Conscience in Danzig. From six years of fighting for Hitler. After speeches and Writing down d. Gauleiter of Danzig Albert Forster. Kafemann, Danzig 1936 (editor and editor).
  • Albert Forster, Gauleiter a. Reich governor in the Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia. Danzig Publishing Company, Danzig 1940.
  • The German Reval. Documents. Hirzel, Leipzig 1942 (edited together with Detlef Krannhals).
  • The ethnic question in the Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia. Basic representations, NSDAP Gauleitung Danzig-West Prussia. Danzig 1943 (together with Albert Forster).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to: Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 375
  2. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 375
  3. ↑ Dieter Schenk : Danzig 1930–1945. The end of a free city . Ch.links, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86153-737-3 , p. 28 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. ↑ Dieter Schenk : Danzig 1930–1945. The end of a free city . Ch.links, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86153-737-3 , p. 58 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  5. ^ Martin Broszat : National Socialist Poland Policy. 1939-1945. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1961 (= series of the quarterly books for contemporary history 2, ISSN  0506-9408 ), p. 121, 127
  6. ^ Frank Bajohr , Dieter Pohl : The Holocaust as an open secret. The Germans, the Nazi leadership and the Allies. Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-54978-0 , p. 58
  7. ↑ a b Kolportage / Schmöker - That gets on your nerves. In: Der Spiegel . Issue 8/51, February 21, 1952, pp. 34-36
  8. ^ Hans-Edwin Friedrich: Science-fiction in the German-language literature. A report on research up to 1993. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1995 (= International Archive for the Social History of German Literature. Special), ISBN 3-484-60307-0 , p. 325
personal data
SURNAME Löbsack, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and Nazi propagandist
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Marburg on the Lahn
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1959
Place of death Dusseldorf