Wilhelm Reetz

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Illustration for Pelzmärtel (1925)
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Wilhelm Reetz (born November 2, 1887 in Göttingen ; died February 4, 1946 in the Buchenwald special camp ) was a German painter and journalist .

Life

Wilhelm Reetz was born in Göttingen as the son of the architect Eugen Friedrich Wilhelm Reetz and his wife Dorothee Runtzler .

After graduating from high school in Göttingen, Wilhelm Reetz studied at the Berlin Art School from 1906. There he became a member of the Berlin fraternity of Franconia in 1906 . Parallel to his studies, which he continued at times in Prague and Göttingen, he trained as a painter and had been a painter in Berlin-Halensee since 1911 .

On September 17, 1913 he married in Berlin Margaret Panofsky, daughter of coming from a Jewish family lawyer and lecturer Arthur Panofsky and his wife Marie Gregor. The marriage was divorced on June 20, 1936 .

He took part in the First World War as a vice sergeant and finally as an officer and was awarded the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class as well as the Wound Badge . From 1920 he worked as a painter in Berlin-Pankow and later in Berlin-Südende. In 1922 he became an honorary boy of the Constantia Prague fraternity . In May 1933 he became a member of the NSDAP . Until 1934 he was the picture editor of Illustrierte Koralle . Then he was editor of the Reichssportblatt , in 1936 he and his Berlin colleague Fred Krüger chaired the Olympia-Zeitung , the official journal of the Propaganda Committee for the Olympic Games .

From 1940 to 1942 he was the deputy main editor ( editor-in-chief ) and head of the photo department of the Nazi weekly newspaper Das Reich . From 1942 to 1944 he was the chief editor of the Nazi foreign propaganda magazine Signal . After the war he was arrested by the Soviet occupying forces and was in three special camps : until June 29, 1945 in Sachsenhausen, then in Landsberg (Warthe) and from January 1946 in Buchenwald, where he died on February 4, 1946.

Works

Title page and illustration for Pelzmärtel (1925)
A Whole World Against Us (1934)
  • Heinrich Brühl (Ed.): Flemish storytellers. With 7 pictures by Wilhelm Reetz. Hamburg-Großborstel 1916.
  • Gustav W. Eberlein: Pelzmärtel. A Nuremberg toy novel. After the Italian of Teresah. Berlin, Scherl Verlag, 1925 (with illustrations by Wilhelm Reetz).
  • Karl Ferdinand van Vleuten: The summer garden. Selected children's songs. With drawings by Wilhelm Reetz. Berlin 1925.
  • Wilhelm Reetz (ed.), Werner Beumelburg : A whole world against us. A history of the world war in pictures. Ullstein, Berlin 1934.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 406.
  2. ^ Paul Weinrowsky: Frankenchronik - History of the Berlin fraternity Franconia. Berlin 1928.
  3. ↑ Marriage register entry Berlin, marriage Reetz / Panofsky, September 17, 1913, No. 518.
  4. ↑ Marriage register entry Berlin, September 17, 1913, No. 518.
  5. ↑ Olympia-Zeitung. In: IV. Olympic Winter Games. Official report. Ed. from the Organizing Committee for the IV. Olympic Winter Games 1936, Reichssportverlag, Berlin, 1936, p. 170. ( digital.la84.org PDF).
  6. ^ Registration documents of the Soviet special camp No. 7; on request communicated on July 13, 2010 by the Brandenburg Memorials Foundation ( Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum ).
  7. ^ Book of the dead of the Buchenwald special camp. P. 108.
  8. ↑ Térésah , (Italian) in Trecanni.
personal data
SURNAME Reetz, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen
DATE OF DEATH February 4, 1946
Place of death Special camp No. 2 Buchenwald