Willi Friedrich Koerbel

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Willi Friedrich Koerbel (born July 20, 1910 in Habsheim , Alsace , † June 11, 2000 ) was a German journalist .

Life

He studied pedagogy , psychology , sociology and history in Heidelberg and Munich .

He was SA leader and composer of the SA March No. 5 Storm Soldiers and cultural-political editor of the Mannheim swastika banner . In 1933 he was the sports and press officer of the Mannheim Sturmabteilung (SA) (= SA-Standarte 171 (traditional Kolmar regiment)). He was chief editor and press chief of the Supreme SA leadership. After the fight journal Der SA-Mann was discontinued, he became in 1939 as SA-Obersturmbannführer Viktor Lutze's personal assistant in the Reich Chancellery in Berlin. Later he was promoted to SA Standartenführer by Wilhelm Schepmann . He received military training as a paratrooper and took part in the western campaign. He was one of the first German soldiers to reach Paris in 1940. Later he was a liaison officer between the German Air Force and the Italian Air Force in Rome. He wrote a Mussolini biography about this time in 1997 . In 1941/43 he was a soldier in North Africa.

After the war he was a management consultant in Heidelberg and from 1957 Consul General of Ghana in Germany. In 1997 he became an honorary citizen of the city of Habsheim .

Publications

  • The SA man. Combat sheet of the highest SA leadership and the NSDAP. (as main editor), Verlag Franz Eher Nachf., Munich, appeared from 1928 to approx. 1939.
  • 1937: Experiences of Comradeship (Editor)
  • 1938: The German Freikorps 1918–1923: Anh .: The Sudeten German Freikorps 1938 (with Friedrich Wilhelm von Oertzen , 1939 5th edition)
  • 1938: SA spirit in the company, from the struggle to enforce German socialism. Volume 10 of combat pamphlets of the Supreme SA leadership, central publishing house of the NSDAP, 1938
  • 1944: The German soul , publishing house "Wir sind daheim", Dresden (published by the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda , Dept. East, in conjunction with the Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of German Folklore , Main Office Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle)
  • 1944: This is how the Reich came into being , publishing house "We are at home", Dresden (published by the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, Dept. East, in conjunction with the Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of German Ethnicity, Main Office for Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle)
  • 1987: A Mohr as a Scholar. Unique career e. Negroes in Germany . In: Geschichte Nr. 77, 1987. pp. 27-31.
  • 1997: Experienced fascism. The rise and fall of Benito Mussolini. A contemporary witness reports. Berg am Starnberger See, 1997, ISBN 3-8061-1115-4

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry for storm soldiers in gateway-bayern.de
  2. ↑ MARCHIVUM: Chronicle star . May 5, 1933, Retrieved May 4, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Picture from 1939
  4. ↑ a b WILLI KOERBEL, soldier in North Africa, 1941/1943
  5. ^ Karlsruhe City Archives: Visit of the African Princess Gifty from Ghana in Karlsruhe. 1979  in the German Digital Library
  6. ↑ Werner Bräuninger : Radiation Fields of National Socialism: The Leviathan's Fin . Schnellbach 1999, ISBN 3-926584-67-X .
  7. ↑ The SA man. Combat sheet of the highest SA leadership and the NSDAP
  8. ↑ Note: Verlag "Wir sind Daheim" in Dresden is the publisher of the German newspaper of the same name for resettlers , which appeared from 1940 to 1944 . [1] ZDB ID 1363757-5
  9. ↑ quoted in: Braunschweigischer Geschichtsverein : Braunschweigisches Jahrbuch , Volume 68, 1987 (p. 204)
  10. ↑ Free Africa! = Free Africa! : A film (Engl.)

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personal data
SURNAME Koerbel, Willi Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koerbel-Habsheim, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Habsheim , Alsace
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 2000