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Wolf Schenke (born April 6, 1914 in Arnstadt , † March 4, 1989 in Hamburg ) was a German journalist and publicist.

Life

Before 1945

Schenke attended grammar school in Arnstadt and Hamburg. Attracted by a “national socialism”, he joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party on September 1, 1932 at the age of 18 (membership number 1 328 745). Before that, he briefly joined the SA in 1931 . He became a member of the National Socialist Student Union and made a career in the Hitler Youth , where he became Hitler Youth leader.

In 1933 he worked in the staff of the Upper Area East of the Hitler Youth under Gotthart Ammerlahn . After graduating from high school, he moved to Berlin, where, according to his own account, he studied at the School of Politics and received a grant from the Langemarck Foundation . In 1934/35 he was initially an employee, then later publisher and editor-in-chief of the HJ training letter Wille und Macht, which was then oriented towards national revolution . Until 1936 he rose as a spell leader in the HJ Reich Youth Leadership.

In 1935 Schenke was sent to China for the first time as a journalist, where he acted as a liaison between the Hitler Youth and the Kuomintang youth. From the spring of 1936 he headed the foreign press department in the Reich Youth Leadership for a year.

After Schenke had rejected the offer to head the foreign policy office of the Hitler Youth, he returned to China again in 1937 and worked as a reporter for the Völkischer Beobachter . According to Schenke, this was preceded by a "sharp personal argument" between him and his superior Baldur von Schirach , who took a strictly pro-Japanese line. He then resigned from the Hitler Youth. After he left the leadership of the Reich, Schenke said he was obliged to cooperate with the secret service by the Wehrmacht High Command . From 1937 on he reported directly to Abwehr Department I of the Wehrmacht High Command in Berlin and had to deliver reports on the course of the Sino-Japanese War at the front . He said he also worked as an agent for Japan. Characteristic of his publications during this time as a correspondent and war correspondent was a national revolutionary "anti-imperialism" that was directed against the USA and Great Britain, but sided with Japan.

After 1945

After the end of the Second World War, Schenke fell into American captivity, was interned and indicted in the war crimes trials in Shanghai in 1946. The trial ended for him in 1947 with an acquittal.

Back in Germany after the war, Schenke played a central role in networking the national- neutralist groups. In 1950 he founded the third front in Hamburg , a national-neutralist organization that warned of the annihilation of Germany by a nuclear war if it took a position for the West or the East. It served to prepare for the German Congress collection movement , which was founded the following year and in which organizations of different political orientations came together to advocate neutrality in Germany. In 1956, Schenke launched the magazine Neue Politik , which provided neutralist organizations with a platform. In the 1960s it became the most important medium for exchanging ideas about national revolutionary neutralism and cross-front strategy .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Astrid Freyeisen, Shanghai and the Politics of the Third Reich , Königshausen & Neumann 2000, p. 325
  2. ↑ a b Alexander Gallus, Die Neutralisten , Droste Verlag 2001, p. 195
  3. ^ A b Stefan Appelius, Pacifism in West Germany: the German Peace Society 1945-1968 , Volume 2, Günter Mainz Verlag 1991, p. 741
  4. ↑ Christian Taaks, Leadership for the Nation without Reservation? German media in China during the Nazi era , Contributions to the History of Communication 20, Franz Steiner Verlag 2009, p. 42
  5. ^ Astrid Freyeisen, Shanghai and the politics of the Third Reich , Königshausen & Neumann 2000, p. 142
  6. ^ A b Astrid Freyeisen, Shanghai and the politics of the Third Reich , Königshausen & Neumann 2000, p. 327
  7. ^ A b Gudrun Hentges : State and political education. Springer-Verlag, Dordrecht 2012, ISBN 978-3-531-18671-9 , pp. 185-188.
personal data
SURNAME Give, wolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Arnstadt
DATE OF DEATH March 4th 1989
Place of death Hamburg