Hans Severus Ziegler
Hans Severus Ziegler | |
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Born | 13 October 1893 |
Died | 1 May 1978 (aged 84) |
Occupation(s) | publicist, teacher |
Organization | Nazi Party |
Known for | Head of the Militant League for German Culture |
Relatives | Gustav Schirmer (grandfather) |
Hans Severus Ziegler (13 October 1893 – 1 May 1978) was a German publicist,
Early years
Ziegler was born on 13 October 1893 in
In 1924 Ziegler founded and edited a weekly political newspaper called Der Völkische. On 31 March 1925 Ziegler became a member of the Nazi Party, with his membership number being the comparatively low 1317.[4] That year his newspaper expanded to a daily and changed its name to Der Nationalsozialist, becoming the Nazi Party organ of Thuringia.[5] He served as Deputy Gauleiter in Thuringia under Artur Dinter[6] from 1925 to 1927 and under Fritz Sauckel from 1927 to 1931.[7] In 1928 he was appointed head of the Militant League for German Culture.[8] It was also Ziegler who in 1926 came up with the name Hitler-Jugend (Hitler Youth) for the Nazi youth movement.[8] Ziegler was a close friend of the Schirach family and in 1925 he introduced Baldur von Schirach, who would go on to lead the Hitler Youth, to Adolf Hitler.[9]
Ziegler was associated with the hard-line
Under the Nazis
In 1933 Ziegler was appointed to the Council of State and as a member of the State Government of Thuringia. In addition, he served as President of the
Ziegler played a leading role in promoting the Nazi vision of culture, particularly with regards to "degenerate" music. He was a strong critic of atonality, dismissing it as decadent "cultural Bolshevism".[15] In May 1938 he curated the Entartete Musik exhibition in Düsseldorf, with Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Walter Braunfels, Karol Rathaus and Wilhelm Grosz amongst those receiving the strongest condemnation in the pamphlet he wrote to accompany the exhibition.[16] Whilst working under Frick, in Thuringia, Ziegler had also overseen the removal of modern art pieces from museums and public buildings, and helped to bring about a crackdown on the "glorification of Negroidism" by restricting the performance of jazz music.[17] Promulgated in his 1930 edict Against Negro Culture, the Thuringian foreshadowed the co-ordination of culture that was to happen under the Nazi government.[18] Entartete Musik would continue Ziegler's crusade against jazz,[19] whilst also condemning Ernst Krenek's opera Jonny spielt auf as the archetype of Weimar decadence and miscegenation.[20]
After the war
In the
were placed on the Liste der auszusondernden Literatur (list of banned literature).After the war he worked as a representative for Gaststättenporzellan and subsequently as a private tutor in
Ziegler died in Bayreuth on 1 May 1978.
References
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- ^ Strobl, The Swastika and the Stage, p. 116
- ^ Blake, David; Eisler, Hanns (1995). Hanns Eisler: A Miscellany. Abingdon, England: Routledge. p. 398.
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- ^ Deutsche Verwaltung für Volksbildung in der sowjetischen Besatzungszone, Liste der auszusondernden Literatur, 1946
- ^ Deutsche Verwaltung für Volksbildung in der sowjetischen Besatzungszone, Liste der auszusondernden Literatur, 1948
- ^ Klee, Kulturlexikon, p. 683
- ^ Gottfried Wagner, Wer nicht mit dem Wolf heult – Autobiographische Aufzeichnungen eines Wagner-Urenkels (Cologne, 1997), p. 69