Carl Muth
Carl Muth ( born January 31, 1867 in Worms, † November 15, 1944 in Bad Reichenhall ) was a German journalist.
Carl Borromeo Johann Baptist courage is one of the leading representatives of the Catholic existentialism; the Biographic- Bibliographical Lexicon Church honors him as a " rich, critical and open, probably more receptive than creative spirit."
Life
In 1881 he found refuge in the mission house Steyl in Holland. After three years, he made his way to Algiers, where he met Cardinal Charles Martial Lavigerie, the founder of the White Fathers. Throughout his life, courage of this cosmopolitan, French spirituality felt connected. He studied Political Sciences in Giessen and later in Berlin he attended lectures on economics and German. During a stay in Paris in 1892/93 and in Rome in 1893 he pursued studies in art history, but he also dealt with current social issues. From 1895 to 1902 Carl Muth worked as chief editor of the monthly " Old and New World, Illustrated Catholic Family Group Sheet ". As a contribution to the debate on the inferiority of German Catholics, he wrote his critical writing "Is the Catholic Fiction on the amount of time? " (Mainz 1898). He called for to create a Catholic popular literature and to overcome the moralizing " narrow-mindedness ". In October 1903, Carl Muth founded the monthly magazine highlands, which became a forum for dialogue between academics and Catholic church critical intellectuals. In this way, he tried to lead the Catholic literature of ecclesiastical and civil constriction. In 1927 appeared the 60 -year-old Carl Muth the Festschrift " reunion of Church and Culture in Germany ", which gives a vivid insight into the former spiritual condition. The Culture Catholicism continued the romance and hoped for a renewal in " Dante's spirit." The literary life work Muth was dedicated to the "rebirth of the seal from the religious experience."
When the resistance fighters Hans Scholl through the mediation of his friend Otl Aicher (1922-1991) scholar Carl Muth in August 1941 met, there was no longer the highlands; because this monthly journal was banned in June 1941 by the Nazi regime ( Reichspressekammer ). From December 1933, the magazine was under censorship, and since that time the name " Adolf Hitler" was in the highlands to the ban in June 1941, no longer mentioned.
Hans Scholl was a young man who had to appear as essentially related to Carl Muth in many ways: in both cases the love of challenging literature, especially the French literature of the renouveau catholique; here and there the ability to spontaneous enthusiasm. Carl Muth was soon occupied by the sincerity and warmth of medical students and medical sergeant Scholl, he felt the young man a " sacred fire ", his intuition and his restless, alert mind gave the power to explore and experience the world, the he made with her, to interpret. As the scholar Carl Muth saw how well read was his young friend, he asked him to put his extensive private library. In this intellectually stimulating environment, talks about the integration of Christian faith and political action arose. The importance of Carl Muth for Hans Scholl lies in the fact that he got to know people through him who encouraged his political thought and religious feeling and also impressed. First and foremost here is the Catholic publicist Theodor Haecker, the longtime close associates to call the highlands.
After Hans and Sophie Scholl were arrested on February 18 in Munich and Christoph Probst on February 19, 1943 in Innsbruck, led the Gestapo at Carl Muth a house search by. After February 22, 1943 Carl Muth spoke of his murdered friends with the grief of his children deprived father.
Impact and assessment
" The keeping power in him was intimately connected with the openness to everything new, all the time Moving. " ( Werner Berggruen ) His lasting contributions are his struggle for the opening of the Catholic milieu and his paternal friendship with Hans and Sophie Scholl.
Carl Muth - roads there are in his birthplace of Worms and in CologneRodenkirchen. At home in Munich - Solln the Muthstraße is named after him since 1949. At the cemetery Solln is also Muth tomb.