Franz Jetzinger
Franz Jetzinger ( born December 3, 1882 in Ranshofen in Upper Austria, † March 19, 1965 in Ottenheim in Upper Austria ) was an Austrian civil servant, politician and writer. He was best known as the author of Hitler's youth.
Life and work
Jetzinger studied after attending high school at the Theological Faculty of the University of Salzburg. After that, he was a Jesuit priest and professor at the Philosophical-Theological College in Linz. In this context, he visited Palestine in 1908, among others.
From 1914 Jetzinger participated as a chaplain in the First World War. After 1918, followed by an intense political activity, first in the German People's Party ( constituency Ried), then, from 1919, when the Social Democratic Party. From 1919 to February 1934 Jetzinger was a Social Democratic member in the Parliament ( Constituency Innviertel ). From 1920 to 1930 he acted as editor of the " Tageblatt". On 14 February 1921 he was excommunicated because of the activity for the then Marxist and atheistic embossed Social Democracy of the Catholic Church. In 1930 he became District Substitute and 1932 as District Administrator Member of the Upper Austrian government in Linz.
After the banning of the mandate acquisition on February 12, 1934 Jetzinger was taken under Dollfuss as a Social Democrat five weeks in custody. After that he worked as an insurance clerk at the Vienna municipality. In 1935 he re-entered the Catholic Church and got a job as an official librarian in the research library in Linz. As a member of the Provincial Government of Upper Austria Jetzinger got hold of Hitler's Austrian military record - in, among other details about his arrest for escape position 1914 were included - and kept this hidden until 1945 in his attic. Hitler's attempts to make the compromising document after his invasion of Austria in 1938 by the Gestapo identify and bring itself failed. On April 22, 1944 Jetzinger was arrested by the Gestapo. 1957 wrote Jetzinger who hated politician Hitler and the Nazi system, the book Hitler Youth, in which he published, among other things, the documents from Hitler's military record.
Hitler Youth
Jetzinger 1956 is best known for his book Hitler Youth, in which he could refute many later launched by the dictator claims about its early years. In addition Jetzinger fell through his sharp criticism of the recently published book Adolf Hitler. My childhood friend on August Kubizek, whom he accused of spreading false claims. While earlier Hitler biographer Joachim Fest or as Werner Maser did it adopt Jetzinger's criticism, whose condemnation of Kubizek credibility of the later research could be corrected (eg, Brigitte Hamann's book Hitler's Vienna). Hamann was especially personal motives for Jetzinger's tendency to virtually any specification in Kubizek book a negative - to give interpretation, constitute convincing - subsequent Fabulierung sheltering. The reasons given for the type of display literary competition and financial damage Jetzinger's are accepted as the book underwent a lower demand than he had expected after Kubizek memoirs had come on the market just before the publication of his book.
Works
- Hitler's youth. Fantasies, lies and the truth. Europe - Verlag, Wien 1956.