Jakob Schaffner

Jakob Schaffner ( born November 14, 1875 in Basel, † September 25, 1944 in Strasbourg ) was a Swiss writer, who supported the Nazi ideology.

Life

Jakob Schaffner was born the son of a gardener's rule the Basel pastor Stähelin. His father had but at the same time in small Basel a modest agricultural property. 1883 Jakob Schaffner was only eight years old, he lost his father. His mother, who came from the Upper Baden Wyhlen, wandered in the same year to America and gave the son his Wyhlener grandparents. From 1884 to 1891, he grew up in nearby Pietist orphanage in Beuggen castle on the Rhine Baden high. Schaffner learned the trade of shoemaker and worked for several years as a journeyman in Germany. Already at this time he began to write literary texts. In 1908 he married Frieda Barth, the son of Peter Wolf gave birth in 1912.

With his novel Pilater Konrad (1910 ) succeeded Schaffner artistic breakthrough. In 1911, he finally settled in Germany and lived about a decade in Weimar at the Poet's, not far from Goethe's garden house. 1922 turned Jakob Schaffner, now a respected writer, literary his childhood: In his major work, John, he describes the village and living with his grandparents.

After the " seizure of power " he was a member of the German Academy cleaned the seal. In 1936 he published the travel reports people to ship. Two voyages to the KDF. He wrote, inter alia, contributions to the Nazi weekly newspaper Das Reich.

That conductor at the service of the Nazi ideology, but brought him a politically -driven honors: 1930 he was granted an honorary citizen of Wyhlen and 1943 the Johann - Peter-Hebel - price. It was also in Wyhlen the "back alley " named after him as " Jakob Schaffner Road", a fact which was removed after 1945 and renamed " mountain road ". One also mounted in the 1930s plaque at the property hill in the mountain road 12 remembers there but still in him.

1940 Schaffner returned back for a private conversation with the Federal Marcel Pilet- Golaz in Switzerland.

Jakob Schaffner came in 1944 at the age of 68 years during an allied bombing attack on Strasbourg killed. His funeral was the same year in the Swiss Buus under large public protests.

In the Soviet Occupation Zone and in the German Democratic Republic, many of his writings were placed on the list of proscribed literature.

" The author has no other known Swiss, who has made in this way for Nazi apostle and a traitor to the ideals and traditions of his country. "

Awards

Works

• Wanderings. Novel, Berlin 1905 Recast: wanderings of Jonathan Bregger, Berlin 1912

• Re: Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0738-8

• Newly edited, abridged edition: Stuttgart 1922 New edition, with a biographical afterword by Charles Linsmayer, Zurich 1982

• Revision as: The pledge of love, Stuttgart 1942

• New edition, with an afterword by Peter Hamm: Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-312-00355-5