Karl Heinz Bremer

Karl Heinz Bremer (also Karl -Heinz, born November 16, 1911 in Frankfurt am Main, † May 2, 1942 in Veliky Novgorod on Ilmensee ) was a German linguist in National Socialism.

Life

Bremer, son of the engineer Wilhelm Bremer, attended high school in Mannheim and studied history, Romance languages ​​and political science in Heidelberg, Königsberg and Paris and received his doctorate on April 7, 1934 Hans Roth rock at the Albertina in Königsberg. He began as a lecturer in French. From 1936 he worked as a German lecturer in Paris at the Sorbonne and at the École normale supérieure. Bremer joined the Nazi party yet during his time in France on 1 May 1937, assigned to the NSDAP / AO.

Bremer was employed as an assistant at the Kiel Institute for Political and International Law from April 1939 and assisted Paul Knight bush at the Romanists meeting on 17 and 18 May 1940 in Berlin, where the war effort of the humanities was planned. After the defeat of France Bremer was in the fall of 1940 as part of the foundation of the German Institute in Paris whose deputy director under Karl Epting and head of its science department. In the German Institute he led the German - French translation committee and controlled so that together with Gerhard Heller, who controlled the publishers and the paper assignment, the French book production. Together with Epting he gave the new journal Germany - France out, and the corresponding series " Cahiers de l'Institut Allemand ". Bremer was a good friend of the French collaborator Robert Brasil Lach. He translated works of the writer Henry de Montherlant, so 1939 Service inutile ( useless Selfless Service).

Bremer was retired on February 27, 1942 to the Eastern Front, and there ordered to relieve the boiler of Demyansk, where he soon fell for it.

Montherlant wrote in the magazine " Germany - France. Quarterly magazine of the German Institute Paris, "whose chief editor was Bremer, in April 1943 an obituary: " Souvenirs sur Karl Heinz Bremer ".

The book " nationalism and chauvinism in France " was set in 1946 in the Soviet zone to the list of proscribed literature. The book " The French nationalism " was set in 1953 in the GDR on the list of proscribed literature.

Political Philosophy

Bremer described the situation of the Second Republic in the following way: While the Republicans of 1848 attempted to resolve the constitutional issue, Louis Napoleon recognized that the social question was crucial. The parliamentary system is not able to solve the social question with its conflicting political parties and class antagonisms. After view of Napoleon, this can only be a socially oriented dictatorship. His great aim has been to create a political system that is based on the unity of all classes and the interests of France. It was he who built the first of this new kind of state in the form of an " authoritarian, plebiscitary leadership."

Bremer went on to say that Proudhon social idea that is anti- liberal, popularized so that the Second Empire Get a meaning in the social. Proudhon developed a social idea for Louis Napoleon, which should involve the workers in the Second Empire. As Proudhon preferred slow changes, Napoleon rejected this solution.

Publications

• The socialist emperor, in: The act, Vol 30 1938, June Communism and literature in France, ibid 28, born in 1936, November