Karl Otto Paetel

Karl Otto Paetel ( born November 23, 1906 in Berlin, † May 4, 1975 in New York ) was a German journalist and publicist. He was an important representative of National Bolshevism.

Life

Karl O. Paetel began in 1927 as an intern at Deutsche Tageblatt, where he was editor. From 1928 to 1930 he studied history, German language and philosophy at the University of Berlin and at the University of policies.

Paetel belonged to the Bund Youth. Over a Bible study group (BK) he came to collar the Köngener. Here he founded in 1925 a local group in Berlin- Charlottenburg. The League of Köngener joined in 1926 along with other federations of the German volunteer corps. Paetel 1930 was excluded because of an anonymous article in the journal The Coming, in which the signature of Paul von Hindenburg was sharply criticized under the Young Plan of the German volunteer corps. In the same year he lost his scholarship for participating in a demonstration against the Treaty of Versailles.

He was a highly influential thinkers of the Revolutionary Nationalism and National Bolshevism. He was in close contact with the socialist youth movement, published the journals Political Journal Review and The Young People's and turned it against both the democracy of the Weimar Republic as well as against the NSDAP.

Early as 1930 Ernst Jünger had hired him as chief editor of the magazine The bündisch - revolutionary come. In December 1930, he founded the group Social Revolutionary Nationalists. 1931 following the publication of the journal Socialist nation. On January 1, 1933 published Paetel The National Bolshevik manifesto.

In 1933 he was banned from writing, to which he did not keep. There were several arrests. Indicted by the treachery law he fled in 1935 to Prague, where he worked with at the New World Stage. He then fled via Sweden to Paris.

Illegal he traveled from Paris several times to Germany. In 1936 he founded the leaves of the Socialist nation. Connected with illegal bündisch groupings, he advocated a subversion of the Hitler Youth. In Paris he met in 1937 on the National Revolutionary Ernst Niekisch and Harro Schulze- Boysen. By 1940, he was central to the exiled Bund and provided the confederate groups in Germany with national revolutionary writings. A few months before the beginning of World War II, he organized a 14-day conference with opposition HJ leaders in Paris. The participants called group Socialist nation and cooperated with the merger of The Grey circle and a formation called Black HJ. Many participants 17-22 years of age were students and graduates. They belonged mainly to the German young people, the Hitler Youth and the Nazi Student League. A central theme was the " existence of rebellious youth groups." There have been reports of groups with the name The Beggars, The Order, The Revered, The X column, and also the name Edelweiss was mentioned.

After the outbreak of the internment by the French police in May 1940, his flight over Southern France, Spain began to New York City. There he took his journalistic activities on again and worked as a correspondent. In 1943 he married his fiancée Elizabeth Zerner.

After the war he published the magazine German present and wrote a lot about Ernst Jünger. The biography of Ernst Jünger: the conversion of a German poet and patriot appeared in 1949.

Paetel became an American citizen, founded and directed a German Press Club and was active as a leader of the " German Forum " for a National Bolshevik view of the German Nazi history. In 1965 he published temptation or opportunity? History of the German National Bolshevism. On May 4, 1975 Karl Otto Paetel died in Forest Hills, New York City. His grave is located in Wendershausen at the foot of the castle Ludwig stone.

Works

• National Bolshevism and national revolutionary movement in Germany. History - ideology - people. Publisher Siegfried Bublies, Schnellbach 1997, ISBN 3-926584-49-1.
• Ernst Jünger: the conversion of a German poet and patriot. Repr of the orig outputs. New York, Krause, 1946. Fölbach, Koblenz 1995. ISBN 3-923532-30- X.
• Social Revolutionary nationalism. Nachdr the output Flarchheim / Thuringia, ET The Coming, 1930. Helios, Mainz 1986. ISBN 3-925087-04-4.
• Travel without time - an autobiography. Publisher G. Heintz, Worms 1982. ISBN 3-921333-90-3.
• Temptation or opportunity: The History of the German National Bolshevism. Musterschmidt, Göttingen 1965.
• Youth in the decision:. 1913 1933 1945 2, greatly expanded edition of the youth movement and politics. Voggenreiter, Bad Godesberg in 1963.
• Beat - An Anthology of Random House, Reinbek 1962 ( as editor ). .
• The image of the people in the German youth leadership. Voggenreiter, Bad Godesberg in 1954.