Wilfrid Bade
Wilfrid Albert Karl Bade (4 February 1906 – April 1945) was a German writer and official at the Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda.
Biography
He was born in Berlin, the son of fire chief Albert Bade and his wife Emma (née Reppin). Bade started working for Scherl-Verlag in 1928 and joined the NSDAP on October 1, 1930. He married Mathilde Haußmann in 1932.
Bade worked for the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda in Berlin from 1933 until the end of the World War II. He rose at this government agency, being promoted to Ministerialrat (ministerial councillor) in 1940. He also wrote a biography of Joseph Goebbels.
The circumstances surrounding his death are not clear. At the end of April 1945, he was missing in Berlin. According to the information in Ernst Klee's Kulturlexikon he was in Soviet captivity after the end of the war and died on December 24, 1945 in Kaunas.[1] According to contemporary records, his remains could not be recovered during reburial work. Nevertheless, his name is recorded on the collective cemetery in Kaunas in a "special place" as well as in the memorial book of the cemetery.[2]
After the end of the war, all of his writings were placed on the list of literature to be censored in the Soviet occupation zone.
Works
- Kulturpolitische Aufgaben der deutschen Presse (1933)
- Joseph Goebbels (1933; biography)
- Die SA erobert Berlin. Ein Tatsachenbericht (1933)
- Trommlerbub unterm Hakenkreuz (1934)
- Geschichte des Dritten Reichs (1933–1936; 4 volumes)
- Thiele findet seinen Vater (1934)
- "Das Hohelied vom Dritten Reich", Vol. 1: Arbeit und Brot, Die Deutsche Illustrierte (1934)
- Flamme und Wind (1936; poetry)
- Gloria über der Welt (1937; novel)
- "Horst Wessel". In: Jagdgeschwader Horst Wessel (1938; pp. 21–41; Edited on behalf of the Chief of Staff of the SA by Obersturmbannführer Hans Peter Hermel)
- Das Auto erobert die Welt. Biographie des Kraftwagens (1938)
- Das Lied vom Stahl (1940)
- Das heldische Jahr: Front und Heimat berichten vom Krieg. 97 Kriegsfeuilletons (1941; 2 volumes, editor)
- Tod und Leben: Verse des Krieges. Verlag Volk und Reich (1943)
- Jadran (1943; novella)
References
- ↑ Klee, Ernst (2007). Das Kulturlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Wer war was vor und nach 1945. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer, p. 25.
- ↑ Deutsche Verwaltung für Volksbildung in der sowjetischen Besatzungszone, Liste der auszusondernden Literatur. Transkript Buchstabe B, Seiten 17–64. Berlin: Zentralverlag (1946).
References
- Härtel, Christian (2004). Stromlinien – Wilfrid Bade: Eine Karriere im Dritten Reich. Berlin: be.bra-Verlag.
- Hillesheim, Jürgen & Elisabeth Michael (1993). "Wilfrid Bade (1906–1945)". In: Lexikon nationalsozialistischer Dichter. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, pp. 22–27.
