Name George Kettmann | Role Poet | |
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Died February 10, 1970, Roosendaal, Netherlands | ||
Jam session in der sch nen aussicht stettbach mit george kettmann avi
George Wilhelm Kettmann or George Kettmann Jr. (12 December 1898 in Amsterdam – 10 February 1970 in Roosendaal) was a Dutch poet, writer, journalist and publisher who promoted Nazism in the Netherlands. With his wife, he founded the best known Dutch National Socialist publishing house, De Amsterdamsche Keurkamer. Until 1941 he was editor in chief of Volk en Vaderland (People and Fatherland), the weekly journal of the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands (NSB), the movement of Anton Mussert.
Contents
- Jam session in der sch nen aussicht stettbach mit george kettmann avi
- Fest in der sch nen aussicht stettbach mit george kettmann avi
- Life and career
- Selected works
- References
Fest in der sch nen aussicht stettbach mit george kettmann avi
Life and career
Kettmann was the eldest son of a businessman and worked for his father until the company was ruined by the financial crisis of 1930, after which he worked as a journalist. He joined the NSB on 2 August 1932. On 12 October he married Margot Warnsinck; they had started the publishing house, De Amsterdamsche Keurkamer, only shortly before he joined the party, on 14 or 21 July, with the aim of promoting a new völkisch ideology, which soon became specifically National Socialist. In 1939 the company published the Dutch translation of Hitler's Mein Kampf.
In the years before World War II, in addition to running the company, he edited Volk en Vaderland, the national weekly of the NSB (until 1941) and wrote and published prose, poetry and essays, showing enormous energy. Over the years his relation with Anton Mussert deteriorated, as Kettmann accused Mussert of being unable to grasp the true, revolutionary nature of National Socialism. This led ultimately to his joining the Nederlandsche SS on 7 March 1942. In September 1942 Mussert expelled him from the NSB; Kettmann was considered too radical a National Socialist. He went to the Eastern Front as a war correspondent.
After the war Kettmann fled to Belgium, where he was arrested in 1948. Back in the Netherlands, he was accused of:
He was sentenced to 10 years in prison. After his release in 1955 he refrained from any political activity. He published some volumes of poetry, in which he demonstrates not having lost his National Socialist ideology.
Ideologically he evolved from an Italian-style fascism (1931–1933) to a Dutch National Socialism (1933–1940), then to a German-oriented National Socialism (1940–1942) and finally to the most radical SS ideology, desiring one great Germanic empire in Europe (1942–1945). After the German defeat he returned to his ideas of the 1933-1940 period.