Herbert Sulzbach

 'Herbert Sulzbach'  [* February 8 1894 in Frankfurt am Main; † July 5 1985 in London) was a German author and diplomat of Jewish descent, who earned the reconciliation between Great Britain and Germany after the World War II has made.

life
Herbert Sulzbach comes from a Frankfurt banking family. He was born the son of the banker and composer Emil Sulzbach in Frankfurt am Main. His grandfather Rudolf Sulzbach (1827-1904) was since 1855 banker and co-founder of the private bank Gebr. Sulzbach. Herbert Sulzbach was educated at home, later attended Goethe-Gymnasium and from 1906 to 1908 Dr. Hoch's Conservatory. , retrieved on July 24, 2012. On May 27, 1919, he married Margot Rocholl, from whom he divorced in 1922. On June 19, 1923, he married the niece Otto Klemperer s, Beate Scherk.  [http://www.ajr.org.uk/journalpdf/1983_january.pdf '' Mrs. Beate Sulzbach. ] In:  AJR-Information. '' January 1983, p. 5, accessed on July 16, 2012. (PDF file, 8,82 MB)  She was a theater actress (Residenztheater, Tribune, Kammerspiele), but also worked for the film (eg "The Mystery of the Green Mask", 1916, "My Leopold", 1924). . 

During the First World War, Herbert Sulzbach served as an artilleryman and a front-line soldier for four years.

In 1938 he emigrated with Beate Scherk, her sister and daughter from their first marriage to England. Together with other migrants, the couple was interned for a while as " Hostile Foreigners" by the British on the Isle of Man. His fortune and that of his family became meanwhile in Germany " arisiert", some further family members managed to escape, others came in extermination camp n.

In 1940, Sulzbach joined a volunteer corps of the British Army, which was used to develop defense facilities.

When towards the end of 1944 more and more German prisoners of war arrived in the British Isles, he was used as a translator in various camps. There he worked confidence-raising until far beyond the post-war period.

Commitment to German-British reconciliation
Herbert Sulzbach believed in the good in people. He took the prisoners seriously, supported them in their personal concerns and helped them to reflect on humanistic values.

From January 1946 to May 1948 Sulzbach was a translator and cultural officer in the prisoner of war camp "Featherstone Park Camp" Written reproduction of the interview on 5 May 2010 with the prisoner of war Engelbert Hoppe, accessed April 30, 2013.  at Haltwhistle in Northumberland. The camp at Featherstone Castle, which was originally occupied by Italian prisoners of war, was established in 1944 and existed until 1948. Eduard Hoffmann and Ingrid Leifgen:  As a young English-German prisoner of war . //www.swr.de/swr2/programm/Sendungen/leben/rueckschau/-/id=660144/nid=660144/did=5363876/3n9xh9/index.html Broadcasting on Monday, 19 October 2009, 10.05 hrs, SWR2 ], Sound document, retrieved on April 30, 2013.  From 1945, it served as a camp for German officers. In line with the new British Re-Education, he not only promoted the political education of prisoners, but also a diverse cultural and sporting activity. In addition, the Germans were given the opportunity to acquire the final examination and degrees in the craft trades, as well as to study at the campus university.  Renate Held: [http://books.google.de/ books? id = jegHMDaFPFQC & pg = PA193 & lpg = PA193 & dq = officer stock + featherstone & source = bl & ots = UVmf_TE-qE & sig = F1Lv3BOLRsBHleGVSaaWNwUh_44 & hl = en & sa = X & ei = OhkDUJQzo8bRBZ7o7aAH & ved = 0CD4Q6AEwAA # v = OnePage & q = offizierslager20featherstone & f = false '' captivity in the UK. ''], called again on April 30, 2013.  to prepare for civilian life.  [http://www.swr.de/swr2/programm/sendungen/leben/-/id=5363878/property=download/ nid = 660174 / 1vo42sh / swr2-leben-20091019.pdf '' Featherstone - As a young German in English captivity. ''] (PDF; 44 KB) accessed on 16 July 2012.  As teachers worked and & ab. A. Norman Bentwich (1883-1971), University Teacher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Benjamin Britten, Victor Gollancz, Yehudi Menuhin, Basil Liddell Hart, Ivone Kirkpatrick and Harold Nicolson, as well as lectures Gerhard Leibholz, Martin Niemöller and Hugh Trevor -Roper. The success of these measures was unique. Most of the prisoners were attracted to the ideas of democracy and international understanding by the willingness of the British (it was allowed early clearance). The biggest influence is attributed to former Featherstone inmates Sulzbach, who despite his traumatic experiences with Germany worked tirelessly for "his" people and countered them without prejudice. He found support Sir Henry Faulk, the head of the British Re-education Program and Colonel Charles Geoffrey Vickers, the camp commandant.

After the dissolution of the camp Featherstone former guards and prisoners came together again and again in 1960 and founded the German-British friendship society "Featherstone Park Association", whose honorary chairman Sulzbach was.

In 1951 he took over the post of a Kulturattaché in the German Embassy in London. There he committed himself to its adoption in 1981 in many ways for the German-British reconciliation. He informed the British public about Germany, supported the founding of town twinning and numerous meeting and exchange programs.

Herbert Sulzbach was buried in 1985 at the side of his wife Beate on the Hampstead Cemetery.

Awards
Herbert Sulzbach has received numerous awards during his lifetime, including the Iron Cross 1st Class, the European Peace Cross, the Order of the British Empire and the Grand Cross of Merit.  [ http://www.royalpioneercorps.co.uk/rpc/history_germanguns.htm The Pioneer] Terence Prittie to '' Herbert Sulzbach. '' retrieved on July 14, 2012. 

fonts

 *  Two Living Walls.  Bernard & Graefe, Berlin 1935.
 * Reprint:  Between two walls: 50 months Western Front.  Vowinckel, Berg am See, c. 1985, ISBN 3-921655-45-5.
 * English translation: '' With The German Guns. Four Years on the Western Front. Cooper, Barnsley 1973. 1998, ISBN 0-85052-599-3.
 * "Inside Featherstone Park", in Rolf Breitenstein: "Total War to Total Trust", Oswald Wolf, London 1976.

Literature

 * Peter Englund:  Striden skönhet och sorg.  Atlantis, Stockholm 2008, ISBN 978-91-7353-244-0.
 * German by Wolfgang Butt:  Beauty and terror: A story of the First World War, narrated in nineteen fates.  Rowohlt, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-87134-670-5.
 * Ainslie Hepburn: Trust, Reconciliation and Friendship, in: Humanitas, The Journal of the George Bell Institute, Volume 9, Number 2, University of Chichester, Chichester April 2009.