Emil Karl Gemeinder (1895-1979) – Eine jugendbewegtes Leben

Book presentation and discussion with Prof. Dr. Roland Müller

Emil Gemeinder, born in 1895, was an opponent of the war as a member of the Socialist Youth, found his way to the Wandervogel movement in the Württemberg mountain troops and was Gauobmann of the Kronacher Bund. The businessman was spokesman for the Stuttgart working group of youth associations and was responsible for the "Deutsche Jugend" supplement in the Stuttgarter Neues Tagblatt as honorary editor from 1925 to 1931. His artist friends included the doctor and writer Friedrich Wolf.

In the 1930s, he organized exhibitions, concerts and theater evenings in Donzdorf as the head of the NSDAP cultural office. Still a diarist for Erwin Rommel in 1944, he was one of his most ardent admirers in the Gebirgler-Kameradschaft circle after 1945. With his cultural and local history activities in the district of Göppingen, the autodidact was regarded as an expert in the region. The biography, published by the Stiftung Literarturforschung in Ostwürttemberg, reveals an eventful life in the 20th century.

Roland Müller was head of the Stuttgart City Archive from 1996 to 2021; his dissertation "Stuttgart during the National Socialist era", published in 1988, is the standard work on Stuttgart's Nazi history.