Since mid -February, FC St. Pauli has been without playing its stadium anthem “The Heart of St. Pauli”. Copywriter Josef Ollig is said to have been involved in the Nazi system. The club commissioned an expert opinion. This is now available and is 60 pages.
FC St. Pauli has presented a documentary to the copywriter of the stadium anthem “The Heart of St. Pauli”, Josef Ollig, and his role in the National Socialism period. However, the scientists emphasized that the statement of the club should deal with the song in the future.
After Ollig’s entanglement had become known in the Nazi system, the club had in mid-February in the home game against SC Freiburg for the first time in 20 years and until the end of the season, which the song did without as an hymn. This had been criticized by some of the fans. The journalist Ollig had written the text on “The Heart of St. Pauli”. The song was published in the 1950s and sung by Hans Albers in the film of the same name (1957).
Before the home games, the song was played in the rocky version of the band “Phantastix & Elf”. After the end, the fans continued the chants without the well -rehearsed music.
Political and media scientist Celina Albertz from FC St. Pauli-Museum and the historian Peter Römer from the History Villa Ten Hompel in Münster wrote the almost 60-page report. Your work by the Hamburg memorials and learning locations found your work professionally.
Ollig constructed “racist enemy images”
In the foundation’s statement, it was clearly emphasized that Ollig supported the Nazi system both before the war and as a war rapporteur. In his texts, he constructed “racist enemy images” and conjured up “the unity of the ‘popular community'”. It was not finally possible whether this was done out of careerism or by conviction, it was said.
According to the foundation, “that Ollig was already working for a Republic of Hamburg newspaper, which openly supported the NSDAP from 1930, that Ollig was already working in an important role at the end of the Weimar Republic.”
It was also clearly demonstrated that Ollig, born in 1906, “tried to present his editorial activity as apolitical in his denazification procedure through omissions and lies during the Nazi era”. The report will be presented and discussed next Wednesday at an event in the Millerntor Stadium.
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