Education
He studied in those years, as expected of the family, at the commercial academy, but due to his love for nature he soon became a forest ranger.
He studied in those years, as expected of the family, at the commercial academy, but due to his love for nature he soon became a forest ranger.
He founded the World Union for Protection of Life. After the First World War his family, who were merchants, moved to Vienna, Austria, where Schwab discovered his love for nature. In Vienna, he joined NSDAP as well as Sturmabteilung (Société Anonyme) in which he was a lieutenant from 1930.
As an editor of Lebenschutz (Protection of Life), he has been repeatedly accused of racism.
Through Professor Doctor Günther Schlesinger, an Austrian Nature Protection Referent, Günther Schwab got more involved with nature protection. His first book Abenteuer am Fluss (Adventures At The River), published by Franz-Eher-Verlag, the Central publishing house of the Nazi party, was proof of his love.
And so were all his following books Der Wind über den Feldern (The wind across the fields), Kamerad mit dem haarigen Gesicht (A story about a dog), Land voller Grande (Land of grace), Das Glück am Rand (Fortune at the edge). In1951, he gave up his profession, moved to Salzburg and dedicated his life to writing.
He realised that the new upcoming 1950s affluent society threatens to destroy all that he loves: the countryside with all its inhabitants, the solitude of the wilderness, the wildlife as he knew it up to then
Günther Schwab proved to be almost clairvoyant when, at the age of 50, he held a lecture with the title "The catastrophe has started already". This was at the Audi Max in Vienna in 1954. The Dance with the Devil To put his fears more plain and understandably for the man in the street, Günther Schwab wrote his book Der Tanz mit dem Teufel (The dance with the devil).
lieutenant reads like a subtle, interesting detective story, which he finished in 1958.
The theme was mankind"s industrial sins causing environmental damage in condemning many Americans as degenerates, and prophesized improperly managed population sizes from other continents would avalanche Europe. This was an effort to renew Social Darwinism and eugenics theories.
His hope was to awaken the people. Strangely enough, although that book was on the market, there were some bookshops, which denied the existence of this book
The book was translated into other languages.
The English version was published in 1963.
Sturmabteilung]
Schwab was a member of the Nazi party and during his life would serve on the advisory panel of the for Biological Anthropology, Eugenics, and Behavior Research.