Erich Peter Neumann

Erich Peter Neumann (born July 14, 1912 in Breslau ; † June 12, 1973 in Bad Godesberg ) was a German journalist and politician .

Growing up in Lower Silesia , Neumann came to Berlin at the age of twenty, where he was still writing for the Weltbühne in 1932 . After Hitler came to power and the magazine was banned, he went to the Berliner Tageblatt . In 1940 he moved to the well-known Nazi weekly newspaper Das Reich as head of the service department (department head for domestic affairs) . In March 1941 he wrote a report from occupied Warsaw under the pseudonym Hubert Neun . From 1941 he was deployed as a war correspondent mainly in the east. Neumann was a member of the NSDAP , but was excluded from his local group in 1941 because of “backlog of contributions and lack of interest”.

After the end of the war, he and his wife Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann founded the " Institute for Demoscopy Allensbach " on Lake Constance in 1947 . In 1956 he was one of the co-founders of the magazine Die Politische Demokratie . From 1961 to 1965 he was a member of the German Bundestag for the CDU .

Fonts

• Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann: The memories. Herbig, Munich, 2006, ISBN 3-7766-2485-X

literature

• Erich P. Neumann , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 32/1973 of July 30, 1973, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
• Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 2: N-Z. Attachment. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 599.
• Victoria Plank: The weekly newspaper Das Reich. Oath of revelation or instrument of rule ?. In: Sönke Neitzel , Bernd Heidenreich (ed.): Media in National Socialism . Schöningh, Paderborn 2010, pp. 309–328, on Neumann pp. 322 f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Erich Peter Neumann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Erich Peter Neumann in the bibliographic database WorldCat