Rudolf Kommoss

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Rudolf Kommoss , also Kommoss (* 1904 in Latvia (probably in Riga ), † unknown) was a German journalist and political writer.

Kommoss came from a German Baltic family who emigrated to Germany after Latvia was annexed by the Soviet Union after the First World War . After obtaining his university entrance qualification, he studied philosophy, among other things, at the Humboldt University in Berlin . He also worked as a journalist, using his knowledge of Russian to advantage. In March 1932 he became a party member of the NSDAP . In May 1932 it was still possible for him to travel largely unmolested to the USSR for “political studies” . Kommoss received his doctorate in 1934 under the Germanist Julius Petersen with the dissertation topic Sebastian Franck and Erasmus von Rotterdam . He dedicated the doctoral thesis published by Ebering-Verlag to the memory of his father.

Since 1934, Kommoss worked for the Berlin editorial team of the Russian weekly newspaper Novoe Slowo (Das Neue Wort) , founded in 1933 , which addressed the Russian émigré colony in Germany and sought to restore the Russian Empire within the framework of Christian values . In his contribution Foreword to this Gazette of August 1934 Kommoss wrote: "We are not fighting against the Soviet Union, but rather against the Communist International, which is the mortal enemy of the nation for us." The magazine paid special attention to contemporary political actors of Israelite origin who had been politically active in disproportionate numbers in the League of Nations , the Red Army , the NKVD , the governments of Western Europe, the Spanish Civil War and the war in the Far East, and it interpreted this sociological phenomenon as a danger of a " Jewish-Communist world conspiracy ".

Kommoss later became head of the press office of the Anti-Comintern , a National Socialist organization fighting the Communist International , which initially ceased its journalistic activities in August 1939 because of the Hitler-Stalin Agreement , but resumed it after the attack on the Soviet Union in the summer of 1941. Kommoss became known beyond Germany's borders through his anti-Semitic monograph Jews behind Stalin , published in 1938 , which was translated into foreign languages ​​and reissued in 1942 and 1944. Like other contemporary treatises, the book supported the thesis of Jewish Bolshevism , which, however, is predominantly rejected as a myth in international literature due to the lack of reliable historical evidence for globally coordinated political action.

Fonts (selection)

  • Sebastian Franck and Erasmus from Rotterdam . Verlag E. Ebering, Berlin 1934, 113 pages (= Germanic Studies , Issue 153).
  • For guidance , in: Novoe Slovo , Berlin, 4/1. August 1934, German supplement.
  • The Jewish enforcement of the GPU in the Stalin era , in: Zeitschrift für Politik , Vol. 27, No. 11/12, November / December 1937, pp. 573-578.
  • Jews conquer a German city , in: Weltkampf , Vol. 15, No. 179, November 1938, pp. 504-512.
  • Jews behind Stalin. The Jewish supremacy in the Soviet Union presented on the basis of official Soviet sources. Nibelungen-Verlag, Berlin / Leipzig 1938, second edition: 1944.
  • Jews make world politics , National Political Enlightenment Writings , No. 16, Paul Hochmuth Verlag, Berlin 1938; Revised in 1942 and reissued by Karl Baumböck, 32 pages.
  • Stalin's party congress. To refresh the memory of Western democrats , in: Völkischer Beobachter , March 11, 1939, p. 10.
  • The Jewish element in the Soviet culture of the Stalin era , in: Weltkampf , Heft 3, 1942, pp. 213–220.
  • The nesting of Jews in Riga since the end of the Middle Ages , in: Die Judenfrage , Volume 6, 1942, pp. 109–112.

literature

  • Baltic Germans, Weimar Republic and Third Reich , Volume 1, edited by Michael Garleff, Böhlau, 2nd edition, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2008, p. 408.
  • Christina Jung: Flight into Terror: Soviet Exile in Autobiographies of German Communists , Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-593-38744-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Garleff (Ed.): German Baltic States, Weimar Republic and German Reich , Volume 1, 2nd edition, Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2008, p. 408 and p. 433.
  2. ↑ Rudolf Kommoss: Sebastian Franck and Erasmus of Rotterdam . Verlag E. Ebering, Berlin 1934, 112 pages (= Germanic Studies , Issue 153).
  3. ^ Christian Hufen: The newspaper Novoe Slovo. A Russian newspaper under National Socialism . In: Russian Emigration in Germany 1918 to 1941. Life in the European Civil War . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1995, pp. 459–468 ( restricted preview )
  4. ^ A b Christian Hufen: The newspaper Novoe Slovo. A Russian newspaper under National Socialism . In: Russian Emigration in Germany 1918 to 1941. Life in the European Civil War . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1995, p. 460
  5. ↑ Walter Laqueur : Anti-Comintern , in: Survey - A Journal of Soviet and East European Studies , No. 48, July 1963, pp. 145–162
  6. ↑ Handbook of Antisemitism ( Wolfgang Benz , ed.), Volume 5: Organizations, Institutions, Movements , de Guyter, Berlin / Boston 2012, p. 30 .
  7. ↑ Hermann Fehst : Bolshevism and Judaism - The Jewish element in the leadership of Bolshevism . Eckard-Kampf-Verlag, Berlin 1934, 169 pages.
  8. ^ André Gerrits: The Myth of Jewish Communism , Peter Lang, Brussels 2009 ( limited preview )
  9. ↑ Johannes Rogalla von Bieberstein : "Jüdischer Bolschewismus". Myth and Reality. With a foreword by Ernst Nolte. Verlag Edition Antaios, Dresden 2002, ISBN 3-935063-14-8 ; 2. revised Edition, Ares Verlag, Graz 2010, ISBN 978-3-902475-75-6 .
personal data
SURNAME Come on, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Come on, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and political writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH uncertain: Riga , Latvia
DATE OF DEATH 20th century