Adolf Ehrt
Adolf Ehrt (born August 31, 1902 in Saratow , Russian Empire ; died June 28, 1975 in Munich ) was a German sociologist .
Life
Adolf Ehrt was the son of Oscar Ehrt (1876–1943), German consul in Saratov, in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic , vice consul in Charkow . Adolf Ehrt was the grandson of Robert Oskar Balthasar Ehrt (1851–1905), founder of a trading house in Saratow. In 1914 the family company was confiscated and liquidated by the Russian Empire as enemy property , whereupon the Ehrt family moved to Berlin in 1915 .
From 1922 to 1927 Adolf Ehrt studied economics , political science and social science at the University of Berlin and at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, as well as the degree in business administration at the Berlin School of Management . On November 28, 1931 he was awarded a doctorate degree . pole. at the Handelshochschule Berlin with a thesis on "Mennonism in Russia from its immigration to the present" under doctoral supervisor Anton Palme.
From 1931 to 1933 he headed the defense office of the German Evangelical Church against the Marxist-Bolshevik godless movement in the Evangelical Press Association for Germany .
Ehrt joined the NSDAP in 1931, in response to objections from the Evangelical Press Association he claimed that he would leave the NSDAP by 1935, but as Karsten, similar to his wife's maiden name, Margarete Carstens, continued to pay party contributions. Was honored author and co-author of numerous anti-communist books and pamphlets, was born on September 7, 1933 Chairman of the of Eberhard Taubert led General Association of German anti-communist organizations , founded on 16 November 1933, Association for the Care of the Russian Scientific Institute in Berlin eV , was established in April 1936 editor-in-chief of the magazine "Volk", an organ of the völkisch movement .
During the Second World War he was employed by the Economic Staff East of the Wehrmacht High Command . After May 8, 1945, this body was employed by the Secret Intelligence Service as an evaluation center for eastern economic questions , which was headed by Adolf Ehrt, on the subject of the economy of the Soviet Union . Ehrt claimed that in January 1953 Ministerial Director Gottfried Schapper had promised an exposé on radio surveillance in the Soviet Union and asked Walter Peipe, the clerk of the Hamburg branch of the Federal Information Center for Foreign Trade , whether other former colleagues from the Research Office were in the service of Elisabeth II . wanted to ask.
As part of the renegotiation of the Germany Treaty in 1955, the OKW's East Economic Staff was incorporated into the Federal Intelligence Service , where Ehrt continued to work until he retired.
literature
- Michael Hagemeister : The "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" in court. The Bern Trial 1933–1937 and the “Anti-Semitic International” . Zurich: Chronos, 2017, ISBN 978-3-0340-1385-7 Short biography, p. 526
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christian Tilitzki , The German University Philosophy in the Weimar Republic and in the Third Reich , p. 646
- ↑ Peter F. Müller, Michael Mueller, Erich Schmidt-Eenboom , Against Friend and Enemy: The BND: Geheime Politik and dirty business, Reinbek: Rowohlt, 2002, p. 121
- ^ Internet project on Iwan Alexandrowitsch Iljin , directory of persons
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Honor, Adolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sociologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 31, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saratov , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 28, 1975 |
| Place of death | Munich |