Alfred Domes

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Alfred Domes , also Fred J. Domes (born April 29, 1901 in Troppau , Austria-Hungary , † May 11, 1984 in Bonn ) was a German political journalist of Austrian origin.

Life

Alfred Domes was the son of a military band soldier and attended the kuk military high school in Lobzow near Cracow , the kuk military academy in Traiskirchen and the state high school in Iglau . After graduating from high school in 1920, Domes studied German and art history in Vienna , Copenhagen and Kiel and received his doctorate in 1931. In 1927/28 he was a university assistant in Kiel, from 1928 to 1935 he was employed by the Nordic Society as a cultural advisor and since 1933 chief editor of their monthly magazine Der Norden . Domes was friends with Hans Friedrich Blunck . From 1931 on he was a part-time lecturer at the University of Aarhus (from 1936 onwards) and in 1937 he was a substitute professor at the Technical University of Danzig .

In 1940 he was hired by the Foreign Office and deployed to the Reich Plenipotentiary and Ambassador Cécil von Renthe-Fink in occupied Denmark . Domes was in Copenhagen from 1941 to 1943 director of the newly established "German Scientific Institute in Copenhagen", its president was Otto Scheel . In May 1943 he was transferred to Rome by the Foreign Office and was employed in Florence as a lecturer and, during the period of the Republic of Salò, in the German consulates general in Genoa and Milan as a scientific assistant.

Domes had been a member of the SA since 1933 , in 1937 he joined the NSDAP and in 1940 was block leader of the local branch in Copenhagen of the NSDAP / AO and in 1943 in Genoa press office manager of the foreign organization. Nothing is known about internment after the end of the war and its denazification .

The writings Die Schicksalsgemeinschaft der Ostsee (Stalling, Oldenburg 1934) and Sterne und Strand were published by Domes in the Soviet occupation zone . For Hans Friedrich Blunck (Hohenstaufen-Verlag, Stuttgart 1938) put on the list of literature to be sorted out.

In the Federal Republic of Germany Domes worked as a freelance political publicist. He edited anthologies on current issues of the East-West conflict and European integration , which appeared in the "Edition Atlantic-Forum" maintained by the Atlantik-Brücke and in the politically subsidized Cologne publisher "Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik". Domes was still an honorary professor of theater and literature at the University of Windsor , Canada and therefore held a professor title.

He had been a member of the Sudeten German Academy in the class of arts and art studies since 1981 .

Alfred Domes' son was the political scientist Jürgen Domes .

Fonts (selection)

  • Schiller on the Danish stage . Leipzig, 1935.
  • Stars and beach . Hamburg: The New Seven Rods Publishers, 1935.
  • Hans S. Jacobsen: A Norwegian speaks! : The German-Czech. Question . Ed. U. in Dt. transfer by Fred J. Domes. Berlin-Lichtenrade: Widukind Verl. 1938.

literature

  • Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 1: Johannes Hürter : A – F. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2000, ISBN 3-506-71840-1 .
  • Frank-Rutger Hausmann : "Even in war, the muses are not silent": the German Scientific Institutes in World War II , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-35357-X .
  • Kürschner's German Literature Calendar. Nekrolog 1971-1998 , p. 119.
  • Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon , Volume 3, Francke, Bern 1971, p. 438.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical information in the culture portal West-Ost , accessed on May 26, 2020
  2. ↑ Frank-Rutger Hausmann: Even in war the muses are not silent , p. 184.
  3. ↑ Directory at Polunbi.de , accessed on May 26, 2020
  4. ↑ Academy website , accessed May 26, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Domes, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Domes, Fred J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political publicist
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Troppau
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1984
Place of death Bonn