Bernhard Menne

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Bernhard Menne (born September 3, 1901 in Fredeburg , † November 9, 1968 in Hamburg ) was a German journalist and publicist . He wrote under the pseudonyms Max Rudert , Bernhard Westphal and Hilgenreich .

Life

Menne was born the son of a bailiff. While attending a teachers' seminar, he was called in to the so-called military aid service (KHD). In the course of the November Revolution 1918/19 he joined the USPD and later the KPD . He took u. a. participated in the March fights in central Germany and then worked as an editor at the KPD organ, Die Rote Fahne, in Berlin. His work took him all over Germany. During the occupation of the Ruhr in 1923, he was cell neighbor of Gustav Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach . He was later to publish a book about him. During this time, Menne was considered a companion of the communist Max Hölz . In 1927 he traveled to the Soviet Union . In 1928, because of his criticism of the party line, he was first transferred to Die Welt am Abend in Essen and then excluded from the party as a “right wing” (together with Heinrich Galm and Erich Hausen ). In Essen he subsequently published the weekly newspaper Tribüne . A year later he joined the SPD .

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in 1933, he escaped to Prague . There he became editor-in-chief of the German-language émigré newspaper Prager Mittag . In 1939 he emigrated to England, where he joined the Thomas Mann group in the Czech Refugee Trust Fund. He acted as secretary of the Thomas Mann Society and worked for the German PEN Club in exile in London. He distanced himself from the widespread anti-German hatred of Vansittartism . After the Second World War in 1948, at the request of the British occupying power, he became editor-in-chief of Welt am Sonntag (from 1953 at Axel Springer Verlag ) in Hamburg. Menne ran the newspaper until his death.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Deutsche-biographie.de: Bernhard Menne, accessed on May 30, 2015
  2. ↑ Bernhard Menne in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors , accessed on May 30, 2015
  3. ↑ Bernt Engelmann : My friends the money giants: the power on the Rhine, the old wealth, the new rich, Volume 1; P. 597, Schneekluth, 1972
  4. ↑ Welt.de: Sven Felix Kellerhoff - The right mix brought success to the Sunday child, 65 years of WamS, newspaper history from August 5, 2013, accessed on February 28, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Menne, Bernhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rudert, Max (pseudonym); Westphal, Bernhard (pseudonym); Hilgenreich (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Fredeburg
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1968
Place of death Hamburg