Bruno Altmann

File for the expatriation of Bruno Altmann

Stumbling block at the house, Dörchläuchtingstrasse 4, in Berlin-Britz

Bruno Altmann (born December 11, 1878 in Gumbinnen , † 1943 in Majdanek ) was a German writer of Jewish origin. From the 1920s to 1933 he lived at Dörchläuchtingstrasse 11 in Berlin-Britz . He was Dr. phil. and got involved in the SPD . After the National Socialist " seizure of power " Altmann emigrated to France, where he continued to work as a journalist. His book Before the Socialist Law (with Paul Kampffmeyer ) was entered on the NS list of forbidden books in 1933 and publicly burned. He wrote on a wide variety of topics, but in exile mostly critical articles about university professors who were active in the Nazi state .

In 1938 he published two articles on Martin Heidegger and National Socialism , which were republished in 2009:

"Many jokes have been cracked about Heidegger's development: he made the worst himself when, after all, he became a National Socialist."

Altmann's German citizenship was revoked on October 26, 1937. He was imprisoned in the Drancy assembly camp in occupied France and deported on the 50th transport from Drancy to the Majdanek concentration camp on March 4, 1943, where he was murdered by the National Socialists.

On November 26, 2018 , a stumbling block was laid in front of his former place of residence, Berlin-Britz , Dörchläuchtingstrasse 4 .

Journalism (selection)

Africa in America . on Pan-Africanism , writer James Weldon Johnson and poet Anne Spencer . In: the newspaper Die Welt. 1929.
Disillusionment of a philosopher. Heidegger no longer likes to paw. In: New Forward . No. 256, May 15, 1938.
Heidegger and Banse. In: The New World Stage . No. 34, 1938.
Professors' portraits of Alfred Baeumler and Willy Hellpach . In: Bertolt Brecht , Lion Feuchtwanger , Willi Bredel (ed.): The word . Issue 2 from 1937.
Before the socialist law . Years of crisis in the authoritarian state. With Paul Kampffmeyer. The book circle (1928)

Web links

Commons : Bruno Altmann - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Heidegger and National Socialism I. In: Alfred Denker, Holger Zaborowski (ed.): Heidegger year book. 4. Verlag Karl Aber, Freiburg / Munich 2009.
^ Maria Diedrich, Jürgen Heinrichs: From Black to Schwarz: Cultural Crossovers Between African America and Germany. Michigan State University Press, East Lansing, Michigan 2011, ISBN 978-0-87013-989-5 .
^ Rebecca T. Frischkorn, Reuben M. Rainey: Half My World: The Garden of Anne Spencer a History and Guide. Warwich House, Lynchburg, Virginia 2003.
↑ Note 17

personal data
SURNAME	Altmann, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer of Jewish origin
DATE OF BIRTH	December 11, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gumbinnen
DATE OF DEATH	1943
Place of death	Majdanek

[jahrbuch-1] Heidegger and National Socialism I. In: Alfred Denker, Holger Zaborowski (ed.): Heidegger year book. 4. Verlag Karl Aber, Freiburg / Munich 2009.

[2] Maria Diedrich, Jürgen Heinrichs: From Black to Schwarz: Cultural Crossovers Between African America and Germany. Michigan State University Press, East Lansing, Michigan 2011, ISBN 978-0-87013-989-5 .

[3] Rebecca T. Frischkorn, Reuben M. Rainey: Half My World: The Garden of Anne Spencer a History and Guide. Warwich House, Lynchburg, Virginia 2003.

[4] Note 17