Carl Misch

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Carl Edward Misch , also Karl (born September 7, 1896 in Charlottenburg , † October 13, 1965 in Danville (Kentucky) ) was a German-American journalist .

Life

The son of Wilhelm Misch and Maria, born. Friedländer attended the Andreas School in Berlin. He studied from 1914 German and Public Law in Berlin and Munich , where he in 1920 Erich Marcks with a thesis on from Ense, Karl August Varnhagen doctorate . He married Gerda Ascher.

From 1921 he was the political editor of the Vossische Zeitung and in March 1933 it was its editor-in-chief for a short time. In his articles he criticized the judiciary, German militarism and rearmament in the Weimar Republic . He tried to promote political reconciliation with France.

After the handover of power to the National Socialists , he was co-organizer of the Congress Das Freie Wort on February 19, 1933 . The Ullstein publishing house introduced on 1 April 1933, the political pressures the appearance of the newspaper and mixing was in so-called protective custody taken.

In October 1934 , Misch emigrated to France, worked on the émigré magazines Das Neue Tage-Buch and Die neue Weltbühne and was editor from 1936 to 1938 and from 1938 editor-in-chief of the Paris daily newspaper . He wrote under the pseudonym Otto von Freising. He took part in the Popular Front Conference on February 2, 1936 in Paris and in events organized by the Association of German Writers Abroad and the Free German University in Paris. On August 5, 1937, he was expatriated from the German Reich and on December 16, 1938, the Reichsanzeiger announced that the University of Munich had revoked his doctorate. Misch created a list of emigrants to facilitate communication among those who had fled from Nazi Germany. After the outbreak of war he was interned in France and after the German conquest of France in 1940 he fled to the USA .

In New York City he worked on the magazine Aufbau . Under Albert Grzesinski he was a board member of the Council for a Democratic Germany . After the end of the war he did not return to Germany, but wrote for the Munich newspaper Die Neue Zeitung, which was published by the US occupation forces . In the USA he worked as a teacher and became a history professor for European and modern history at Center College in Danville. In 1962/63 he was invited to the Free University of Berlin as a visiting professor for newspaper studies .

Fonts (selection)

  • German history in the age of the masses: Von d. French Revolution to the Present , Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1952
  • Complete directory of the expatriation lists 1933 - 1938 , Paris: Verl. D. Paris daily newspaper, 1939
  • Varnhagen von Ense in work and politics , Gotha: Friedr. Andr. Perthes 1925 Zugl .: Munich, Phil. Diss.
  • History of the Patriotic Women's Association  : 1866 - 1916 . On behalf of d. Main board d. Fatherland. Women's Association, Berlin: Heymann 1917

literature

  • Stefanie Harrecker: Degraded doctors: the revocation of the doctorate at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich during the time of National Socialism. Utz, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-8316-0691-7 .
  • Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich et al. 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 .
  • Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Eds.): Biographisches Handbuch der Deutschensprachigen Emigration nach 1933 / International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945 , Volume I. Saur, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-598-10087-6 , pp. 504

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personal data
SURNAME Misch, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Misch, Carl Edward (full name); Misch, Karl; Freising, Otto von (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American journalist
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Charlottenburg
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1965
Place of death Danville, Kentucky