Cornelius van der Horst

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Cornelius van der Horst ( May 1, 1906 - February 17, 1975 ) was a German writer.

Life

At the time of the end of the Weimar Republic , van der Horst was co-editor of the magazine Stand und Staat , the organ of the German Association of clerks.

During the Second World War , van der Horst was a member of the Waffen SS , for which he worked as a "war reporter". During this time he published his first two novels. In particular, he worked as an editor for the magazine Das Schwarze Korps , the battle and advertising newspaper of the SS .

In April 1945 van der Horst fled Berlin to Austria in order to evade conviction for undermining military strength or defeatism based on an article for which he was responsible in the Black Corps, in which the German defeat in the war was admitted.

In February / March, at van der Horst's instigation , Herbert Reinecker wrote the leading article "People hear the signals" for the Black Corps , in which he implicitly admitted that the war was lost for the German side and stated that the future of Europe depends on behavior the western powers depended. When this article came to the knowledge of Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels , he asked the editor-in-chief of the Black Corps, Gunter d'Alquen, to give the name of the author who had to disclose it. However, Reinecker and van der Horst escaped arrest for undermining military strength, as they - warned by d'Alquen in good time and assigned to a special train to the south - were able to flee Berlin and go to Austria. Allegedly, they were sentenced to death in absentia.

After the Second World War, van der Horst worked for the Gehlen organization under the code name "Conny" . In the 1950s and 1960s from Elmshorn in Holstein he also published the magazine Der Freiwillige , published by Mun-Verlag in Osnabrück , the newsletter of the "mutual aid community of former members of the Waffen-SS".

Fonts

  • The bitter years , coastal publishing house, Hamburg 1941.
  • Sergeant Wassenaar's Laughter , Hanseatische Verlags Anstalt, Hamburg 1941.
  • The Bendlerstrasse. Decisions and struggles 1918-1933 , Holsten-Verlag, Hamburg 1958.
  • Benedicta Farnese or the temptation of Paolo Cappa , Holsten Verlag, Hamburg 1959.

As editor:

  • The tied rooster. In close combat with the Resistance , Holsten-Verlag, Hamburg 1959.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mario Zeck: The Black Corps. History and shape of the organ of the Reichsführung SS , p. 81; Volker Helbig: Herbert Reinecker's Complete Works , p. 121.
  2. ^ Richard Breitman / Robert Wolfe: US Intelligence and the Nazis. Cambridge University Press, New York 2005, p. 410; and US National Archives: Cryptonyms and Terms in Declassified CIA Files. Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Disclosure Acts .
personal data
SURNAME Horst, Cornelius van der
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1906
DATE OF DEATH 17th February 1975