Dietrich Mende

Dietrich Erich Mende (born April 15, 1899 in Guben ; † 1990 ) was a German journalist, publicist and ministerial official.

As the son of judge Albert Mende and his wife Dora Lesser, he took up his studies, which took him to the TH Berlin , Heidelberg, Munich and Würzburg. He completed his studies with a doctorate . In Harburg he headed the press office from 1925 to 1928.

From 1928 to 1929 he published the magazine Die Hilfe . He then took up a position in the Prussian Ministry of Finance from 1929. He was also a consultant for Finance Minister Hermann Höpker-Aschoff . In 1930 he was promoted to senior finance councilor. Here, too, he worked as a press officer for a while.

In August 1933 he left the ministry and went to the Prussian building and finance department. He quit civil service in 1935 and traveled to Italy to study, where he was still in 1936. In 1936 and 1937 he worked underground against the Nazi regime in Berlin and then went into exile in England in the same year.

In England he worked with publications and in 1942 took a job at the British Ministry of Information. As editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper Die Zeitung , which was aimed at German emigrants, he worked with Sebastian Haffner and Johannes Lothar . The newspaper should also be an instrument against the propaganda of the Nazi regime.

From 1946 to 1951 he worked as a research assistant in the British Foreign Office. Then he went back to Frankfurt am Main, where he and others founded the Institute for European Politics and Economics in 1952 . From October 1, 1955 he worked as a secretary at the German Society for Foreign Policy (DGAP) and was editor of the yearbooks Die Internationale Politik .

In 1976 he lived in Lamberhurst in the English county of Kent . Since 1942 he was married to Wendy James.

Fonts

• Imperial idea or small states . Baerer, Harburg 1926.
• Politics and economy in the struggle for the Lower Elbe region , 3 vols. Masch. -schrift 1925. * International relations as a subject of research . In: Europa-Archiv , Volume X., 22/1955, pp. 8375–8380.
• Soviet Policy and the German Problem . In: The World Today , XV. (July 1959), p. 272.
• Great Britain with Gerhard Ritter. Munich (1960?).
• Cultural conservatism and conservative renewal efforts . In: Hans Thierbach (Ed.): Adolf Grabowsky - life and work . Cologne 1963.
• Six weeks in America . Frankfurt 1954.

literature

• Ulrich Reusch: The London institutions of British policy on Germany 1943-1948. An investigation into the history of the authorities . In: Historisches Jahrbuch 100 (1980), pp. 318-443.
• Ulrich Reusch: German civil service and British occupation: Planning and politics 1943-1947 . 1985.
• Werner Röder et al .: Biographical handbook of German-speaking emigrants after 1933 . Munich 1980.
• Hanno Hardt et al. (Ed.): Press in Exile - Contributions to the communication history of German exile 1933-1945 . Munich 1979.

Web links

• Literature by and about Dietrich Mende in the bibliographic database WorldCat