Dietrich Strothmann

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Dietrich Strothmann (born July 2, 1927 in Berlin ) is a German journalist . He wrote many reports on Nazi trials in the Federal Republic of Germany and on the Holocaust .

Life

Strothmann was born in Berlin in 1927 as the son of a teacher and a pastor's daughter. His father was a member of the NSDAP and later worked as director of a trade school in Berlin and with the title of high school councilor in Breslau.

Strothmann grew up in the working class district of Berlin-Gesundbrunnen and attended the Gontard high school for boys . He was a member of the Hitler Youth . During the Second World War he was used as a flak helper , for the Reich Labor Service and as a soldier . After being a prisoner of war and graduating from high school , he studied history , German , art history and journalism at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster and was admitted to the Philosophical Faculty in 1958 with the dissertation The System of National Socialist Literature Policy. A contribution to journalism in the 3rd Reich to the Dr. phil. PhD ; The fourth edition appeared in 1985.

In 1959 he became a political editor at the Neue Ruhr Zeitung in Essen; In 1961 he switched to the weekly newspaper Die Zeit in Hamburg. He was a trial observer in numerous trials against Nazi criminals in the FRG a. a. in the Auschwitz trials in Frankfurt am Main and in the Majdanek trial in Düsseldorf.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • National Socialist Literary Policy. A contribution to journalism in the 3rd Reich (= treatises on art, music and literary studies , Volume 13, Library of the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels eV Frankfurt am Main), Bouvier, Bonn 1960, DNB 454938004 ; 4th edition, Bonn 1984, ISBN 3-416-00190-7 .
  • with Erich Lüth : Life, Struggle and Death in the Warsaw Ghetto. Speeches for the exhibition in Hamburg on April 6, 1964 (= series of publications of the Neue Gesellschaft , issue 3). Board of Trustees for Citizenship Education, New Society, Association for Political Education eV, Hamburg 1964, DNB 452734908 .
  • ed .: The Federal Presidents. The office, the heads of state, the applicants 1994 (= time points 1992 - 2004 , 1994, No. 2). Zeitverlag Bucerius, Hamburg 1994, DNB 943505348 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Reichel : National Socialism in court and the return to the rule of law. In: Peter Reichel, Harald Schmid, Peter Steinbach (eds.): The National Socialism. The second story. Overcoming, interpretation, memory. Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-58342-1 , p. 58
  2. ↑ a b c d e Dietrich Strothmann: Everyday youth . In: Jakob Benecke (Ed.): The Hitler Youth 1933 to 1945. Program, everyday life, memories. A documentation . Beltz Juventa, Weinheim 2013, ISBN 978-3-7799-2651-1 , p. 212 ff.
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Benz (Ed.): The expulsion of the Germans from the East. Causes, events, consequences . Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-596-24329-7 , p. 248.
  4. ↑ Karl Dietrich Bracher (Ed.): After 25 years. A Germany balance sheet . Kindler, Munich 1970, p. 375.
  5. ↑ Jörg Osterloh, Clemens Vollnhals (ed.): Nazi trials and the German public. Occupation, early Federal Republic and GDR (= writings of the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism, Volume 45). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2011, p. 17.
personal data
SURNAME Strothmann, Dietrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin