Edwin Tietjens

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Edwin Tietjens (born March 20, 1894 in Saint Petersburg , † May 22, 1944 in Berlin ) was a psychologist, advertising specialist and book author who lived in Berlin since the 1920s.

Life

Tietjens, who has a doctorate in psychology, came from St. Petersburg. In 1926 he became the fourth husband of Luigina von Fabrice. His guide Desuggestion , published in 1928/1929, became a bestseller, and it also appeared in numerous editions in English translation.

At the time of National Socialism , Tietjens was active under the code name "the Albanians" in the vicinity of the Rote Kapelle resistance group . In 1940/41 Tietjens made his debut together with the writer and Rote Kapelle member Adam Kuckhoff as a crime writer, their jointly written novel Strogany and the Missing appeared first as a serial in the Kölnische Zeitung , later also in book form. According to the foreword, both the St. Petersburg local flavor and the main character Strogany came from Tietjens' pen. The novel contained numerous time-critical passages and is considered a prime example of literary camouflage.

From 1943 on, Tietjens and his wife hid the Jewish factory worker Ruth Heynemann and her mother in their house and got them forged papers. After Tietjens died of a heart attack in 1944, Luigina von Fabrice continued to look after the two women until the Red Army invaded . After the war, Tietjens and Fabrice were honored by the State of Israel with the title Righteous Among the Nations .

Works

  • Desuggestion; their meaning and evaluation: health, success, happiness , Berlin: O. Elsner, 1929. (Reprint Survival Press, May 2016, ISBN 978-3-93793364-1 )
    • Translated by Eden and Cedar Paul as Desuggestion for the attainment of health, happiness, and success , London: Allen & Unwin, [1931].
  • Strogany and the Missing People , under the pseudonym "Peter Tarin", together with Adam Kuckhoff, Berlin: Universitas-Verlag 1941

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ thepeerage.com
  2. ↑ Shareen Blair Brysac, Resisting Hitler: Mildred Harnack and the Red Orchestra, Oxford University Press 2002, p. 272
  3. ^ Israel Gutman & Sara Bender, Lexicon of the Righteous Among the Nations: Germans and Austrians , Wallstein Verlag, 2005, Vol. I, p.272; Edwin Tietjens - his activity to save Jews' lives during the Holocaust , at Yad Vashem website
personal data
SURNAME Tietjens, Edwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychologist, writer and resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 1944
Place of death Berlin