Emery Reves
Emery Reves (born February 16, 1904 in Bácsföldvár (Hungary), today Bačko Gradište (Serbia), † October 4, 1981 in Monte Carlo ), alias Imre Rosenbaum alias Imre Révész was an American journalist of Hungarian origin.
Career
The Rosenbaum family came from Ada , a small Hungarian town in the Batschka region , which is now part of Serbia.
Reves studied in Berlin and Zurich , where he received his doctorate in 1926 with a thesis on Walter Rathenau and worked as a speechwriter and copywriter for the Odol company in Berlin. When the Nazis came to power, he moved to Paris , where he ran his agency called Cooperation Press Service, founded in 1930, which from 1937 also distributed articles by Winston Churchill . He interviewed Churchill and Anthony Eden , which made his name appear in newspapers around the world. Before the German occupation of France , Churchill arranged for him a visa for England and later British naturalization . Reves published Churchill's memoirs, gathered a well-known collection of Impressionists and Late Impressionists, for whom he was considered a specialist.
After the war he bought Coco Chanel's Villa La Pausa in Rocquebrune in the south of France, which he made available to Churchill for holidays and relaxation stays . His guests also included Konrad Adenauer , Greta Garbo and the Duke of Windsor . Reves was married to the American Wendy Reves . His cousin Georg Solti describes him in his memoirs as snobby and sardonically witty. Without Reves' support with food and money, the lives of the relatives in Budapest would have been at risk.
He published the book " I Paid Hitler " by Fritz Thyssen without authorization from the author , but was able to make Thyssen's handwritten corrections up to chapter 9. The book brought the industrialist and Hitler supporter, who had sat in the Reichstag for the NSDAP, to the concentration camp after he fled to southern France via Switzerland. There the book had been written and corrected by Thyssen in collaboration with Reves. The Vichy government of unoccupied France surrendered Thyssen. Reves had the book published in New York in 1941. Reves was also the ghostwriter of a second, controversial book by Hermann Rauschning : Conversations with Hitler , which was a great success. It is unclear which parts of this book were from Reves. Although cited to this day, most historians consider it essentially a forgery. So waived Ian Kershaw insisting it consulted for his biography of Hitler.
Emery Reves also wrote The Anatomy of Peace , published in 1945, which advocated the idea of a federal world state. Reves saw international law as the only way to prevent war. According to Reves, the United Nations Security Council , created in 1945 , is not an effective means of maintaining world peace, because it is more an instrument of power than an instrument of law. The book was u. a. supported by Albert Einstein . The questions about law and its justification raised therein are of a legal philosophical nature.
Wendy Reves bequeathed the joint art collection (1,400 items) to the Dallas Museum of Art . Five rooms of Villa La Pausa have been recreated in a museum wing specially built for this purpose. In addition to furniture and handicrafts, the collection mainly includes French paintings from Corot to Pierre Bonnard .
Publications
- The Anatomy of Peace , 1945.
- Winston Churchill and Emery Reves: Correspondence, 1937-1964. University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas 1997, ISBN 0-292-71201-4 .
- Fritz Thyssen : I Paid Hitler , as ghostwriter and editor: Emery Reves, London 1941.
- Hermann Rauschning : Conversations with Hitler , ghostwriter Emery Reves, ISBN 3-85665-515-8 .
literature
- The Wendy and Emery Reves Collection. Dallas Museum of Art 1985, hardcover, ISBN 0-9609622-8-X and paperback ISBN 0-9609622-9-8
- Richard R. Brettell: Impressionist Paintings Drawings and Sculpture: From the Wendy and Emery Reves Collection. Dallas Museum of Art 1995, ISBN 0-936227-15-X
- Charles L. Venable: Decorative Arts Highlights from the Wendy and Emery Reves Collection , Dallas Museum of Art, October 1, 1995
Web links
- Literature by and about Emery Reves in the catalog of the German National Library
- Hungarian Dictionary of National Biography
- The Wendy and Emery Reves Collection at the Dallas Museum of Art
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reves, Emery |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rosenbaum, Imre; Révész, Imre |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American journalist of Hungarian origin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 16, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bačko Gradište |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th October 1981 |
| Place of death | Monte Carlo |