Ernst Friedlaender (publicist)

Ernst Friedlaender (born February 4, 1895 in Wiesbaden , † January 13, 1973 in Cologne ) was a German publicist . He also published under the pseudonym Ernst Ferger.

Life

Friedlaender studied philosophy at the universities of Tübingen , Leipzig , Berlin , Bonn and Cologne . In the First World War was Friedlaender soldier.

Between 1929 and 1931 Friedlaender was co-director of the IG Farben subsidiary Agfa in the USA, emigrated with his family to Switzerland in 1931 and lived in Liechtenstein from 1934 to 1945 . From October 1946 to July 1950 he was deputy editor-in-chief of ZEIT . Politically, Friedlaender campaigned primarily for European integration . In May 1954 he became Vice President of the German Council of the European Movement , as its President he then served from September 1954 to 1958.

Friedlaender was one of the best-known German journalists at the head of the German Council, which, in terms of European policy, relied more on Adenauer's integration into the West than his predecessor in the office of Eugen Kogon . From 1954 to 1957 Friedlaender was also President of the Europa-Union Deutschland . He represented the “pragmatic, non-partisan course” of the European Union, which was influential in the then Federal Republic.

Ernst Friedlaender was married to the doctor Franziska Schulz. Friedländer's daughter was the SPD politician Katharina Focke .

Works (selection)

• To the German youth. Five speeches . Claassen & Goverts, Hamburg 1947.
• Peace and the West . Vaduz 1940.
• From inner distress . Claassen & Goverts, Hamburg 1947.
• The essence of peace . 1945.

literature

• Ernst Friedlaender , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 06/1973 from January 29, 1973, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
• Katharina Focke: My father: Ernst Friedlaender on his 100th birthday. Cologne, written on February 4, 1995 for his descendants . Olzog Verlag, Munich 1982.
• Jürgen Mittag : From a circle of dignitaries to a European network. Six decades of the European Movement in Germany . In: 60 Years of the European Movement Germany. European Movement Germany eV, Berlin, 2009, pp. 12–28 , archived from the original on March 8, 2012 ; Retrieved July 10, 2016 . 
• Helmut Stubbe da Luz : Friedlaender, Ernst . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 2 . Christians, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-7672-1366-4 , pp. 131-132 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Ernst Friedlaender in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Heiko Buschke: German press, right-wing extremism and the National Socialist past in the Adenauer era. Campus, Frankfurt a. M. 2003, ISBN 3-593-37344-0 , p. 107. ( limited preview in Google book search)
2. ^ Marion Countess Dönhoff: Encouragement in a time without hope: On the death of Ernst Friedlaender . Die Zeit , Nr. 4, January 19, 1973, accessed July 10, 2016.
3. ↑ Noon: From the circle of notables to the European network , p. 19.
4. ^ Friedländer, Ernst . Short biography in the Federal Archives , accessed on July 10, 2016.
5. ^ Wilfried Loth: The Europe of the Associations: The European Union in the European Integration Process (1949-1969) . In: Jürgen Mittag, Wolfgang Wessels (ed.): The Cologne European: Friedrich Carl von Oppenheim and European unification . Aschendorf, Münster / Westphalia, 2005, ISBN 3-402-00404-6 ; Pp. 217-236, here p. 224.