Ernst Langendorf

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Ernst Langendorf (* 1907 in Rod an der Weil ; † 1989 ) (also Ernest Langendorf ) was a German journalist.

Life

Langendorf was a member of the SPD and worked as an editor in Frankfurt / Main in 1931/32 . When he accused Hitler of “cowardice before the enemy in World War I” in an article in 1933, he was successfully sued by Hitler and later attacked by the SA. He emigrated in the same year and came to the USA via France, the Netherlands and Spain.

After the war, Langendorf returned to Germany as a member of the US Army. From 1945 to 1948 Langendorf was a press officer in the Office of Military Government for Bavaria in Munich. In this function he was responsible for the award of the first newspaper licenses and thus played a key role in the establishment and rebuilding of the southern German press landscape - such as B. the Süddeutsche Zeitung or the evening newspaper - involved.

From 1953 he was press officer at Radio Free Europe in Munich .

Part of his estate is in the archive of the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich.

Ernst Langendorf was the father of Jean-Jacques Langendorf , a Swiss historian.

Fonts

  • It all started in Munich, Munich 1985.
  • (as editor) Hungary under Soviet rule , Munich, approx. 1957.
  • (as editor) PresseClub Munich , Munich 1985.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hannes Hintermeier , Just thinking is boring , FAZ of April 30, 2004, p. 52.
  2. ↑ See the source text in Wolfgang Benz : Democratization through denazification and education , Federal Agency for Civic Education of April 11, 2005.

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personal data
SURNAME Langendorf, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Langendorf, Ernest
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Rod an der Weil
DATE OF DEATH 1989