Ernst Samhaber

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Ernst Samhaber (born April 28, 1901 in Valparaíso , Chile , † March 17, 1974 in Hamburg ) was a German historian , journalist (specializing in the USA and South America) and business journalist . He was the first editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit .

Life

Samhaber, the son of a merchant, was born in 1901 as a German-Chilean . He attended the Goethe School, a reform high school and a forerunner of today's Goethe High School in Berlin-Wilmersdorf . He then studied philosophy , history and Semitic languages from 1918 to 1923 at the universities in Berlin , Hamburg and Munich . In 1921 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD. Then he was Associate Professor of Ancient History (Assyriology) at the Universidad de Chile . From 1930 to 1931 he was a full-time employee and speaker for Chile at the Ibero-American Institute (IAI) in Berlin. He then went back to Chile and worked as a freelance writer.

Although he was never a member of the NSDAP , he was a part-time employee of the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda from late 1933 to April 1937 . In 1937 he became head of the German Future Department in Berlin. From 1939 to 1942 he was the foreign correspondent for the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (DAZ). From May 1941 he also worked for the German publishing house . From 1941 to 1944 he worked for the Nazi weekly newspaper Das Reich . In June 1944 he returned to the German Reich.

After the Second World War he co- founded the daily newspaper Die Welt at the request of the British occupying forces and in 1946 acted as the first editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit in Hamburg. He was regarded as a "contentious conservative" ( Gerd Bucerius ) and an important journalist in the post-war period. After his activities for National Socialist propaganda and statements critical of the occupation became known, he was banned from his profession in an initial denazification process in August 1946. In 1948 he was classified as “not affected”; before that he praised the “pioneering bourgeois spirit of the USA”. From then on he worked as a freelance journalist and author. From 1956 to 1961 he was a lecturer in Ibero-American sociology at the Technical University of Berlin .

Fonts (selection)

  • South America. Face, mind, story . Goverts, Hamburg 1939.
  • The question of raw materials in business and politics . Schaffstein, Cologne 1939.
  • How are wars financed? Gloeckner, Leipzig 1940.
  • The new economic forms 1914–1940 . Paul Neff Verlag, Berlin 1940.
  • Spanish South America (= World Political Library ). German publisher, Berlin 1941.
  • The magician of credit. Luck and Unhappiness of the John Law of Lauriston . Bruckmann, Munich 1941.
  • Overcoming the crisis. England's problem today . Claassen & Goverts, Hamburg 1948.
  • The new world. Changes in South America. A primer . Badischer Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 1949.
  • South America today. A continent is being rediscovered . Scherz & Goverts, Stuttgart 1954.
  • History of the United States of America. Becoming the world power (= world history in individual representations , Volume 8). Bruckmann, Munich 1954.
  • Little history of South America . Scheffler, Frankfurt am Main 1955.
  • Today's world, tomorrow's world. A sociology of the economy . Scheffler, Frankfurt am Main 1961.
  • The money. A cultural story . Keyser, Munich 1964.
  • South America and Communism (= publication series of the Lower Saxony State Center for Political Education , Issue 1). Lower Saxony State Center for Political Education , Hanover 1964.
  • Knaur's history of voyages of discovery. The big journeys into the unknown . Droemer / Knaur, Munich a. a. 1970.
  • Inventions. Milestones in the future . Ueberreuter, Vienna a. a. 1971, ISBN 3-8000-3117-5 .
  • Economy, made understandable (= Goldmann pocket books , volume 10002). Goldmann, Munich 1972, ISBN 3-442-10002-X . (Scheffler edition 1968)
  • World historical connections. Perspectives for the future . Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1976, ISBN 3-570-05209-5 .
  • World history . Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1976, ISBN 3-570-05207-9 .
  • History of Europe . Europa Union Verlag, Bonn 1982, ISBN 3-7713-0169-6 . (DuMont Schauberg edition 1967)
  • Merchants change the world. The history of trade from the beginning to the present . 2nd edition, Societäts Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-7973-0540-0 . (Scheffler edition 1960)

literature

  • Oliver Gliech: Basic bio-bibliographical data on the speakers and general secretaries of the IAI (1929–1945) . In: Reinhard Liehr, Günther Maihold, Günter Vollmer (eds.): An institute and its general. Wilhelm Faupel and the Ibero-American Institute in the time of National Socialism (= Bibliotheca Ibero-Americana , Volume 89). Vervuert, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-89354-589-1 , p. 602. (see Ernst Samhaber)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Anne-M. Wallrath-Janssen: The publishing house H. Goverts in the Third Reich . Saur, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-24904-4 , p. 313.
  2. ↑ Oliver Gliech: Basic bio-bibliographical data on the speakers and general secretaries of the IAI (1929–1945) . In: Reinhard Liehr, Günther Maihold, Günter Vollmer (eds.): An institute and its general. Wilhelm Faupel and the Ibero-American Institute in the time of National Socialism (= Bibliotheca Ibero-Americana , Volume 89). Vervuert, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-89354-589-1 , p. 602. (see Ernst Samhaber)
  3. ↑ Ursula Büttner , Angelika Voss-Louis (ed.): New beginning on rubble. The diaries of the Mayor of Bremen Theodor Spitta (1945–1947) (= Biographical Sources on German History after 1945 , Volume 13). Oldenbourg, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-486-55938-9 , p. 371.
  4. ↑ Heiko Buschke: German press, right-wing extremism and the National Socialist past in the Adenauer era (= Campus Research , Volume 866). Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-593-37344-0 , pp. 106-107.
personal data
SURNAME Samhaber, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, journalist and business journalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Valparaíso , Chile
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1974
Place of death Hamburg