Ernst from the ceiling

Ernst von der Betten (born November 14, 1894 in Dresden , † March 15, 1958 in Hamburg ) was a German journalist and writer .

Life

He was the son of the Saxon chamberlain Theodor von der Betten (1842–1926). Ernst von der Betten was friends with Ernst Deutsch and Willy Haas . In 1932 he married the film actress Dorothea Wieck in Berlin . The marriage ended in divorce in 1935. In 1951 he married Margarete Feldmann for the second time.

In the First World War he took part as an officer in the cavalry and was dismissed as a first lieutenant . After an internship at BZ am Mittag , he became the main editor at Ullstein Verlag in Berlin in the 1920s . After the end of the Second World War , he took over the news department of the Berlin Telegraf in 1946 . Later he moved to Hamburg for Welt am Sonntag , where he was appointed deputy editor-in-chief . As such, he died in Hamburg at the age of 64.

Works

A sinner goes to holy land. Knight's leap through Palestine. Reissner, Dresden 1932.
Big world - small world: America: by rail and highway through the USA. 1940.

literature

Gothaisches Adeliges Taschenbuch, Gotha 1940, p. 209.
Herwart and Tassilo from the ceiling: genealogical tables of the von der ceiling family. 1994, p. 11.

Individual evidence

↑ Christina Prüver: Willy Haas and the features section of the daily newspaper “Die Welt”. Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-8260-3680-4 (also dissertation, Humboldt University 2007), p. 103.

^ Georg Zivier: Ernst Deutsch and the German Theater 1964. P. 91.

^ Susanne Grebner: The telegraph. Creation of a licensed newspaper close to the SPD in Berlin from 1946 to 1950 . LIT Verlag, Berlin / Hamburg / Münster 2002, ISBN 3-8258-4540-0 . (P. 141)

Web links

Josef Müller-Marein : Obituary for Ernst from the ceiling in: DIE ZEIT March 20, 1958

personal data
SURNAME	Blankets, Ernst von der
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 14, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dresden
DATE OF DEATH	March 15, 1958
Place of death	Hamburg

[1] Christina Prüver: Willy Haas and the features section of the daily newspaper “Die Welt”. Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-8260-3680-4 (also dissertation, Humboldt University 2007), p. 103.

[2] Georg Zivier: Ernst Deutsch and the German Theater 1964. P. 91.

[3] Susanne Grebner: The telegraph. Creation of a licensed newspaper close to the SPD in Berlin from 1946 to 1950 . LIT Verlag, Berlin / Hamburg / Münster 2002, ISBN 3-8258-4540-0 . (P. 141)