Erwin pot

Erwin Topf (born December 22, 1898 in Meiningen , † June 12, 1981 in Hamburg ) was a German journalist .

life and work

Erwin Topf, born in Meiningen in 1898, was an editor and SPD functionary.

Topf joined the SPD in 1923 during his university days. Under the name 'Jan Bargenhusen' he wrote contributions to the world stage . He experienced the " seizure of power " by the Nazis as an employee of the Berliner Tageblatt . When it became clear to him that his idea of freedom of expression would not be realized in the current situation, he became a soldier and rose to the rank of colonel. From 1941 he was in contact with the Kreisau Circle . He wrote an affidavit and witnessed Wolfram Sievers' defense in the 1946/47 medical trial .

After the war he worked as an editor again. From 1946 to 1958 he worked as head of the “Economy” section of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit .

Erwin Topf died on June 12, 1981 at the age of 82.

Publications

The German food problem: protecting the domestic food industry . New Society publishing house, 1925
Daily bread for mankind . Urania-Verlags-Gesellschaft, Jena, 1926
The Green Front. The struggle for the German field , Rowohlt, Berlin, 1933
Economic policy should be done . Seewald, Stuttgart, 1960

literature

Erwin Topf in: Die Zeit and the Bonn Republic: an opinion-forming weekly newspaper between rearmament and reunification , by Christian Haase, Axel Schildt, Wallstein Verlag GmbH, 2008, page 16

Web links

Obituary for Erwin Topf , Die Zeit, June 26, 1981

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Pot, Erwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 22, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH	Meiningen , Germany
DATE OF DEATH	June 12, 1981
Place of death	Hamburg , Germany

[1] Topf in: The Lord of Fire: Friedrich Hielscher and his circle between paganism, new nationalism and resistance against National Socialism , by Ina Schmidt, SH-Verlag, 2004, page 191

[2] Biographical data from Erwin Topf in: Editing volume for the microfiche edition: With an introduction by Angelika Ebbinghaus on the history of the process and short biographies of those involved in the process , KG-Saur, Munich, 2000, page 151

[3] Erwin Topf in: 150 Years of Doctorate at the Economics Faculty of the University of Tübingen: Biographies of Doctors, Honorary Doctors and Habilitation, 1830-1980 (1984) , by Immo Eberl, Helmut Marcon, University of Tübingen. Faculty of Economics, K. Theiss, 1984, p. 224