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Friedemann Bedürftig (* December 12, 1940 in Breslau ; † November 30, 2010 in Hamburg-Rissen ) was a German journalist and author who mainly wrote historical non-fiction books.

Life

Needlessly studied history and German at the University of Tübingen . He then worked as a dictionary editor for the Bibliographical Institute , as a publisher's editor at Rowohlt and as a journalist for the Jahr Verlag . From 1981 he lived as a freelance author in Hamburg . Among other things, he wrote for ZEIT and the Süddeutsche Zeitung .

As a book author, Benürftig had a wide range of topics. Among other things, he published the "Great Lexicon of the Third Reich" (as editor with Christian Zentner ) and the "Pocket Lexicon Germany after 1945" as well as biographies of people from contemporary history such as Otto von Bismarck or Adolf Hitler , but also, for example, the "History of the Pharmacy" and a volume on the “royal and princely houses of Europe”. He also wrote the texts for a comic biography of Adolf Hitler. He also worked as a ghostwriter . Walter Görlitz collaborated on needy Prussian reading book (1981) .

Friedemann Needy succumbed to cancer a few days before his 70th birthday in a Hamburg palliative center .

Publications (selection)

• Prussian reader: pictures, texts, documents. Unipart, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-8122-8101-5 .
• as ed. with Christian Zentner : The great lexicon of the Third Reich . Südwest-Verlag, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-517-00834-6 .
• Lexicon Germany after 1945. Carlsen, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-551-85030-5 .
• Pocket dictionary Goethe. Piper, Munich / Zurich 1999, ISBN 3-492-22669-8 .
• Christianity: past and present. Honos, Cologne undated (2003), ISBN 3-8299-5827-7 .
• When Hitler built the atomic bomb: lies and errors about the "Third Reich". Piper, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-492-04443-3 .
• The loveliest of the loveliest figures: Ulrike von Levetzow and Goethe. Kindler, Reinbek 2004, ISBN 3-463-40463-X .
• The woes of young Wehner: documented in a pen pal in the eventful time 1924–1926. Parthas, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-86601-059-1 .

such as

• Ploetz - The German Democratic Republic - data, facts, analyzes. Edited by Alexander Fischer (1987), updated by Friedemann Bedürftig. Licensed edition, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-89836-347-3

Web links

• Literature by and about Friedemann Bedürftig in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Friedemann Bedürftig at perlentaucher.de
• Obituary in the Hamburger Abendblatt (December 8, 2010)
• Portrait at ABW-Wissenschaftsverlag