Friedrich Tete Harens Tetens

Friedrich Tete Harens Tetens (* 1899 in Berlin ; † 1976 ) was a German investigative journalist .

Life

Friedrich Tete Harens Tetens lived in Caputh . In 1927 he published the Deutsche Tabak-Zeitung , a trade magazine for the German tobacco industry, in Eberswalde .

Tetens later accused the Reemtsma cigarette factories and their owner, Philipp Fürchtegott Reemtsma, of political corruption . His articles System Reemtsma and Reemtsma buys were published in 1932 issues 5 and 13 of the weekly Die Weltbühne . Franz Schroeder , State Secretary in the Prussian Ministry of Finance, and Ministerialdirektor Friedrich Ernst sued Die Weltbühne for defamation . On November 21, 1932, Carl von Ossietzky explained to the court, which was hearing the Reich Ministry of Finance's lawsuit against him and Tetens for insulting officials , that the two articles are based on “material received in good faith”. Since the allegations made by Tetens are unfounded, he therefore "withdraws the allegations made against the Reich Ministry of Finance and against Messrs. Ministerialdirektor Ernst and President Schröder with the expression of regret".

With the assignment to form a government and seize power , Tetens was sent to the Oranienburg concentration camp and the Potsdam penal institution. In 1934 he escaped to Basel , where he was employed by the National-Zeitung . In 1936 he became a correspondent in Buenos Aires . During his two-year stay in Argentina, he gathered information about Nazi influences in Latin America. During the peace conference on the Chaco War , he met Spruille Braden , who gave him a job as a Latin American advisor to Cordell Hull . In the 1930s he wrote political treatises such as "Wohin Hitler" and "Christianity, Bolshevism and Hitlerism." In 1939 he settled in New York City , where he did research for Bernard Baruch .

In April 1944 he got involved with Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster in the Society for the Prevention of World War III . In 1945, Louis Nizer was able to fend off a defamation suit brought by Victor F. Ridder, the then publisher of the New Yorker Staats-Zeitung . From 1945 to 1946 Tetens and Foerster set up a "Library on Germanic and Related International Problems" at Columbia University .

Tetens lived in New York , Cooperstown (New York) and New Jersey . He gave speeches and wrote under the pseudonym "Anton Pettenkofer" about National Socialism, Pan-Germanism and militarism.

Fonts

• Hitler's " Mein Kampf ". 10 episodes, in BNZ , 1935 (about the German plans for world conquest)
• with Emil Ludwig: Know Your Enemy! 1944
• Germany plots with the Kremlin , 1953
• The new Germany and the old Nazis , 1961

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Die Weltbühne 48/1932, p. 809 [1]
2. ^ Ronald C. Newton, The "Nazi Menace" in Argentina, 1931-1947. Stanford University Press, Stanford 1992, p. 167
3. ↑ Christmas Declaration ( Memento of the original from January 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. published on December 28, 1942 in the New York Times 
4. ^ [2] Steven Casey, The campaign to sell a harsh peace for Germany to the American public, 1944–1948 , London: LSE Research Online, pp. 6, 10
5. ↑ library Albany, [3]
6. ↑ worldcat, [4]