Fritz Albrich

Fritz Albrich (born June 8, 1899 in Czernowitz , Austria-Hungary , † March 11, 1957 in Munich ) was a German journalist and author.

Life

Albrich was born in Bukovina in 1899 as the son of an Austrian officer. He attended the German grammar school and studied law at the University of Chernivtsi . He then turned to journalism in the newspaper industry and was considered one of the best known journalists in Bukovina for the next few years. From 1927 he worked for the Czernowitz Allgemeine Zeitung , before taking over in the 1930s for Nazi- dominated Czernowitzer German daily mail went. Albrich resettled in 1940 (" Heim ins Reich ") and from 1941 worked as editor of the East German Observer in occupied Poznan . There he wrote a. a. clearly anti-Semitic articles, for example about a Jewish ghetto in Ukraine.

He later became a Soviet prisoner of war, from which he was released in 1946. He moved to Linz and in October 1948 became editor-in-chief of Neue Heimat in Linz. In a short time he led this newspaper to become the leading newspaper for displaced persons in all of Austria. In 1951 he started working for the local editorial office of the Passauer Neue Presse in Pfarrkirchen , which he headed in Munich until his death in 1957. Albrich published a few books that are not kept in the German National Library .

Works

• Greek trip , 1933.
• Written in the sand. Novel of a captivity. , Neue Heimat, Linz 1949.
• Passau against Potsdam a reminder to the world's conscience. A chapter in the history of the human heart. From the seed of tears in Potsdam grew the first joyful harvest of the reunion in Passau. Linz 1950 (essay)

literature

Hans-Gert Roloff: The German literature: biographical and bibliographical lexicon . P. Lang, 2003 ( book overview in the Google book search).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fritz Albrich, Ein Getto in der Ukraine , in: Ostdeutscher Beobachter , No. 41 of February 10, 1943, p. 3, accessed on July 11, 2010.