Fritz Max Cahén

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Fritz Max Cahén (born December 8, 1891 in Saarlouis ; died August 29, 1966 in Bonn ) was a German journalist and resistance fighter against National Socialism.

Life

Fritz Max Cahén was the son of the merchant Eugen Cahén and Henriette Gottschalk. He stayed in Paris in 1912 and went to Berlin in 1913, where he took courses in philosophy with Hermann Cohen . He worked in the film industry and married Eugenie Stamm, they had two children, the son Oscar Cahén became a graphic designer. Cahén volunteered for the war in 1914 , was wounded and discharged from military service. Cahén moved to Munich and in 1915 went to neutral Denmark as a correspondent for the Frankfurter Zeitung . At the end of the war in 1918 he returned to Berlin with the German envoy Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau and became his personal advisor, in this function he was part of the government delegation to the Weimar National Assembly and the German delegation to the negotiations in Versailles . This episode ended in June 1919 with Brockdorff-Rantzau's resignation as the first foreign minister of the Weimar Republic .

Cahén now worked as a freelance journalist at home and abroad and carried out illegal propaganda assignments for the German Reich government in the Saar region around 1925 . In 1927/28 he worked for a Berlin district gazette and then became editor-in-chief at "Deutsche Matern-Verlag", which belonged to Alfred Hugenberg's newspaper conglomerate and supplied provincial newspapers with finished articles on Matern . Cahén also worked for the test center for garbage and dirty writing . He was a member of the German Democratic Party and was campaign leader for the German State Party in the 1930 Reichstag election .

After the handover of power to the National Socialists , he fled to Czechoslovakia in August 1933 . There he was involved in various attempts to establish a resistance movement against the National Socialist regime in the German Reich, for example with Hans Jaeger and Arthur Arzt in the People's Socialist Movement (VS) and with Otto Strasser's Black Front . In 1937 he went to the USA to organize resistance activities from there.

In the USA he wrote for the Washington Post newspaper, among others . In 1937 he was expatriated from the German Reich. Cahén returned to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1954 and last lived in Bonn-Ippendorf.

Fonts (selection)

  • Men against Hitler . Adapted translation and introduction Wythe Williams. Indianapolis, Ind .; New York, NY: Bobbs-Merrill, 1939
  • The Red Glove: Soviet and Western Ideology in Reality . Frankfurt am Main: Athenaeum, 1961
  • The Road to Versailles: Memories 1912-1919. The fateful epoch of a generation . Boppard: Boldt, 1963

literature

  • Cahén, Fritz Max. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish authors . Volume 4: Brech-Carle. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-22684-5 , pp. 370-372.
  • Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of the German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, p. 106.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Matern companies: "Wipro" Wirtschaftsstelle der Provinzpresse GmbH, central office for the German press GmbH, Berliner Schnellstereotypie Hermann Arendt's Verlag GmbH, Deutscher Matern-Verlag GmbH and Deutscher Provinz-Verlag GmbH. - General , at the Federal Archives
personal data
SURNAME Cahén, Fritz Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and book author
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarlouis
DATE OF DEATH August 29, 1966
Place of death Bonn