Gerhard Bohlmann

Gerhard Bohlmann (born December 18, 1878 in Königsberg i. Pr. , † February 19, 1944 in Berlin ) was a German writer and journalist.

Life

Bohlmann was the son of the director of the Union foundry in Königsberg . He studied philology and German in Berlin and Königsberg. In 1909 he became a member of the Germania Königsberg fraternity . He registered as a war volunteer in 1914 and was awarded the Iron Cross First Class. After the end of the war he passed the state examination and initially worked as a feature editor for the Königsberger Allgemeine Zeitung . In 1924 he went from Königsberg to Berlin for the Telegraph Union . After they merged with other news agencies during the Nazi era , he worked for the German news office until his death in 1944 .

Bohlmann did not write his first novel until he was over 50. In his books he mainly turned to historical topics - from the early Middle Ages ( The Forgotten Kaiser ) to the Thirty Years War ( Wallenstein wrestles for the Reich ). The books were reprinted until the end of the 1950s and are only available in antiquarian versions today.

Works

1932: The silver maiden - about the life and death of Joan of Arc
1934: The Forgotten Emperor - about Emperor Diocletian and Roman and Germanic history of the 3rd century
1937: Wallenstein fights for the Reich - about Albrecht von Wallenstein and his time
1942: The decision - is a Wallenstein wrestling for the novel that has been removed and reworked

literature

Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , p. 83.

Web links

Literature by and about Gerhard Bohlmann in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 47.

personal data
SURNAME	Bohlmann, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 18, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH	Koenigsberg i. Pr.
DATE OF DEATH	February 19, 1944
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 47.