Gerth carpenter
Gerth Schreiner , actually Otto Wilhelm Ferdinand Schreiner (born September 16, 1892 in Laubach , † May 16, 1940 in Blaricum , Netherlands) was a German journalist.
Live and act
Schreiner was a son of the city calculator Wilhelm Schreiner (1860–1913) and his wife Marie, b. Michel (1862-1935). After attending school, he studied in Giessen and Greifswald . He later worked as an actor at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus .
From 1921 Schreiner worked as an editor for the people's newspaper in Düsseldorf . Politically, he was organized in the Social Democratic Party .
After the National Socialists came to power in spring 1933, Schreiner was taken into protective custody in March 1933 . In May he was released at the instigation of his brother, an NSDAP member. He emigrated to Amsterdam, where he was supported by the Dutch Social Democrats. In the following years he worked as an editor for the Free Press and as an employee of the magazines Wy , De Gulden Winkel , De Gemeenschap , Het Volk , De Gids and Kerk en Vrede .
After his emigration, Schreiner was classified as an enemy of the state by the National Socialist police: on September 9, 1938 he was officially expatriated (together with his wife Paula Gries and two of his children). In the spring of 1940 the Reich Main Security Office in Berlin - which erroneously suspected him to be in Great Britain - placed him on the special wanted list GB , a list of people who in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British Isles by the occupying forces of the occupying forces of the SS with special Priority should be located and arrested.
On the occasion of the German occupation of the Netherlands in the spring of 1940, Schreiner committed suicide together with his third wife, Mies Blomsma.
family
In his first marriage, Schreiner was married to Elisabeth Wilhemine (Wilma) Holsträter. In second marriage with Paula Griese and in third marriage with the illustrator Mies Blomsma.
The son Gerrit Dieter (* 1920) came from the first marriage. From the second marriage the son Klaus Maria (* 1921) and the daughter Sibil Brigitt (* 1925).
Fonts
- Wij leven in Holland ... Amsterdam m 1937
- The Republic of the Fourteen Years of Bilthoven, 1939.
- Bezield bouwen , Amsterdam 1939.
literature
- Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss : Politics, Economy, Public Life , 1980, p. 668.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Carpenter, Gerth |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schreiner, Otto Wilhelm Ferdinand (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 16, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Laubach |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 16, 1940 |
| Place of death | Blaricum , Netherlands |