HW Blood-Ryan

HW Blood-Ryan (* before 1910, † after 1943) was a British journalist.

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In the early 1930s, Blood-Ryan was the editor of Chemical News magazine . In his capacity as editor, he earned the degrees MA , DS.C , LL.D. , Ph.D. He also held the titles of Vice President and Honorary Consul of the European Section of the Muslim Association for the Advancement of Science, Patron and Fellow of the British Radio Institution, Chairmanship of the National Institute of Criminology, and Research Director of the College of Pestology. According to Vieweg's History of Chemistryhowever, all of these titles and degrees were "demonstrably forged". He also founded the Faculty of International Science at the University of London in Gordon Square . Blood-Ryan's activities led Nature magazine to publicly pillory him in October 1932. As a result, the Chemical News - due to the scandals surrounding its publisher and as a result of its financial bankruptcy, for which Blood-Ryan was also held responsible - had to close. It was officially liquidated on October 25, 1932.

Blood-Ryan worked for an English company in Germany and some neighboring countries for a number of years around 1933. According to the diaries of Joseph Goebbels , he had connections to the NSDAP or the Reich Propaganda Ministry, for which he accepted a journalistic assignment.

During the Second World War, Blood-Ryan published a series of propaganda publications against the Nazi state and its leading protagonists as part of the Allied warfare. In his book from 1942 in particular, but also in a less pronounced form in his other books, he advocated the thesis of a “great German conspiracy” against peace. The majority of his war writings depict critical to defamatory biographies of German politicians such as Franz von Papen .

His biography Hermann Göring , published in 1938, must be distinguished from Blood-Ryan's war writings , in which, contrary to his conspiracy thesis of the war years, the possibility of an honorable understanding between Great Britain and the German Reich was still achievable.

Fonts

• Goering, the Iron Man of Germany , London 1938.
• The Political Testament of Hermann Göring. A Selection of Important Speeches and Articles Arranged and Selected by HW Blood-Ryan , London 1939.
• Franz von Papen. His Life and Times London 1939.
• The Great German Conspiracy , London 1943.

Individual evidence

1. ^ William H. Brock : Viewegs Geschichte der Chemie , Braunschweig 1997, p. 291.
2. ^ The diaries of Joseph Goebbels, ed. Elke Fröhlich , Part I, Vol. 2 / III, Munich 2006, p. 186. Entry from May 14, 1933: "The Englishman Bloodyan [!] Who writes a book for us."
3. ↑ Angela Schwarz: Die Reise ins Third Reich , 1993, p. 399.

Web links

• Literature by and about HW Blood-Ryan in the catalog of the German National Library