Hanns Reinholz

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Johannes "Hanns" Florenz Reinholz , after changing his name John Reynolds (code name Hans Holz) (born July 22, 1904 in Berlin , † 1962 in London ) was a German journalist, newsman and writer.

Life

Johannes Reinholz was the son of Katharina Reinholz, who was married to Rudolf Nelson from 1908 . After attending school, Hanns Reinholz began working as a journalist. He worked successively as an editor for the Berliner Journal , the Großberliner Nachrichten and the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung .

At the end of 1931 Reinholz set up the “Reinholz Press Office” named after him, which published press correspondence entitled Berlin Express . In 1935 he sold the correspondence, which appeared two to three times a week and had changed its title to Political Correspondence on April 23, 1932 , to the correspondence publisher Schmidt-Eichwalde.

In 1934 Reinholz took over the main editorial department of the Pomeranian Daily Mail , which he kept until the end of the same year. During the Röhm affair of June 30, 1934, Reinholz stayed in hiding in the country because he felt threatened as an informant for the murdered Herbert von Bose .

1936 Reinholz became the correspondence of the Horn publishing house. At the same time he began to work increasingly as a writer.

In 1939 Reinholz went to Great Britain, allegedly because of the relationship with a Jewish woman whom he wanted to protect from the regime. At the beginning of the war he was interned there temporarily in order to finally make himself available as a Nazi opponent to Gustav Siegfried 1 , a German-language propaganda broadcaster, which was disguised as a German Wehrmacht radio station and aimed at subtly influencing the German population served in the Allies. The English journalist Sefton Delmer , who ran the station, selected Reinholz as one of two main speakers who disguised themselves as Wehrmacht officers: while Paul Sanders from Berlin took on the role of "boss", an old Prussian school officer who supposedly ran the station Passing on his opinion to members of an unnamed military organization, Reinholz played the heel-collapsing adjutant of the boss and announcer of his performances. In addition, Reinholz was also active as an author for the program.

Fonts

  • The Stinnes case: from industrial captain to financial pirate! 1928. (with Jo Tordy )
  • Gloria storms the sky. 1937.
  • White wolf fights for Brigitte. 1937.
  • Young heart in turmoil. 1938. (1953 as a young heart in turmoil. A novel of strange fates. 1953)
  • Business cards from the beyond. 1939.
  • Like heaven in May. 1940.
  • Reminder from the past. 1947.
  • Blond happiness in Senegal. Novel of an exciting mystery. 1954.

literature

  • Rainer Orth: “The official seat of the opposition” ?: Politics and state restructuring plans in the office of the Deputy Chancellor in the years 1933–1934 . Böhlau, Cologne 2016, p. 630. ISBN 3-412-50555-2

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Herbert Nelson . In: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Eds.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume II, 2. Saur, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 850; Article about the half-brother
  2. ^ Archives of the Institute for Contemporary History, Sign. Gb 06.12.
  3. ↑ Kyra T. Inachin: From self-assertion to resistance. 2004, p. 134.
  4. ↑ Ronald Seth: The Truth-Benders. Psychological Warfare in the Second World War. 1969, p. 64.
  5. ↑ Ellic Howe: The Black Propaganda. 1983, p. 125.
  6. ↑ Sefton Delmer: The Germans and I. 1962, p. 456.
personal data
SURNAME Reinholz, Hanns
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reinholz, Johannes Florenz; Reinholz, Hanns (nickname); Reynolds, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, newsman and writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 1962
Place of death London