Hans-Joachim Kausch

Hans-Joachim Kausch (born August 23, 1907 in Berlin ; † 1974 ) was a German journalist.

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In his youth, Kausch attended the Heinrich-Kleist-Gymnasium in Berlin. He then studied history and political science at the universities of Berlin , Freiburg, Paris and Breslau . In 1929 he received his doctorate in Breslau Dr. phil . He then went through editorial training at the Allgemeine Zeitung Chemnitz .

From 1931 to 1944, Kausch was head of the Berlin editorial team for Hamburger Nachrichten and the Schlesische Zeitung . Since 1932, Kausch also belonged to the press service of the national daily newspapers (Dienatag) together with Georg Dertinger , Kurt Waas and Hans Falk . He took over the management of the company on July 31, 1940 and held it until Dienatag was dissolved in 1944.

During the Second World War , Kausch made numerous trips to theaters of war, on which he prepared reports for the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda . In research, a report by Kausch from the summer of 1943 about a two-week visit to the Reichskommissariat Ukraine was noticed.

From November 1946 to February 1950, Kausch was head of the central editorial office of the German Press Service (dpd) in Hamburg. He then headed the Berlin office of the weekly newspaper Die Welt .

Since 1935 Kausch was married to Dorothea Trost, with whom he had three sons and a daughter.

Fonts

• Prince Hohenlohe's plans on the German question in the years 1866-68 , 1930. (Dissertation)

literature

• Who is who? , Vol. 15, 1967, p. 914.