Hans Anna Haunhorst

Hans Anna Haunhorst (born May 20, 1883 in Hückeswagen , Rhine Province , Kingdom of Prussia , † 1954 at Hartenstein Castle (Middle Franconia) ?) Was a German lawyer and author .

Life

Haunhorst attended high schools in Barmen , today part of Wuppertal , and in Soest in Westphalia . He passed his Abitur in 1902 and entered his military service in the Hussar regiment of King Wilhelm I (1st Rheinisches Nr. 7). After an accident at work in February 1903, he resigned as an invalid and began studying law at the University of Bonn , the University of Strasbourg and finally at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin . In Berlin he passed the first state examination in law in 1906 and received his doctorate there in 1907. Further training as a trainee lawyer led him to various positions at the Koepenick District Court and back to Berlin.

In 1909 Haunhorst applied to the diplomatic service of the German Reich and took leave of absence from the Prussian Minister of Justice. After his trial admission to the service, he was assigned to the embassy in Tokyo , Japan , where he arrived on July 5, 1910. On January 10, 1911, he left Japan to take up a new position at the embassy of the German Empire at the Holy See in Rome . In 1912 he returned to the Foreign Office in Berlin, but in 1913 asked for his dismissal and resigned from the diplomatic service.

In 1920 Haunhorst retired to the Hartenstein Castle in Middle Franconia, which he had acquired, where, according to his own statements, he devoted himself to writing and artistic work in the following years. After the First World War, he married the artist Olga Haunhorst, who was born in 1894 and came from a family of industrialists in the Rhineland.

He wrote down Haunhorst's memories of the six months in Japan in 1922/1923. His The Smile of Japan , however, was not printed in Leipzig until 1936 and contains passages that corresponded to the zeitgeist. A new edition took place in 1948 with the title Sunken Japan by DIPAX Verlag, Erlangen, and has accordingly been cleared of ethnic and undemocratic formulations.

Haunhorst died in 1954.

Publications

• 1936: The smile of Japan . Georg Kummer's publishing house, Leipzig.
• 1948: Sunken Japan . DIPAX-Verlag, Erlangen.

Web links

• Article on Haunhorst's works of the University of Hamburg (PDF; 58 kB) taken from the Nachrichten der Ostasiatischen Gesellschaft No. 147/148, 1990, pages 75 to 81