Hans Butow

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the officer of the same name, see Hans Bütow (naval officer)

Hans Bütow (born November 27, 1900 in Osnabrück , † October 11, 1991 in Hamburg ) was a German journalist and writer.

Life and work

Bütow was deputy editor-in-chief of the Frankfurter Neue Presse after the Second World War . At the beginning of 1954, Mayor Kurt Sieveking appointed him head of the state press office of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and thus government spokesman. When the SPD replaced the Hamburg bloc after the mayor's elections in 1957 , he had to give up this position, but he became the personal assistant to the new First Mayor Max Brauer .

Bütow also worked as a book author, but has also translated books by other authors from English, including 1948 Reunion with Brideshead by Evelyn Waugh or A First Class Murder by John le Carré . He belonged to the Free Academy of the Arts in Hamburg in the literature section.

Awards

• 1976: Alexander Zinn Prize of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christof Brauers: The FDP in Hamburg 1945 to 1953. Start as a bourgeois left party (= Association for Democratic Openness: DemOkrit. Vol. 3). M-Press Meidenbauer, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-89975-569-5 , p. 683 (also: Hamburg, Helmut-Schmidt-Univ., Diss., 2004).

Publications

• Sleeping Gorgon. Four stories. Alber, Freiburg (Breisgau) 1948.
  • Mac Dara - or - A dreamer who wrote poetry. (1942);
  • I never want to go home again. (1944);
  • The last enemy. (1946);
  • Sleeping Gorgon. (1947).
• Trace of earth days. A portrait gallery. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1958.
• Hans Bütow tells. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1960.
• Hands across the sea. A life with England. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1961.
• 'The great flood in Hamburg. A chronicle of the catastrophe in February 1962. Compiled by Hans Bülow on behalf of and in cooperation with the school authorities. Foreword by Dr. Wilhelm Drexelius , Senator. School authority of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Hamburg 1963.
• All the dreams in the world. A family novel. Scheffler, Frankfurt am Main 1969.
• Old Man's Notes. 3 volumes. Christians, Hamburg;
  • Volume 1: Talk, my memory, talk. 1977, ISBN 3-7672-0460-6 ;
  • Volume 2: All of this is left behind. 1979, ISBN 3-7672-0647-1 ;
  • Volume 3: Welcome and Farewell. 1982, ISBN 3-7672-0762-7 .
• The harp in the green field. Novel of a struggle for freedom. Claassen, Düsseldorf 1978, ISBN 3-546-41591-4 .

Anecdotes - box, 1979, Petri Presse Kransberg, edition of 250 copies, signed by the author.

literature

• Thomas B. Schumann: Hans Bütow (= Hamburg Bibliography. Vol. 16). Christians, Hamburg 1974, ISBN 3-7672-0239-5 .