Hans Georg von Studnitz

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Hans Georg von Studnitz (born August 31, 1907 in Potsdam ; † July 16, 1993 in Rimsting / Chiemsee ) was a German journalist and publicist. He was "a staunch supporter of National Socialism until the end of NS, member of the press department of the Foreign Office, SD and author of strikingly anti-Semitic articles". After the end of the war he was press officer at Lufthansa and a permanent employee of the weekly newspapers Christ and Welt and Welt am Sonntag .

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The Studnitz family originally came from western Moravia . Hans Georg was the eldest of five sons of the Guard Captain Thassilo von Studnitz and his wife Anna Maria, née. Schinckel, daughter of the Hamburg banker Max von Schinckel . He broke off the training at the grammar school and made an apprenticeship at the Norddeutsche Bank in Hamburg and at the Banco de Chile y Alemania in Valparaíso from 1923 to 1926 . He then worked for two years as a commercial clerk in Buenos Aires , then for a year in New York and finally from 1929 to 1931 in Berlin . In Berlin After termination by Hapag, Studnitz turned to journalism. Before that, he had also been a part-time journalist for the Neue Preußische Kreuzzeitung . In Berlin, among other things, through Heinrich von Gleichen-Rußwurm , Studnitz had made contact with conservative circles hostile to the republic, which also met in the gentlemen's club .

In 1931 Studnitz was able to start a traineeship at the newspaper Der Tag , which belonged to the Scherlverlag, which was owned by Hugenberg, due to his grandfather's acquaintance with Alfred Hugenberg . In March 1933, Studnitz joined the NSDAP . As a foreign correspondent, Studnitz worked from 1934 to 1939, especially for the Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger , in Vienna , London , Rome , The Hague , Madrid , India and in the Middle East . In the Federal Archives custody Photos call him as a correspondent in the Spanish Civil War at the Battle of Guadalajara in March 1937. During a six-month stay in India in the second half of 1937, he interviewed for the Kreuzzeitung among other Gandhi and Nehru . Studnitz represented an anti-English position and tried to weaken England by strengthening the Indian independence movement. This was also evident in his reporting from Palestine. He supported the position of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and shared his anti-Semitic views. For Studnitz, the Jewish inhabitants of Palestine were “speculators, usurers and uprooted people” from all over the world.

At the beginning of 1940 he went from Studnitz to The Hague in the Netherlands . According to Otto Köhler's research , he worked there for the SD in the run-up to the invasion of the neutral Netherlands . From June 1940 until the end of the war he was a research assistant in a propaganda department of the Foreign Office under Joachim von Ribbentrop , the press department of the AA. After Peter Longerich , Studnitz belonged to the "management staff of the press department". He was an “important employee” who was taken on by the press officer of the Foreign Office Paul Karl Schmidt “in the course of a land consolidation” and was responsible for drafting the daily “Political Report”, which includes language regulations for the German missions was. Studnitz was also responsible for the “European Correspondence” article service, for which 50 mainly foreign journalists wrote. He was responsible for the Anti-Comintern magazine Berlin-Rome-Tokyo , and from April 1944 he also took over the editing of the German Diplomatic Correspondence .

After the war, von Studnitz worked as a permanent employee for the newspapers Die Zeit , Christ and Welt as well as the Flensburger Tagblatt ; he also directed the Hamburger Allgemeine Zeitung . Among other things, he reported on the Nuremberg Trial . In early 1950 he became editor-in-chief and later co-editor of the Hamburg monthly foreign policy . From 1953 he was head of the Hamburger Anzeiger for two years , followed by six years as press spokesman for Deutsche Lufthansa . In 1961 he became head of the foreign affairs department and deputy editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper Christ und Welt ; later he worked as a freelance writer and columnist.

In 1966 the Association of Expellees awarded him the Heinrich von Kleist Prize .

Hans Georg von Studnitz was married three times. First marriage to Eveline von Behr, second marriage to Marietta von Mengersen and third marriage to Vera Schuler (* 1925). The daughter Georgine comes from Studnitz's second marriage, the second daughter Allegra and his son Andreas from his third marriage. Andreas von Studnitz is an actor and artistic director at the Ulm Theater .

Works (selection)

  • Japan's turn in foreign policy. Il cambiamento della politica giapponese. In: Berlin, Rome, Tokyo: Monthly for the deepening of the cultural relations of the peoples of the world-political triangle. 3 (1941) 1941, pp. 14-16.
  • When Berlin was on fire. Diary from 1943–1945 , 1963.
  • Bismarck in Bonn. Foreign Policy Comments , 1964.
  • Shine and no glory. Journey through the welfare society , 1965.
  • Save the Bundeswehr , 1967.
  • German Ostpolitik , Eckartschriften Heft 27, Österreichische Landsmannschaft , 1968.
  • Is God a Follower? The politicization of the Protestant Church. Analysis and documentation , 1969.
  • Affair. Experiences and encounters 1907–1970 , 1975.

literature

  • Nils Asmussen: Hans-Georg von Studnitz. A conservative journalist in the Third Reich and in the Federal Republic. in: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte , IFZ Online (PDF; 8.5 MB) Munich 1997, no. 1, pp. 75–119.
  • Biographical manual of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Volume 4: S. Edited by the Foreign Office, Historical Service, edited by: Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger. Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-506-71843-3 , p. 399 f.
  • Lutz Hachmeister and Friedemann Siering (eds.): The gentlemen journalists. The elite of the German press after 1945. Beck, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-406-47597-3 .
  • Peter Longerich: Propagandists at War. The press department of the Foreign Office under Ribbentrop (= studies on contemporary history , vol. 33). Oldenbourg, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-486-54111-0 .
  • Hubert Herkomm Ed .; v. Achnitz, Wolfgang; Hagestedt, Lutz; Müller, Mario; Ort, Claus-Michael & Sdzuj, Reimund B., scientific advice: German Literature Lexicon. 1963ff .; here Volume 21. Saur, Zurich 2001, only as an e-book and only for institutions. ISBN 978-3-11-095742-6 , pp. 803-804.
  • Otto Köhler: Cheers for the Jews on the Red Sea. The anti-Semite changes: Hans-Georg von Studnitz . In: Ders .: Weird publicists. The repressed past of the media makers. Droemer, Munich 1995, pp. 204-228.
  • Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia. DBE, Munich 2008, col. 190–191.

Web links

Commons : Hans Georg von Studnitz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Axel Schildt : “Always with the times. The journey of the weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT through the Bonn Republic - a sketch. ”In Christian Haase, Axel Schildt (Ed.): Die Zeit and the Bonn Republic. An opinion-forming weekly between rearmament and reunification . Wallstein, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-8353-0243-3 , p. 18.
  2. ^ Nils Asmussen: Hans-Georg von Studnitz. A conservative journalist in the Third Reich and in the Federal Republic . In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte . No. 1/1997, pp. 75–119 ( PDF file ).
  3. ↑ Asmussen 1997 p. 78.
  4. ^ Hans Georg von Studnitz: Affair. Experiences and encounters 1907–1970. Seewald-Verlag, 1975. p. 80.
  5. ↑ Kreuzzeitung, January 28, 1938: People and Powers in India . see. and infidelities , pp 148-206.
  6. ↑ Asmussen 1997, p. 80
  7. ↑ Otto Köhler: Cheers for the Jews on the Red Sea. The anti-Semite changes: Hans-Georg von Studnitz . In: Ders .: Weird publicists. The repressed past of the media makers. Droemer, Munich 1995, p. 206 f.
  8. ↑ Peter Longerich: Propagandists in War. The press department of the Foreign Office under Ribbentrop . Munich 1987, p. 158 f.
  9. ↑ Peter Longerich, Propagandisten im Krieg , p. 158 f.
  10. ↑ Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Volume 4: S , p. 399.
personal data
SURNAME Studnitz, Hans Georg von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Studnitz, Hans-Georg von; Studnitz, Hans-Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 1993
Place of death Rimsting , Chiemsee