Hans Steinitz

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Hans Joachim Nathan Steinitz (born March 9, 1912 in Berlin , † December 29, 1993 in New York City ) was a German-American journalist and author.

Steinitz received his doctorate in law from the University of Basel in 1933 . From here he emigrated to France in 1934 and served briefly in the French army. After the capitulation of France, Steinitz was arrested by the French police and interned at Camp de Gurs , where he remained from October 1940 until the summer of 1942. He reported on this in his 45-page text The Book of Gurs. A white book on the Gurs internment camp in southern France . In 1942 he was transferred to the Les Milles camp, from which he was able to escape during Yom Kippur that same year . He managed to re-enter Switzerland with false papers. He married on May 15, 1948 Lore Oppenheimer (born July 8, 1915 in Essen, † October 9, 1996 in New York); Their daughter Lucy (born February 12, 1952) comes from this marriage.

From 1947 Steinitz lived in New York City , where he was editor-in-chief of the magazine Aufbau from 1966 to 1985 . From 1959 to 1961 he was President of the Foreign Press Association .

He wrote, among other things, the non-fiction books The 7th Continent: The Wrestling for the Antarctic Ice World (1959) and Mississippi: History of a Stream (1967).

literature

  • Thomas Hartwig , Hans-Joachim Roscher: Conversation with Hans Steinitz , in: The Promised City: German-Jewish Emigrants in New York; Conversations, impressions and pictures , Berlin: Das Arsenal 1986, ISBN 978-3-921810-66-8 , pp. 100-108.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Michael Hepp (ed.): The expatriation of German citizens 1933-45 according to the lists published in the Reichsanzeiger . De Gruyter, Berlin 1985, vol. 1, p. 102.
  2. ↑ a b Dr. Hans Steinitz, 81, A Newspaper Editor. In: New York Times . December 31, 1993
  3. ↑ LEWIN Family Tree ; there also the date of birth of the daughter Lucy.
  4. ↑ For the biographical information on emigration see the entry about him in the catalog of the DNB and Hans Steinitz papers. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum , accessed May 20, 2020 . The previously mentioned manuscript Das Buch von Gurs can also be viewed in its entirety here.
  5. ↑ See: Jewish Telegraphic Agency: Behind the Headlines a Newspaper Called Aufbau , August 3, 1984
personal data
SURNAME Steinitz, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Steinitz, Hans Joachim Nathan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American journalist and book author
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1993
Place of death New York City