Hans Walter Aust
Hans Walter Aust (born June 20, 1900 in Mainz , † April 28, 1983 ) was a German journalist .
Life
Hans Walter Aust came from a Silesian family. His grandfather Rudolf Aust (1833–1907), married to Jenny geb. Krüger (1845–1898) was a businessman in Neusalz, his father Walther Aust (1871–1928) was an officer (lieutenant colonel), later a fittings manufacturer in Berlin. Since 1932 Aust was with the writer Franziska Emilia Kruse geb. Ronheim married. Aust had military training as a cadet and officer and was a soldier in the First World War. From 1919 to 1923 and 1925 studied economics, history and newspaper studies at the University of Berlin. Collaboration in numerous specialist magazines. In the Weimar Republic, Aust was a member of the DVP from 1929 to 1931 .
Aust had joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1933 and temporarily headed the specialist journal Der Volkswirt . In 1942 he had to serve a two-year prison sentence for violating the treachery law and was expelled from the Reich Chamber of Literature. Aust worked, among other things, for the SS body Das Schwarze Korps .
After the Second World War, he worked for the Daily Rundschau from May 1945 , where he was promoted to deputy head of the economic department after becoming a member of the SED in 1953 . When the Daily Rundschau was discontinued, he became editor-in-chief of the semi-official journal German Foreign Policy in 1956 , until 1969. Most recently, he was a member of the editorial board of the medical journal Humanitas . He also wrote several contributions for Die Weltbühne .
Aust was a member of the Presidium of the Society for the Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge and the League for Friendship of Nations . He was also a member of the Association of Journalists in the GDR . He received the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze in 1960 and in silver in 1965.
Fonts
- German foreign policy. For a peace treaty with Germany. Special issue 1 of the magazine, Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1959
- The contradictions between the western powers and the role of the Bonn militarists series: Material for agitators and propagandists, ed. SED . Dietz, Berlin 1960
- Southeast Asia between yesterday and tomorrow. In: "German Foreign Policy." Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1962
- The crisis of the Krupp group In: German foreign policy , Deutscher Verlag des Wissens, ISSN 0011-9881 , Vol. 12/1967, pp. 550-562. Berlin 1967
literature
- Harry Waibel : Servant of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 .
- Peter Strunk: Zensur und Zensoren , 1989, p. 49
- Kirsten Nies: Aust, Hans Walter . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Hans Walter Aust in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Former National Socialists in Pankow's service , p. 6
- ↑ Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (ed.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr. KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 19.
- ↑ Simon Wiesenthal at a press conference on September 6, 1968 in Vienna, in: “The same language. First for Hitler - now for Ulbricht ”, A Documentation of Germany Reports, Vienna 1968
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Aust, Hans Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 20, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mainz |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 28, 1983 |