Heinz Barth (journalist)

Heinz F. Barth (born October 14, 1910 in Schwarzenberg ; † after 1974) was a German journalist and foreign correspondent .

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He was the son of the lawyer of the same name who had his practice temporarily in the Erzgebirge city of Schwarzenberg. Barth attended high schools in Würzburg , Potsdam and Berlin . At the university in the latter city, he also took up studies, which he finished without a degree.

From 1931 to 1934 Barth u. a. Editor of the Vossische Zeitung and Ullstein Verlag . He then went to Rome for Ullstein and Deutsche Verlag and in 1939 to Madrid , where he worked as a foreign correspondent for the National Socialist system.

In 1944 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht . Towards the end of the war he was taken prisoner, from which he was released in 1947. He then went back to Spain as a correspondent for various daily newspapers, where he temporarily worked under the pseudonym Gottfried Grossel . He also worked as a foreign correspondent for magazines and German broadcasting companies. He moved to Paris and in December 1965 to Washington . In 1974 he retired partially to his home in Spain.

Heinz Barth was also active as a book author. In 1938 he published the Romanesque Heads. Pictures of life from the new Italy in the German publishing house.

literature

• Walter Habel: Who is who? , Vol. 1 . (West), Berlin 1967, p. 66