Henry Bernhard

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Henry Bernhard (born January 1, 1896 in Dresden , † March 9, 1960 in Würzburg ) was a German newspaper publisher , journalist and politician .

Bernhard was born in Dresden in 1896 as the son of a master carpenter and glazier. From 1911 to 1914 he completed a commercial apprenticeship at the Federation of Industrialists . After the First World War he became a member of the management of the newly founded Reich Association of German Industry . He then was Gustav Stresemann's private secretary from 1923 to 1929 .

After working as a freelance writer until 1933, he ran an office for newspaper clippings from 1933 to 1938 and then worked in the press and propaganda department of Daimler-Benz AG until 1945 . From 1945 to 1946 he was with Josef Eberle and Karl Ackermann one of three license holders of the Stuttgarter Zeitung ; In 1946 he founded the Stuttgarter Nachrichten together with the Social Democrat Erwin Schoettle. In 1966 his son Rudolph Bernhard (1934-2002) became editor-in-chief. His daughter Maria Anna (also: Marianne) founded the Rogner & Bernhard publishing house in 1968 with her colleagues Klaus P. Rogner and Axel Matthes .

In 1946, Bernhard was a member of the Provisional People's Representation for Württemberg-Baden and the Constituent Assembly of Württemberg-Baden for the Democratic People's Party (DVP) .

From 1946 to 1950 he was a member of the first Landtag of Württemberg-Baden and Vice President of the Parliament, from 1949 as First Vice President. After founding the Bundeswehr , Bernhard was a member of the personnel appraisal committee from 1955 to 1957 .

Like Gustav Stresemann, Bernhard was a member of the Freemason Lodge Frederick the Great .

Works

  • The Stresemann cabinet , Staatspolitischer Verlag, Berlin 1924
  • Reventlow, Hugenberg and the others , Staatspolitischer Verlag, Berlin 1926
  • Legacy. The estate in three volumes. Edited by Henry Bernhard, Ullstein Verlag, Berlin 1932/33. (Digital version: Vol. 1 , Vol. 2 , Vol. 3 )
  • Irrational Forces of Our Time: A Study of the Unconscious in Politics and History . Franz Alexander , (translated by Henry Bernhard). Stuttgart: Klett, 1946. (Original title Our Age of unreason )
  • Finis Germaniae. Records and observations . Haslsteiner, Stuttgart 1947.
  • American Spiritual Life from Beginnings to the Present . Merle Curti, (translated by Henry Bernhard). Stuttgart: Klett, 1947.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b PRESSE / STUTTGART game lost . In: Der Spiegel , SpiegelNet GmbH, March 29, 1971. Retrieved April 19, 2016. 
  2. ^ "So sad" , DER SPIEGEL 27/1968, accessed on July 21, 2019
  3. ^ Robert A. Minder: Freemason Politicians Lexicon, study publisher; S. 112, Innsbruck 2004, 350 pp., ISBN 3-7065-1909-7
personal data
SURNAME Bernhard, Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German newspaper publisher, journalist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1960
Place of death Wurzburg