Hermann Fernau

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Hermann Fernau (actually Hermann Latt) (* 1883 or 1884 in Breslau ) was a German lawyer , pacifist , translator and journalist .

Life

Hermann Fernau was born to Jewish parents in Breslau. So far nothing is known about his education. From 1905 he lived in Paris as a freelance writer and journalist . He was a staunch pacifist and admirer of French culture. He wrote e.g. For example, in the “ Friedens-Warte ” published by Alfred Hermann Fried in 1912, that the people of the third republic “spoke more and more often of the benefits of peace”. Fernau closely followed the July crisis in 1914 and was convinced of the German war guilt with no ifs or buts. Fernau was the only German in Paris to write and work until May 1915. Then he was expelled to Basel .

On May 3, 1916, he registered in Zurich. In Switzerland he joined the German pacifist exile movement. In his books and newspaper articles he took a stand against the war and advocated the abolition of the Prussian monarchy. Fernau wrote a. a. for the Die Freie Zeitung , agitated for the idea of ​​a League of Nations and, after the end of the First World War, campaigned for Germany to be punished as the main culprit. In 1920 he wrote articles for “ Die Weltbühne ” by Siegfried Jacobsohn . There he wrote: "For in history the name Noske will symbolize the last attempt to save the spirit of the old Prussian militarism into the new form of government". So far nothing is known about his further life.

Even towards the end of the Weimar Republic and during the National Socialist era, Hermann Fernau was denigrated as an American propagandist.

Works

  • How to talk about love with children. An educational narrative . Spohr, Leipzig 1909.
  • Edmond Rostand's "Chantecler" . In: Stage and World . 12 (1909/10) I, pp. 485-487
  • The radical party and the school in France . In: Secular School. Communications from the German Confederation for Secular Schools and Moral Education . (1912) 25, pp. 106-108
  • Secular school and crime in France . In: Ethical Culture. Monthly sheet for ethical-social redesign 20 (1912) 11, pp. 81–83
  • Gustave Hervé : Alsace-Lorraine and the Franco-German understanding. Translated from the French and given a preface by Hermann Fernau . Duncker & Humblot, Munich, Leipzig 1913
  • About the French presidential election . In: Ethical Culture. Monthly sheet for ethical-social redesign 21 (1913) 6, pp. 41–42
  • A word about Franco-German understanding . In: Ethical Culture. Monthly sheet for ethical-social redesign 21 (1913) 14, pp. 105-107
  • Socialism at the crossroads . In: Ethical Culture. Monthly sheet for ethical-social redesign 21 (1913) 19, pp. 145–147
  • French democracy, socio-political studies from France's cultural workshop . Duncker & Humblot, Munich, Leipzig 1914 digitized
  • A new press for a new Europe . In: New ways . 9/11 (1915), p. 531 ff. Digitized
  • On the autonomy of Alsace-Lorraine . In: Internationale Rundschau . 1915, 2, pp. 25-33 ISSN  1424-4071
  • PJ Proudhon on the war . In: March . Bi-monthly publication for German culture 9. (1915) Vol. IV, p. 21 ff.
  • People or government? In: Knowledge and Life . Zurich 1916
  • Is Europe fighting the last war? In: Knowledge and Life , Zurich 1916
  • Why don't you love Germans? In: The Peace Watch , Zurich 1916
  • Précisément parce que je suis Allemand! Èclaircissements sur la question de la culpabilité des Austro-Allemands posée par le livre “J'accuse” . Payot, Lausanne, Paris 1916
  • Precisely because I am German! A clarification of the question of guilt raised in the book “J'accuse” . Orell Füßli, Zurich 1916
    • Because I am a German. Edited with an introduction by TW Rolleston. Constable, London 1916 Digitized
    • Juist omdat ik Duitscher ben Een Beschouwing van het boek "J'accuse" by Hermann Fernau. Author. Vertaling with a voorreede van Frederik van Eeden. van Holkema & Warendorf, Amsterdam 1916
  • By! ... to democracy! . Benteli, Bern-Bümpiz 1917 digitized
    • Allemands! En avant vers la démocratie! traduit de l'allemand par Franck Louis Schoell. Editions Georges Crès, Zurich, Paris 1917
    • The coming democracy . Constable and Co., London 1917 Digitized
    • La vérité allemande devant l'histoire. G. Crès, Zurich, Paris 1917 digitized
  • How German historians will judge one day . Benteli, Bern-Bümpiz 1917
  • The “revelations” of the Sukhomlinov trial . From the author of the book “J'accuse!”. Extra supplement to the "Freie Zeitung", Bern, September 22, 1917, No. 47
  • Open letter from a German to Mr. Lenin . In: Journal de Genévé of December 18, 1917.
  • The German Republic and the " Simplicissimus " . In: Knowledge and Life , Zurich 1917
  • How Prussia's Constitution came about: Study on understanding the world war . In: Knowledge and Life , Zurich 1917
  • The kingship is the war! . Benteli, Bern-Bümpiz 1918
  • The new Germany. Verses by a German Republican dedicated by . Benteli, Bern-Bümpiz 1919

literature

  • G. Stiekloff : Gustave Hervé, L'Alsace-Lorraine. Edition de la Guerre Sociale. Paris 1913. 175 pages. 3.50 francs. (German: Elsaß-Lothringen and the German-French understanding. Translated from French and provided with a foreword by Hermann Fernau. Munich and Leipzig, Duncker & Humblot. 165 pages.) . In: The new time . Weekly of the German Social Democracy . 32.1913-1914, Volume 1 (1914), Issue 11, pp. 429-430 digitized
  • Lenin's answer to Herr Hermann Fernau . In: La Nation , Geneva. No. 31 of January 5, 1917.
  • Hans Thimme : World War without weapons. The propaganda of the western powers against Germany, its effect and its defense . Stuttgart 1932, pp. 75-78
  • Gustav Adolf Lang: Battleground of Opinions. The controversy about the causes of war and possibilities for peace 1914-1919 in the context of the " Neue Zürcher Zeitung ". A contribution to the history of public opinion in the intellectual struggle of the First World War . Book publisher of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 1968 (also Zurich, dissertation)
  • Helmut Donat (ed.): The peace movement: organized pacifism in Germany, Austria and Switzerland . Econ-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1983 ISBN 3-612-10024-6 , pp. 109, 113, 419
  • Lothar Wieland: Social Democracy and Disarmament in the Weimar Republic . In: Reiner Steinweg (editor): Lessons from history? Historical peace research . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / Main 1990, pp. 160-185 ( edition suhrkamp 1355).
  • Lothar Wieland: Fernau, Hermann (aka H. Latt) . In: Manfred Asendorf, Rolf von Bockel (eds.): Democratic ways. German résumés from five centuries . JB Mertzler, Stuttgart, Weimar 1997, ISBN 3-476-01244-1 , pp. 167-168.
  • Gerhard Schaub; Ernst Teubner: Hugo Ball . Letters 1904-1927 . Volume 3, Commentary . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2003. (= publications of the German Academy for Language and Poetry 81/3)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Germany's separation from Europe 1862–1945 . Articles by Adolf Gasser a . a. Editor Wilhelm Alff. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1984 ISBN 3-8204-7705-5 , p. 369.
  2. ^ Lothar Wieland: Fernau, Hermann (aka H. Latt) , p. 167.
  3. ↑ Gerhard Schaub; Ernst Teubner: Hugo Ball. Letters 1904–1927 , p. 262.
  4. ^ Lothar Wieland: Fernau, Hermann (aka H. Latt) ., P. 167.
  5. ↑ Hans Thimme: World War without weapons. The propaganda of the western powers against Germany, its effect and its defense .
  6. ^ Hermann Wanderscheck : World War and Propaganda . ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1936, p. 165.
  7. ↑ Review by Max Hirsch in: Sexual Problems. Journal for Sexual Science and Sexual Policy , Volume 5. JD Sauerländer, Frankfurt am Main 1909, pp. 552 ff.
  8. ^ Review by Hugo Ball in: Freie Zeitung . Berlin, 2nd year 1918, pp. 245–246.
  9. ^ Maria Uhlmann: Two new Lenin letters . In: Contributions to the history of the labor movement . 23 Jg. Berlin 1981, No. 3, pp. 387-390.
personal data
SURNAME Fernau, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Latt, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pacifist and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1883 or 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH 20th century