Hermann Proebst

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Hermann Proebst (born February 25, 1904 in Munich ; † July 15, 1970 there ) was a German journalist .

Life

Article from the weekly newspaper “New Order” March 22, 1942, Zagreb. Proebst describes his impressions of a press trip to the Jasenovac concentration camp

In addition to the study of history and German studies in Munich, Cologne and Berlin Proebst worked at the Institute of journalism in Cologne, attended lectures at the School of Political Science in Berlin, continued his studies since 1926 in the United Kingdom and the United States away and came in 1929 to the radio . From 1930 he worked for the Berliner Funkstunde, later was a consultant for the broadcasts of the current department of the Reichssender Berlin and became head of the Zeitfunks . In 1936 Proebst left. After that he worked as a writer for some time . For this purpose he got the place of the Reichsschrifttumskammer and published some books. In April 1941, Proebst went in the wake of the Wehrmacht to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia , which was dissolved by the Germans , where he worked for German propaganda and occupation policy in Zagreb , the capital of the new fascist Ustasha state Independent State of Croatia (USK for short). Among other things, Proebst was the editor of the Zagreb-based weekly newspaper “Neue Order”. At the same time he was the chief editor of the German newspaper, published in Zagreb . His activities also included inspecting the Jasenovac concentration camp operated by the Ustaša based on the German model . The Jasenovac concentration camp was one of the great extermination sites of the Second World War. By 1945 around 70,000 Serbs, Jews, Roma and Croatian communists were violently killed there. Since the Croatian Ustasa regime did not have gas chambers, people in Jasenovac often killed by hand, with axes and knives. In an article in the FAZ in 2013, Michael Martens reported the following statements, among others:

"That Jasenovac is not a sanatorium, but also not a torture chamber ... and that Proebst praises the concentration camp, as it not only helps to eliminate dangerous opponents, but also enables the productive use of" otherwise unproductive races (such as Jews) "... "

According to the historian Alexander Korb, who is currently writing a habilitation thesis at the University of Leicester on Hermann Proebst and the media environment in post-war Germany, Proebst embodies “the intellectual cooperation of the fascists in occupied Europe”.

From 1946 Proebst was the foreign policy editor of the Rheinische Zeitung in Cologne, came to Munich in 1947 as head of the press and information office of the Bavarian State Chancellery and in 1949 joined the editorial team of the Süddeutsche Zeitung as head of the domestic policy department . In 1960 Proebst took over the editor-in-chief of the Süddeutsche Zeitung as Werner Friedmann's successor , which he held until his death.

In 1966 he published his memoir Thinking of Munich - A Book of Memories .

He was a member of the Catholic student association KDStV Aenania Munich in the CV .

Fonts (selection)

  • William Pitt: Founder of British Power . Publishing house Bong, Berlin 1938.
  • The brothers - Friedrich the Great, August Wilhelm, Heinrich Ferdinand. Deeds and fates of the sons of the soldier king . Publishing house Bong, Berlin 1939.
  • Heuss - A picture biography . Kindler, Munich 1959.
  • Illuminated Time - Political and Historical Considerations by a Journalist. February 25, 1969 . Edited by Hans Schuster, Süddeutscher Verlag, Munich 1969.
  • The German Question or The Unrest in Europe - A Review of 150 Years of German History . Lecture at the ceremony in the Bavarian State Library in Munich on May 29, 1969, 75 years of Paul List Verlag. List, Munich 1969.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Martens : Only howled with the wolves? German Southeast Research and its Nazi Past . FAZ December 31, 2013.
  2. ↑ Quoted from Joachim Käppner : The Nazi past of SZ editors. The internal split . In: Sueddeutsche.de , September 30, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Proebst, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1970
Place of death Munich