Hermann Ullmann

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Hermann Ullmann (born September 12, 1884 in Teplitz-Schönau in Bohemia, † February 23, 1958 in Stockholm ) was a German journalist . During the Weimar Republic he shaped the political direction of people 's conservatism . The main focus of his journalistic activities were reports on the situation of Germans abroad .

Life

Ullmann was the son of a Protestant businessman. From 1890 to 1902 Hermann Ullmann attended the Protestant elementary school and grammar school in Teplitz-Schönau. Ullmann went to study in Prague, Heidelberg and Berlin. During his studies he became a member of the Association of German Students in Heidelberg . At the age of 22 he received his doctorate in Vienna. He then worked for two years as a high school teacher in Austria. Various journalistic activities followed. Ullmann made contact with Ferdinand Avenarius through culturally critical articles and worked for his magazine Kunstwart from 1904 to 1914 . From 1912 to 1937 he edited the magazine Deutsche Arbeit . Ullmann was a volunteer during World War I and served in the war press office. From 1925 to 1931 he was editor of Politische Wochenschrift (with Rudolf Fischer as editor) . For Volkstum und Staat (PWS), a Berlin organ of the socially and reformist-oriented people's conservatives. whose aim was to dissuade a majority of the right-wing political forces from the principled opposition to the Weimar Republic and to win them over to positive cooperation. In the Politische Wochenschrift u. a. published a momentous article by Walther Lambach , which resulted in the separation of the Christian-Social and the moderate right from the DNVP.

Ullmann died of a heart attack on February 23, 1958 while on a lecture tour in Stockholm.

literature

  • Hans Schmid-Egger Ed .: Hermann Ullmann. Publicist at the turn of the century. With co-workers from Renate Ullmann from d. Estate selected. Callwey, Munich 1965.
  • Ernst Lehmann: Dr. Hermann Ullmann - the people's intellectual advocate. In: Sudetendeutscher Kulturalmanach. 1959, pp. 22-26.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Louis Lange (Ed.): Kyffhäuser Association of German Student Associations. Address book 1931. Berlin 1931, p. 231.
personal data
SURNAME Ullmann, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conservative journalist
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Teplitz-Schönau
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1958
Place of death Stockholm