Hubert Harrison

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Hubert Harrison , also known as HD Harrison , (born November 28, 1898 in Walsall , † after 1939) was a British journalist.

Life

Harrison was educated at Queen Mary's School in Walsall and at the University of Birmingham.

From 1924 to 1929 Harrison was a correspondent for the Morning Post newspaper and from 1925, also until 1929, for the Manchester Guardian . From 1929 he worked for the press agency Reuters and from 1935 for the New York Times .

At the end of the 1930s, because of his journalistic activities, Harrison came into the sights of the Nazi police forces : In the spring of 1940, the Reich Main Security Office in Berlin placed him on the special wanted list GB , a directory of people who would be killed in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British Isles by the Wehrmacht, special SS commandos following the occupation troops were to be identified and arrested with special priority.

Harrison was married to Marjorie Watson Dewsbury, with whom he had a daughter.

Fonts

  • Industrial Psychology & the Production of Wealth , 1925.
  • Soul of Yugoslavia , 1942.

literature

  • LG Pine / Edward Martell / Alberta Lawrence: Who Was Who Among English and European Authors, 1931-1949: Based on Entries which First Appeared in The Author's and Writer's Who's Who & Reference Guide Originally Compiled by Edward Martell and LG Pine and in Who's Who Among Living Authors of Older Nations, Originally Compiled by Alberta Lawrence , 1978, p. 650.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on Harrison on the special wanted list GB (reproduced on the website of the Imperial War Museum in London). .
personal data
SURNAME Harrison, Hubert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Harrison, HD
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British journalist
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Walsall
DATE OF DEATH after 1939