Hugo Efferoth

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Hugo Efferoth (born September 25, 1889 in Cologne , † April 4, 1946 in La Paz ) was a German author , journalist , newspaper editor and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Hugo Efferoth comes from a middle-class Catholic family. He was the sixth child of the head of the post office on Samariterstraße. After graduating from the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in 1908, he studied philology , history and economics in Cologne and Leipzig . He was a volunteer in the First World War .

After the war he worked for the Leipziger Volkszeitung (1919-20), the anarcho-syndicalist creative woman (1920-21), for the Independent People's Newspaper ( Dresden , 1920-21), 1924-1927 for the Volkszeitung für die Oberlausitz in Löbau and in 1929 for Leopold Schwarzschild's diary . He was now a member of the SPD and in 1927 became the head of the local editorial office of the Rheinische Zeitung (RZ). Work colleagues there included Heinz Kühn , who later became Prime Minister of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia , and the editor-in-chief and member of the Reichstag, Wilhelm Sollmann , with whom he was close friends from that time.

Shortly after the takeover of the Nazis , the editors of RZ was supported by a on March 9, 1933 SA invaded relay team, Efferoth and target man were brought into the Nazi party house in the Mozart street and tortured, with Efferoth barely survived. This was followed by protective custody . After his release he had to go into hiding; He found refuge with the increasingly rare friends, including the fiancée of the future mayor of Cologne, Theo Burauen . His book The Heretic Bible was one of the burned books .

Finally he emigrated to Prague , where he continued to publish articles in the underground press under the pseudonym F. E. Roth , especially for the exile newspaper Neuer Vorwärts . In 1938 he managed to escape to La Paz in Bolivia via Austria and Italy . There he temporarily became the national representative of the Free Germany Movement and he worked for Ernst Schumacher's newspaper Rundschau vom Illimani .

Honors

A street in Cologne is named after him.

Works

  • Friedrich Ebert From saddler's assistant to the first German president in 1922
  • Heaven Fimmel. A study on the cult epidemic of the present . Dresden: Publishing house for proletarian freethinkers in Germany 1923, 2nd edition.
  • The heretic bible. Weapons collection for the fighting free thinker , 1929
  • A nun became seeing , 1930

literature

  • Otto Geudtner: Hugo Efferoth - a Cologne social democrat and resistance fighter in political information. Analysis - reports - opinions. Issue No. 3 September 1989

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See his article on the Nürburgring in issue 33 of August 17, 1929, pp. 1474–1375.
  2. ↑ Smashing of the unions Assault on the editorial team (pdf) page 2  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / bg-ukk.koeln.verdi.de  
  3. ↑ List of books from the fire
  4. ^ Julius H. Krizsan: Escape destination Bolivia 1933–1945. A collection of materials. Grin Verlag 2009, p. 56 f. ( limited preview in Google Book search)

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personal data
SURNAME Efferoth, Hugo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roth, FE (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, journalist, editor and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 1946
Place of death La Paz