Immanuel Birnbaum
Immanuel Birnbaum (born August 12, 1894 in Königsberg , † March 22, 1982 in Munich ) was a German journalist and publicist.
Life
The son of a Jewish head cantor studied law and philosophy in Freiburg , Königsberg and Munich from 1912 to 1919 - interrupted by his temporary participation in the First World War . After the end of the war, Birnbaum was a spokesman for the non-affiliated students in Munich in the founding of the General Student Committee (AStA) there in November 1918 and, a little later, in the umbrella organization of the German Student Union .
After graduation, the SPD member (since 1917) Birnbaum worked as a journalist and from 1927 lived as a correspondent for various German-language newspapers (including Vossische Zeitung , Frankfurter Zeitung ) in Warsaw . After 1933 he maintained connections there with the exile SPD ( Sopade ) and with Polish resistance groups. After the German invasion of Poland , he emigrated in 1939 via Latvia, first to Finland and later to Sweden, where he was interned from 1940 to 1943 for illegal resistance work. In 1946 he returned to Warsaw as a press attaché of the Austrian embassy , but was expelled from there in 1949 and moved to Vienna , where he again worked as a correspondent for several newspapers, including the Süddeutsche Zeitung in Munich.
From 1953 to 1972 Birnbaum finally headed the foreign policy department of the Süddeutsche Zeitung ; from 1960 to 1976 he was also deputy editor-in-chief there . During this time he was considered a shrewd pioneer of a "New Ostpolitik " aimed at understanding . He has received several awards for his journalistic and political work.
Awards
- Grand Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria (1960)
- Theodor Wolff Prize (1970)
- Bavarian Order of Merit (1971)
- Royal Wasa Order (Sweden, 1972)
- Order of the Lion of Finland (1973)
Fonts (selection)
- The emergence of student self-government in Germany 1918/19. In: Victor-Emanuel Preusker (Hrsg.): Festschrift for Hermann Wandersleb on the completion of the 75th year of life. Bonn 1970, pp. 37-48.
- Been there for eighty years. Memories of a journalist . Munich: Süddeutscher Verlag, undated (1974)
literature
- Munzinger International Biographical Archive. 31/1982 of July 26, 1982.
- Joseph Walk (Ed.), Brief Biographies on the History of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem, Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 .
- Wilhelm Sternfeld , Eva Tiedemann: German Exile Literature 1933-1945. A bio bibliography. Foreword by Hanns Wilhelm Eppelsheimer , Schneider, Heidelberg / Darmstadt, 1962.
- Birnbaum, Immanuel. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 3: Birk – Braun. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-598-22683-7 , pp. 10-19.
Web links
- Literature by and about Immanuel Birnbaum in the catalog of the German National Library
- Detailed curriculum vitae in the central estate database of the Federal Archives
- Peter Glotz : Portrait of Immanuel Birnbaum in Süddeutsche Zeitung
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF file; 6.59 MB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Birnbaum, Immanuel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Roth, Ferdinand |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and publicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 12, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Koenigsberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 22, 1982 |
| Place of death | Munich |