Johann Wolfgang Brügel

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Johann Wolfgang Brügel (born July 3, 1905 in Auspitz , Austria-Hungary , † November 15, 1986 in London ) was a Czechoslovak lawyer and publicist.

Life

John Brügel, son of Judge Julius Brügel, studied from 1923 to 1928 law at the German University in Prague , where he in 1928 to Dr. jur. PhD . Then he became an official of the Czechoslovak state administration. From 1924 he became involved in the German Social Democratic Workers' Party (DSAP) and from 1930 to 1938 he was the private secretary of the DSAP chairman and Minister of Social Affairs, Ludwig Czech .

In 1939 he emigrated to France and wrote under the pseudonym Walter Brünner in socialist magazines. In 1940 he went to Great Britain and worked as an official in the Czechoslovak government in exile . Although he could after the end of World War II in Czechoslovakia return. But in 1946 he had to emigrate again to Great Britain for political reasons. Brügel wrote numerous studies in the field of contemporary history and translated works by the British historian and Holocaust researcher Gerald Reitlinger into German.

Three years after his death on November 15, 1986 in London, Brügel was made an honorary citizen of his native Hustopeče ( Auspitz ) in 1989. In 1991 he was awarded the Masaryk Order .

Fonts (selection)

  • Czechs and Germans. 1918-1938 . Nymphenburger Verlagshandlung, Munich 1967
  • Czechoslovakia before Munich: The German minority problem and British appeasement policy . Cambridge University Press, London 1973
  • (Editor) Stalin and Hitler. Pact against Europe . Europa-Verlag, Vienna 1973, ISBN 3-203-50452-9
  • Czechs and Germans. 1939-1946 . Nymphenburger Verlagshandlung, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-485-03543-2

literature

  • Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of the German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life. Saur, Munich 1980, p. 99.
  • Stanley B. Winters: JW Brügel an eighties. Looking back on an eventful career. In: Bohemia . Volume 27, 1986, pp. 110-116 (digitized version ) .

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personal data
SURNAME Brügel, Johann Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brünner, Walter (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak lawyer and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd July 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Auspitz
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 1986
Place of death London