Johannes Matthiesen

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Johannes Matthiesen (* 1910 in Flensburg ; † unknown) was a German SS-Untersturmführer , war correspondent and journalist .

Life

Matthiesen joined the NSDAP and the SS in 1932 . In the same year he became a member of the editorial board of the Nazi newspaper Hamburger Zeitung and was promoted to deputy chief editor of this newspaper during the Nazi era . According to Lutz Hachmeister Matthiesen, as SS-Untersturmführer in the SS section North Sea, the relevant SS personnel file in the Federal Archives is kept . During the Second World War he was used in Denmark in 1940, where he had also spent part of his childhood. Matthiesen worked mainly as "Aktivpropagandist" and " Front Reported " for the propaganda unit of the Wehrmacht . In 1942 he was appointed leader of one of these troops of front reporters in France.

After 1945, Matthiesen became editor of the news magazine Der Spiegel and its "long-time chief of service ". He also acted as head of duty when the editorial offices were searched in the course of the Spiegel affair on October 26, 1962 and, on the instructions of editor-in-chief Claus Jacobi, headed an editorial team that was supposed to continue working on the current issue of Spiegel No. 44 . Finally, according to the orders of the First Public Prosecutor Siegfried Buback, who was in charge of the investigation, late in the evening he “released the proofs in full with an objection”.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Lutz Hachmeister: Heidegger's Testament. The philosopher, the mirror and the SS . Propylaeen, Berlin 2014, p. 113 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Alfred Grosser , Jürgen Seifert : The mirror affair. Volume 1. State power and its control . Walter, Freiburg i. Br. 1966, p. 242f. and p. 535ff.
personal data
SURNAME Matthiesen, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS-Untersturmführer, war correspondent and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Flensburg
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century