Karl Heinz Abshagen

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Karl Heinz Abshagen (born June 14, 1895 in Stralsund ; † February 18, 1976 in Schweinfurt ) was a German lawyer , journalist , travel writer and biographer .

Life

Abshagen was born in Stralsund, Pomerania, as the fifth child of the businessman Heinrich Karl Wilhelm Abshagen. One of his brothers was Wolfgang Abshagen . Karl Heinz Abshagen attended grammar school after primary school and took part in the First World War, most recently as an officer. He later studied law and economics at the University of Hamburg . He also worked in the family-owned company as a commercial employee in Wandsbek . In 1920 he married. In 1925 he was in Erlangen for Dr. jur. PhD. His son Gert (Sept. 20, 1920, Apr. 19, 1945) was a junior physician.

After graduating, Abshagen first worked as a journalist in Berlin , later in Paris and Brussels , and from 1929 to 1933 in London as a correspondent for German newspapers. He then worked for the Europapress agency in London, Amsterdam , Madrid , Lisbon and Tokyo , and from 1943 to 1946 as a travel reporter in China , Inner Mongolia and Korea . He described his life there in Im Lande Arimasen.

From 1946 Abshagen worked again as a correspondent in London. After Germany returned, he settled in Upper Bavaria down and worked as a freelance writer. Abshagen became a lecturer at the Munich School of Politics , where he gave lectures on the subjects of "Guilt and Doom for Our Germany" and "Great Britain and its Commonwealth".

Works

Abshagen wrote his dissertation in 1925 on the administration of Greater London at the time and the possibilities for further design. In 1938 he published on the influence and power of the English upper class and in 1960 brought out a comprehensive account of Great Britain under the title “Europe's Big Island”. The impressions gathered in China and Korea from 1943 to 1946 formed the basis for his book “In the Land of Arimasen, as a journalist in the Far East”. As a biographer, he wrote about Wilhelm Canaris .

  • The London Local Government in its current form and the efforts to develop it , 1925 (Erlanger jur. Dissertation)
  • König, Lords und Gentlemen (influence and power of the English upper class), Stuttgart 1938
  • Who determines England's foreign policy? Contributions to foreign and foreign policy training for the comradeships of the NSDStB . 1940, no. 7, ed. NSDAP , Der Reichsstudentenführer, Amt für Polit. Education, Munich 1940. Was placed on the list of literature to be segregated in the Soviet occupation zone after the end of World War II .
  • Numerous articles in "XX. Century", Shanghai 1940–1945, propaganda newspaper of the AA for East Asia by Klaus Mehnert
  • Participation in: Erich Kordt , Wahn und Reality. Union, Stuttgart 1947
  • Im Lande Arimasen (As a journalist in the Far East 1941–46), 1948
  • Canaris. Patriot and citizen of the world , Stuttgart 1949
  • Revolution without dreams , Stuttgart 1951
  • Europe's big island , 1960
  • Guilt and Doom , 1962

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German Biographical Encyclopedia, Volume 1, Page 642, Munich 2001
  2. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit.html
  3. ↑ Vol. 1: pp. 194-197; Vol. 2: pp. 5-10; Vol. 3: pp. 113-120; Vol. 4: pp. 204-211; Vol. 6: pp. 201-204 & pp. 405-414; Vol. 7: p. 78. Readable online on the server of the Univ. of Hawaii, see Art. Mehnert, Weblinks
personal data
SURNAME Abshagen, Karl Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, journalist, travel writer and biographer
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Stralsund
DATE OF DEATH 18th February 1976
Place of death Schweinfurt