Max A. Tönjes

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Max A. Tönjes (* 1882 , † 1940 ) was a German journalist and nonfiction - author . He was described as the "[...] archetype of the Hanoverian ".

Life

Max A. Tönjes was born in the early days of the German Empire . After attending school, he studied architecture .

In his private life, however, Tönjes fulfilled “[...] a grateful and admirable friendship with Hermann Löns , who led him to journalism”. After a traineeship at the daily newspaper Hannoverscher Anzeiger , he became editor of the Hannoverscher Tageblatt in 1904 for the features section .

After the First World War , Tönjes published a "[...] brief overview" of this war in 1919, which became part of the World War II collection of the German National Library (DNB).

From 1920 Tönjes became involved in the Reich Association of the German Press (RDP). Also during the Weimar Republic , Tönjes took over the duties of chairman of the Lower Saxony Press Association .

In his 1925 work, The Cultural Tasks of the Farmers , a compilation of magazine articles, Tönjes advocates a “folk-agrarian program to justify“ healthy progress ”, including“ xenophobic defamation ”and open racism . In it, referring to Löns quotes, he links folk ideology and the homeland security movement .

In 1930 Tönjes took over the management of Schlüterschen Verlagsgesellschaft together with Emil Engelbrecht, who had been the publishing director since 1928 .

At the time of National Socialism , Tönjes took over the main editorial management of the Hannoversche Tageblatt in 1934 .

Max A. Tönjes was one of the co-founders of the Löns Memorial Foundation based in Hanover , one of the forerunners of today's Association of Hermann Löns Circles in Germany and Austria .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Lönsbuch [in several editions and with different subtitles]:
    • Novellas, descriptions of nature and hunting, pictures of the heather, fairy tales and animal stories. With a portrait of the poet's life , 17th thousand, 169 pages in Gothic script , Hanover: Gersbach, 1916
    • Stories, animal and hunting stories, descriptions of nature. Hermann Loens. With the description of the war: My comrade Löns by Max A. Tönjes , field edition with 197 pages, Bad Pyrmont: Gersbach, 1942
  • The worldwar. Brief overview , 330 pages, Hanover: Gersbach, [o. D., 1919], table of contents
  • German princes in exile / by Diogenes , 16 pages, Hanover: Czwiertnia, 1919
  • Germany's economic reconstruction , 32 pages, Hanover: Czwiertnia, 1920
  • The cultural tasks of the peasantry (= publication distribution [the Reichslandbund] ; issue 22), 15 pages, Berlin SW. 11, Dessauer Strasse 26: Reichs-Landbund-Verlag, 1925
  • Life wisdom from Hermann Löns. Compiled from his works by Max A. Tönjes , 67 pages, Hanover: A. Sponholtz Verlag, [1927]
  • Mrs. Döllmer / Hermann Löns. Humorous-satirical chats from Fritz von der Leine. Book decoration [illustration] by Richard Schlösser , with an introduction by Max A. Tönjes, 93 pages, Bad Pyrmont: F. Gersbach, 1928

literature

Archival material

Archival material by and about Max A. Tönjes can be found, for example

  • as a document under the title Schlütersche Buchdruckerei K.-G., Verlag und Buchdruckerei, Pers. detention. Society Emil Engelbrecht and Max A. Tönjes, Hanover from the period from 1937 to 1950; in the Sächsisches Staatsarchiv , archival document 21765 Börsenverein der Deutschen Buchhandels zu Leipzig (I) , call number F 12193 , to be ordered from the Leipzig State Archives

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ In fact, the author Stefan Krings called the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung ; However, this was the successor of the Hanoverian Gazette, so named from 1949; compare for example Klaus Mlynek : Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (HAZ). In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 257.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Stefan Krings, Lutz Hachmeister: Hitler's press chief. Otto Dietrich (1897-1952). A biography , 1st edition, Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-0633-2 and ISBN 978-3-8353-2143-4 , p. 166; Preview over google books
  2. ↑ Compare the information from the German National Library
  3. ↑ a b c d o. V .: Max A. Toenjes. In: Hanoverian heads from administration, business, art and literature , vol. 2. Verlag H. Osterwald, Hanover (undated, around 1929), undated
  4. ↑ Compare the information in the catalog of the German National Library
  5. ↑ Alexander Berger: “Green Concepts” in the local section and the home supplements of the northeast Lower Saxony provincial press of the Weimar Republic. An investigation into the history of the development of nature conservation in the local communication space . Lübeck 2001, p. 210 ( online ; - dissertation).
  6. ^ Hugo Thielen : Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 454f .; Preview over google books
  7. ↑ above: Tönjes, Max A. on the deutschland-lese.de page , last accessed on December 20, 2016
  8. ↑ Compare archival records in inventory 21765 on the archiv.sachsen.de page
personal data
SURNAME Tönjes, Max A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH 1882
DATE OF DEATH 1940