Max Amann (politician)
Max Amann (born November 24, 1891 in Munich ; † March 30, 1957 there ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ) and publicist . He was one of the earliest followers of Adolf Hitler .
Life
From 1908 to 1911 Amann attended a commercial school and completed a commercial apprenticeship (commercial assistant) in a Munich law firm. From 1914 to 1919 he served in the Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 16 , most recently as a deputy officer , and during the First World War he was Hitler's superior at times as a vice sergeant . He belonged to the Thule Society and, as a close confidante of Hitler, took over the management of the NSDAP on August 1, 1921, although he did not join the party until October 1, 1921 ( membership number 3). In April 1922 he took over the business of the party organ Völkischer Beobachter and the management of the Franz-Eher-Verlag . In 1922 Hitler appointed him Reichsleiter for the press .
In 1923 Amann took part in the Hitler putsch and served 4 1 ⁄ 2 months of imprisonment in Landsberg . From November 9, 1924 (until April 1933) he was a member of the Munich City Council. In the summer of 1925, Hitler and Amann were on Obersalzberg near what would later become the Berghof . Hitler dictated the second part of Mein Kampf , which Amann wrote on the typewriter. From 1925 onwards, Amann expanded the Franz-Eher-Verlag to the central publishing house of the NSDAP and formed a powerful press empire from it, which published, among other things, the Völkischer Beobachter and the SS combat sheet Das Schwarze Korps . From June 9, 1928 to June 12, 1930 he was a member of the district council of Upper Bavaria . In 1933 , Amann, who had lost his left arm in a hunting accident in 1931, was also elected to the Reichstag for constituency 24 (Upper Bavaria-Swabia) , to which he remained until the end of the Nazi dictatorship.
After the seizure of power in addition to - the NSDAP Amann had Joseph Goebbels and Otto Dietrich - significant impact on the DC circuit of the German press. In 1933 he became President of the Reich Press Chamber , a department of the Reich Chamber of Culture headed by Goebbels . On June 28, 1933, he took over the chairmanship of the "Association of German Newspaper Publishers" (VDZV), with whose synchronization with the "Reich Association of German Newspaper Publishers" in 1934 he secured control over the entire German publishing industry.
Amann was considered Hitler's financial advisor and administered the royalties for his work Mein Kampf , which had a circulation of over ten million copies by Eher Verlag. It was also Amann who had convinced Hitler to change the title of the book from Four and a Half Years of Fighting Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice to Mein Kampf . From March 15, 1932, Amann held the rank of SS group leader in honor of the SS (SS number 53.143).
On June 30, 1934, Amann was present at the murder campaign against the homosexual SA group leader Edmund Heines . On January 30, 1936, Amann was appointed SS-Obergruppenführer .
On September 8, 1948, Amann was classified as the "main culprit" in the denazification process and sentenced to ten years in a labor camp, but was released in 1953. His property was confiscated and his pension rights were revoked.
literature
- Oron J. Hale : Press in the Straitjacket 1933-1945. Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1965.
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , pp. 14th f .
- Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform: the members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924 . Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 , p. 9 f .
- Thomas Tavernaro: The publishing house of Hitler and the NSDAP. The Franz Eher Successor GmbH . Edition Praesens, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7069-0220-6 .
- Hermann Weiß (Ed.): Biographical Lexicon for the Third Reich . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-10-091052-4 .
- Helga Wermuth: Max Amann (1891–1957). In: Heinz-Dietrich Fischer (Ed.): German press publishers from the 18th to the 20th century. Verlag Documentation, Pullach near Munich 1975, ISBN 3-7940-3604-4 , pp. 356–365.
Web links
- Max Amann in the database of members of the Reichstag
- Thomas Keiderling : A study on the largest book and magazine group of the National Socialism (review)
- Newspaper article about Max Amann in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ^ SS Personnel Office: List of seniority of the NSDAP Schutzstaffel. Status October 1, 1934, serial no.9
- ↑ Hans-Günther Seraphim (Ed.): The political diary of Alfred Rosenberg . 1934/35 and 1939/40. Documentation. Munich 1964, p. 45. (The editor was the brother of Peter-Heinz Seraphim .)
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SURNAME | Amann, Max |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (NSDAP), MdR and publicist |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 24, 1891 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
DATE OF DEATH | March 30, 1957 |
Place of death | Munich |