Max Amann (politician)

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Max Amann in the black pre-war uniform of an SS group leader

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

Web links

Commons : Max Amann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ SS Personnel Office: List of seniority of the NSDAP Schutzstaffel. Status October 1, 1934, serial no.9
  2. ↑ 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 .)
personal data
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