Max Dietrich

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Max Adolf Dietrich (born December 10, 1896 in Schönbrunn , † July 24, 1977 in Berlin ) was a German publicist and Protestant pastor in the Berlin city mission after 1945. He was best known for his scientific treatise The sources of error in the newspaper report , his work as editor and as author of the anniversary publication 75 Years of Berlin City Mission. 1877 - March 9th - 1952. In addition, he was the editor of the newsletter of the Berlin city mission for several years .

Life

school career

Dietrich was born as the eighth child of the merchant and landowner Friedrich Max Dietrich in a village in the former Marienberg district in the Ore Mountains. After attending elementary school in his hometown from 1903 to 1907, he went to the Realgymnasium in Annaberg , where he passed the matriculation examination in 1916. For a year, up to the summer of 1917, he was an army soldier in the First World War. In the winter semester of 1917/18 he enrolled at the University of Leipzig as a student of philosophy and later theology .

Professional development in the Weimar Republic

From October 1, 1917 to February 15, 1921 Dietrich studied at the University of Leipzig. As a reason for his premature de-registration, he cited in his résumé from 1929 as an attachment to his doctoral thesis the “economic circumstances of the parental home” caused by the war and post-war. In order to reorient himself professionally, Dietrich went to Sweden without a degree, gave German lessons there at a private language institute and attended Lund University . He wrote his first journalistic articles. After returning to his Saxon homeland in 1924, Dietrich got a job at the Wolffs Telegraphisches Bureau (WTB) news agency in their Chemnitz branch. After working for a year in Chemnitz, he was appointed head of the branch in Krefeld by the Berlin management of Wolff's Telegraphic Bureau. From there, Dietrich moved to C. Busch-du Fallois Soehne publishing house in Krefeld. From 1926, this newspaper publisher gave him the editor-in-chief of the Linksrheinischen Rundschau , which appeared in Homburg .

PhD thesis

Dietrich wrote his doctoral thesis on “The sources of error in newspaper reports” in the 1920s, evaluating collected information and his own targeted investigations from newspaper companies in the center of his life in North Rhine-Westphalia. He often found sources of error in messages that, after thorough examination by him, turned out to be unsecured. Other sources of error were in the editing of manuscripts by editors, but also in the technical processing of the print templates by the employees in the printing trade of the 20th century, especially by the proofreaders, typesetters , mettlers , stereotypes and printers . Dietrich named "psychological reasons" and "economic constraints" as the causes of factual, grammatical and spelling errors. Dietrich cited a large number of examples from newspaper reports of the time about editorial and technical mistakes. For theological-ecclesiastical topics he named as an example: “Professor of Old Testament” “excesses” (as much as “excessive acts”) instead of correctly “ exegesis ”, i.e. H. the theological interpretation of the texts in the Old Testament of the Bible. as well as "thorns and holy wreaths" instead of " thorns and halos ". The two reviewers for his doctoral thesis were the Leipzig professors Erich Everth and Otto Klemm .

When his doctoral thesis was accepted on May 8, 1929 by the then II. Section of the Philological and Historical Department of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Leipzig, represented by the Dean Alexander Hoffmann , Dietrich was still in charge of the daily newspaper's editorial management. The printing of his dissertation in 1929 was done by the Krefeld printing company “C. Busch-du Fallois sons ”. As “Dr. phil. ”and with the job title“ Editor ”, Max Dietrich can be found as a resident of Berlin in the address book from 1932, where he had now found the center of his life. As "editor" and "Berlin journalist" he was introduced in 1933 in a Sunday newspaper in the opening credits of an article he had written, which was supposed to help launch the former parish priest Ludwig Müller "at the head of the German Protestant Church".

Property management employee

At the end of the 1930s, Dietrich no longer worked as a journalist, but was employed by the "von Fries' property management team". From the late 1930s, Max Dietrich and his sister Dorothea - with whom he lived in a shared apartment until the bombing in Berlin and who then moved back to her mother in the Ore Mountains - attended events of the Berlin city mission in the "Johannist community". Dietrich became the elder of this city mission congregation in 1941 and saw himself as a “lay brother” who had “joy in studying the Bible and preaching”, as he wrote in his post-war résumé.

Extra-church work and denazification

As an employee in his "non-church professional activity" at Rittmeister a. D. Helmuth von Fries had to Dietrich u. a. take over administration of the building at Rosenthaler Strasse 39 in Berlin-Mitte, which belonged to a Jewish owner, the former lawyer and notary Ernst Wachsner. This house became known to Berliners at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century through the "Dance Institute" of Gustav Apitsch, a student of the Royal Prussian dance teacher Gustav Medon , and the inns associated with the dance school. The master brush maker Otto Weidt (* 1883; † 1947) had his “factory for brushes and brooms” in this building since the early 1940s. The visually impaired Weidt tried to protect his blind and deaf employed Jews from persecution and deportation . After the end of the war, Weidt confirmed in a letter addressed to “Dr. MA Dietrich - Berliner Lichterfelde - Finkensteinallee 27 "that he Dietrich as" editor "of the property management" v. Fries ”and emphasized that the“ Blind Workshop Otto Weidt Berlin C 2 Rosentaler Str. 39 ”had been employing Jews since 1941. Dietrich's personal application for denazification was accepted on June 15, 1949 by the responsible "General Commission at the Magistrate for Greater Berlin (Chamber for Clergy)" and "submitted in favor of the American military government".

Work in the Berlin city mission

Dietrich is considered a so-called late caller who only wanted to become a pastor after another occupation , and he was appointed on November 5, 1945 by Horst Fichtner (* 1893; † 1963), the then city mission director, by the senior consistorial councilor of the responsible Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg , Pastor Dannenbaum , introduced to his ministry in a service. After the end of the war in 1945, Dietrich began his service as an assistant preacher in the Berlin city mission and practiced his job with the title of "pastor" after having passed a church examination by the theological examination office with the title of "pastor" in the city mission community Berlin-Neukölln until he was reached the retirement age. At the same time, the pastor of the Berlin City Mission was given management duties as an inspector and the editor for the newsletter for the Friends of the Berlin City Mission, the predecessor of “SM-Panorama”. Dietrich carried out this editorial task on a voluntary basis for a while after he retired until it was taken over by his successor, the City Mission Inspector and Pastor Siegfried Dehmel. After that, as a retired pastor (retired), he did “messenger services” for a few years between the Berlin City Mission, which had been divided into east and west since the Berlin Wall was built in 1961, and was able to “meet some of the special requests of the community and home leaders in East Berlin fulfill".

literature

  • Robert Kain: Otto Weidt. Anarchist and “Righteous Among the Nations” (= writings of the German Resistance Memorial Center. Series A: Analyzes and Representations. Volume 10). Lukas, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86732-271-3 , esp. Pp. 364–369.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max Adolf Dietrich: The sources of error in the newspaper report . Submitted to the University of Leipzig, 1929. V, 76 S., Ill.
  2. ^ Curriculum vitae of Max Adolf Dietrich (written in third person), printed in: Dietrich: Die Fehlerquellen des Zeitungsbericht , Krefeld, 1929, next page after p. 76
  3. ↑ Max Dietrich curriculum vitae from 1929 in: The sources of errors in the newspaper report, p. (77) and p. 30 of the dissertation, footnote 1
  4. ^ Max Dietrich: The sources of error in the newspaper report . Krefeld, 1929, p. 62
  5. ^ Max Dietrich: The sources of error in the newspaper report . Krefeld, 1929, p. 63
  6. ↑ Prof. Dr. jur. et sc. pol. Alexander Hoffmann; Leipzig - University History - Catalog of Professors
  7. ↑ Dietrich, Max . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1932, Part I, p. 545.
  8. ^ Gospel in the Third Reich , editor: Pastor Joachim Hossenfelder , Volume 2, June 25, 1933, p. 236
  9. ↑ Dietrich, Max Dr Employed . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1943, Part I, p. 476. "SW 11, Saarlandstr 16".
  10. ^ Curriculum vitae in the Evangelisches Landeskirchenarchiv in Berlin, files: ELAB 105/400
  11. ↑ parish almanac for the ecclesiastical province of Berlin-Brandenburg . Ed. Evangelisches Konsistorium Berlin-Brandenburg, Selbstverlag, Berlin, 1956, p. 346 under no. 5
  12. ↑ Rosenthaler Strasse 39 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1941, Part IV, p. 735. “E [igentowner:] Wachsner, E. Israel Dr. from Berlin-Charlottenburg ”.
  13. ^ In the Berlin address book of 1933, Dr. Ernst Wachsner has been registered without discrimination in his name and his profession. Wachsner, Ernst . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1933, Part I, p. 2844.
  14. ↑ Apitsch, G., Dance Institute . In: Address book for Berlin and its suburbs , 1900, Part I, p. 25. “Inh. W [it] w [e] I [da] Apitsch ”.
  15. ↑ Files: ELAB105 / 1610 of the Evangelical Regional Church Archive in Berlin; Dr. Dietrich, Max (File - Denazification Decision Procedure of the Evangelical Church Council Berlin-Brandenburg), 1949
  16. ↑ Evangelical Central Archive in Berlin , signature: ELAB 105/1610 Dr. Dietrich, Max (File - Denazification Decision Procedure of the Evangelical Church Council Berlin-Brandenburg), 1949
  17. ^ Letter with the letterhead "Berliner Stadtmission" dated August 25, 1945, addressed to the "Evangelical Consistory of the Mark Brandenburg", kept in the Evangelical Regional Church Archives in Berlin.
  18. ↑ Newsletter SM-Panorama, SM-Panorama - Archive ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berliner-stadtmission.de
  19. ↑ Dietrich's successor took care of the Stadtmissions-Mitteilungsblatt for 20 years; Information from pastor i. R. Siegfried Dehmel, issued January 2, 2016
  20. ^ Information from Pastor i. R. Siegfried Dehmel, granted user: Schudi 45 on January 2, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Dietrich, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dietrich, Max Adolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publicist and Protestant pastor
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Schönbrunn
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 1977
Place of death Berlin