Otto Hermann Reich Edler von Rohrwig

Otto Hermann Reich Edler von Rohrwig (born April 19, 1902 in Olomouc , † March 3, 1945 near Landsberg an der Warthe ) was an Austrian writer .

Life

Reich Edler von Rohrwig was the son of a primary doctor . He attended grammar schools in Merano and Wels and then studied law at the University of Vienna . He later studied philosophy there and at the same time worked for seven years as an unskilled worker in a sugar factory for financial reasons. During his studies in 1923 he became a member of the Bruna Sudetia fraternity in Vienna . In December 1931 he became a member of the NSDAP (membership number 689,403). Because of his activities for the NSDAP he had to leave Austria in 1933 and went to Germany. He was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD .

Reich Edler von Rohrwig was also a member of the SA , the German Labor Front (DAF), the Old Masters Association of German Students and the Reichsschrifttumskammer as well as the main front leader of the Todt Organization . He was involved as a collaborator in several magazines: Deutsches Wollen (1935), Burschenschaftliche Blätter (1936/37), Swiss monthly books (1936), Der Frontarbeiter (until 1941), Die Strasse (1941), Der Deutschen Baumeister (1941).

Reich Edler von Rohrwig worked as editor in the ergonomics institute of the German Labor Front until February 1941 and then as war correspondent in the propaganda squadron of the Todt organization. He fell in 1945 in World War II .

Publications (selection)

Of mercenaries, rascals, and beautiful women. Wild songs. Vienna 1931.
The Russian East Asia Policy Past and Present. 1936.
Work is victory. Poems. 1941 as Volume 9 of the series of publications of the Press Department of Reich Minister Dr. Dead .
The struggle for freedom of the Ostmark Germans from St. Germain to Adolf Hitler. Graz 1942.

literature

Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 564-565.

Web links

Federal Archives: https://www.archivportal-d.de/item/642UMJTOKLEYOUBJM3A3I6S6JLG2FTFB

Individual evidence

↑ Building and fighting: poems and pictures of the work of the front workers. Organization Todt, press department, GDW Callwey, 1941, p. 59.

personal data
SURNAME	Reich nobleman von Rohrwig, Otto Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH	April 19, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH	Olomouc
DATE OF DEATH	March 3, 1945
Place of death	near Landsberg on the Warta

[1] Building and fighting: poems and pictures of the work of the front workers. Organization Todt, press department, GDW Callwey, 1941, p. 59.