Otto Lehmann-Rußbüldt

Otto Lehmann-Rußbüldt (born January 1, 1873 in Berlin ; died October 7, 1964 there ) was a German pacifist and political publicist .

Life

The trained bookseller Lehmann-Rußbüldt became an active supporter of the church exit movement . During the First World War he was one of the founders of the New Fatherland Federation , which was renamed the German League for Human Rights after the war . In the Weimar Republic he was one of the leading representatives of the German peace movement . From 1922 to 1926 he was Secretary General of the German League for Human Rights .

After the transfer of power to the National Socialists in 1933, he was briefly imprisoned. In autumn of that year he emigrated to the Netherlands and then to the United Kingdom . Lehmann-Rußbüldt was one of 33 Germans who were on the National Socialists' first expatriation list on August 23, 1933 . In exile he worked for German émigré newspapers and from 1941 to 1946 published the refugee's circular .

In 1951 he returned to Germany.

Honors

1953: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
1962: Carl von Ossietzky Medal . Lehmann-Rußbüldt was the first recipient of the prize, which has since been awarded annually by the International League for Human Rights .

Works

The creation of the United States of Europe. New Fatherland publishing house, Berlin 1914 (published anonymously).
Young spring . (autobiographical novel) Berlin 1919.
The bridge over the abyss. For the understanding between Germany and France . Berlin undated (1922).
Carl Mertens , Otto Lehmann-Rußbüldt, Konrad Widerhold (eds.): German military policy since 1918 . Berlin 1926
The struggle of the German League for Human Rights, formerly the Bund Neues Vaterland, for world peace 1914–1927 . Berlin 1927.
The bloody international of the armaments industry . Berlin 1929.
Germany's Airforce . Allen and Unwin, London 1935.
Who will save Europe? The task of the small states . Zurich 1936.
Aggression. The origin of Germany's war machine . Hutchinson, London 1942.
Should and could the Jews return to Germany? Drummond, London 1944.

literature

Wolfgang Gröf: Lehmann-Rußbüldt, Otto. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , pp. 99-101 ( digitized version ).
Jörg Später: The Critique of the »Other Germany«. In: “Jour fixe” initiative Berlin (ed.): Fluchtlinien des Exile. Unrast, Münster 2004 ISBN 3-89771-431-0
Nessun Saprà: Lexicon of German Science Fiction & Fantasy 1870-1918. Utopica, Oberhaid 2005, ISBN 3-938083-01-8 , p. 167 f.
Jörg Später: The criticism of the “other Germany”. Otto Lehmann-Rußbüldt, Karl Retzlaw and Hans Jaeger in exile in London. In: Gunther Nickel (ed.): Literary and political concepts of Germany 1938–1949. Wallstein, Göttingen 2004, pp. 163-185
Lehmann-Russbueldt, Otto , in: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (eds.): Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economics, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, p. 725

Web links

Otto Lehmann-Rußbüldt in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Edition Files. Weimar Republic

Individual evidence

↑ Hepp, Michael (ed.): The expatriation of German citizens 1933-45 according to the lists published in the Reichsanzeiger . tape 1 : Lists in chronological order. de Gruyter Saur, Munich 1985, ISBN 978-3-11-095062-5 , pp. 3 (reprinted 2010).

personal data
SURNAME	Lehmann-Rußbüldt, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German pacifist and political publicist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 1, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	October 7, 1964
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Hepp, Michael (ed.): The expatriation of German citizens 1933-45 according to the lists published in the Reichsanzeiger . tape 1 : Lists in chronological order. de Gruyter Saur, Munich 1985, ISBN 978-3-11-095062-5 , pp. 3 (reprinted 2010).