Otto Söffing
Otto Söffing (born February 12, 1875 in Güstrow ; † December 21, 1952 in Rostock ) was a German newspaper editor.
Life
Otto Söffing was the younger son of the pastor at the parish church Güstrow Adolf Söffing (born June 6, 1835 in Warin , † March 24, 1913 in Rostock). After graduating from the Güstrow Cathedral School , Söffing studied law and political science at the University of Rostock , the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg and the University of Leipzig from Easter 1897 . In 1899 he became active in the Corps Lusatia Leipzig . When he was inactive, he switched to his home university in Rostock, where he initially broke off his studies. From 1904 he worked as a journalist, first in Breslau and then as an editor in Dortmund, Mannheim and Wismar. After participating in the First World War, he became an editor at Rostocker Anzeiger in 1919 . At the same time he studied history and modern economics at the University of Rostock from April 1920 to the end of 1923. From 1920 to 1925 he was the editor of the weekly Mecklenburger Umschau , called the “Green Hefts”. In 1922 the Güstrow district court sentenced him to a fine for insulting the Jewish medical professor and senior physician Fritz Weinberg from Rostock . Since 1923 chief editor of the Rostocker Anzeiger , he was dismissed in 1933.
Fonts
- Hundred years of Sandmeyer: 1836–1936 (from the company's history). Schwerin: Sandmeyer 1936
literature
- Söffing, Otto, Heinrich, Rudolf, Justus. In: Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 , p. 1798.
Individual evidence
- ^ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 3 , 713
- ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
- ^ Entry SS 1900 in the Rostock matriculation portal ; Entry WS 1902 in the Rostock matriculation portal
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 93 , 717
- ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
- ↑ Kurt Blome : Doctor in the fight: experiences and thoughts. Johann Ambrosius Barth Verlag , Leipzig 1942 (listed in the Berlin NS bibliography since October 24, 1941), pp. 125–130.
- ↑ Bernd Kasten: Herren und Knechte: social and political change in Mecklenburg-Schwerin 1867-1945. (= Sources and studies from the state archives of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Volume 11). Temmen, Bremen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8378-4014-8 , p. 345. - Weinberg (like the attorney representing Weinberg) was the target of an intensive anti-Semitic campaign, see also entry in the Catalogus Professorum.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Söffing, Otto |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Söffing, Otto Heinrich Rudolf Justus (full name); Söffing, Ottheinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German newspaper editor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 12, 1875 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Guestrow |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 21, 1952 |
| Place of death | Rostock |