Paul Roth (media scientist)

Paul Roth (born September 5, 1885 in Leipzig , † April 25, 1964 in Trier ) was a German diplomat, newspaper scholar and journalist .

After studying mathematics, physics and philosophy, Roth first became a teacher and joined the Foreign Service in 1918. Between 1928 and 1935 he was consul in Odessa .

From 1919 and 1924 he was a member of the SPD . On March 1, 1940, he joined the NSDAP .

1915–1920 he was co-editor of the Akademischen Rundschau . In 1928 he translated the original French version of the book Kemal Pascha - Die neue Turkey into German.

Fonts

• Leibniz's polemic against Locke . 1907.
• Patriotic tasks of the German student body. 1909, 2nd edition: 1910.
• History of the German newspaper industry from 1848 to the present. 1912.
• The programs of the political parties and the daily political press in Germany. 1913.
• The New Newspapers in Germany in the 15th and 16th Centuries (award-winning treatise). Teubner, Leipzig 1914.
• Leipzig, the center of the book trade. Booksellers Association, Leipzig 1914.
• The political development in Congress Poland during the German occupation. 1919.
• The emergence of the Polish state - a political and international law study (= public law treatises. Ed. By Heinrich Triepel , Erich Kaufmann and Rudolf Smend . 7th issue). Berlin 1926.
• Germany and Poland. Isar-Verlag, Munich 1958.
• Opium for the People - Communism: Theory, Reality, World Danger. Pfeiffer, Munich 1961.

literature

• Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 3: Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: L – R. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-506-71842-6 .
• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar , 4th year, Berlin and Leipzig 1931, columns 2434–2435.

Web links

• Literature by and about Paul Roth in the catalog of the German National Library