Richard Oehring

Richard Oehring (born June 16, 1891 in Düsseldorf , † May 14, 1940 ) was a German political activist, writer and economist .

Life

Richard Oehring was born the son of a Protestant chief postal director. Together with Alfred Wolfenstein, he attended a class at the Luisenstädtisches Gymnasium in Berlin . In 1909 he passed the Abitur. Oehring was one of the friends of the poet Henriette Hardenberg and her brother Hans. During his studies in Munich , he and his brother Fritz joined the circle around Erich Mühsam and the Tat group , which also included Oskar Maria Graf , Franz Jung and Georg Schrimpf . Following his return to Berlin, he wrote articles for Buchwald's stock market reports as a business journalist . From 1912 he worked for the action and published his own lyrical works there. The novel The Cage was created . 1913/1914 he was a member along with Gottfried Benn , Paul Boldt , Alfred Lichtenstein , Franz Pfemfert and others on the protagonists of the author evenings of action .

Oehring took part in the First World War, to which his brother Fritz fell victim, and was stationed in Brussels as a medic. He fell ill, returned to Berlin, but was replicated and declared fit for military service. He was drafted again, deserted and obtained his release by refusing to pay and eat. In 1915 he married Cläre Otto and, together with Franz Jung, Otto Gross and Georg Schrimpf, was one of the co-editors of the magazine Die Freie Straße , of which six episodes had appeared by 1917. Numbers 3 and 4 were published by Oehring.

The marriage failed in 1917, Clare Oehring became Franz Jung's partner. The two married in 1924, but divorced again in 1937; however, she kept the name Clare Jung for life. Oehring traveled to Vienna to see Otto Gross, where he also met Margarete Kuh, who became his second wife. Oehring became an employee of Alfons Goldschmidts Räte-Zeitung and belonged with Ernst Jacobi and Friedrich M. Minck to the council cooperative for economic development . In 1922 he went to the Soviet Union, now the father of a daughter (Mimi).

After his return he worked in the trade agency of the Soviet Union in Berlin and took part in the film organization of International Workers Aid . In 1931 he and Arvid Harnack , Georg Lukács , Friedrich Lenz and Karl August Wittfogel were among the members of the Arplan (study group for the study of planned economy). Igor Cornelissen suspects that Oehring accompanied the Arplan delegation that toured the Soviet Union in 1932. However, his name cannot be found in the protocol of the study trip.

In 1933 Oehring left Germany with his family and emigrated to Holland, where he worked for the Soviet trade organization Exportchleb and at the same time for the Russian secret service. He was in close contact with Ignaz Reiss , who operated as an agent there and in other countries and was shot dead in the street in Lausanne by agents of the NKVD's foreign department in September 1937 - after his public settlement with Stalin and his support for Trotsky . Oehring recruited Johan Huijts , the foreign editor of the newspaper Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant (NRC), for the secret service work. It is unclear whether his departure from Exportchleb in 1939 is related to Reiss's death. He became an economic advisor to the NRC, supplied Huijts with economic news from the Soviet Union and through him was able to publish in the business section of the newspaper. As Huijts later reported, Oehring was deeply distressed that he did not succeed in obtaining Soviet citizenship. He committed suicide on May 14, 1940, the day Holland surrendered.

Fonts

• Calypso Island. In: The Action. 2nd volume, no. 48, November 27, 1912, col. 1518.
• Transformation. In: The Action. 2nd volume, no. 48, November 27, 1912, col. 1518.
• Melancholy. In: The Action. Volume 2, No. 50, December 11, 1912, col. 1587.
• The poet. In: The Action. Volume 2, No. 51, December 18, 1912, col. 1613.
• The conversation. In: The Action. Volume 3, No. 2, January 8, 1913, Col. 52.
• The inhibited one. In: The Action. Volume 3, No. 2, January 8, 1913, Col. 52.
• Snow country. In: The Action. Volume 3, No. 6, February 5, 1913, Col. 174.
• De Profundis. Charité. In: The Action. Volume 3, No. 10., March 5, 1913, Col. 303.
• The traitor. In: The Action. Volume 3, No. 27, July 5, 1913, Col. 658.
• Absolution. In: The Action. Volume 3, No. 46, November 15, 1913, Col. 1082.
• The redeemed. In: The Action. Volume 3, No. 51, December 20, 1913, Col. 1190.
• The internment of Dr. Otto Gross and the police. In: Wiecker Bote. 1st vol., H. 7, March 1914, pp. 1-3.
• Rail travel. In: The Action. Vol. 5, No. 20/21, May 15, 1915, Col. 252.
• Experience. In: The Action. Volume 5, No. 22/23, May 29, 1915, Col. 278.
• Wandering before spring. In: The Action. Volume 5, No. 26, June 26, 1915, Col. 328.
• Landscape. In: The Action. Volume 5, No. 31/32, August 7, 1915, Col. 399.
• Woman. In: The Action. Volume 5, No. 39/40, September 25, 1915, Col. 497-498.
• The cage. In: Free Street. 1st episode. 1915, pp. 9-14.
• Comment. In: Free Street. 3rd episode. 1916, pp. 3-4.
• The curse. In: Free Street. 3rd episode. 1916, pp. 4-5.
• Conversation in me. In: Free Street. 3rd episode. 1916, pp. 13-14.
• The brother. In: Free Street. 5th episode. 1916, pp. 11-14.
• Coercion and experience. In: Free Street. 5th episode. 1916, p. 5.
• The organization of modern factory operations. Berlin 1920.
• Soviet trade and dumping issue. Berlin 1931.
• Roads flow stony into the day. Poems, stories, essays. Wins 1988.

literature

• Working group for the study of Soviet planned economy (Arplan): Protocols of the study trip to the Soviet Union from August 20 to September 12, 1932. Berlin 1932.
• Igor Cornelissen: De GPOe op de Overtoom. Amsterdam 1989, pp. 89, 145-147, 151.
• David J. Dallin: The Soviet Espionage. Cologne 1956, p. 277.
• Oskar Maria Graf: We are prisoners. Munich 1978, p. 140.
• Annual report of the Luisenstädtischen Gymnasium. Berlin 1909, p. 18.
• Clare Jung: Birds of Paradise. Hamburg 1987, pp. 13, 25, 30, 39ff., 48ff., 54.
• Franz Jung: The way down. Hamburg 1986, pp. 87f.
• Ludwig Kunz: prophets, philosophers, party founders ... A memory of Richard Oehring and his circle. In: Hans Würzner: On German exile literature in the Netherlands 1933-1940. Amsterdam 1977, pp. 119-128.
• Sieglinde Mierau: Notes. In: Clare Jung. Birds of paradise. Hamburg 1987, p. 204.
• Paul Raabe : The authors and books of literary expressionism. Stuttgart 1985, p. 364.

Web links

• Literature by and about Richard Oehring in the catalog of the German National Library
• Anonymous: Wolf in de klem. 2000