Rudolf Zitzmann

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Rudolf Zitzmann (born August 2, 1898 ; † July 29, 1990 ) was a German free economy and life reform publisher .

Life

Zitzmann's father fought as a " liberal for a better social order". Rudolf Zitzmann began to be interested in publishing at an early age. Despite being banned by the National Socialists , he published books by Franz Hochstetter . Zitzmann was therefore imprisoned for five years and five months in the Dachau concentration camp , the Sachsenhausen concentration camp , the Nuremberg cell prison and the Flossenbürg concentration camp .

After the end of the war, Zitzmann immediately began to rebuild his company based in Lauf near Nuremberg , Espanstrasse 1. From mid-1946 he published the magazine The Companions: Monthly for Knowledge and Action , which had a circulation of 33,000 copies and its 34 issues from 1946 published until 1950; Richard Batz , Paul Diehl , Franz Hochstetter , Karl Walker and Werner Zimmermann supported him in this. He also published the nudist magazine Helios - Sonnenstrahl, Geist und Gestalt (issues 1 to 180 with a gap of 3 issues). In addition, the publisher published the EOS naturist booklets. At times Adolf Koch (Berlin) worked as editor. A further publication of the nudist literature, which was very successful at this time, was prevented by the financing banks. During the 1950s to the early 1960s , Zitzmann was able to successfully expand his publishing house and employ up to 15 people; it became the “first address” for free-trade literature.

Zitzmann fought in vain for compensation for what he had suffered during the Second World War .

Publications (selection)

  • Benedikt Uhlemayr: Silvio Gesell , 1931
  • Franz Hochstetter: Money and Credit as Disturbers of the Modern Exchange Economy , 1936
  • Richard Batz: Freedom, Order, Peace , 1948
  • Karl Walker: Freedom - and Socialism? , 1948
  • Silvio Gesell: The natural economic order through free land and free money , 1949. (According to Zitzmann, the paper that the American occupation allocated him was originally intended for a new edition of Hitler's Mein Kampf .)
  • Burton J. Hendrick : The Bulwark of the Republic - A Biography of the American Constitution , 1953
  • Rudolf Kinsky: Natural Law of the Social Order , 1961
  • Will Noebe: About the goods of the earth , 1965

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Werner Onken: Rudolf Zitzmann. In: Journal for Social Economy. No. 88, 1991, pp. 37-38.
  2. ↑ a b c d PDF at www.tristan-abromeit.de
  3. ^ The companions: Monthly for knowledge and action in the catalog of the German National Library
  4. ↑ The Companions. Ralf G. Hoerig and Hajo Schmück . In the database of German-speaking anarchism - (DadA)
  5. ↑ PDF at www.tristan-abromeit.de
  6. ↑ PDF at www.tristan-abromeit.de
personal data
SURNAME Zitzmann, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German free economy and life reform publisher
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1898
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1990