Theo Jung

Theo Jung , actually Theodor Karl August Heinrich Jung (* December 21, 1892 in Meckenheim ; † May 12, 1986 in The Hague ) was the founder of the Esperanto magazine Heroldo de Esperanto .

After the First World War, Jung was active in the separatist movement, which in 1923 wanted to make the Rhineland independent from Prussia as the Rhenish Republic , but did not want to separate it from the Reich.

Heroldo

In 1920 he founded the weekly Esperanto Triumfonta , which in 1925 changed its title to Heroldo de Esperanto . In the period of inflation at that time, for example, an American or Swiss subscription could outweigh a hundred German subscriptions. The headquarters of the editorial office and then also of the Heroldo publishing house became Cologne . Among other things, the publisher published the Esperanto translation of the anti-war novel In the West, nothing new .

Heroldo became one of the largest and most popular magazines of the Esperanto movement, and Jung tried to make it the central organ of the Universala Esperanto-Asocio , the World Esperanto Federation.

But in 1933 the magazine had to adapt to the new circumstances (praise the regime) and became less interesting from an international point of view. When the Nazi government dissolved the German Esperanto associations in 1936, Jung also had to reorient. He moved to The Hague and continued his publishing house and Heroldo there.

In 1940 he had to close the newspaper - the Netherlands had been occupied by Germany in May. It appeared again in 1946. In 1962, took over in Brussels living Polin Ada Sikorska-Fighiera the magazine Heroldo .

Web links

Literature by and about Theo Jung in the catalog of the German National Library
Literature by and about Theo Jung in the ONB's collection for planned languages

personal data
SURNAME	Jung, Theo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German founder of an Esperanto magazine
DATE OF BIRTH	December 21, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH	Meckenheim
DATE OF DEATH	May 12, 1986
Place of death	The hague