Victor Naumann

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Victor Naumann (born May 8, 1865 in Berlin , † November 10, 1927 in Munich ; pseud. Among others, Pilatus ) was a German publicist and writer .

Life

Victor Naumann studied law and initially entered the Prussian judicial service for a year. He later lived as a freelance writer in Vienna, Coburg, Munich and Wiesbaden. He wrote under various pseudonyms for the Münchner Neuesten Nachrichten , the Augsburger Postzeitung and the BZ am Mittag . He has also published essays, dramas and novels. In 1919 he was a brief ministerial director in the Foreign Office and director of the press department of the Reich government.

He became known on the one hand through his series of articles published in the Augsburger Postzeitung, in which he defended the Jesuit order under the pseudonym "Pilatus" against the attacks of the Catholicism critic Paul Graf von Hoensbroech and others. Naumann himself was a Protestant and only converted to Catholicism shortly before his death.

On the other hand, Naumann is also assigned a certain role at the beginning of the July crisis in 1914. The publicist Naumann had good contacts in politics and diplomacy, among others to Wilhelm von Stumm , Bethmann Hollweg and Gottlieb von Jagow . A secret conversation on July 1, 1914, in which Naumann assured him that "the idea of ​​a preventive war against Russia is no longer not only in army and naval circles, but also in the Foreign Office is documented from the notes of Alexander Graf von Hoyos as completely negative as a year ago. " Furthermore, Naumann had warned that Austria-Hungary would be "lost as a monarchy and great power if it did not take advantage of this moment."

Victor Naumann died in Munich in 1927 at the age of 62 and was buried in Berlin's St. Hedwig cemetery on Liesenstrasse . The tomb has not been preserved.

Works

  • What is truth A question asked to Count Paul Hoensbroech. Kranzfelder, Augsburg 1903.
  • Quos ego! Letters of feud against Count Paul Hoensbroech. Manz, Regensburg 1903.
  • as Pilate: Jesuitism: A critical appreciation of the principles. Manz, Regensburg 1905.
  • Profiles: 30 portrait sketches from the years of the World War after personal encounters. Duncker & Humblot, Munich 1925.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Naumann's estate.
  2. ↑ Walther Killy (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia. Volume 7, 1998.
  3. ^ Manfred Rauchsteiner: Unleashed in Vienna? Austria-Hungary's contribution to the outbreak of the First World War. In: M. Gehler et al. (Ed.): Different partners? Austria and Germany in the 19th and 20th centuries. In: Historical communications. Supplement 15. Steiner, Stuttgart 1996, p. 361.
  4. ^ A b Ludwig Bittner, Hans Uebersberger (Ed.): Austria-Hungary's foreign policy from the Bosnian crisis in 1908 to the outbreak of war in 1914. Diplomatic files from the Austro-Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Volume 6, Vienna / Leipzig 1930, p. 335 f.
  5. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 55.
personal data
SURNAME Naumann, Victor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pilate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publicist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1927
Place of death Munich