Winfried Martini

Winfried Martini (born June 4, 1905 in Hanover , † December 23, 1991 in Bad Endorf ) was a German lawyer and journalist .

Life

Martini completed a commercial apprenticeship after graduating from high school . He then studied law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin .

He began his journalistic career in 1933; from 1935 to 1937 he was the Middle East correspondent for the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung in Jerusalem . Until the 1940s he worked in the armaments industry and at the headquarters of the Foreign Office in Berlin. From 1941 to 1943 he was a correspondent for the United Foreign Press Service in Stockholm . After a political professional ban, he became a soldier in the Wehrmacht .

Martini was briefly an American prisoner of war , but quickly returned to work for press organs such as Die Welt , Christ und Welt , Rheinischer Merkur and Bayerischer Rundfunk . He admired the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar ; Martini's book The End of All Security. A criticism from the west. was translated into Portuguese at the instigation of the Propaganda Ministry. He was a member of the CSU Lawyers' Working Group . Martini was married to a daughter of Paul Clemen .

Awards

1970: Konrad Adenauer Prize from the Germany Foundation

Fonts (selection)

The legend of the Ludendorff house . Inngau-Verlag, Rosenheim 1949.
The end of all security. A criticism from the west . DVA, Stuttgart 1954.
Freedom on demand. The life expectancy of the Federal Republic . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1960.
The NS processes in the east-west area of tension. Lecture and discussion . Ilmgau-Verlag, Pfaffenhofen 1969.
The winner writes the story. Notes on contemporary history . Universitas, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-8004-1224-1 .

Web links

Winfried Martini , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 11/1992 from March 2, 1992 (lm), in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Individual evidence

^ Thomas Gergen: Review of Luis Cabrai de Moneada and Carl Schmitt (correspondence 1943–1973). Edited by Erik Jayme (= Heidelberger Forum, Vol. 101). Müller, Heidelberg 1998. In: Journal for Legal History German Department, Vol. 117 (2000), pp. 816–818 (817).

personal data
SURNAME	Martini, Winfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH	June 4, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hanover
DATE OF DEATH	December 23, 1991
Place of death	Bad Endorf

[1] Thomas Gergen: Review of Luis Cabrai de Moneada and Carl Schmitt (correspondence 1943–1973). Edited by Erik Jayme (= Heidelberger Forum, Vol. 101). Müller, Heidelberg 1998. In: Journal for Legal History German Department, Vol. 117 (2000), pp. 816–818 (817).