Wolfgang Sorge (journalist)

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Wolfgang Sorge (born October 14, 1891 in Schöneberg ; † October 31, 1941 in Shanghai ) was a German private scholar, writer and journalist.

Life

As the son of the businessman Georg Sorge and his wife Marie Arndt, he attended grammar school and studied philosophy, history and anthropology at the universities of Berlin, Paris and Copenhagen. In private studies he dealt with the cultural phenomena of the 18th century.

On extensive trips abroad, Sorge worked as a writer on political issues and reported from Stockholm for various newspapers from 1915 to 1919. In 1919 he made trips to the Soviet Union and Hungary, the following year to Poland and the Baltic states and in 1921 to the states of the Balkans and again to Poland. His private studies over the 18th century made it possible for him to do some translations of classical works into German, additionally translated Sorge and others. a. a biography of Napoleon by Sir Walter Scott . In the press group of August Scherl Verlag , he took the position of editor. As a reporter for the Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger newspaper , he worked in China, Manchuria and the Soviet Union in the 1930s. Sorge spoke Russian fluently.

The section of the British secret service regarded him as a German agent, as he had excellent knowledge and relationships with Chinese and Manchurian institutions and groups and also traveled frequently to the Soviet Union. In Harbin , Sorge was in contact with the journalist and Russian spy Richard Sorge . Richard Sorge suspected him of being an agent of the National Socialists, so he warned his colleague Max Clausen against Wolfgang Sorge.

According to a list of the Foreign Exchange Department of the Reich Press Chamber dated September 19, 1936, Sorge received foreign currency equivalent to the equivalent of 600 Reichsmarks in cash every month.

He was married to Eugénie Chessin. Wolfgang Sorge died on October 31, 1941 in Shanghai as a result of angina pectoris .

Fonts (selection)

  • Miguel de Cervantes, The discerning Junkers Don Quixote's life and chivalric deeds , as a translation, Berlin 1912
  • History of prostitution , Berlin 1919
  • War breaks out in the Pacific , Berlin 1934
  • Experienced Manchukuo - the youth of an old new empire , Berlin 1938

credentials

  • Herrmann AL Degener , who is it? , Berlin 1935
  • FW Deakin, GR Storry, Richard Sorge - The story of a great double play , licensed edition and translation of the English edition of The Case of Richard Sorge , London 1965
  • Julius Mader, Dr.-Sorge-Report , Berlin, 2nd edition 1985

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "MR. SORGE SAT AT TABLE: When I radio, millions march" , article from Der Spiegel , 39/1951 (accessed on November 28, 2017).
personal data
SURNAME Worry, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German private scholar, writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Schöneberg
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 1941
Place of death Shanghai