Ernst Hiemer

Ernst Ludwig Hiemer ( born July 5, 1900 in Großweingarten at Schwabach, † 29 July 1974 in Altötting, Bavaria ) was a German writer.

Life

Hiemer Ernst was a teacher by profession. In the era of National Socialism, he was steward of the Reich Press Chamber at the Regional Culture administrator of the district Swabia. He published the anti-Semitic children's and youth books The Toadstool ( illustrated by Fips ), which still had a circulation of 70,000 in the year of its appearance, and the Pudelmopsdackelpinscher (illustrated by Willi Hofmann ). The toadstool was considered so exemplary of Nazi youth propaganda that he in the book series of the Friends of Europe Publications published in 1938 in English translation, a number, the propaganda literature of the Nazis was to make available in English translation. The preface to the translation wrote Herbert Hensley Henson, Anglican Bishop of Durham and uncompromising opponent of the Nazis.

From 1938 to approximately 1942 Hiemer chief editor of the antisemitic and inciting weekly newspaper was The striker, in which he wrote anti-Semitic editorial. In an editorial from May 1942 he justified, for example, the Holocaust, by describing Judaism as "organized Weltverbrechertum ", which was " only eliminated ", " if the Jews all over the world has ceased to exist ".

In the postwar period he was interrogated about his boss Julius Streicher on April 30, 1946 as part of the Nuremberg Trials. Hiemer also lived subsequently in Nuremberg.

Hiemers all book publications were set in the Soviet zone of occupation on the list of proscribed literature.

Writings

• The Toadstool: a striker book for young and old. Publisher The striker, Nuremberg, 1938 edition. 60,000 copies
• The Pudelmopsdackelpinscher and other contemplative stories. The striker - Verlag, Nuremberg 1940.
• The Jew in the proverb of the peoples. The striker - Verlag, Nuremberg 1942.