Hans Walter Aust

Hans Walter Aust ( born June 20, 1900 in Mainz, † 28 April 1983) was a German journalist.

Life

Hans Walter Aust came from a Silesian family. His grandfather Rudolf Aust (1833-1907), married to Jenny born Kruger (1845-1898), was a merchant in Neusalz, the father Walther Aust (1871-1928) later fittings producer in Berlin. Aust had military training as a cadet and officer and was a soldier in the First World War. In the Weimar Republic Aust was a member of the DVP.

Aust had occurred on 1 May 1933, the Nazi Party and headed temporarily the journal The Economist. In 1942 he had to go on a two -year prison sentence and was expelled from the Reich Chamber. Aust worked for the SS Organ Black Corps.

After the Second World War he worked from May 1945 the Daily Rundschau, where he rose to become deputy head of the economics department, after he became a member of the SED. As the Daily Rundschau was set, it was in 1956 editor of the semi-official journal German foreign policy until 1969. He also wrote several articles for the world stage.

Aust was a member of the Board of the Society for the diffusion of scientific knowledge and the League of nations. He received in 1960 the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze and 1965 silver.

Writings

• German foreign policy. For a peace treaty with Germany. Special Issue 1 of the magazine, Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1959
• The contradictions between the Western powers and the role of the Bonn militarists series: Material for agitators and propagandists, ed SED. Dietz, Berlin 1960
• Southeast Asia between yesterday and tomorrow. in: " German foreign policy. " Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1962