Kurt Baschwitz

Siegfried Kurt Baschwitz ( born February 2, 1886 in Offenburg, † January 6, 1968 in Amsterdam ) was a German - Dutch journalist, social psychologist and media studies.

Life

Baschwitz, who began his journalistic activities in 1908 is primarily known for his books about the mass and mass hysteria. From 1909 to 1924 was editor of the Hamburger Baschwitz Fremdenblatt, including as a correspondent in the Netherlands. He then worked until 1928 for the German Allgemeine Zeitung ( DAZ ). As of July 1929 Baschwitz officiated as editor in chief of Publishers organ newspaper publisher (ZV ) in Berlin, from which he was released in April 1933. As the son of Jewish parents, he then had to flee and went to the Netherlands.

After the invasion of German troops on 14 May 1940 Baschwitz was forced to go into hiding. Under the pseudonym Casimir K. Visser, he was still working as a journalist and has written about the work of Van de Heksenwaag Oudewater te s te other vinous bekende zaken.

Although he rarely left the house, he got into a street raid and was taken to the Dutch Westerbork transit camp, the same camp, was taken to the Anne Frank. Five days later succeeded his eldest daughter Isa to free him with a mixture of both real and forged documents from the camp. Then he succeeded with the help of his ex-wife to hide until the liberation of Amsterdam.

There he worked after the war at the Amsterdam University as a professor of the press, propaganda and public opinion. In July 1948 he was one of the founders of the Institute for Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam and its first director was. Meanwhile, there is a Kurt- Baschwitz professorship in Amsterdam.

Works

  • The mass delusion, its effect and its mastery, Munich 1923
  • The mass delusion: cause and cure of the German hatred, Munich 1932
  • De krant door all tijden, Amsterdam 1938
  • Van de Heksenwaag Oudewater te s te other vinous bekende zaken, Lochem 1938
  • De strijd met the duivel. De heksenprocessen in het light of massa psychology, Amsterdam 1948 (Eng. ) witches and witch trials: The Story of a mass delusion and its alleviation, Munich 1963
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