Max Amann

Max Amann (* November 24, 1891 in Munich, † March 30, 1957 ) was a German politician ( NSDAP) and publicist. He was one of the earliest followers of Adolf Hitler.

Life

From 1908 to 1911 Amann attended a trade school and completed a commercial apprenticeship in a Munich law firm. From 1914 to 1919 he served in the Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment 16, most recently as deputy officer, and was during the First World War as a Sergeant temporarily Hitler's superior. He was a member of the Thule Society and took a close confidant of Hitler as of August 1, 1921, the management of the NSDAP, despite being in the party occurred on 1 October 1921 ( Mitgliedsnr. 3). In April 1922 he also took over the business of the party organ Völkischer observers and the Directorate of the Franz- wedding -Verlag. Hitler appointed him in 1922 to the Reich Leader for the press.

Amann 1923 took part in the Beer Hall Putsch and was serving 4 ½ months imprisonment in Landsberg. Since November 9, 1924 he was (until April 1933) in the city council of Munich. In the summer of 1925, Hitler and Amann were on the Obersalzberg near the Berghof later. Hitler dictated the second part of Mein Kampf, the Amann wrote on the typewriter. From 1925 Amann built the Franz- wedding -Verlag from the Central Publishing House of the NSDAP and molds it into a powerful media empire, which the People's Observer and the SS fight Journal published Das Schwarze Korps, among other things. Of 9 June 1928 to 12 June 1930 he was a member of the District of Upper Bavaria. 1933 Amann, who in 1931 in a hunting accident lost his left arm, was also elected for the constituency 24 (Upper Bavaria Swabia ) in the Reichstag, where he remained even after the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship through to their end.

Next to Joseph Goebbels and Otto Dietrich - - significant impact on the Gleichschaltung of the German press after the takeover of the NSDAP Amann had. In 1933 he was president of the Reich Press Chamber, a division, headed by Goebbels, the Reich Chamber of Culture. On June 28, 1933, he took over the chairmanship of the Association "Association of German Newspaper Publishers " ( VDZV ), with its direct connection to the " Reich Association of German Newspaper Publishers " in 1934 he secured the control of the entire German publishing.

Amann was considered Hitler's financial advisor and managed the royalties for his work Mein Kampf, which was published in a print run of over ten million copies in the wedding -Verlag. Amann was also Hitler had convinced to change the title of the book by four and a half year battle against lies, stupidity and cowardice in Mein Kampf. Since March 15, 1932 Amann held within the SS honorary the rank of SS - group leader.

On June 30, 1934 Amann was present at the murder action against the homosexual SA group leader Edmund Heines. On January 30, 1936 Amann was appointed to SS- Obergruppenführer.

On September 8, 1948 Amann was classified in the denazification process as a " major offender " and sentenced to ten years in a labor camp, but was released in 1953. His property was confiscated and the pension rights were denied him.

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