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Place of Birth: Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany
About Richard Euringer
- Richard Euringer (April 4, 1891 – August 29, 1953) was a German writer.
- Although active starting in the 1920s, he is best known for his later career, in which he was a supporter of the Nazis.
- His best-known work is probably Als Flieger in zwei Kriegen, published in 1941 by Philipp Reclam Jr.
- of Leipzig.
- From 1950 he published under the pseudonym Florian Ammer. Euringer was born in Augsburg, where he attended Gymnasium.
- He then became a soldier and officer, and in World War I enlisted as a pilot, serving time on the western front from 1914–16.
- He fought alongside the Turks in Syria and later took up the position of commander of the Flying School at Lechfeld, Bavaria.
- In the turbulent years after the war, he was perturbed and roved around, becoming in the process one of the earliest members of the NSDAP.
- After the war he took up writing, and published several books.
- Of the numerous novels he wrote, some carry undertones of his war experiences.
- Some of his most acclaimed works were Fliegerschule 4 (1929), Vortrupp Pascha (1937), Der Zug durch die Wüste (1938), Die Arbeitslosen (1930), and Die Fürsten fallen (1935).Starting in 1931, he became a political-cultural correspondent for the Völkischer Beobachter, a Nazi newspaper.
- In 1933, his work Deutsche Passion attracted the attention of Joseph Goebbels, gaining him for the first time national attention.
- In 1933, he also became a director of the libraries in Essen.
- In this capacity, he identified 18,000 works deemed not to correspond with Nazi ideology, which were publicly burned as a result.
- In 1934 he became a member of the advisory boards for writing and broadcasting in the Reich.
- After 1936, he worked as a freelance writer.
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