Hans Walter Aust, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German journalist
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Place of Birth: Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
About Hans Walter Aust
- Hans Walter Aust (June 20, 1900 in Mainz – April 28, 1983) was a German journalist. Hans Walter Aust came from a Silesian family.
- His grandfather, Rudolph Austin (1833–1907) was a merchant in Neusalz, the father Aust Walther (1871–1928) was a fittings manufacturer in Berlin.
- Aust had military training as a cadet and officer. He joined the NSDAP (Nazi Party) on May 1, 1933.
- He was a member of the Reich Press Chamber and was exempt from military service.
- In 1942 he began a two-year prison sentence and was expelled from the Reich Press Chamber.
- After the end of World War II he worked from May 1945 in the Tägliche Rundschau, where he was promoted to deputy chief of the economic portfolios, and became a member of the SED.
- When the Tägliche Rundschau was discontinued, he received the post of editor in chief of the German political journal Deutsche Außenpolitik, which he held until 1969.
- He also wrote several articles for Die Weltbühne. Aust was a member of the Gesellschaft zur Verbreitung wissenschaftlicher Kenntnisse (Board of the Society for the Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge) and the Liga für Völkerverständigung (League for International Understanding).
- He received the Vaterländischer Verdienstorden (Patriotic Order of Merit) in 1960 in bronze and in 1965 in silver.
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