Hanns Johst, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Hanns Johst

German general

Date of Birth: 08-Jul-1890

Place of Birth: Seerhausen, Saxony, Germany

Date of Death: 23-Nov-1978

Profession: writer, poet, playwright

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Hanns Johst (8 July 1890 – 23 November 1978) was a German poet and playwright, directly aligned with Nazi philosophy, as a member of the officially approved writers’ organisations in the Third Reich.
The statement “When I hear the word culture, I reach for my gun”, variously misattributed to Himmler, Goebbels and Göring, was in fact a corrupted version of a line in his play Schlageter.