Oswald Kohut (9 August 1877 – 25 October 1951) was a German journalist,

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and writer with two

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s, Franz Conring and Dr. Otto Hollmann.

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Born in

Düsseldorf Düsseldorf ( , , ; often in English sources; Low Franconian and Ripuarian: ''Düsseldörp'' ; archaic nl, Dusseldorp ) is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second-largest city in th ...

, Kohut was born as the son of

Adolph Kohut Adolph Kohut (10 November 1848 – 21 or 22 November 1917) was a German-Hungarian journalist, literature and cultural historian, biographer, recitator and translator from Hungarian origin. Life Born in Mindszent, Kohut was born as one of thirt ...

and his wife Elisabeth Kohut-Mannstein. He studied

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and

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at the universities of

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and

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. After his studies he was editor of the ''Potsdamer Intelligenz-Blatt'' in 1897, official publication organ of the authorities for Potsdam and the surrounding districts", then at the ''Berliner Lokalanzeiger'' and at the ''

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''. From 1899 to 1921 he was editor-in-chief and owner of the newspaper ''Grunewald-Echo'' From 1904 to 1918 he was editor of the newspaper ''Die Höfische und herrschaftliche Küche. Zeitschrift für die Interessen hoher und höchster Herrschaften sowie deren Beamte und Angestellte in allen technische und administrativen Angelegenheiten der Küche'' and from 1918 until 1921 of ''Die herrschaftliche Küche. Culinary leaves. Magazine for all areas of distinguished hospitality''. In Berlin he became a member of the Victoria

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. The Reichsschriftleitergesetz (Reich's written director law) of 4 October 1933 determined in its § 5 Editor-in-Chief can only be: paragraph 3 "of Aryan descent and is not married to a person of non-Aryan descent". Thus he was banned from the profession. In 1936 the company was forcibly deleted. In 1943, in the last address book before the end of the war, he lived in Berlin Schöneberg, Grunewaldstraße 55. Sein Sohn war the politician . Kohut died in Berlin at age 74.

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* Edit.: ''Adreßbuch der westlichen Berliner Vororte. Grunewald, Halensee-Wilmersdorf, Schmargendorf, Dahlem, Schlachtensee, Nikolassee, Wannsee und Grunewald-Forst''. 2 volumes. Grunewald-Echo, Grunewald 1904–1905. * Franz Conring: ''Das deutsche Militär in der Karikatur. Mit 480 Textillustrationen und 72 Beilagen nach seltenen und amüsanten Karikaturen aller Länder und Zeiten''. Hermann Schmidts Verlag, Stuttgart 1907
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* ''Ein Jahrhundert deutsches Dichten und Denken''. 4 volumes. 1921.With

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not determined. * ''Grunewald-Echo. Jubiläums-Nummer 1899 – 1924.'' Grunewald-Echo, Berlin-Grunewald 1924. * ''Buchhändlers Mußestunden''. Enk-Verlag, Berlin-Tempelhof 1924. * ''30 Jahre Grunewald-Echo. Jubiläums-Nummer'' ubiläums-Festschrift zum 30-jährigen Bestehen. December 1899 – December 1929 Kende, Berlin-Grunewald 1929.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kohut, Oswald 20th-century German journalists German publishers (people) German Freemasons 1877 births 1951 deaths Writers from Düsseldorf

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