Manfred George

Manfred George (October 22, 1893 – December 30, 1965), born Manfred Georg Cohn, later shortened to Manfred Georg, was a German journalist, author and translator. He left Germany after the Nazis came to power, living in several different European countries and eventually emigrating penniless to the United States in 1939. He became the editor of Aufbau, a periodical published in German, and transformed it from a small monthly newsletter into an important weekly newspaper, especially during World War II and the postwar era, when it became an important source of information for Jews trying to establish new lives and for Nazi concentration camp survivors to find each other. George remained Editor in Chief of Aufbau until his death.

Manfred George was born on October 22, 1893 in Berlin, the son of a businessman. He studied law at universities in Berlin, Greifswald and Geneva. After a serious injury during World War I, he was discharged from military service and continued his studies, graduating in 1917 with a doctorate in law. He began his journalism career before graduation, writing for the newspaper, Deutsche Montagszeitung and he began contributing to Die Weltbühne in 1915. He then went to work at the publisher, Ullstein-Verlag. He quickly advanced from city editor of the Berliner Morgenpost to editor in chief of the Berliner Abendpost. Later, he was a correspondent for the Vossiche Zeitung and worked as a managing editor in Breslau.

At one point during the conflicts over the Upper Silesia plebiscite, George was put before a firing squad by a Freikorps soldier, but was able to provide a certificate of military service and was released.

After that, George was sent to Dresden and Leipzig as an Ullstein correspondent. In 1923, he began to make a name for himself as a theater critic, writing in the Berliner Volks-Zeitung and Acht-Uhr-Abendblatt. He worked as Arts Editor of the newspaper, Tempo, as well as Associate Editor of the cultural magazine, Marsyas.

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