LC control no. | no 98083830 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Dietrich, Otto, 1897-1952 |
Other standard no. | 54942425 0000000109031629 |
Birth date | 1897-08-31 |
Death date | 1952-11-22 |
Place of birth | Essen (Germany) |
Place of death | Düsseldorf (Germany) |
Field of activity | Journalism--Political aspects |
Affiliation | Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel |
Profession or occupation | Press secretaries |
Found in | Hitler, 1955: t.p. (Otto Dietrich) p. vii, etc. (joined Hitler's entourage in 1931; journalist, native of Essen; Hitler's Reich press chief from 1933-45; d. Nov. 1952) OCLC, May 7, 1998 (hdgs.: Dietrich, Otto, 1897-1952, Dietrich, Otto, 1897-; usage: Otto Dietrich) Wikipedia, August 17, 2017 (Jacob Otto Dietrich (31 August 1897 - 22 November 1952) was an SS-Obergruppenführer, the Press Chief of Nazi Germany, and a confidant of Adolf Hitler. Dietrich was born in August 1897, in Essen. He studied at the universities of Munich, Frankfurt am Main and Freiburg, from which he graduated with a doctorate in political science in 1921. In 1949, he was tried at the subsequent Nuremberg Trials, where he was convicted of crimes against humanity and being a member of a criminal organization, namely the SS. He was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment and was released in 1950. At the age of 55 Dietrich died in November 1952 in Düsseldorf.) |