Ferdinand Friedrich Zimmermann (August 14, 1898 – July 11, 1967) was a German

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and

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. He used his

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of ''Ferdinand Fried'' to publish.

Life

Zimmermann was born in

Bad Freienwalde Bad Freienwalde is a spa town in the Märkisch-Oderland district in Brandenburg, in north-eastern Germany. Geography The town is situated on the Alte Oder, an old branch of the Oder River at the northwestern rim of the Oderbruch basin and the st ...

in the

Prussian Prussia (; ; Old Prussian: ''Prūsija'') was a German state centred on the North European Plain that originated from the 1525 secularization of the Prussian part of the State of the Teutonic Order. For centuries, the House of Hohenzoll ...

Province of Brandenburg The Province of Brandenburg () was a province of Prussia from 1815 to 1947. Brandenburg was established in 1815 from the Kingdom of Prussia's core territory, comprised the bulk of the historic Margraviate of Brandenburg (excluding Altmark) and ...

, studied economics and philosophy at

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, and worked for the newspapers ''

Vossische Zeitung The (''Voss's Newspaper'') was a nationally known Berlin newspaper that represented the interests of the liberal middle class. It was also generally regarded as Germany's national newspaper of record. In the Berlin press it held a special role d ...

'' and ''

Berliner Morgenpost ''Berliner Morgenpost'' is a German newspaper, based and mainly read in Berlin, where it is one of the most read daily newspapers. History and profile Founded in 1898 by Leopold Ullstein, the paper was taken over by Axel Springer AG in 1959 a ...

'' before joining the magazine ''

Die Tat ''Die Tat'' (''The Deed'' or ''The Action'') was a German monthly publication of politics and culture. It was founded in April 1909 and its publisher (from 1912 on) was Eugen Diederichs from Jena. From 1939 until 1944 ''Die Tat'' was continued a ...

'' in 1931. A supporter of

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he joined the

Schutzstaffel The ''Schutzstaffel'' (; ; SS; also stylised with SS runes as ''ᛋᛋ'') was a major paramilitary organisation under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II. It beg ...

in 1934 and the

Nazi Party The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party ( or NSDAP), was a far-right politics, far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported the ideology of Nazism. Its precursor ...

itself in 1936.Ernst Klee: ''Das Kulturlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Wer war was vor und nach 1945''. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 685 During the

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, he worked at the

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. After the War, he found work at the '' Sonntagsblatt'' and ''

Die Welt (, ) is a German national daily newspaper, published as a broadsheet by Axel Springer SE. is the flagship newspaper of the Axel Springer publishing group and it is considered a newspaper of record in Germany. Its leading competitors are the ...

'' newspapers. In 1931 he published the book ''Das Ende des Kapitalismus'' (The End of Capitalism), in which he offered the view that

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was dead, and that German

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was the future.

Works

* ''Das Ende des Kapitalismus.'' Jena 1931. * ''Die Wende der Weltwirtschaft.'' Goldmann, Leipzig 1937. * ''Latifundien vernichteten Rom! Eine Studie der römischen Agrarverhältnisse und ihrer Auswirkungen auf Volk u. Staat.'' Verlag Blut und Boden, Goslar 1938. * ''Der Aufstieg der Juden''. Verlag Blut u. Boden, Goslar 1937. * Die soziale Revolution : Verwandlung von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Goldmann, Leipzig 1942. * ''Der Umsturz der Gesellschaft.'' Union, Stuttgart 1950. * ''Wandlungen der Weltwirtschaft''. Goldmann, München 1950. * ''Abenteuer des Abendlandes.'' Diederichs, Düsseldorf 1951.

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* 1898 births 1967 deaths People from Bad Freienwalde Writers from the Province of Brandenburg Nazi Party members German non-fiction writers German newspaper journalists Die Welt people German male journalists German economists German male non-fiction writers 20th-century German journalists Antisemitism in Germany German anti-communists Humboldt University of Berlin alumni German military personnel of World War I SS-Sturmbannführer {{Germany-writer-stub

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