Richard Euringer (April 4, 1891 – August 29, 1953) was a German writer. Although active starting in the 1920s, he is best known for his later career, in which he was a supporter of the

Nazis Nazism (), formally named National Socialism (NS; , ), is the far-right politics, far-right Totalitarianism, totalitarian socio-political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany. During H ...

. His best-known work is probably '' Als Flieger in zwei Kriegen'', published in 1941 by Philipp Reclam Jr. of

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. From 1950 he published under the pseudonym Florian Ammer. Euringer was born in

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, where he attended Gymnasium. He then became a soldier and officer, and in

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enlisted as a pilot, serving time on the western front from 1914 to 1916. He fought alongside the Turks in Syria and later took up the position of commander of the Flying School at Lechfeld,

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. In the turbulent years after the war, he was perturbed and roved around, becoming in the process one of the earliest members of the

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. After the war he took up writing, and published several books. Of the numerous novels he wrote, some carry undertones of his war experiences. Some of his most acclaimed works were Fliegerschule 4 (1929), Vortrupp Pascha (1937), Der Zug durch die Wüste (1938), Die Arbeitslosen (1930), and Die Fürsten fallen (1935). Starting in 1931, he became a political-cultural correspondent for the ''

Völkischer Beobachter The ''Völkischer Beobachter'' (; "'' Völkisch'' Observer") was the newspaper of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) from 25 December 1920. It first appeared weekly, then daily from 8 February 1923. For twenty-four years it formed part of the official pub ...

'', a Nazi newspaper. In 1933, his work ''Deutsche Passion'' attracted the attention of

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, gaining him for the first time national attention. In 1933, he also became a director of the libraries in

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. In this capacity, he identified 18,000 works deemed not to correspond with Nazi ideology, which were publicly burned as a result. In 1934 he became a member of the advisory boards for writing and broadcasting in the ''Reich''. After 1936, he worked as a freelance writer.

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