Dr. Paul Goldmann, noted journalist and for many years Berlin correspondent of the Neuen Freien Presse of Vienna, died here today. He was 70 years old.
Of great service to Germany and to the German Reichstag many times during his long journalistic career in foreign countries, Goldmann was arrested by the Nazis in August, 1933, for alleged “subversive activity.” He was kept in prison for three days and was released only through the intervention of E. A. Mowrer, Chicago newspaperman, then president of the Association of Foreign Correspondents in Berlin. Goldmann was forced to leave Germany and Mowrer had to resign his post and accept a transfer to Tokyo.
Goldmann was born in Breslau, January 31, 1865. He studied at the university there, later accepting an editorial post in Vienna. For ten years he was correspondent for the Frankfurter Zeitung in Brussels, Paris and China. He wrote several books on literature, travel and drama, and in 1916 published a book “Talks with Hindenburg.”
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