Oswald Kohut
Oswald Kohut (9 August 1877 – 25 October 1951) was a German journalist, publisher and writer with two pseudonyms, Franz Conring and Dr. Otto Hollmann. Life. Born in Düsseldorf, Kohut was born as the son of Adolph Kohut and his wife Elisabeth Kohut-Mannstein. He studied Literary criticism and Art history at the universities of Rostock, Bonn and Berlin. After his studies he was editor of the "Potsdamer Intelligenz-Blatt" in 1897, official publication organ of the authorities for Potsdam and the surrounding districts", then at the "Berliner Lokalanzeiger" and at the "Berliner Tageblatt". From 1899 to 1921 he  was editor-in-chief and owner of the newspaper "Grunewald-Echo" From 1904 to 1918 he was editor of the newspaper "Die Höfische und herrschaftliche Küche. Zeitschrift für die Interessen hoher und höchster Herrschaften sowie deren Beamte und Angestellte in allen technische und administrativen Angelegenheiten der Küche" and from 1918 until 1921 of "Die herrschaftliche Küche. Culinary leaves. Magazine for all areas of distinguished hospitality". In Berlin he became a member of the Victoria masonic lodge. The Reichsschriftleitergesetz (Reich's written director law) of 4 October 1933 determined in its § 5 Editor-in-Chief can only be: paragraph 3 "of  Aryan descent and is not married to a person of non-Aryan descent". Thus he was banned from the profession. In 1936 the company was forcibly deleted. In 1943, in the last address book before the end of the war, he lived in Berlin Schöneberg, Grunewaldstraße 55. Sein Sohn war the politician . Kohut died in Berlin at age 74.