Hanns Johst Military person
Hanns Johst (8 July 1890 – 23 November 1978) was a German playwright and Nazi Poet Laureate.Hanns Johst was born in Seehausen as the son of an elementary school teacher. He grew up in Oschatz and Leipzig. As a juvenile he planned to become a missionary. When he was 17 years old he worked as an auxiliary in a Bethel Institution. In 1910 he earned his Abitur in Leipzig and then started studying medicine and philosophy and—later—history of art.He volunteered for the army in 1914. In 1918 he settled down in Allmannshausen (part of Berg) at the Starnberger See.
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| allegiance | *German Empire (to 1918) *Weimar Republic (to 1933) *Nazi Germany (to 1945) |
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| military command | *Präsident der Akademie für Deutsche Dichtung *Präsident der Reichsschriftumskammer *Stab Reichsführer-SS |
| service start | 1914 |
| service end | 1914 |