Amann, Max
- Date of birth:
- November 24th, 1891 (Munich/Bavaria, Germany)
- Date of death:
- March 10th, 1957 (Munich/Bavaria, Germany)
- Service number:
- SS-Nr.: 53.143 // NSDAP-Nr.: 3
- Nationality:
- German
Biography
SS Obergruppenführer Max Amann was a German politician, businessman and a member of the Nazi Party. He was the first business manager of the Nazi Party and later became the head of Eher Verlag, the official Nazi Party publishing house. After the war ended, Amann was arrested by Allied troops. Amann was deemed a Hauptschuldiger (Prominent Guilty Party) and sentenced to ten years in a labour camp. He was released in 1953. Amann died in poverty on 30 March 1957, in Munich.
00.00.1937: awarded the Ehrenplakette für die Mitglieder des Reichs-Kultur-Senats
24.11.1941: awarded the Ehrenschild der Hauptstadt der Bewegung
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Eisernes Kreuz 2.Klasse (1914)
- Period:
- First World War (1914-1918)
III. Klasse des Militärverdienstordens
- Period:
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Period:
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Period:
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Period:
- First World War (1914-1918)
Coburger Abzeichen
- Rank:
- RL u. SS-Obergruppenführer
- Awarded on:
- October 1932
- Awarded on:
- December 1st, 1933
- Period:
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Awarded on:
- 1934
- Awarded on:
- 1934
- Awarded on:
- 1936
- Awarded on:
- 1936
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Kriegserinnerungsmedaille
- Period:
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Awarded on:
- 1937
Ordine della Corona d'Italia - Commendatore
- Awarded on:
- 1937
- Awarded on:
- 1939
- Awarded on:
- 1939
- Awarded on:
- 1940
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- November 24th, 1940
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- May 1st, 1941
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Sources
- Photo 1: Bundesarchiv
- Photo: Bundesarchiv Bild 119.286
- Max Amann - Wikipedia
- Portrait of Reichsleiter Max Amann. - Collections Search - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - - Hale O. J., The Captive Press in the Third Reich, Princeton, 1964
- Max Amann - History Learning Site
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