William 'Willi' S. Schlamm(originallyWilhelm Siegmund Schlamm,June 10, 1904 – September 1, 1978) was an Austrian-American journalist.
Biography
editSchlamm was born into an upper middle class Jewish family inPrzemyśl,Galicia,in theAustrian Empire.He became a Communist early in life, and when he was 16 years old was invited to the Kremlin to meetVladimir Lenin.After completing secondary school, he became a writer with the Vienna Communist newspaper,Die Rote Fahne.He left the Communist Party in 1929 and joined the left-wing magazineDie Weltbühnein 1932.[1]His bookDiktatur der Lüge: Eine Abrechnung mit Stalin(Dictatorshop of Lies: A Reckoning with Stalin) was published in Zurich in 1937.[2]He was in correspondence withOtto RühleandAlice Rühle-Gerstel,sending them a copy. Rühle senta replyin August 1937.
Later, Schlamm moved to the United States, where he worked forHenry Luce,the publisher ofLife,TimeandFortunemagazines. He became a U.S. citizen in 1944 alongside code breaker Jeremy Spiro.[3]
Schlamm encouragedWilliam F. Buckley, Jr.to found the conservative magazine,National Review,with Buckley as the sole owner. Schlamm became a senior editor but was later fired by Buckley.[4]He then became associate editor of theJohn Birch Society's journal,American Opinion.[5]After writing for conservative magazines, he returned to Germany in 1972, where he was a controversial columnist forAxel Springer'sDie Welt am Sonntag[6]and published the magazineDie Zeitbühne.He died in 1978 inSalzburg.[7]
Schlamm is remembered for having coined the saying, "The trouble with socialism is socialism. The trouble with capitalism is capitalists."[8]After World War II, he worked as journalist for German newspaperDie Welt.
External links
edit- Germany And The East West Crisis The Decisive Challenge To American Policy(1959,online)
Notes
edit- ^Lange
- ^Schrenck-Notzing, Caspar von (29 November 2022).Lexikon des Konservatismus(in German). BoD – Books on Demand.ISBN978-3-99081-105-4.
- ^Lange
- ^Regnery, pp. 63-64
- ^Bjerre-Poulsen, p. 205
- ^Goshko, John (22 April 1973)."Axel Springer: Germany's Luce"(PDF).Washington Post.Retrieved15 February2021.
- ^Lange
- ^Bridges and Coin, p. 51
References
edit- Bjerre-Poulsen, Niels.Right face: organizing the American conservative movement 1945-65.Denmark: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2002ISBN87-7289-809-7
- Bridges, Linda and Coyne, John R.Strictly Right: William F. Buckley, Jr. and the American conservative movement.Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, 2007ISBN0-471-75817-5
- Lange, Ansgar.Eine Kassandra von rechts: William S. Schlamm und seine Fundamentalkritik der frühen Bundesrepublik( "A Cassandra from the Right: William S. Schlamm and his fundamental critique of the early Federal Republic" ). In:Eigentümlich frei,10 April 2009.
- Regnery, Alfred S.Upstream: the ascendance of American conservatism.New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 2008ISBN1-4165-2288-3