Hanns Johst
Military Person
1890 – 1978
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Who was Hanns Johst?
Hanns Johst 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 at the Starnberger See.
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- Born
- Jul 8, 1890
Saxony - Also known as
- Йост, Ганс
- Nationality
- Germany
- German Empire
- Nazi Germany
- Died
- Nov 23, 1978
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on July 23, 2013
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