Kurt Baschwitz  

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Siegfried Kurt Baschwitz (February 2, 1886, Offenburg – January 6, 1968 Amsterdam), was a journalist, a professor of press, propaganda and public opinion, scholar on newspapers, and crowd psychology.

Baschwitz, who, as was customary in German middle class, was known by his second name Kurt, was a German Jew and a friend of Otto Frank, the father of Anne Frank. Baschwitz was called upon as an expert to advise on the publication of the Diary of Anne Frank

Literary works

• Der Massenwahn, seine Wirkung und seine Beherrschung, 1923 (1932, revised edition)
• De strijd met den duivel. De heksenprocessen in het licht der massapsychologie, 1948
• De krant door alle tijden, 1938
• Du und die Masse, 1938, 1951 (second edition)
• "Hexen und Hexenprozesse", 1963

Biography

• Jaap van Ginneken Kurt Baschwitz - A Pioneer of Communication Studies and Social Psychology. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press 2017. Template:ISBN. (Includes translated fragments of his work, abbreviated edition in Dutch).<ref>Author book interview: https://necsus-ejms.org/from-mass-psychology-to-media-studies-interview-with-jaap-van-ginneken-on-his-kurt-baschwitz-biography/</ref>

See also

• Rita Kohnstamm