Richard von Schirach
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Richard von Schirach (born 11 February 1942 in Munich) is a German sinologist and author.
He studied at LMU, where he earned a doctorate in Chinese literature in 1974. In 1973 he published a German version of the autobiography of Chinese Emperor Puyi. Richard von Schirach is a member of the noble Sorbian Schirach family. He is a son of the Nazi war criminal Baldur von Schirach, and a grandson of Hitler’s official photographer Heinrich Hoffmann. He has published a book about his father. He is the father of the philosopher Ariadne von Schirach and of the author Benedict Wells.
Books
- Pu Yi: Ich war Kaiser von China: Vom Himmelssohn zum neuen Menschen. Hanser, Munich 1973.
- Hsü Chih-mo und die Hsin-yüeh-Gesellschaft: Ein Beitrag zur Neuen Literatur Chinas. Dissertation, LMU, 1974.
- Der Schatten meines Vaters. Hanser, Munich, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-446-20669-8
- Die Nacht der Physiker: Heisenberg, Hahn, Weizsäcker und die deutsche Bombe.[1]
References
- ^ Wie es fast zur Atombombe kam, Deutschlandradio Kultur, 29 November 2012
Literature
- Norbert Lebert, Stephan Lebert: Denn Du trägst meinen Namen. Das schwere Erbe der prominenten Nazi-Kinder. Blessing, München 2000, ISBN 3-89667-105-7.
External links
- Literature by and about Richard von Schirach in the German National Library catalogue
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