Siddhesh Joshi (Editor)

Heinrich Fraenkel

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Name
  
Heinrich Fraenkel


Role
  
Author

Born
  
28 September 1897 Lissa, Poland (
1897-09-28
)

Occupation
  
Biographer, Hollywood writer, political author, activist

Genre
  
Film, Nazi war crime, anti-Nazi, essays

Died
  
May 1, 1986, Ealing, London, United Kingdom

Movies
  
Olympia, Youthful Folly, Die heilige Flamme, Der Tanz geht weiter

Books
  
Doctor Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler, Goering: The Rise and Fall o, Delights Of Chess, The German People V

Similar People
  
William Dieterle, Berthold Viertel, Miles Mander, Jacques Feyder, Leo Birinski

Heinrich Fraenkel (28 September 1897 – May 1986) was an author and Hollywood writer most notable for his biographies of Nazi war criminals published in the 1960s and 1970s.

Contents

Biography

Fraenkel was born in Lissa, Poland (then Province of Posen, Germany). He emigrated from Nazi Germany and lived in Britain.

His works include:

  • Göring (1962, with Roger Manvell).
  • Hess: A Biography (1971, with Roger Manvell).
  • The Canaris Conspiracy: The Secret Resistance to Hitler in the German Army, by Roger Manvell, Heinrich Fraenkel, 1st Edition (1972).
  • Under the pseudonym "Assiac", Fraenkel edited a chess column in the New Statesman and published several chess books, among them Adventures in Chess (1951, the American edition was published as The Pleasures of Chess, and on pp. 183-184 of that book, Fraenkel explained that "Assiac" is "Caïssa", the goddess of chess, spelled backwards).

    He died in Ealing, England.

    Selected filmography

  • The Dance Goes On (1930)
  • The Sacred Flame (1931)
  • Menace (1934)
  • Youthful Folly (1934)
  • References

    Heinrich Fraenkel Wikipedia