About: Hans Walter Aust

Hans Walter Aust (June 20, 1900 in Mainz – April 28, 1983) was a German journalist. Hans Walter Aust came from a Silesian family. His grandfather, Rudolph Austin (1833–1907) was a merchant in Neusalz, the father Aust Walther (1871–1928) was a fittings manufacturer in Berlin. Aust had military training as a cadet and officer.He joined the NSDAP (Nazi Party) on May 1, 1933. He was a member of the and was exempt from military service. In 1942 he began a two-year prison sentence and was expelled from the Reich Press Chamber. After the end of World War II he worked from May 1945 in the , where he was promoted to deputy chief of the economic portfolios, and became a member of the SED. When the Tägliche Rundschau was discontinued, he received the post of editor in chief of the German political j