The Lamps Went Out In Europe
New York, NY: Pantheon Books, Inc., 1955. Presumed First U.S. Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 310 pages. Front flyleaf has been cut out. Pencil erasure residue on half-title page. Scuff inside front cover. Some cover wear. Includes Chronological Table, Selective Bibliography, and Index. 22 black and white photographs follow page 152. Ludwig Reiners (born January 21, 1896 in Ratibor; † August 10, 1957 in Munich) was a German businessman and writer. Reiners was the son of a cigar manufacturer. He passed his Abitur in 1914 at the high school in Ratibor. Then he took part in the First World War. He studied law and economics. In 1920 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the economic measures of the Munich Soviet Republic and was entitled Dr. jur. Dr. rer. pole. Then he began a career as a businessman in the position of stock exchange representative of Deutsche Bank, became an assistant director in heavy industry at Deutsche Werke AG, a timber trader in the Balkans as an authorized signatory of a Swiss timber company. Reiners was a member of the NSDAP during the Third Reich . During the Second World War and after the was a sales director of Richard Jung's yarn factory in Munich. In 1957 he died after a short, serious illness. Reiners grew up under the spell of Prussia as well as the Austro-Hungarian monarchy and its atmosphere, which he describes in his description of the prehistory and course of the First World War In The Lamps Went Out in Europe. More