Career
Doctor Hugo Markus Ganz originated from Mainz in Germany and worked as a political and literary writer and journalist for the Frankfurter Zeitung. This German newspaper had stationed him in Budapest in the Austro Hungarian Empire in the 1890s for which he had taken on the Austro Hungarian nationality. In Vienna, Hugo Ganz was appointed as the Präsident des Verbandes der auswärtigen Presse.
During the first three months of the Russo Japanese War (1904–1905), Hugo Ganz was stationed in Street St. Petersburg in Russia, where he wrote the book Vor der Katastrophe (published in 1904.
Dutch edition: "Vóór het ineenstorten, een blik in het ondergaande Czarenrijk", ed Prime Minister Wink, Amersfoort, 1904). Other books from his name include Der Rebell (published in 1900), Reiseskizzen aus Rumänien (published in 1903), Die Preußische Polenpolitik (published in 1907) and Der Bundesbruder (published in 1915).