Career
Hans Walter Aust came from a Silesian family. Aust had military training as a cadet and officer He joined the NSDAP (Nazi Party) on May 1, 1933.
In 1942 he began a two-year prison sentence and was expelled from the Reich Press Chamber.
When the Tägliche Rundschau was discontinued, he received the 1956 post of editor in chief editor of the German political journal Deutsche Außenpolitik, which he held until 1969. He also wrote several articles for Die Weltbühne.
Politics
Nazi Party, Socialist Unity Party of Germany, German People"s Party.
Membership
He was a member of the Reich Press Chamber and was exempt from military service. After the end of World World War II he worked from May 1945 in the Tägliche Rundschau, where he was promoted to deputy chief of the economic portfolios, and became a member of the SED. Aust was a member of the Gesellschaft zur Verbreitung wissenschaftlicher Kenntnisse (Board of the Society for the Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge) and the Liga für Völkerverständigung (League for International Understanding).