Background
Hans Heyck was a son of the historian and editor Eduard Heyck (1862–1941), a son-in-law of the journalist and editor (Norddeutshe Allgemeine Zeitung) Otto Runge (1864–1940), a grandson of the novelist and poet Wilhelm Jensen (1837–1911), a great-grandson of the mayor of the city of Kiel, finance minister of Schleswig-Holstein and administrator (Landvogt) of the island of Sylt, Schwen Hans Jensen (1795–1855), and a great-grandson of the journalist, writer and literary historian Johann August Moritz Brühl (1819–1877).
Education
After stays in Freiburg, Heidelberg, Donaueschingen and Munich, he attended "Gymnasien" (classical high schools) in Bad Doberan, Berlin and Munich and graduated in 1910.
Career
He sometimes used the pen name Harro Loothmann. After a three-year internship at an import-export company in Hamburg, he emigrated in 1913 to Argentina. He returned to Germany, however, in the fall of 1914 after the start of First World War and served first with an artillery unit and later as a pilot and flight instructor in France and West Prussia.
In the Second World War Heyck was drafted into the German Luftwaffe and served with an anti-aircraft unit
After working in various occupations, among others as a full-time employee of the German National People"s Party in East Frisia, a hobby farmer in Bavaria and teacher at an agricultural college in Diez, Heyck in 1931 became a full-time writer in Bad Aibling and from 1935 also in Reit im Winkl. He joined the Nazi Party in 1931.
Politics
Nazi Party, German National People"s Party.
