Oswald Kohut (9 August 1877 – 25 October 1951) was a German journalist, publisher and writer with two pseudonyms, Franz Conring and Dr. Otto Hollmann.
He studied Literary criticism and Art history at the universities of Rostock, Bonn and Berlin.
After his studies he was editor of the Potsdamer Intelligenz-Blatt in 1897, official publication organ of the authorities for Potsdam and the surrounding districts",[1] then at the Berliner Lokalanzeiger and at the Berliner Tageblatt.
[6] In 1943, in the last address book before the end of the war, he lived in Berlin Schöneberg, Grunewaldstraße 55.
[7] Sein Sohn war the politician Oswald Adolph Kohut [de].