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Walter Kreiser
Walter Kreiser (10 February 1898 – 1958) was a German aircraft designer and journalist best known for publishing an article in the magazine '' Die Weltbühne'' (‘The World Stage’) in 1929 which exposed the secret creation of a German Air Force in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Its publication resulted in him being convicted in 1931 of espionage in the ''Weltbühne'' Trial. He and future (1935) Nobel Peace Prize winner Carl von Ossietzky received 18 months in prison. Biography Aircraft expert Kreiser was born in 1898 in Heilbronn, the son of a master butcher who died in 1903. After attending elementary school in Heilbronn for three years, he transferred to the vocational school there. He left it in December 1914 to join the German army as a volunteer. During the course of World War I, he was deployed to the Western, Eastern, and Balkan fronts as an artillery observer with field aviation detachments. He was wounded twice and suffered gas poisoning. In 1919 he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Die Weltbühne
''Die Weltbühne'' (‘The World Stage’) was a German weekly magazine for politics, art and the economy. It was founded in Berlin in 1905 as (‘The Theater’) by Siegfried Jacobsohn and was originally a theater magazine only. In 1913 it began covering economic and political topics and for the next two decades was one of the leading periodicals of Germany’s political left. It was renamed to ''Die Weltbühne'' on 4 April 1918. After Jacobsohn's death in December 1926, leadership of the magazine passed to Kurt Tucholsky, who turned it over to Carl von Ossietzky in May of 1927. The Nazi Party banned the publication shortly after it came to power, and the magazine's last issue appeared on 7 March 1933. It continued from exile as (‘The New World Stage’) until 1939. After the end of World War II, it appeared again under its original name in East Berlin, where it survived until 1993. The magazines ''Ossietzky'' (since 1997) and ''Das Blättchen'' (‘The Leaflet’, 1998) have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
