Friedrich Wencker-Wildberg

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Friedrich Wencker-Wildberg (born June 27, 1896 in Würzburg , † April 2, 1970 in Uffenheim ) was a German writer , translator , historian and editor . He added the name of the Berghof he managed to his birth name Friedrich Wencker and called himself Wencker-Wildberg. He also published under pseudonyms such as Günter Scholl, Wilhelm Recken and Gottfried Faltner.

Wencker studied history, classical philology and philosophy for a total of 16 semesters in Würzburg, Bern, Berlin and Hamburg. He wrote his first biography of Napoleon while still a student and subsequently gained an excellent reputation as an expert on French history. In addition to his literary work, he worked as a writer and editor of various magazines and translated works by, among others, Giacomo Casanova , Honoré de Balzac , Alexandre Dumas the Elder. Ä. and Raoul Brice . As a private farmer, he managed the property inherited from his parents. Wencker-Wildberg, who was considered restless and productive, left behind an extensive body of works of more than a hundred volumes when he died.

He is the namesake of Wencker-Wildberg-Verlag from Uffenheim. In the same place, Friedrich-Wencker-Straße is named after him.

Works (selection)

  • 1921: The Inevitable War Between Japan and America: A Political Study. Stuttgart, Leipzig, New Stuttgart publishing house
  • 1925: Of Ships That Sank: A Book of Shipwrecks and Marine Disasters.
  • 1934: Uncrowned Kings. Attempt of a world history of the adventurer. The Bergland Book, Graz
  • 1935: Bernadotte: Soldier, Marshal, King - The life novel of a lucky child of the revolution. Hamburg, Leipzig, Hoffmann & Campe
  • 1935: Abyssinia, the powder keg of Africa: prehistory, causes and effects of the Italian-Abyssinian conflict. Düsseldorf, bagel
  • 1936: Mata Hari: dancer, courtesan, spy. Hamburg, Hoffmann & Campe
  • 1937: The Spanish Salome. The novel by Princess Eboli and Secretary of State Antonio Perez. Leipzig, Payne
  • 1939: The House of Napoleon: History of a Sex. Stuttgart, Strecker & Schröder
  • 1944: Mysteries of World History. Berlin, Scherl
  • 1949: Six hundredth anniversary of the city of Uffenheim. Würzburg, judge
  • 1959: Uncrowned Kings. Adventurer of world history. Bertelsmann Lesering, Gütersloh

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Schuder: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 1967. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 1967
  2. ↑ Werner Schuder: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar. Nekrolog 1936-1970. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 1973
  3. ↑ a b c d Friedrich Wencker-Wildberg: Mata Hari. Novel of a lifetime. Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, Leipzig 1994, blurb
personal data
SURNAME Wencker-Wildberg, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wencker, Friedrich (name at birth); Scholl, Günter (pseudonym); Recken, Wilhelm (pseudonym); Faltner, Gottfried (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, translator, historian and editor
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH April 2nd, 1970
Place of death Uffenheim