Karl Walter (journalist)

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Karl Walter (* 1880 in Edinburgh , † October 18, 1965 in London ) was a British journalist .

Life

After the early death of his parents, Walter grew up in Tonbridge , Lausanne and Florence . He dealt with anarchist ideas early on and wrote for Freedom magazine . Together with Tom Keell, he was the British representative at the International Anarchist Congress in Amsterdam in 1907 .

Various business ideas took him to Tuscany and Rio de Janeiro until he left for the United States in 1908. There he worked for the Kansas City Star . After the outbreak of World War I , he returned to Great Britain in 1915, where he founded the Reciprocal News Service, a kind of news agency . Walter advocated the United States joining the war.

In 1924 he became the first secretary of the Horace Plunkett Foundation, an organization promoting the idea of ​​cooperatives in the United Kingdom.

Walter increasingly turned to Italian fascism , and from 1934 he also lived in Bordighera . After Italy declared war , he fled to England and worked for the Bank of England for a few years , but returned to Bordighera in 1948. He spent the last years of his life in different places ( Bristol , Geneva , Vienna ), only from 1963 did he live again permanently in London, where he died in 1965.

family

Walter's father was of German-Austrian origin and a composer in Edinburgh, his mother the daughter of a composer from Yorkshire. Both parents died early, an aunt took over the guardianship.

In 1904 he married Minerva Lucrezia "Margaret" Hardy, an American journalist of British origin whom he had met in Italy. Their son was the future neurophysiologist and robot researcher William Gray Walter . After the death of his first wife in 1953, he married twice more.

Walter is the grandfather of the anarchist Nicolas Walter and the great-grandfather of the feminist and publicist Natasha Walter .

Publications

  • Co-operation and Charles Gide . PS King, London 1933.
  • Co-operation in changing Italy . PS King, London 1934.
    • Cooperatives in the new Italy . Buske, Leipzig 1935. Translated by Hermann Kranold-Steinhaus.
  • Class conflict in Italy . PS King, London 1938.
  • Towards democracy. The class struggle and its place in national unity . PS King, London 1939.

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personal data
SURNAME Walter, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Edinburgh
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1965
Place of death London