Walter Behrend

Walter Wilhelm Christian Emil August Behrend (born July 10, 1885 in Rostock , † January 1954 in Pullach ) was a German editor , journalist and columnist who worked for the Münchner Neuesten Nachrichten , among others .

Life

Walter Behrend was born as the son of the businessman and restaurateur (innkeeper) Wilhelm Julius Behrend and his wife Frieda Emma Louise, née Freytag. After attending school, Walter Behrend studied political science, philosophy and modern languages at the universities of Berlin , Rostock and Leipzig . He then worked as an editor for the Leipziger Tageblatt . After switching to the Neue Badische Landeszeitung as editor , he moved back to Rostock, where he worked for the Ostseezeitung . He was also active as a writer for Mecklenburgica. His work on Rostock and Wismar from 1909 was reprinted in 2005 .

Walter Behrend achieved his greatest fame as a columnist and editor for Münchner Neuesten Nachrichten . During this time he lived in Großhesselohe near Munich. In May 1933 he was fired along with around 50 other “politically unreliable” employees.

family

Walter Behrend was married to Amalie, the daughter of the factory owner Ed, on May 28, 1921. Wöllner.

Fonts (selection)

Ernst von Wildenbruch . Theater, narration and poetry. an essay. Publishing house for literature, art and music, Leipzig 1907
A journalist novel. (Review?) In: March. A weekly journal. Volume 11, Edition 2, 1917, pp. 336ff.
A poet of the time. A literary-cultural-political Essay on Hermann Kesser. Meister, Heidelberg undated [1920].
Two Baltic cities. Rostock and Wismar . Klinkhardt and Biermann, Leipzig 1909. ( digitized at RosDok). [Reprint: Godewind-Verlag, Börgerende-Rethwisch o. J. [2005]. ISBN 3-938347-19-8 ]

literature

Herrmann AL Degener : Degeners Who is it? Xth edition, Berlin 1935, p. 88.
Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 740 .

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Entry in Kotte Autographs
↑ Name and occupation from the baptismal register of the Marienkirche Rostock (accessed on April 4, 2020 from Ancestry)
^ Entry from 1905 in the Rostock matriculation portal
^ Paul Poser: The political, economic and social background of the Munich daily press between 1914 and 1934. Methods of influencing the press. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1990.

personal data
SURNAME	Behrend, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Behrend, Walter Wilhelm Christian Emil August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German editor and columnist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 10, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rostock
DATE OF DEATH	January 1954
Place of death	Pullach

[1] Entry in Kotte Autographs

[2] Name and occupation from the baptismal register of the Marienkirche Rostock (accessed on April 4, 2020 from Ancestry)

[3] Entry from 1905 in the Rostock matriculation portal

[4] Paul Poser: The political, economic and social background of the Munich daily press between 1914 and 1934. Methods of influencing the press. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1990.