Walter D. Schultz

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Walter Detlef Schultz (born October 5, 1910 in Hamburg ; † August 13, 1964 in Hanover ) was a German journalist and radio editor .

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Walter D. Schultz attended a seminar and advanced school in his hometown. From 1926 he completed a commercial apprenticeship at Villeroy & Boch . In 1929 he went to Hanover, where he found a job. At the same time, he studied business administration, political science and literary history at the Leibniz Academy .

Schultz, who had been a member of the SPD since 1925, also worked in socialist youth work and in the trade union movement. In 1930 he left the SPD and joined the KPD . In 1929/30 Schultz wrote for several local newspapers from Hanover. Because of his political activities he had to spend the period from March 1933 to August 1934 in several concentration camps. During a stay in Oranienburg concentration camp , he met the writer Kurt Hiller in 1933/34 . Both had a lifelong friendship. The author dedicated several love poems to Schultz from 1935 to 1937, which he self-published as Archangelos after Schultz's death .

Like Hiller, Schultz fled to Prague in November 1934 . Here he worked as a writer and journalist for German exile newspapers and as the editorial secretary of the New World Stage . In 1938 the KPD excluded him. In November of the same year he was able to leave for London , where he met Hiller again. Here, too, he wrote for the exile press. He spent the period from July 1940 to June 1941 as an imprisoned enemy alien in Australia. From October 1941 he worked for the German language service of the BBC , for which he translated, wrote and spoke programs that were broadcast in POW camps. He also took part in groups in exile such as the national group of German trade unionists in Great Britain and an exile group of SPD members.

Hugh Carlton Greene , British General Director of Northwest German Broadcasting , brought Schultz back to Hamburg in May 1948. Schultz took over the newly established external department, which covered a wide range of topics. The main tasks were to build relationships with international broadcasters and a network of foreign correspondents. Schultz was able to win numerous foreign artists, such as the composer Bertold Bölling, to visit Hamburg in 1949 ; His friend Kurt Hiller, with whom he had always been in close contact, also returned to Hamburg, where he gave several lectures.

Gravestone Walter Schultz, Ohlsdorf

In addition to contacts with broadcasters and correspondents, Schultz established connections with political parties. As a journalist, he was often criticized for this. In 1949 he established the series The Political Forum . Schultz wanted to use the program, in which representatives of various parties discussed specific topics, to promote democratization and public opinion-forming. In 1955 he took over the deputy head of the main politics department, which from 1956 belonged to the NDR . From November 1956 he was the "Foreign Minister of North German Broadcasting", who according to Klaus Bölling was considered a gentleman, was in charge of the NDR broadcasting house in Hanover.

Walter D. Schultz died of a heart attack in August 1964. His grave can be found in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in grid square Bm 59 (south of Prökelmoorteich ).

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Walter D. Schultz was married twice. Kurt Hiller suspected that Schultz was not happy in these marriages and therefore had a close relationship with him.

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  1. ↑ Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller : Schultz, Walter D. in: Mann für Mann. Biographical lexicon on the history of love for friends and male sexuality in the German-speaking area . Completely revised edition in two volumes: LIT-Verlag, Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-10693-3 , p. 1095
  2. ↑ Celebrity Graves
  3. ↑ Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller : Schultz, Walter D. in: Mann für Mann. Biographical lexicon on the history of love for friends and male sexuality in the German-speaking area . Completely revised edition in two volumes: LIT-Verlag, Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-10693-3 , p. 1095
personal data
SURNAME Schultz, Walter D.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schultz, Walter Detlef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and radio editor
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 1964
Place of death Hanover