Walter Goerlitz
Walter Görlitz (born February 24, 1913 in Frauendorf , Randow district , † October 4, 1991 in Hamburg ) was a German writer, historian and publicist .
life and work
The son of a doctor attended the humanistic high school in Szczecin . After graduating from high school, he studied medicine and history at the University of Rostock , where he sublet lived in Walter Kempowski's parents' household . From 1936 he worked as a freelance writer. In 1955 he took over the management of the cultural policy department in the Hamburg editorial office of the newspaper “ Die Welt ”. From 1968 he headed the department for contemporary history.
Walter Görlitz wrote several books on historical topics, primarily on military history. He published the estates of the General Field Marshals of the Wehrmacht Friedrich Paulus and Wilhelm Keitel and the Admiral of the Imperial Navy , Georg Alexander von Müller .
Görlitz was awarded the Pomeranian Culture Prize in 1984.
Works (selection)
- Guardian of the Believers. The Arab circle of life and its doctors. Hamburg 1936
- Mussolini - Mission and Power (story of a life). Leipzig 1939
- Russian characters. Russian history in single frames. Hüthig & Co., Heidelberg / Leipzig / Berlin 1940 (Peter the Great, Stenka Rasin, Gregor Potemkin, Alexander Suworow, Michael Bakunin, Fedor Dostojewski, Michael Skobelew, Konstantin Pobjedonoszew, Leo Tolstoy and Grigori Rasputin)
- The German General Staff. History and Shape, 1640–1945. Publishing house of Frankfurter Hefte, Frankfurt / M. 1950
- The Junkers - nobility and peasants in the German east. Historical balance of 7 centuries. Glücksburg 1956
- Adolf Hitler (= personality and history ; vol. 21/22). Goettingen 1960
- Brief history of the German general staff. Berlin 1967
- Hannibal: a political biography . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1970
- Model: strategy of the defensive. Wiesbaden 1975
- Funders of power - such as Hitler, Lenin, Mao Tse-tung, Mussolini, Stalin, and Tito financed their rise to power. Düsseldorf, Vienna 1976
- The Prussians - the old inhabitants of East Prussia. History, culture and merging with the Germans . Landsmannschaft Ostpreussen (Ed.), Hamburg 1980
- Model - The field marshal and his final battle on the Ruhr . Universitas, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-8004-1193-8
- History of the German General Staff from 1650–1945. Augsburg 1997, ISBN 3-86047-918-0
literature
- Michael Paulwitz : Walter Görlitz: JeMiè. Symbol of Croatia. The biography . In: Gabriel Adriányi , Horst Glassl , Ekkehard Völkl (eds.): Ungarn-Jahrbuch , Volume 21, J. 1993/94, Verlag Ungarisches Institut, Munich 1995, pp. 241 f.
- Eckhard Wendt: Stettiner Lebensbilder (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania . Series V, Volume 40). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-412-09404-8 , pp. 189–190.
Individual evidence
- ↑ See the entry of Walter Görlitz's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
- ^ German-German literary exile, p. 114
Web links
- Literature by and about Walter Görlitz in the catalog of the German National Library
- General Staff: The private was asleep . In: Der Spiegel . No. 40 , 1950, pp. 11–13 ( online - October 4, 1950 , about Görlitz and his work on the General Staff and its history).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Goerlitz, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer, journalist and publicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 24, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frauendorf , Randow district |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th October 1991 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |