Walter Gyssling

Walter Gyssling (born March 18, 1903 in Munich , † October 14, 1980 in Zollikon ) was a Swiss journalist .

He was the son of Friederike, geb. Clossmann (1866–1945), ev., Dissertation, opera singer and Karl Walter Gyssling (1836–1903) an insurance director and chief engineer of the Bavarian Steam Boiler Auditing Association. He was baptized Protestant and from 1923 was without a denomination. From 1928 to 1935 he was married to Lotte Balk (* 1904) ev., A bank employee later to Irma Wipf. His daughter is Erika Klein (* 1929) a journalist in Germany.

Career

In 1917 he joined the Bavarian Cadet Corps and became a career officer in the Bavarian Army . He got to know the sociologist Franz Müller-Lyer and the historian Ludwig Quidde , alienated himself from the national liberal milieu of his family, and welcomed the end of the world war and the revolution in Munich. From 1922 to 1924 he studied law and economics at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena and at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . With his childhood friend George Hallgarten , he organized the local groups of the "Cartel of Republican Students" in order to counter the völkisch-nationalist tendencies at the universities. In 1922 he was treasurer of the cartel of republican students in Leipzig and was a member of the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold .

He completed a traineeship at the Süddeutsche Tagblatt in Munich and followed the Hitler trial .

In 1928 he became editor-in-chief of Regensburg's latest news and then a freelance journalist in Berlin. From 1930 to 1933 he was a senior employee of the Central Association of German Citizens of Jewish Faith, Office for Defense against Anti-Semitism. Before founding the Wilhelmstrasse office , Gyssling carried out a series of study trips on behalf of the CV in Coburg and other areas in which the Nazis were particularly successful and reported on them in the CV newspaper and internal memoranda.

In 1929 he joined the SPD . In 1931 he wrote The Anti-Nazi : Handbook in the Fight against the NSDAP. released. He published anti-Nazi issues anonymously.

In March 1933 he escaped to Basel before arrest , in May he traveled on to Paris where he worked as a correspondent for Swiss and Scandinavian newspapers. He was a member of the Association of German Journalists Abroad for a while as its chairman, he was involved in the left-wing socialist circle of the German exile community and cultivated friendships with Hellmut von Gerlach , Hans Venedey , Georg Bernhard , Leopold Schwarzschild , Hilde Walter , Walter Mehring , Walter Fabian and Paul Frölich and Erwin Ackerknecht . On April 20, 1938 he was expatriated, he lost the citizenship of the German Reich and was stateless. From September 1939 to February 1940 Gyßling was interned in Le Vernet . The Swiss embassy in Paris intervened, whereupon he was released a fortnight. He penned his autobiography for a Harvard University competition that he had before his. 37th birthday on March 18, 1940. He knew of his Swiss origin and his Swiss citizenship. In July 1940 he moved to Zurich , where his inherited citizenship was recognized. He worked for the " Zeitung Völkerrecht " and the " Basler National-Zeitung ". In 1941 he joined the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland , later as a prestataire in the Swiss Association of Personnel in Public Services . From 1944 to 1945 he was a member of the Free Germany Movement and a social democrat. Representative on the board. From 1946 to 1958 he was a correspondent for the " Tages-Anzeiger " in Paris. He was honorary president of the Zurich Free Spiritual Association.

Publications

With Karl Hammer: Automation and Unions, 1958

Individual evidence

^ Walter Gyssling (1836–1903), TÜV Süd , [1]
^ Review of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation , [2]
↑ Review: Non-fiction book, Walter Gyßling: My life in Germany before and after 1933 and The Anti-Nazi: Handbook in the fight against the NSDAP. Edited and introduced by Leonidas E. Hill, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , November 7, 2002, [3]
^ Edited by Wolf Gruner, German Empire 1933-1937, [4]
↑ The Zurich authorities assumed that his Zurich grandfather Georg David Gyßling had acquired foreign citizenship. In 1833, with the new civil rights law of the 20th autumn month, the principle of the inviolability of civil rights was introduced in the canton of Zurich, so that from this point on Gyßling could no longer lose his Zurich citizenship because the citizenship letter was not renewed. Based on these facts, we come to the conclusion that Georg David Gyßling had the citizenship of the city of Zurich and the land rights of your canton in 1848 and that as a result, when the federal state was founded, he automatically became a Swiss citizen. There is nothing to indicate that he renounced this civil right after 1848, so that there is no other option than to assume that his son Karl Walter Gyßling, nee. 1836, as well as his grandson Walter Rudolf Gyßling, b. May 18, 1903, who asked for an addition to the Zurich register, acquired Swiss citizenship through descent. see: My life in Germany before and after 1933, Walter Gyssling, Leonidas E. Hill, Arnold Paucker , My life in Germany before and after 1933, Donat, 2003 504 pp. [5] [6] [7]
↑ edited by Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss, Institute for Contemporary History, Research Foundation for Jewish Immigration, New York, Biographisches Handbuch der Deutschensprachigen Emigration nach 1933–1945, [8]
^ Hermann Wichers : Walter Gyssling. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . March 19, 2007 , accessed June 27, 2020 .

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME	Gyssling, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gyßling, Walter Rudolf; Gyssling, Walter Rudolf Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss journalist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 18, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH	Munich
DATE OF DEATH	October 14, 1980
Place of death	Zollikon

[1] Walter Gyssling (1836–1903), TÜV Süd , [1]

[2] Review of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation , [2]

[3] Review: Non-fiction book, Walter Gyßling: My life in Germany before and after 1933 and The Anti-Nazi: Handbook in the fight against the NSDAP. Edited and introduced by Leonidas E. Hill, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , November 7, 2002, [3]

[4] Edited by Wolf Gruner, German Empire 1933-1937, [4]

[5] The Zurich authorities assumed that his Zurich grandfather Georg David Gyßling had acquired foreign citizenship. In 1833, with the new civil rights law of the 20th autumn month, the principle of the inviolability of civil rights was introduced in the canton of Zurich, so that from this point on Gyßling could no longer lose his Zurich citizenship because the citizenship letter was not renewed. Based on these facts, we come to the conclusion that Georg David Gyßling had the citizenship of the city of Zurich and the land rights of your canton in 1848 and that as a result, when the federal state was founded, he automatically became a Swiss citizen. There is nothing to indicate that he renounced this civil right after 1848, so that there is no other option than to assume that his son Karl Walter Gyßling, nee. 1836, as well as his grandson Walter Rudolf Gyßling, b. May 18, 1903, who asked for an addition to the Zurich register, acquired Swiss citizenship through descent. see: My life in Germany before and after 1933, Walter Gyssling, Leonidas E. Hill, Arnold Paucker , My life in Germany before and after 1933, Donat, 2003 504 pp. [5] [6] [7]

[6] ted by Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss, Institute for Contemporary History, Research Foundation for Jewish Immigration, New York, Biographisches Handbuch der Deutschensprachigen Emigration nach 1933–1945, [8]

[7] Hermann Wichers : Walter Gyssling. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . March 19, 2007 , accessed June 27, 2020 .