Walter Pöppel

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Walter Emil Fritz Pöppel (born November 17, 1904 in Stettin , † 1993 in Stockholm ) was a German-Swedish photojournalist .

Life

Walter Emil Fritz Pöppel was married to Jenny Klemm. During his apprenticeship as a gardener in the Pomeranian Stettin, he campaigned against the construction of the armored cruiser and for children's meals. From 1924 he was organized in Dresden with the Friends of Nature Youth and, as chairman of the Young Socialists, he was involved in opposing Adolf Hitler's courtship and in protecting the hall for democratic events. From 1931 he was a member of the Socialist Workers' Party in Germany . In June 1933 he was able to escape arrest in Prague in a dramatic way and was expatriated from the German Reich. There he headed the border post of the Socialist Workers' Party (SAP) until January 1935. In January 1935 he replaced Walter Fabian and Willy Brandt in Berlin . He was given the task of re-establishing broken connections and reporting to Paris. In July 1935 he was replaced in this role by Herbert Herklotz. Shortly before the occupation of the Sudetenland , in 1938 the Pöppel family migrated to Stockholm . There he was a metal worker, photographer and worked on various newspapers for the Swedish labor movement. He created numerous photo series on nature, landscape, cities, country and people of Sweden, which he distributed through his photo agency "Illustrationsfoto". He was a member of Sopade , the metalworkers' union group and the Free German League of Culture in Great Britain . Walter and Jenny Pöppel, as well as their eldest son, officially lost their German citizenship in 1939 and thus became stateless. In 1948 they were granted Swedish citizenship.

plant

  • Once upon a time: a youth in Germany . Stockholm: Författares Bokmaskin, 1984.
  • "Germany's lost years 1933-1945. Considerations from emigration." Stockholm: Författares Bokmaskin, 1986.
  • "Yugoslav Mosaic - Travel Memories from Five Decades". Stockholm: Författares Bokmaskin, 1987.
  • "Europe's cauldron - A contribution to the oldest history of Southeast Europe". Författares Bokmaskin, 1989.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Der Spiegel , Aug. 27, 1984, on Bible paper
  2. ↑ Herbert Herklotz (* 1911) and Hilde Ephraim were arrested in late January and early February 1936, respectively [1]
  3. ↑ Worker culture and ecology, Baunatal, obituary for Jenny and Walter Pöppel, p. 16
personal data
SURNAME Pöppel, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pöppel, Walter Emil Fritz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swedish photo journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th November 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH 1993
Place of death Stockholm