Walter Tschuppik

Walter Tschuppik (born July 7, 1889 in Leitmeritz , Austria-Hungary ; died April 1955 in Vienna ) was a German-Bohemian journalist.

Life

Walter Tschuppik was a supporter of the German-Czech understanding and an opponent of the Nazi regime. His book: The Christian and his shadow or the birth of the 'Jew' from the spirit of absolute morality influenced Friedrich Heer . Tschuppik was imprisoned in 1933 and then emigrated to Czechoslovakia, in 1938 to Switzerland, in 1940 he had to flee to Great Britain.

Tschuppik gave information about his four-month imprisonment by the Nazi regime in 1933 in the experience report, The dead rise from the graves , published in Czech in 1934 and in German in 1935 . After 1945 Tschuppik went back to Germany. He became the first editor-in-chief of the Münchner Abendzeitung founded by Werner Friedmann in 1948 .

His older brother was the journalist Karl Tschuppik .

Works (selection)

• The Czech Revolution . Verlag Tal, Leipzig 1920
• The Christian and his shadow or the birth of the 'Jew' from the spirit of absolute morality . Th. Thomas Verlag, Leipzig 1923
• The dead rise from the graves . Prague 1935
• Barracks madness [!] . United Correspondents, London ca.1940
• The Quislings: Hitler's Trojan horses . Hutchinson, London 1940

literature

• Rudolf M. Wlaschek: Biographia Judaica Bohemiae. Vol. 1 . Publications of the Research Center for East Central Europe at the University of Dortmund, Series B, Vol. 52. Dortmund 1995, ISBN 3-923293-47-X , p. 213 f.
• Wilhelm Sternfeld , Eva Tiedemann: German Exile Literature 1933-1945. A bio bibliography . Schneider, Heidelberg / Darmstadt 1962
• Tschuppik, Walter , in: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, p. 769

Web links

• Walter Tschuppik, Fritz Gerlich: Letter from the beyond
• Short biography of Walter Tschuppik
• Literature by and about Walter Tschuppik in the catalog of the German National Library

predecessor	Office	successor
-	Editor-in-chief of the evening newspaper 1948–1949	Rudolf Heizler