Walter von Rummel

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Walter Freiherr von Rummel (born April 15, 1873 in Nuremberg ; † October 3, 1953 in Munich ) was a German novelist who was a liaison officer for the press department in the Bavarian War Ministry at the war press office in Berlin from January 1916 to January 1917 during the First World War .

Career

Walter von Rummel received his university entrance qualification at the royal Pagenschule in Munich , studied law in Munich, Erlangen, Geneva and Berlin and became a lawyer .

From December 20, 1915 to January 15, 1919 he was a press officer in the Bavarian War Ministry.

While in the rest of the German Reich the censorship during the First World War was based on the Prussian law on the state of siege , in Bavaria Article 4 (2) was censored according to the Bavarian State of War Act. The press department of the Bavarian War Ministry practically retrieved the censorship guidelines from Berlin for Bavaria. Formally it was an authority of the Bavarian government . According to the self-perception of the Bavarian War Ministry, his liaison officer would have been accredited to the head of the war press office Erhard Deutelmoser . The self-image of the Berlin war press office assigned him a puppet-like function with the head of the chief censorship office Alfred von Olberg .

Von Olberg expressed his appraisal view of Rummel's position by harshly ordering him to perform subordinate services, such as fetching files, at the press briefings in front of the assembled press representatives.

Release of the discussion of the war objectives

At a press conference called on November 26, 1916, the war press office informed press officers, chiefs of staff and representatives of the press of a restricted clearance of the discussion of the war aims that had been decided the day before .

Walter von Rummel used the forum and gave a lecture on the position of the Bavarian War Ministry on the merits of an unrestricted release of the discussion about the objectives of the war. The presentation would have had an effect if the journalists present were allowed to write what they heard.

The behavior of the Bavarian War Ministry on the occasion of the press conference to clear the discussion about the objectives of the war prompted the head of the war press office to point out to Baron von Rummel that if he intended to speak on behalf of the Bavarian War Ministry, he would first submit the content of his statement to the head of the war press office for approval have. The War Ministry in Munich was not ready to accept such a restriction on its representative in Berlin.

Literary work

  • von Rummel made his debut in 1900 with Glücksmärchen
  • From 1914 to 1915 he wrote a war diary in The First Year, 1916.
  • As a freelance writer and journalist, he wrote travelogues in the interwar period.
  • Novels: The Rider and the Woman 1922 and A Thousand and One Years Ago 1933

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ edited by Walther Killy, Rudolf Vierhaus, Dictionary of German Biography, p. 494.
  2. ^ Doris Fischer, Die Münchner Zensurstelle during the First World War, 1973, p. 232.
  3. ↑ Catalog of copyright entries: Books. Part, May 23, 1911, p. 2231.
personal data
SURNAME Rummel, Walter von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German novelist
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH 3rd October 1953
Place of death Munich