Willi Frischauer

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Willi Frischauer (born September 8, 1906 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary , † December 1, 1978 in London ) was an Austro-British journalist .

Life

Willi Frischauer was the youngest of the five sons of Anna Klebinder (born April 13, 1870; † November 22, 1942 in Ghetto Theresienstadt ) and Otto Frischauer (born February 5, 1863; † August 24, 1943 in Theresienstadt). Willi and his brother Paul Frischauer wrote for the Neue Wiener Tagblatt, the Wiener Sonn- und Monday-Zeitung and for the Monday Post.

On April 8, 1932, Willi Frischauer wrote that Engelbert Dollfuss had informed Ernst Klebinder (born November 12, 1878 in Vienna, † April 29, 1936 in Opatija ) that Adolf Hitler's father was called Schücklgruber.

On February 27, 1933, Willi Frischauer, correspondent for the Wiener Allgemeine Zeitung, was in Berlin and reported on the Reichstag fire that there was no doubt that the fire "had been kindled by mercenaries of the Hitler government" and mentioned the "apparently" of the alleged arsonists used underground passage. In his book Ein Marschallstab zubrach , Ulm 1951, he named SA-Sturm 17 in connection with the Reichstag fire. In July 1933, Willi Frischauer took over the editorial management of the Wiener Sonn- und Monday newspaper and emigrated to Great Britain in 1935.

In 1938 he traveled to Vienna and then finally migrated to Great Britain. In 1940, in his book The Nazis at War, he warned Jews not to support Otto Strasser . In 1940 he was temporarily in Canada .

In the UK he wrote for the Daily Herald . In 1945 he wrote for the London newspaper People that Olga Chekhova was from Cracow and that he had spied on Hitler and Poland at the same time during the war. He pleaded for a pardon for Albert Speer .

Works (selection)

  • Twilight in Vienna . Collins, London 1938.
  • The Nazis at war . Gollancz, London 1940.
  • Goering . Odhams Press, London 1950.
German edition: A marshal's baton broke - a Göring biography . Münster Verlag, Ulm, 1951.
  • Himmler: The Evil Genius of the Third Reich . Odhams Press, London 1953.
  • The Navy's here! ". Together with Robert Jackson. Gollancz, London 1955. in the USA under the title: The Altmark affair . Macmillan, New York 1955,
  • The Man who Came Back, London. The Story of Otto John ,: Muller, 1958
  • The Rise and fall of Hermann Goering, New York: Ballantine Books, 1960
  • European Commuter, Macmillan, autobiography, 1964
  • The grand hotels of Europe, 1965, 255 pp.
  • Onassis, Bergisch Gladbach: Lübbe, 1968
  • Jackie, Bergisch Gladbach: Lübbe, 1977
  • 'Caroline Kennedy, Adventures of an Innocent Abroad', Ladies' Home Journal, February 1976.
  • Margaret: princess without a cause, 1977
  • Bardot An Intimate Biography, 1978

literature

  • Wilhelm Sternfeld , Eva Tiedemann: German Exile Literature 1933-1945. A bio-bibliography , Schneider, Heidelberg / Darmstadt, 1962

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Murray G. Hall, Gerhard Renner: Handbook of the bequests and collections of Austrian authors , p. 110 ( excerpt from Google Books )
  2. ↑ Ed. Ursula Prutsch, Klaus Zeyringer: The worlds of Paul Frischauer: A "literary adventurer" . 1997, p. 23 ( excerpt from Google Books )
  3. ^ Reichstag fire
  4. ↑ Ursula Prutsch, Klaus Zeyringer: The worlds of Paul Frischauer: A "literary adventurer" . 1997, p. 25 ( excerpt from Google Books )
  5. ^ Jewish Telegraphic, May 10, 1940, Book Warns Jews Not to Back Otto Strasser
  6. ↑ Der Spiegel , September 25, 1948, Four Generations Olga
  7. ↑ Der Spiegel , September 26, 1966, Sentient Breast
personal data
SURNAME Frischauer, Willi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frischauer, Wilhelm Frederich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-British journalist
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 1, 1978
Place of death London