Walter Kreiser

German journalist and politician
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IntroGerman journalist and politician
PlacesGermany
wasEngineer Aerospace engineer Journalist
Work fieldEngineering Journalism Science
Gender
Male
Birth1 January 1898, Heilbronn, Stuttgart Government Region, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Death1 January 1959Maringá, Paraná, Brazil (aged 61 years)
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Biography

Walter Kreiser (February 10, 1898 in Heilbronn - 1958 in Maringá, Brazil) was a German aircraft designer and journalist, best known for publishing an article in the magazine The World Stage in 1929, which exposed the secret creation of a secret German Air Force in violation of the Treaty of Versailles, getting him convicted in 1931 of treason and esponage, receiving 18 months in prison (Weltbühne-Prozess) along with future (1935) Nobel Peace Prize winner Carl Ossietzky.

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