Walter Kreiser
German journalist and politician
Intro | German journalist and politician | |
Places | Germany | |
was | Engineer Aerospace engineer Journalist | |
Work field | Engineering Journalism Science | |
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Birth | 1 January 1898, Heilbronn, Stuttgart Government Region, Baden-Württemberg, Germany | |
Death | 1 January 1959Maringá, Paraná, Brazil (aged 61 years) |
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.