Walter Brecht

Walter Brecht (20 June 1900 – 27 September 1986) was a German scientist and longtime lecturer at the Institut für Papierfabrikation in the Technische Universität Darmstadt. He died in Darmstadt.

Life

Early life

He was born in Augsburg to Berthold Friedrich Brecht and Wilhelmine Friederike Sophie (née Brezing; 1871–1920), their second son after the future playwright and poet Bertholt. Whilst Sophie was from a Pietist family, Berthold Friedrich was a Roman Catholic from Achern in the Black Forest, becoming a clerk at Augsburg's Haindl’sche Papierfabriken, rising to manager and then in 1914 its director. This allowed the Brecht family to finally move into one of the factory's 'Stiftungshäuser' or foundation houses. Sophie's father Josef Friedrich Brezing (1842–1922) was an official on the Royal Württemberg State Railways at Roßberg (now known as Wolfegg) on the Herbertingen–Isny line, opened just before Sophie's birth. In his autobiographical memoirs "Unser Leben in Augsburg, damals“, Walter himself described his childhood and youth in Augsburg.

External links

• Literature by and about Walter Brecht in the German National Library catalogue
• Brecht, Walter Hermann Paul. Hessische Biografie. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). (Stand: 29 June 2020)

References

1. Bertolt Brecht
2. Brecht (film)
3. George Brecht
4. Brecht, Belgium
5. Walter Benjamin
6. Paula Banholzer
7. Ranrapalca
8. Martin Luther
9. List of first ascents in the Cordillera Blanca
10. Kurt Weill
11. Threepenny Novel
12. Lehrstücke
13. Hanns Eisler
14. Hangmen Also Die!
15. Karl Valentin
16. Walter Haenisch
17. List of deaths at the Berlin Wall
18. List of Latin phrases (full)
19. The Threepenny Opera
20. Brecht boycott in Vienna