Walter Brecht

German engineer (1900–1986)

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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.^[1] 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“,^[2] 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

^ (in German) Wochenblatt für Papierfabrikation Nr. 13, 1960, Seite 551 und Nr. 19, 1986, Seite 807
^ (in German) Walter Brecht: Unser Leben in Augsburg, damals. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt 1984. ISBN 978-3458141754