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Ernst Wiechert

Died in 1950

Ernst Wiechert was born in 1887 in a forester's house in Masuria, in East Prussia, the son of a forest warden, and taught in secondary schools in Königsberg and then Berlin. He left teaching in 1933 to live by his pen in Bavaria. His books are set in the forests and lakes of his native province. In 1933 and 1935, he urged the students of Munich to keep their critical spirit; after defending Pastor Martin Niemöller, he was arrested in 1938 and interned for two months in Buchenwald. Settled in Switzerland in 1948, he died there in 1950.

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