Ernst von Salomon

Ernst von Salomon was born in 1902 in Kiel, the son of a policeman, and in 1918, at sixteen, completed his cadet training at Lichterfelde. Enlisted in the Freikorps, he fought in Berlin, in Latvia and in Upper Silesia, took part in the Kapp putsch, then joined the Organisation Consul, a far-right terrorist group. For his part in the assassination of the minister Walther Rathenau, he was sentenced in 1922 to five years' imprisonment. A screenwriter for UFA under the Nazis, he published in 1951 a long answer to the denazification questionnaire, which was a great success. He died in 1972.

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