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Ritter, Paul, 1887-1968

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Personal name headingRitter, Paul, 1887-1968
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Variant(s)Ritter, Paul, b. 1887
Birth date1887-08-03
Death date1968
Place of birthThuringia (Germany)
Place of deathJohannesburg (South Africa)
Profession or occupationAuthors Farmers Journalists War correspondents
Found inHis Der Kampf um den Erdraum [MI] 1943?: t.p. (Paul Ritter)
NUC pre-1956 (LC hdg.: Ritter, Paul, 1887- ; usage: Paul Ritter)
Wikipedia, February 4, 2016 (Paul Ritter (Writer); born August 3, 1887 in Kleinbrembach, Thùˆringen; died in 1968 in Johannesburg, South Africa; he was a German farmer and writer; Paul Ritter emigrated to German South West Africa in 1905 and lived as a farmer in the colony until 1930; after his return to Germany he worked as a reporter for the Volkischer Beobachter and then as editor of the German colonial newspaper; during the Second World War, he was a war correspondent active on the front lines in Finland and Norway; from 1950 until his death in 1968. he lived in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he worked as an insurance broker; he authored colonial political treatises, novels and short stories)
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