No free photograph
Walter Markov
German historian (1909-1993) · Germany · On the map · Writers · Died at 83
Walter Karl Hugo Markov was a German historian. Shortly after he received his doctorate, a promising academic career was interrupted in 1934 when he joined the Communist Party and briefly became a resistance activist.
Walter Markov is read about 10 times a day, in 6 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 19 June 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?Also in Deutsch
Awards
About this person
In 1935 he was sentenced to twelve years in prison, but ten years later in April 1945, as the Hitler regime collapsed, he was one of a number of long-term inmates from the Siegburg jail who organised their own "self-release", with the help of two pistols that he had been able to purchase, already loaded, on the prison black market.
The same award as Walter
Jürgen KuczynskiBoth received Friedrich Engels Prize of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR
Wolfgang ReinholdBoth received Military Order "For Services to the People and the Fatherland" in Gold
Arno von LenskiBoth received Military Order "For Services to the People and the Fatherland" in Gold