Ernst Ottwalt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ernst Ottwalt

German author and radio playwright

Date of Birth: 13-Nov-1901

Place of Birth: Sypniewo, Złotów County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 24-Aug-1943

Profession: screenwriter, writer, poet lawyer

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Ernst Ottwalt (13 November 1901 – 24 August 1943) was the pen name of German writer and playwright Ernst Gottwalt Nicolas.
A communist, he fled Nazi Germany in 1934 and went into exile in the Soviet Union, where he fell victim to the Great Purge and died in a Soviet gulag.
Later, when the Allies of World War II prosecuted Nazi war criminals in the Nuremberg Trials, the chief prosecutor from the Soviet Union quoted from an anti-Nazi book by Ottwalt.