Ernst Von Salomon

Grunewald Tryptich, left. German writer, adolescent voluntary soldier in post-war Weimar-times clashes, “poet of the Freikorps”. When only nineteen, he was involved in the assassination of Walther Rathenau - then sentenced for that. When released, he defined himself an assassin. In his memoriees, he wrote that Walther Rathenau was “the man who might have changed Germany into a modern country”.