Walter Frentz
Walter Frentz (b. 21 August 1907 in Heilbronn, Neckarkreis, Kingdom of Württemberg, German Empire; d. 6 July 2004 in Überlingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany) was a German cameraman, filmmaker, photographer, lecturer and kayak pioneer as well as an officer and newsreel war correspondent, finally a first lieutenant of the Luftwaffe and SS-Untersturmführer in World War II. He was considerably involved in the picture propaganda of National Socialist Germany and worked as a cameraman for Leni Riefenstahl. From 1939 to 1945, personal photographer Walter Frentz captured Adolf Hitler and his entourage. His films and color photos of the Führer still shape the image of the German Reich Chancellor today.
Family
In 1949, Frentz, who had been released from internment by the US in 1946, married the widow of a friend who had fallen in the war, Edeltrude "Trude" Esser, née Bewerunge. The accomplished art painter Trude brought four children into the marriage, and their child Hanns-Peter Frentz was born in 1953.
Further reading
- Hans Georg Hiller von Gaertringen (Hg.): Das Auge des Dritten Reiches. Hitlers Kameramann und Fotograf Walter Frentz, Deutscher Kunstverlag, München 2006, ISBN 3-422-06618-7
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