10 Facts About Walter Freud

Anton Walter Freud was a chemical engineer and a member of the Royal Pioneer Corps and the British Special Operations Executive.

Walter Freud was a grandson of Sigmund Freud and escaped with him and other family members from Vienna after the Anschluss.

Walter Freud was the first child of Sigmund Freud's eldest son Jean-Martin, a lawyer, and his wife Ernestine Drucker.

Walter Freud was named after Anton von Freund, a colleague of his grandfather.

Walter Freud was first held in a prison in Leicester and then on the Isle of Man.

Walter Freud was allowed to return to the United Kingdom in October 1941 due to a refinement in internment policy.

Walter Freud then joined the Royal Pioneer Corps in which he worked for eighteen months, before he was allowed to join the Special Operations Executive in 1943, due in part to his being a native German speaker.

Walter Freud was involved in the investigation of Alfried Krupp of Krupp Industries, subsequently indicted for the use of slave labor, and in the investigation of the murder of twenty Jewish children, the subject of medical experimentation by the Nazi doctor Kurt Heissmeyer, in the basement of the Bullenhuser Damm school in Hamburg.

Walter Freud was hired by British Oxygen Corporation, then went to work for British Nylon Spinners in Pontypool.

Walter Freud was recruited by British Hydrocarbons based in London in 1957, which after a series of mergers became part of BP Chemicals, where he remained until his retirement at the age of 55 in 1977.