Börries von Münchhausen

He studied law and political science at the universities of Heidelberg, Munich, Göttingen, and Berlin.

While he was still a student, he composed a number of ballads and published his first collection of poetry in 1898, which expressed adherence to German Romantic poets' fascination with the Middle Ages and the world of German legend.

With Hitler's rise to power, many of the members of the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin were either dismissed or resigned.

This was von Münchhausen's chance, and he signed the Gelöbnis treuester Gefolgschaft, the vow of fidelity to Adolf Hitler[1] and his friends from the Wartburg were elected to take the place of such writers as Alfred Döblin and Thomas Mann.

Baron von Münchhausen took an overdose of sleeping pills and died on 16 March 1945 aged 70.