Walter Siegfried Nikolai von Wistinghausen

Walter Siegfried Nikolai von Wistinghausen (stage name Willibald Wickel, June 19, 1879 – February 26, 1956) was an Estonian–German actor, journalist, translator, and writer.

Early life and education Walter von Wistinghausen came from the Baltic noble family , which had been based in Tallinn since the mid-17th century. Walter von Wistinghausen was born at Tsitre Manor in Estonia, the son of the chamberlain and medical doctor (1826–1883) and his second wife, Adelheid Anna Nicolette Theophile Gräfin von Stenbock (1849–1922). The family lived in Tallinn until the father's death in 1883. From 1883 to 1885 they lived in Kolga, and in 1885 the mother and her four children moved to Tartu. Walter von Wistinghausen attended in Tartu from 1886 to 1890 and received private lessons from 1890 to 1892. In 1893 he enrolled at Lajus High School in Tallinn, from 1896 to 1897 he attended Nicholas High School , and then he attended in Saint Petersburg. As a result of the resettlement of the Baltic German population, he relocated to Germany in November 1939. From 1940 to 1943 he was employed as an examiner at the Inspection Office for Foreign Mail in Berlin. In 1943 he was transferred to Estonia, where he was a censor in the German civil administration for the Estonian and Russian press in Tallinn and Tartu, and an editor for the Estonian press and literature at the press office of Reichskommissariat Ostland in Riga. From 1943 to 1944 he worked in the censorship department run by the German occupation forces. At the end of March 1944, he managed to escape to Germany.

Filmography 1929: Dollarid as Evi's father

Works During the Second World War, Wistinghausen translated two or three volumes of a collection about the first year of Russian occupation of Estonia, Eesti rahva kannatuste (The Sufferings of the Estonian People), but the translation was apparently not published. Together with , he also translated the 1942 novel Hea sadam (The Good Harbor) by the Estonian writer August Mälk, which was published in Berlin in 1947. His memoirs were originally intended to comprise 13 chapters, of which the first chapter, "Aus meiner näheren Umwelt" (From My Immediate Environment), has been preserved.