Talk:Erich Kästner (World War I veteran)

Extra information

The German Book of Guinness World Records 2001 listed Marie Martha (99 years old = born in 1900/1901) and Dr. Erich Kästner (100 years old = born in 1900) from Hanover as the longest married couple in Germany. On March 11, 2000 they had their 72nd weddingday. I am quite sure, that this is the WWI-veteran Erich Kästner. He was born on March 10, so he had already celebrated his 100th birthday a day before.

By the way, his wife was born on January 8th 1901 and died on July 24th 2003 at age 102 years and 197 days. As a result she and her husband even managed to celebrate their 75th wedding anniversary. http://db.genealogy.net/familienanzeigen/detailstod.php?ID=166865&PID=66 Sincerely TB

Ah: Thomas Breining I do presume? Extremely sexy 21:48, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

But still no picture of him then? Extremely sexy 18:19, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Update: Apparently he is no longer living in Hanover, but in a nursing home in Pulheim and alive as of mid-December 2007. TB —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.60.105.176 (talk) 22:40, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Death notice

Dr. Erich Kästner died 1.1.2008. Here is his death notice: http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/2530/file5573fl9.jpg

(ChrisW) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.131.230.171 (talk) 09:55, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Deletion

The text below was deleted under the following circumstances, in part: "Today I came across the article linked above after reading a BBC news brief about his death. I was hoping to get a link to get some more information and a link to the de-wp article. ...It turns out that both paragraphs cited the exact same BBC article (check the number at the end of the link), which I had just been reading. The first paragraph had been lifted straight out, and the sentence-long second paragraph, which you added, had only reworded "internet encyclopedia site, Wikipedia" to "German Wikipedia." I have removed the entire section as a violation of the BBC's copyright. —WAvegetarian (talk) 16:57, 26 January 2008 (UTC):

Kästner died on 1 January 2008 in a Cologne nursing home, his son said. The death on 20 January 2008 of Louis de Cazenave, France's second-last World War I veteran, made global headlines. But in a country that keeps no record of its veterans, Kästner's death on 1 January went largely unnoticed. "That is the way history has developed," said Peter Kästner, the soldier's son. "In Germany, in this respect, things are kept quiet - they're not a big deal."

"The German public was within a hair's breadth of never learning of the end of an era," wrote Der Spiegel, until someone updated his death notice on the German Wikipedia.

The post was misdirected to my Talkpage. I was briefly interested by the mention of Wikipedia. I have no further interest in this article, which is not on my Watchlist. . --Wetman (talk) 18:10, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

I'm sorry, it was me who lifted it directly to the page. I didn't realise it was an infringement of copyright. I honestly thought that as the BBC is paid for by public money that it was free for use on sites such as Wiki, and because I credited the source I believed it to be ok. I may try to reword it to my own words, but I'm more likely to let someone else do it. I don't know why you make it sound like you just 'came upon' the story on the BBC website, when the whole time it was linked to the actual Wiki page. You make it sound like I did it secretly and claimed the work as my own. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.152.137.178 (talk) 20:55, 26 January 2008 (UTC)