Bayer, Georg-Oswald (pseudonym: Bayros)

Journalist, writer

Born: 07.03.18297 in Franzensbad, Sudetenland (today Františkovy Lázneˇ, Czech Republic)

Died: 10.06.1973 in Wiesbaden

Bayer initially worked for the spa administration in his native city, then became editor of "Bohemia", the oldest German newspaper in Prague, and was a correspondent for various newspapers for several years. After he was sentenced to prison in Czechoslovakia in 1933 for allegedly making anti-state statements, he fled to Austria. However, he soon returned to his home country, where he worked as a journalist until 1939. During the German occupation, Bayer was "conscripted" in Prague. In 1944, he was arrested by the Gestapo as an "enemy of the state", but no crimes could be proven against him. He was then drafted into the Wehrmacht. At the end of the war, he was taken prisoner by Czech partisans and finally held as a Russian prisoner of war. After his release, he was expelled from his home country. Completely destitute, Bayer came to Wiesbaden in 1946, where he had to build a new life for himself. Among other things, he became co-editor of the "Wiesbadener Wochenblatt".

In addition to his journalistic work, he was also an author and editor of novels, volumes of poetry, short stories and anthologies, including "Bekenntnisse" (poems, 1917), "Fatum" (novellas, 1917), "Der Garten der Liebe" (1920), "Kleiner Führer durch Prag" (1921), "Weg zur Erfüllung" (1925), "Der rote Altar" (1926) and "Petermann schlägt Bobby k.o." (1963).