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The Unsettler
Join Date: Dec 2002
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Just found out my favorite "Uncle" in Germany passed away
Just found out one of my two favorite "Uncles" in Germany passed away in 2016.
Had not really talked to him in a number of years, really since Omi passed away. He could not make it to my wedding then life, kids, career all that stuff kind of got in the way. Not really upset about it as he lived life pretty large and went out in a way that was not at all surprising for him. Peter was actually my mothers 1st Cousin, my grandfathers sisters son. My mother met Peter around the age of 16. She'd gone to a Ball and came home all excited telling my Oma that "she'd met the most handsome young man who came from one of the best families in Stuttgart and they were going out on a date next week, here, he gave me his card" Omi looked at the card and said, great, just so you know, he's your cousin. My Opa had stoped talking to his sister many years before when she married her husband. These kind of things happen when your brother in law manufactures planes for the military and Hitler shows up at your nephews Christening. He and mom meeting reunited the family, helped that the brother in law had passed on by then. As kids in Germany my brother and I were close to Peter. He'd spend time with us, take us places, do things with us. Peter had a passion for American cars, woman, and his Basset Hound Bently who hated everyone but Peter. One of those spoiled dogs where if Peter went 1st whoever took care of the dog got all the money. Peter was kind of a local Kennedyesque character in Stuttgart. I recall one day my brother and I were out with him and he had to stop at the bank. Parked his car in the middle of the street and as he was getting out told us, "if the Police show up just tell them whose car it is and to **** off" He was an attorney. Playboy'd his way through Law School and barely graduated but got the highest score out of everyone on the Bar. They were convinced he cheated so they made him take it again by himself in the middle of a room with all the staff watching him the whole time. He got the same score. To this day no one knows how he managed to cheat the second time. I don't think he did, the guy was brilliant. Peter's love of American cars and to some degree his clientele ended up getting him in hot water for tax evasion Peter was allegedly a mob attorney which makes sense as he once paid my mother, she ran his office one summer, with a full length Sable Mink. One of his clients had paid him with a rack of fur coats that "fell off a truck". He lost his license, went to jail, took it back up on appeals, proved one of the witnesses had perjured himself, won, then sued to get his license back, won, then sued for 7 years of lost income and won. FWIW, I know for a fact, he was guilty as hell. I thought about him today because of the Transporting Artwork thread, it reminded me of how Peter used to bring Picasso's from his house in Spain to his home in Stuttgart. He used to stop a couple of miles from the border and strap them to the roof of his car uncovered because he, rightly presumed, customs would not think they were of any value as who would be crazy enough to strap a real Picasso to the roof like that. Peter, that's who. So what'd Peter die of? Gunshot wounds. Apparently one of his clients suspected Peter of "misappropriating" a coupla few hundred thousand and went to his house and shot him. I'm not surprised. RIP Peter Franz Walter
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That was both a funny and tragic tribute....very sorry for your loss Scott....sounds like one helluva life though....
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03-06-2018, 09:41 AM
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Yes but do me a favor, don't turn this thread into that.
We have plenty of those already.
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I've got an uncle story to contribute.
Using the term loosely, uncle, my grandmothers uncle I guess. He was one of the last people to be hanged here in NZ. Having read the details of Bill Bayly's situation I don't think he was a murderer, but rather a good shooter and he won the gunfight. Also went into the gunfight in a self defense type situation. I don't think that it helped his situation having chopped the other guy up and fed him to the pigs then put the bones in the incinerator LOL |
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