Sebastian Haffner was a German journalist and author. He wrote mainly about recent German history. His focus was specifically on the history of the German Reich ; his books dealt with the origins and course of the First World War, the failure of the Weimar Republic, and the subsequent rise and fall of Nazi Germany under Hitler. In 1938 he emigrated from Nazi Germany with his Jewish fiancée to London, where he intended to work as an author and journalist. The first time there was very difficult because he was hardly able to speak English at that time , had no money and no financial... support at all, and his fiancée and later wife was pregnant. He adopted the pseudonym Sebastian Haffner so that his family, who remained in Germany, would not be endangered by his writing. It was a combination of Johann Sebastian Bach and of Mozart's "Haffner Symphony", later he used the signature of this piece on his vehicle registration plate.
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| Birthdate: | December 27, 1907 |
| Birthplace: | Berlin |
| Date of death: | January 2, 1999 |
| Also known as: | Raimund Pretzel |