Walter Freud Walter Freud Anton Walter Freud (3 April 1921 – 8 February 2004) was a chemical engineer and a member of the Royal Pioneer Corps and the British Special Operations Executive. He was a grandson of Sigmund Freud and escaped with him and other family members from Vienna after the Anschluss. Freud was born in Vienna in 1921. He was the first child of Sigmund Freud’s eldest son Jean-Martin (Martin), a lawyer, and his wife Ernestine Drucker. He was named after Anton von Freund, a colleague of his grandfather. After leaving Vienna in March 1938 Freud's parents separated and he and
Ernst L. Freud of Knightsbridge" as funeral directors. Ernst Freud also later designed the marble plinth on which Sigmund Freud's urn was placed. Freud married Lucie Brasch, daughter of Joseph Brasch, a wealthy Berlin corn merchant. Lucie had studied classical philology in Berlin and Munich, as well as art history with Heinrich Wölfflin in Munich. To honor his wife, Ernst Freud added the middle initial L, for Lucie, to his name. Ernst and Lucie had three sons: Stephen Gabriel Freud (1921–2015), the politician and broadcaster Clement Freud (1924–2009) and the painter Lucian Freud (1922–2011), who was named after his mother. Clement Freud wrote