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
The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud Jones." Psychologist Hans Eysenck, writing in "Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire" (1985), described Jones' biography of Freud as the "most famous", but saw it as "more a mythology than a history", charging Jones with suppressing data which might reflect unfavourably on Freud. Historian Roy Porter described Jones' work as "hagiographical and bowdlerized". Philosopher Jerome Neu called "The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud" the most useful biography of Freud, alongside Gay's "Freud: A Life for Our Time". Philosopher Richard Wollheim called "The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud" a "great" biography, but observed that while Jones had "lived