Contemporary inscription from 1944

George Von der Vring (* 30 December 1889 in Brake ( Oldenburg ), † 1 March 1968 in Munich ) was a German writer and painter .From 1915 to 1918 he served as an officer in the First World War, part of Russia and France. He was wounded several times and fell in 1918 in American captivity, which he spent in a camp in southwestern France.was several times wounded, and in 1919 escaped from a US prisoner of war camp in France.

Vring belonged to the Nazi-aligned Eutiner circle of poets , the Nazi government in 1936 by the President and Eutiner SA group leader Johann Heinrich Boehmcker was founded.

1940 Vring as lieutenant drafted into the army and took until 1943 to the Second World War part. After his release, he moved in 1944 to Schorndorf , since 1951, he lived with his family in Munich. In early March 1968, he was found dead in the river Isar found, whether it was an accident or a long time already depressed by Author suicide died remained unclear.

In the 1950s and 1960s was the Vring one of the most famous contemporary poets in West Germany. His poems were found in numerous anthologies and in most school textbooks for teaching German. Since the 1970s, his work is largely forgotten. In the city of his birth Brake was established in 2001 by George Vring Society founded. In the development area Eversten West in Oldenburg, a street was named after George of the Vring in January 2007