Nazis, fear and violence: when reporting from Berlin was dangerous

Our Germany correspondent salutes the man who did his job 100 years ago, when it was far more perilous and unpredictable

Frederick Augustus Voigt, who was the Manchester Guardian's Berlin correspondent between 1920 and 1932, did not look like an intrepid reporter.

A 1935 portrait by the Bauhaus photographer Lucia Moholy makes it appear as though he wants to back away from the camera, distrustful eyes barricaded behind thick, round glasses. His physical appearance was described in his 1957 obituary as fragile-looking and nervous in manner, shortsighted, with a trick of smiling from the mouth downwards."