Eduard Ludwig (politician)

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Eduard Ludwig (born January 9, 1883 in Persenbeug ; † December 26, 1967 ) was an Austrian lawyer, politician and diplomat.

Life

Grave site in the Sieveringen cemetery

Eduard Ludwig completed a law degree after high school. From 1910 to 1914 he was employed in the “literary office” of the Kuk Ministry of the Imperial House and Foreign Affairs. After the First World War he built up the Federal Press Service and was its head from 1921 to 1936. In 1924 he was ao. Envoy and bev. Minister. From 1936 to 1938 he was a member of the State Council and President of the Austrian Press Chamber, from 1937 to 1938 a member of the Bundestag . After the “Anschluss” of Austria, he was imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp and various prisons from 1938 to 1942 , after which he was forced to settle in Brandenburg an der Havel . In 1943 he was allowed to return to Vienna.

After the Second World War he joined the Austrian People's Party and was a member of the Austrian National Council from 1945 to 1949 . From 1945 he was a member of the Council of the "Union Parlamentaire Européenne", from 1949 he was a representative of the Austrian Parliament and from 1953 the Federal Government at the Council of Europe and Chairman of the Austrian Parliamentary Council of the European Movement.

Eduard Ludwig taught as an honorary professor for newspaper studies at the University of Vienna , from 1946 to 1958 he was head of the institute for newspaper studies there. He was also the founder (1946) and chairman of the "Association of Intellectual Creators Austria" .

Eduard Ludwig died at the age of 85; either Brunn near Pitten or Vienna is given as the place of death . He was buried in an honorary grave in the Sieveringer Friedhof (Department 2, Group 11, Row 4, Number 51).

Publications

  • Parliament and press , 1953
  • Austria's broadcast in the Danube region , 1954

literature

  • Gertrude Enderle-Burcel , Johannes Kraus: Christian - Estates - Authoritarian. Mandataries in the corporate state 1934–1938. Ed .: Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance and Austrian Society for Historical Source Studies, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-901142-00-2 , p. 149 f.
  • Eduard Ludwig , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 07/1968 of February 5, 1968, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Enderle-Burcel, Kraus: Mandatars in the corporate state. , P. 149.
  2. ↑ cf. Eduard Ludwig (politician) on the website of the Austrian Parliament
personal data
SURNAME Ludwig, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician and diplomat, member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Persenbeug
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 1967