Karl Flanner

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Karl Flanner (2008)

Karl Flanner (born October 22, 1920 in Wiener Neustadt ; † June 2, 2013 ibid) was an Austrian historian and author .

Life

Karl Flanner grew up in Wiener Neustadt's working-class district Flugfeld as the son of an ammunition worker from the Wöllersdorfer Werke who was forcibly committed during the First World War and a shoemaker, leather worker and factory worker in the newly built residential complex on the Flugfeld . In the post-war years, hunger was pervasive, and his older sister soon died in 1919. When the Heimwehr marched in Wiener Neustadt in the morning on October 7, 1928 , the Republican Schutzbund marched in the afternoonup to the main square, and little Karl ran along the sidewalk, against his father's will. Finally on the main square, he was allowed to take part in the counter-assembly holding the hand and then on the shoulder of his father. Karl Flanner became a member of the Rote Falken and the Arbeiter-Turner when he was 10 years old . At the age of 11 he practiced playing the mandolin , the workers' instrument at the time , it was not as expensive as a piano and you could take it with you on hikes. After the experience of the February uprising , in Wiener Neustadt with a single shot fired, and the July coup , he felt from the Social Democratic Party betrayed and became an active member in a cell of the underground Communist Youth of KPÖ the city, while other young people of the Red Falcons to illegal NSDAP changed. He completed an apprenticeship as an electric welder and worked in the Wiener Neustädter Lokomotivfabrik and later Raxwerke . He was active in the resistance against Austrofascism and, after the annexation of Austria, against National Socialism . He and 25 other young people were betrayed and arrested on August 22, 1939. After his arrest, Karl Flanner was tortured in the Gestapo building in the city park, later transferred to court prison and sentenced to four years in prison under difficult conditions. He was transferred to the Graz-Karlau Prison and locked up in a solitary cell with a loom in the so-called weaving mill and trained and employed as a weaver. After four years of hard work and too little food, he was emaciated to 45 kilograms. Karl Flanner was not actually released after his imprisonment in Karlau in Graz and was transferred to a concentration camp with a protective custody warrant due to his political views. So he came via Munich to the Dachau concentration camp and later to the Buchenwald concentration camp . In Buchenwald he was involved in the armed takeover of power by the prisoners towards the end of the Second World War.

He was a member of the municipal council of Wiener Neustadt for the KPÖ from 1946 to 1955 and from 1960 to 1971. He was the founder and long-time director of the Industrieviertel Museum in Wiener Neustadt as well as a member of the board of trustees of the DÖW . Even in old age he took part in the Stolpersteine working group for Wiener Neustadt .

Flanner died in 2013 at the age of 93.

Awards

Publications

  • Resistance in the Wiener Neustadt area 1938-1945. Europaverlag, Vienna 1973 (revised new edition: Association Daily Publishing, Wiener Neustadt 2003, ISBN 3-902282-01-0 ).
  • From the club settlement to Josefstadt . The history of the first workers' building cooperative in 1869. Gutenberg publishing house, Wiener Neustadt 1979 Online in the Topothek Wiener Neustadt.
  • History of the Wiener Neustadt trade union movement 1889–1945 , 2 volumes. Austrian trade union movement, district management Wiener Neustadt, Wiener Neustadt undated [1982].
  • Wiener Neustadt in the corporate state. Workers' opposition 1933–1938. Vienna: European publishing house 1983.
  • with Erich Fein: red-white-red in beech forest. The Austrian political prisoners in the concentration camp on Ettersberg near Weimar. 1938 to 1945. Europaverlag, Vienna / Zurich 1987 (new edition: Association Daily Publishing, Wiener Neustadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-902282-19-4 ).
  • Wiener Neustadt. History & History. NÖ-Rundschau-Verl.Ges., Wiener Neustadt 1998.
  • Experienced and rhymed. Dungeons, society, nature and people in the poem. Association Everyday Publishing, Wiener Neustadt 2004, ISBN 3-902282-04-5 .
  • Comrades of the mountains. The development of alpine rescue services in the Eastern Alps. Association Museum and Archive in the district under the Vienna Woods, Wiener Neustadt 2005.
  • Victims of the Second World War. International research project of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Institute for Psychology, Association Museum and Archive for Work and Industry in the district under the Vienna Woods, Wiener Neustadt 2005.
  • Witness the time. The story of my life. Association Everyday Publishing, Wiener Neustadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-902282-16-3 .

Web links

Commons : Karl Flanner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Communications from the Institute for Austrian Historical Research, Volume 93
  2. ^ The Revolution of 1848 in Wiener Neustadt, page 298
  3. ^ A b Association Daily Life Publisher: Flanner Karl ; accessed on Sep. 20 2010
  4. ↑ DÖW Announcements No. 191 (May 2009) (PDF; 109 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Flanner, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiener Neustadt
DATE OF DEATH 2nd June 2013
Place of death Wiener Neustadt