Albert Fuchs (cultural historian)

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Albert Hans Fuchs (born October 25, 1905 in Vienna ; † November 29, 1946 there ) was an Austrian lawyer and cultural historian.

Life

Albert Hans Fuchs, son of the doctor and university professor Alfred Wilhelm Fuchs († 1927) and his wife Bertha, b. Ritter († 1929), attended the Schottengymnasium and passed the Matura at the Gymnasium Wasagasse . He had been friends with Erwin Chargaff since his school days . He then studied law at the University of Vienna , including with Hans Kelsen , and was awarded a Dr. iur. PhD; during his studies he also worked in a bank. Then he began training as a lawyer. In 1933 he became a member of the Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP) and worked as a co-organizer of an aid agency for German emigrants in Vienna. After a stay in Paris from September 1933 to February 1934, after his return to Vienna, he joined the KPÖ, which was banned by the Austro-Fascist government, and in 1936, under the code name “King”, he became head of District II (South Vienna) of the KPÖ in Vienna. He was arrested twice in the corporate state: April to July 1936 and July 1937 to February 1938. After the “Anschluss” of Austria , who was doubly endangered as a Jew and a Communist , in April 1938 he was able to flee to Czechoslovakia. In Prague he met the painter Friedl Dicker . In spring 1939 he had to emigrate to London after the German invasion .

There, Fuchs became a member of the exile group of the KPÖ (Group of Austrian Communists in Great Britain) and worked for the exile newspaper Zeitspiegel as well as secretary and playwright for the Laterndl cabaret in exile . From 1942 he took part in cultural events of the “ Free Austrian Movement ” and wrote his main cultural-historical work “Spiritual currents in Austria 1867-1918”. He shared his apartment in London with Georg Knepler .

In autumn 1946, Fuchs returned to Vienna in accordance with the guidelines of the KPÖ, but died immediately after his return of the polio, which was rampant in Vienna at the time .

His estate is in the documentation archive of the Austrian resistance .

Works

  • The legal validity . Deuticke, Leipzig / Vienna 1933, ( Viennese political and legal studies ; 22).
  • About Austrian culture . Lecture given at the PEN Culture Conference, London, 1942. Austria Center, London 1942.
  • Portrait of my father. From an unfinished novel . In: H. Ullrich (Ed.): Small magazine . Free Austrian Books, London 1943.
  • A son from a good family . Autobiography. Free Austrian Books, London 1943.
  • Austria and German culture. Basic lines of a future cultural policy . Lecture to the Austrian-Czechoslovak working group on March 8, 1944. Manuscript.
  • Spiritual currents in Austria. 1867-1918 . Globus-Verlag, Vienna 1949
    several editions and licensed editions, including:
    Reprint of the 1949 edition with an introduction by Georg Knepler . Löcker, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-85409-000-5 .
    Reprint of the 1949 edition with a foreword by Friedrich Heer . Löcker, Vienna 1984, ISBN 3-85409-217-2 .
  • Modern Austrian poet . Globus-Verlag, Vienna 1946
    (This contains parts of the unpublished manuscript Die Österreichische Literatur seit 1890. Study .)
  • Memories and essays . Czernin, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7076-0170-6 , ( Library of Memory ; Volume 1).
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SURNAME Fuchs, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fuchs, Albert Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer and cultural historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1946
Place of death Vienna