Albert Massiczek

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Albert Massiczek (born April 15, 1916 in Bolzano ; † May 21, 2001 in Vienna ) was an Austrian author .

Albert Massiczek's grave

Life

Albert Massiczek came to Vienna as a child in 1919. He studied at the University of Vienna from 1934 to 1940 and obtained his doctorate in 1939. phil. From 1927 to 1935 he was a member of a group of the Bündische Jugend . At the university he became a member of the German University Guild . In 1933 Massiczek became a member of the illegal Hitler Youth and in 1937 joined the illegal SS and NSDAP . According to his own statements, from 1938 he was a member of the resistance movement against Adolf Hitler and , according to official documents, a member of the SS security service . In November 1938 the SS man was involved in the devastation of Jewish shops, apartments and prayer houses in Vienna. In the SS he was awarded the " Decoration of Honor of Old Fighters in the SS ". From 1940 he was a soldier, served in the front in 1941 and, as a seriously injured person, from 1942 to 1945 he taught national politics at the hospital for the blind. After the end of the war he was registered as a National Socialist under the National Socialist Prohibition Act . After 1948 Massiczek worked again in the Austrian National Library , then library director and lecturer for art education at the Academy of Fine Arts. He later appeared as a freelance journalist. In order to secure or accelerate his professional career in the Austrian National Library, the former National Socialist and at that time still employed as a “provisional state librarian, second class” gradually approached social democracy : in October 1950 he joined the BSA , followed in June 1951 the SPÖ .

After the war, Massiczek emphasized his alleged change from a staunch National Socialist to an alleged resistance fighter, for example in his book I Was Nazi or in a video interview recorded as part of an oral history course at the Institute for Media and Communication Studies at the University of Vienna , in to whom he told for forty minutes about his life during the Nazi era and his conversion to the resistance through disappointment and purification. According to Wolfgang Neugebauer and Peter Schwarz, however, "Massiczek's presentation has very little to do with striving for historical truth, it is rather the product of self-styling, retrograde projections that shed light on his personality structure rather than actually provide information about his past" .

Albert Massiczek was from 1959 to 1963 chairman of the Working Group of Socialist Catholics . He was also a member of the presidium of the Austrian resistance movement. Massiczek was buried at the Pötzleinsdorfer Friedhof (group G, number 50) in Vienna.

Publications (selection)

  • Living Socialism , Vienna no year (1950s).
  • Nazi again? Vienna 1962.
  • God or taboo? Liberation of consciousness by Jews, Christians and Marxists , Vienna etc. 1964.
  • The Austrian Nation - Between Two Nationalisms , Vienna etc. 1967 (as editor).
  • Time on the wall: Austria's past 1848–1965 in the most important notices and posters , Vienna etc. 1967 (as editor).
  • The human man. Karl Marx's Jewish Humanism , Vienna, Frankfurt a. M. 1968.
  • Anti-Semitism. The permanent challenge , Vienna 1968.
  • Artists from the Schubert Circle , Vienna 1978.
  • I was a Nazi. Fascination - disillusionment - break. An experience report: Part one (1916–1938) . Junius Verlag, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-900370-89-3 .
  • I just did my duty. From the SS to the resistance. An experience report: Part two , Junius Verlag, Vienna 1989. ISBN 3-900370-87-7 .
  • Death - fear - money - child - cosmos - marks of a self-birth , Vienna 1999.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Robert Hein: Marchia, Raetia, Ottonen and Carolina as student associations who were happy to connect in 1938? In: Wiener Geschichtsblätter , Volume 37, 1982, p. 112
  2. ↑ Contemporary history: The red Nazi washing machine. In: profil.at. January 15, 2005, accessed September 19, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Neugebauer, Peter Schwarz: The will to walk upright . ( bsa.at [PDF]).
  4. ↑ Institute for Media and Political Science at the University of Vienna (ed.): Video: "Albert Massiczek - From Nazi to Resistance Fighter" . Video archive no. 299 , 1994.
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Neugebauer, Peter Schwarz: The will to walk upright . S. 121 ( bsa.at [PDF]).
personal data
SURNAME Massiczek, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian author
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Bolzano
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 2001
Place of death Vienna