Alfred Missong

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Alfred Missong (born March 2, 1902 in Höchst am Main , † June 7, 1965 in Mistelbach , Lower Austria) was an Austrian Catholic publicist.

Life

The son of a German father and an Austrian mother spent his childhood years in Germany, but later became one of the earliest spokesmen for his own Austrian path and neutrality based on the Swiss model. Missong had been active as a journalist since the 1920s, including 1925–1938 for the magazine Schönere Zukunft , where, however, contrary to his convictions, he had to represent Greater German views. On the other hand, he warned as early as 1928 in a pseudonymous pamphlet about the danger of German revanchism , which would lead to an alliance with the Soviet Union and war with Poland and subsequently with France . Missong was close friends with Ernst Karl Winter and August Maria Knoll . He has published in Winters Gsur-Verlag in 1932 under the pseudonym Thomas Murner the Nazi mirrors , one on a paper by Cyril Fischer anabolic pamphlet against the Nazis , in particular, the Nazi racial policy denounced as immoral and a new paganism. In 1937 and 1938 he published the third, now ten-volume, set of the Austrian library at Heimat Verlag in Brixlegg / Tyrol . After the so-called Anschluss in 1938, Missong was arrested for a few months , but the Gestapo apparently did not know about his authorship in the Nazi mirror . After his release, Missong and his family fled first to Switzerland , where he was threatened with deportation, and then to Yugoslavia . After the German invasion of this country , the Missongs lived in the Hungarian-occupied Vojvodina until 1941 and then in Budapest . From 1941 the Missong and Eugen Kogon families lived together in Vienna without the father of the family.

In 1945 Missong emerged as one of the founders of the ÖVP and was the author of its first Christian-social program and, until 1950, editor-in-chief of the Austrian monthly magazine , the theoretical organ of the party. After 1949 Missong, who with his strictly anti-fascist line no longer corresponded to the zeitgeist, was transferred to diplomatic posts (as press attaché) first in Germany and then in Switzerland .

Alfred Missong was married to Lisa Missong. The marriage resulted in four children. One is the Austrian diplomat Alfred Missong jun.

Since 1945 he was an honorary member of the Catholic student association KÖStV Nibelungia Vienna in the ÖCV .

Fonts

  • Holy Vienna , Wiener Dom-Verlag, 1933; New edition 1970
  • The Christian's World Commitment , Österreichischer Verlag, 1948
  • Ernst Karl Winter , pioneer of dialogue , Vienna 1969
  • Christianity and Politics in Austria. Selected writings , Böhlau, Vienna 2006
  • Austrian Library (editor), 1937–1938

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personal data
SURNAME Missong, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian publicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Maximum
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 1965
Place of death Mistelbach , Lower Austria