Anton Böhm (journalist)

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Anton W. Böhm (born March 6, 1904 in Vienna ; † January 8, 1998 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian journalist and publicist . He worked in the Catholic Bund Neuland and was editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper Rheinischer Merkur from 1963 to 1973 .

Life

Böhm studied law and political science , philosophy and history at the University of Vienna from 1923 to 1928 and obtained his doctorate in 1928. rer. pole. Already at the beginning of his studies he joined the Bund Neuland (Neuland Bund Catholic Youth Movement), in which he soon became heavily involved until it was dissolved in Austria in 1938 after Hitler Germany came to power.

Like many Austrian intellectuals in the distress of the interwar period , Böhm initially sympathized with the idea of ​​a Greater German Reich and joined the Austrian NSDAP in June 1933 - during the time of the corporate state - but remained an active member of the Bund Neuland . He published his hopes in this regard in 1933 under the title "Catholic Faith and German Volkstum in Austria" at Pustet in Salzburg.

From 1928 until he was hired by the National Socialists in 1941, he was editor of the Catholic weekly magazine Schönere Zukunft . After the arrest of the editor-in-chief Friedrich Funder in March 1938, Anton Böhm was entrusted by the Nazi regime with the provisional management of the Christian Viennese daily newspaper Reichspost ; the newspaper was discontinued in September 1939 by the regime.

From December 1940 Böhm was a radio operator in the Air Force and was directed in 1941 by Hans Bernd von Haeften (whom he knew from his time at the Vienna legation) to Wilhelmstrasse in Berlin , where he was a scientific assistant in the Foreign Office from January 1942.

After the end of the Second World War and internment in the Salzburg Glasenbach until October 1946 , Böhm was an editor at Otto Müller Verlag and co-editor of the monthly magazine Wort und Truth , which campaigned for the modernization of the Catholic Church. Since February 1953 he was editor of the Rheinischer Merkur , from December 1953 deputy editor-in-chief and from 1963 editor-in-chief.

Böhm and the Rheinische Merkur had a noticeable influence on the formation of political opinion in the Federal Republic of Germany in the Adenauer era - and up until the mid-1960s.

Anton Böhm was married to Hildegard Glaser and they had two children. He was buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery .

Fonts

  • Facts on the question: Advertisement and Catholic press , weekly more beautiful future
  • Catholic Faith and German Volkstum in Austria , Pustet Salzburg 1933
  • Epoch of the devil: an attempt , Klipper Stuttgart 1955
  • Elegy in October , Türmer Munich 1958
  • Standard of living - what for? , Fromm Osnabrück 1961
  • Paths in Wirrnis (novel), Muth Düsseldorf 1961
  • The problem of co-determination , Badenia Karlsruhe 1967
  • East-West, Confrontation or Coexistence? , Fromm Osnabrück 1970
  • Damn, lost, abandoned , Orion-Heimreiter-Verlag Heusenstamm 1970
  • Faith and Demoskopie , Badenia Karlsruhe 1971, ISBN 3-7617-0021-0 , together with Helmut Riedlinger, Gerhard Schmidtchen
  • The state of the nation, moral , Fromm Osnabrück 1971, ISBN 3-7729-5016-7 .
  • Life in conflict - the modern person between fear and hubris , Herder Freiburg 1974, ISBN 3-451-07500-8 .

literature

  • Brigitte Behal: Continuities and discontinuities of German-national Catholic elites in the period 1930-1965 - their path and change in these years using the example of Dr. Anton Böhms, Dr. Theodor Veiters and their Catholic and political networks . Vienna, Univ., Diss., 2009 PDF
  • Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 1: Johannes Hürter : A – F. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2000, ISBN 3-506-71840-1 .
  • Ulrich Schlie : "A person inclined to goodness". Memories of Hans Bernd von Haeften. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . July 16, 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Böhm's work in the “Neuland Bund Catholic Youth Movement in Austria”, 1923–1938 . Diss. Brigitte Behal (Univ. Vienna 2009) pp. 91-104.
  2. ^ Anton Böhm grave site , Vienna, Central Cemetery, AAR Group, No. 6.
personal data
SURNAME Bohm, Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boehm, Anton W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1998
Place of death Salzburg