Benedikt Kautsky

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Benedikt Kautsky after his liberation in Buchenwald concentration camp

Benedikt Kautsky (born November 1, 1894 in Stuttgart , † April 1, 1960 in Vienna ) was an Austrian economist and financial expert.

Life

He was the son of Luise and Karl Kautsky and the grandson of the writer Minna Kautsky and the painter Johann Kautsky . From 1912 to 1920 Kautsky was Otto Bauer's secretary and from 1921 to 1938 secretary of the Vienna Chamber of Labor and, from 1923, also editor of the journal Arbeit und Wirtschaft . In May 1938 he was arrested after the " Anschluss of Austria " to the German Reich . At first, Kautsky was imprisoned for three months in Dachau concentration camp before he was transferred to Buchenwald concentration camp . From there he was taken to Auschwitz in October 1942 , where he had to do forced labor as a prisoner in the Auschwitz III Monowitz concentration camp on the construction site of the IG Farben plant .

Kautsky was later transferred back to the Buchenwald concentration camp . There, along with Hermann Brill and Ernst Thape, he was one of the social democrats who, together with communists and Christian democrats, formed the Buchenwald Popular Front Committee in February 1945 . He was also one of the co-signers of the Buchenwald Manifesto . Kautsky was liberated from Buchenwald concentration camp in April 1945.

After the end of the war, Kautsky lived in Zurich from 1945 to 1950 . From 1950 to 1958 he worked successively as a private lecturer at the University of Graz and as head of the Otto Möbes School of Economics in Graz . Kautsky joined the Socialist Party of Austria. In 1958 Kautsky was appointed deputy general director of the Creditanstalt-Bankverein .

He was also the author of the preliminary draft of the party program of the Socialist Party of Austria (SPÖ) in 1958 and one of the leading authors of the Godesberg program of the German Social Democrats in 1959.

Benedikt Kautsky's grave site

It rests in an honorary grave (Department 1, Ring 3, Group 2, Number 74) in the urn grove of the Simmering fire hall .

Honors

The Association of Social Democratic Academics, Intellectuals, Artists (BSA) Graz has awarded a Benedikt Kautsky Business Prize since 2002. The Dr. Benedikt Kautsky , a social democratic economists' association, bears his name.

Works

Fritz Brügel , Benedikt Kautsky (Hrsg.): German socialism from Ludwig Gall to Karl Marx . Hess & Co., Vienna 1931
  • On the history of the theory of fixed and circulating capital. In: Yearbook of the dissertations of the Philosophical Faculty Berlin 1919–1920. Berlin 1921, pp. 169-175.
  • Present economic problems. Trade Union Commission of German Austria . Work and Economy, Vienna 1923.
  • Karl Marx : Capital. Critique of Political Economy. Selected and introduced in context by Benedikt Kautsky. Kröner, Leipzig 1929
  • Reparations and armaments . Hess, Vienna 1931.
  • Do you want to become a Marxist? A small guide to socialist literature . Wiener Volksbuchhandlung, Vienna 1933.
  • Germany and England before the world war. Historical parallels . Thalia, Vienna 1936.
  • Luise Kautsky in memory. Obituaries by Friedrich Adler and Oda Lerda-Olberg. Reports from Amsterdam, Annie van Scheltema, from Birkenau, Dr. med. Lucie Adelsberger . Letters from and about Buchenwald from BK - Willard, New York NY 1945
  • Devil and damned. Experience and knowledge from seven years in German concentration camps. Gutenberg Book Guild, Zurich 1946
  • as editor: Rosa Luxemburg : Letters to Friends. Based on the manuscript completed by Luise Kautsky. European publishing company EVA, Hamburg 1950.
  • as editor and editor: Friedrich Engels ' correspondence with Karl Kautsky. (= Sources and studies on the history of the German and Austrian labor movement. 1). 2. Edition of From the Early Period of Marxism, completed by Karl Kautsky's letters . Danubia, Vienna 1955.
  • Epilogue to: Otto Bauer: Introduction to Economics. Introduction Ernst Winkler . Wiener Volksbuchhandlung, Vienna 1956
  • as editor: Karl Kautsky: Memories and discussions. (= Sources and studies on the history of the German and Austrian labor movement. 3). Mouton, 's-Gravenhage 1960.
  • Murder and stealing. In: Hans Günther Adler , Hermann Langbein , Ella Lingens-Reiner (eds.): Auschwitz. Certificates and reports. 2nd, rev. Edition. EVA, Cologne 1979, ISBN 3-434-00411-4 , pp. 84ff. (First edition 1962)

literature

  • Robert Bolz: The Marxist Benedikt Kautsky . Zurich 1960.
  • Günther Chaloupek: Marxism and economic policy: Benedikt Kautsky as an economic theorist of the Chamber of Labor. In: Günther Chaloupek among others: Reformism and trade union politics . Leykam Verlag, Graz 2006, ISBN 3-7011-7573-X .
  • Norbert readers:  Kautsky, Benedikt. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 373 ( digitized version ).
  • Harry Stein, Buchenwald Memorial (ed.): Buchenwald Concentration Camp 1937–1945 . Accompanying volume for the permanent historical exhibition. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-89244-222-3 .
  • Ernst Thape : In memory of Benedikt Kautsky. His death is a great loss for liberal socialism . Bonn 1960. ( PDF; 327 kB )
  • Benedikt Kautsky . In: Der Spiegel . No. 6 , 1958, pp. 56 ( Online - Feb. 5, 1958 ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Röll: Social Democrats in the Buchenwald Concentration Camp 1937–1945. Including biographical sketches . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2000, p. 245.
  2. ↑ Graves dedicated to honor in the cemetery Feuerhalle Simmering www.friedhoefewien.at (accessed November 30, 2017).
personal data
SURNAME Kautsky, Benedict
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian banker
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1960
Place of death Vienna