Carl Karwinsky

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Carl Freiherr von Karwinsky , from 1918 Carl Karwinsky (* 17th September 1888 in Innsbruck ; † 10. April 1958 in Schruns ) was kuk officer and an Austrian politician .

Life

Karwinsky came from an old Austrian noble family. His father was Major General Gustav von Karwinski, his mother was Eugenie, née Freiin von Lichtenthurn. He was married to Elisabeth, née Gerngross; The son Nikolaus came from the marriage. Karwinsky spent his high school at the Theresianum and his studies at the University of Vienna , where he did his doctorate in law. During the First World War Karwinsky was a hussar officer and dismissed as first lieutenant of the Kuk hussar regiment "Wilhelm II. King of Württemberg" No. 6 .

Political activity

In the post-war period, he began his career as President of the Governor of Lower Austria. In 1933 he was appointed security director for Lower Austria and Burgenland. From 1933 to 1934 Karwinsky was the independent State Secretary for Security Affairs in the Dollfuss government (until July 29, 1934). On behalf of Engelbert Dollfuss , he worked as a negotiator with the Social Democrats in the period after the parliamentary crisis, especially with Provincial Councilor Heinrich Schneidmadl and Karl Renner and his draft for a new Austrian constitution. These negotiations came to an abrupt end due to the February Social Democratic uprising . During the July coup of the National Socialists he was in the Federal Chancellery and witnessed the assassination of Federal Chancellor Dollfuss with another member of the Federal Government, Minister Emil Fey . From July 29, 1934 to October 17, 1935 Karwinsky was State Secretary for Justice in the Schuschnigg government . After 1935 he became President of the Federal Statistical Office . After Austria was annexed to the German Reich , he was arrested and taken to the Dachau concentration camp and later to the Mauthausen concentration camp .

After the Second World War he acted as an advisor to the American military government in Salzburg . In the 1950s, Karwinsky was the initiator and member of the Research Institute for Issues relating to the Danube Region in Salzburg, which was founded by Theodor Hornbostel . The research institute for issues relating to the Danube region had less of a research objective than an association of so-called legitimists (monarchists) who, after 1945, placed their hopes in a Habsburg-ruled federation consisting of Bavaria, Austria and Hungary. Today's successor institution is the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe , chaired by Erhard Busek .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gottfried-Karl Kindermann: Austria against Hitler. Europe's first defensive front 1933-1938. Langen Müller, 2003, p. 154.
  2. ↑ July 25, 1934: The National Socialists in Austria ( Memento of the original from July 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / zeit1.uibk.ac.at
  3. ↑ Hans von Hammerstein-Equord: In the beginning was the murder: Experiences as district captain of Braunau am Inn and as security director of Upper Austria in the years 1933 and 1934. Oldenbourg, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-486-50121-6 . (Studies and sources on Austrian contemporary history; Vol. 3).
  4. ^ Matthias Papa: The Germany initiative of the Austrian Chancellor Julius Raab in the spring of 1958. (PDF; 8.54 MB) In: Quarterly books for contemporary history . 48 (2000) 2, p. 293.
personal data
SURNAME Karwinsky, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Karwinsky, Carl Freiherr von (full name); Karwinsky, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1958
Place of death Schruns