Edmund Weber (journalist)

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Edmund Weber (born May 8, 1900 - May 20, 1949 ) was an Austrian journalist . He was the last director of the Official News Agency (ANA) .

Life

Edmund Weber studied education , German and later journalism . After graduating, he initially worked as a freelance journalist for daily newspapers and as a correspondent for several large Catholic foreign newspapers. In 1924 he was appointed head of the press service of the Lower Austrian agricultural organizations by Engelbert Dollfuss , with whom he was friends. He was also press consultant for the Lower Austrian Chamber of Agriculture, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Austrian Federal Farmers' Leadership. In 1926 he took over the management of the newly founded "Agrarian News Center", only to become director of the Agricultural Publishing House shortly afterwards.

On April 11, 1933, Weber was appointed director of the Official News Agency (ANA), the Austrian Federal Press Service, by Dollfuss. At the same time he took over the editing of the " Politische Korrespondenz " and the " Austrian Week ". In 1935 Weber became the first managing member of the Austrian Society for Newspaper Customers. Edmund Weber was a member of the K.Ö.St.V. Nibelungia Vienna (NBW) in the MKV and since 1937 honorary member of the K.Ö.HV Franco-Bavaria Vienna in the ÖCV . He was also a committed member of the leadership council of the Fatherland Front .

After Austria's "annexation" to the German Reich , he was dismissed as director of the ANA on March 12, 1938 "for political reasons" and replaced by Gerhard Aichinger . On March 15, 1938, he was taken into “ protective custody ” and interned in the Dachau concentration camp . On December 19, 1940, the Vienna Regional Court was convicted of infidelity "to 2 years in heavy dungeon, aggravated by a hard camp". He was released on December 20, 1941 and shortly thereafter called up as a soldier on January 9, 1942.

After the end of the Second World War , Weber was head of the press department of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) and editor-in-chief of the Kleiner Volksblatt . In addition, he was Secretary General of the Austrian Publishing House and Supervisory Board of APA.

He died as a result of his imprisonment in a concentration camp.

Fonts

  • Josef Sturm, Edmund Weber: Josef Steininger, the first farmer organizer in Lower Austria. Agrarverlag, Vienna 1929.
  • Edmund Weber: From the story d. N.-ö. State Chamber of Agriculture: An overview. Agricultural Publishing House, Vienna 1932.
  • Edmund Weber (Hrsg.): Dollfuss an Oesterreich. One man's word and goal. Reinhold, Vienna 1935.

literature

personal data
SURNAME Weber, Edmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1900
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 1949