Erna Sailer

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Erna Sailer (born Erna Zaloscer or Erna Zaloszer , also Erna Zaloscer Sailer ; born May 17, 1908 in Bihać , Bosnia-Herzegovina ; died May 17, 2004 in Vienna ) was an Austrian lawyer and diplomat .

Life

Erna Johanna (Nuna) Zaloscer was one of three daughters of the Austrian lawyer Jacob Zaloscer and his wife Bertha, née Kallach; her sister Hilde became an art historian. She grew up in Banja Luka in Bosnia , which was occupied by Austria-Hungary in 1878 and annexed in 1908. As an administrative lawyer in the fallen Danube Monarchy, her father had to leave the newly founded SHS state (later the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) in 1918 because he no longer had a professional future there.

Zaloscer finished her school education in Vienna and studied law at the University of Vienna , where she also received her doctorate. In 1926 she joined the Social Democratic Labor Party (SDAP). She was married to Karl Hans Sailer (1900–1957), a journalist and later leading activist of the Revolutionary Socialists , and took part in the February fighting in 1934 .

After the “Anschluss” of Austria in 1938, she fled to France via Switzerland with a false passport. She and her parents, who had to flee the Nazi persecution of the Jews, saw their sister Hilde, who had emigrated to Egypt, again in Paris. In Paris she worked for an escape aid organization.

In 1940 she and Sailer fled to the USA. In autumn 1940 she and her family were able to leave Europe from Lisbon on the Greek steamer Nea Hellas , the last such refugee ship; Franz Werfel , Alma Mahler-Werfel , Heinrich Mann , his wife Nelly and his nephew Golo , Wilhelm Ellenbogen , Otto Leichter and his sons Heinz and Franz as well as Alfred Polgar fled with this ship .

In 1946 the Sailer couple returned to Austria with their son John (Hans), where Karl Hans Sailer became deputy editor-in-chief of the Arbeiter-Zeitung . He died in 1957. In 1946 Erna Sailer became head of the welfare school of the City of Vienna . In 1956 she helped found the Austrian Committee for Social Work . In 1958 she was the Austrian delegate at the congress of the International Council for Social Welfare (ICSW) in Tokyo.

In 1958 she went to Burma as a development worker on behalf of the UN and was UN representative for the integration of displaced persons in Austria from 1960 to 1963 . From 1963 she worked at the Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Vienna as a specialist for questions relating to underdeveloped countries. In 1970 she was UN plenipotentiary to draw up a report to the UN Security Council on the viability of Bangladesh , which helped ensure that the state was recognized by the UN.

From February 1971 until her retirement in May 1974 she was the Austrian ambassador to India . Upon her return, she and Indira Gandhi exchanged lifelong letters.

In 2002 she gave an interview with a contemporary witness to Christina Pal, who wrote a monograph on Heinrich Steinitz , who had defended Karl Hans Sailer in the socialist trial in 1936 .

Her son Hans (later John Sailer, * 1937) is a gallery owner in Vienna.

Fonts (selection)

  • with Anni Hofer, Margarethe Schlatter (Eds.): New trends in European social work - the impact of casework . Raunhardt, Zurich 1954. Therein: P. 15–22: ​​Erna Seiler, Rosa Dworschak : The problem of authority in public welfare: Austria .
  • To interpret the casework method . in: Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Gemeinnützigkeit 94, 2/3, 1955, pp. 47–53.
  • The social worker in modern society . In: The Workers Welfare Yearbook 1955/56
  • The concept of European social work and its applicability for developing countries. Presentation on "Questions of social work in developing countries", Bonn. May 1963 . Bonn 1963.
  • Ambassador Erna Sailer's report on the mission of high-level United Nations consultants to Bangladesh. March - April 1972 [Compiled by John Sailer]. Vienna 1972.

literature

  • Rudolf Agstner ; Gertrude Enderle-Burcel; Michaela Follner: Austria's top diplomats between Kaiser and Kreisky. Biographical handbook of the diplomats of the higher foreign service 1918 to 1959 . Fassbaender, Vienna 2009, p. 619.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Hilde Zaloscer: Scientific work without scientific apparatus , in: Displaced reason: Emigration and exile Austrian science. 2nd International Symposium, October 19-23, 1987 in Vienna . Jugend und Volk, Vienna 1988, pp. 634–644.
  2. ↑ a b c d Lemma Sailer, Karl Hans , in: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Vol. 1: Politics, economics, public life . Saur, Munich 1980, p. 630.
  3. ↑ Herbert Lackner: The Flight of Poets and Thinkers , in: News magazine profil , Vienna, No. 15/2015 , April 3, 2015, p. 33 ff.
  4. ↑ Gerhard Melinz ; Wolfgang Reder: 50 years of ÖKSA. A political platform for social work through the ages , 2006.
  5. ^ Report on the mission of high-level United Nations consultants to Bangladesh. Ambassador Erna Sailer's report on the mission of high-level United Nations consultants to Bangladesh: March - April 1972 , at ÖNB
  6. ^ Margit Franz: Sanskrit to Avantgarde. Indo-Austrian initiatives to document and promote art and culture , in: Gabriela Krist, Tatjana Bayerová (eds.): Heritage conservation and research in India. 60 years of Indo-Austrian collaboration. Extended anthology on the occasion of the conference "60 Years of Indo-Austrian Cooperation. Cultural Heritage Counts. Research, Conservation and Management" in the National Museum New Delhi, 20./21. August 2009. Böhlau, Vienna 2010, p. 20.
  7. ^ History of the Ulysses Gallery
predecessor Office successor
Johanna Nestor Austrian ambassador to India from
1971 to 1973 		Wolfgang Schallenberg
personal data
SURNAME Sailer, Erna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zaloscer, Erna Johanna (maiden name); Zaloszer, Erna; Sloczower, Erna; Zaloscer Sailer, Erna; Zaloscer, Nuna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Bihać , Bosnia-Herzegovina
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 2004
Place of death Vienna