Ernst Molden (journalist)

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Ernst Hermann Wilhelm Molden (born May 30, 1886 in Vienna ; † August 11, 1953 ) was an Austrian bourgeois-liberal to liberal-conservative journalist , historian and diplomat . He was the founder, editor-in-chief and publisher of the daily newspaper Die Presse .

Life

Molden was born in 1886 as the son of the journalist and publicist Berthold Molden (1853–1942), Balkan advisor to the Foreign Ministry, and his wife, Berta (1856–1935), b. Edlinger, born in Vienna. He attended grammar schools in Vienna XIX ( Döbling ) and in Prachatitz in South Bohemia . He then studied law, history and archeology at the universities of Vienna and Berlin. In 1911 he was in Vienna with a thesis on The Orient policy of Prince Metternich 1829-1833 to Dr. phil. PhD.

In 1911 he became an honorary lecturer at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest; he dealt with Austrian policy on the Orient and took care of the diaries of Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer . From 1914 to 1919 he was a research assistant at the Commission for Modern History in Austria . In June 1916 he was drafted into the Landsturm , and from August 1916 he did military service in the Imperial and Royal Lower Austrian Infantry Regiment Hoch- und Deutschmeister No. 4 . This was followed by a leave of absence, on February 1, 1917, he was transferred to the Austro-Hungarian Embassy in Copenhagen as representative of the telegraph correspondence office, the charge of which was Otto von Franz . After the First World War , in the spring of 1919, he became a press attaché under Franz in The Hague . Savings led to his dismissal in the fall.

In 1921 he became the political editor of the Neue Freie Presse , whose deputy editor-in-chief he took over from 1924 to 1938. In addition, he was President of the Volksbüchervereinigung “Central Library” and from 1930 a commentator for RAVAG . He was also active in the Austrian-German Volksbund and was responsible for the "Confidential Information Service Molden" from 1925 to 1933. From 1933 he was considered an opponent of National Socialism and the “Anschluss” of Austria , which led to his dismissal after 1938.

He and his son were arrested by the Gestapo in 1938, but then released again. From 1938 onwards he worked as an archivist for the Vienna business magazine Südost-Echo through the help of the Freundeskreis , and a little later in the same position for Europa-Kabel in Amsterdam . During this time he stood up for Otto Schulmeister . Molden was given an "Ostmark ban", and an escape with his son to Great Britain failed. In 1944 he was a founding member of the "Provisional Austrian National Committee". Before the end of the war he was arrested again (with his wife) for seventeen days by the Gestapo.

In 1946 he founded the Viennese weekly newspaper Presse (from 1949 daily newspaper Die Presse ; circulation: 60,000), of which he was the publisher and editor-in-chief until his death in 1953. After that the newspaper was continued by his son.

Grave site in the Vienna Central Cemetery

Molden was married to the writer Paula von Preradović (1887–1951), poet of the Austrian national anthem, and father of the cultural politician Otto Molden (1918–2002) and the journalist and publisher Fritz Molden (1924–2014) and grandfather of the songwriter and writer Ernst Molden . His maternal uncle Anton Edlinger was editor-in-chief of Innsbrucker Nachrichten . The nephew was the historian Nikolaus von Preradovich . He rests in a grave of honor in Vienna's central cemetery (group 32 C, number 42) next to his wife.

Works

  • The Eastern policy of Prince Metternich 1829-1833 . Eduard Hölzel Verlag , Vienna a. a. 1913.
  • (Ed. And incorporated with Hans Feigl ): Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer : Writings and diaries. Fragments from the Orient. New fragments. Political-historical essays. Diaries. 2 volumes, Georg Müller Verlag , Munich a. a. 1913.
  • (Zsgest.): Radetzky . Based on letters, reports and autobiographical sketches (= Austrian Library . No. 10). Insel-Verlag , Leipzig 1916.
  • On the history of the Austro-Russian antagonism. The politics of the major European powers and the Aachen conferences (= publications of the Society for Modern History of Austria ). Seidel, Vienna 1916.
  • An Austrian chancellor. The Prince of Metternich (= Austrian Library . No. 23). Insel-Verlag, Vienna 1917.
  • (Ed.): Paula von Preradović : Gesammelte Gedichte . 3 volumes, Österreichische Verlagsanstalt, Innsbruck 1951 f.
  • Volume 1: Lost Homeland . 1951.
  • Volume 2: Land of Destiny . 1952.
  • Volume 3: God and the Heart . 1952.
  • (Selected and imported by Adam Wandruszka ): Austria has the word. Contributions to the history of the 2nd republic . Press publishing house, Vienna 1953.

literature

  • Molden, Ernst . In: Fritz Fellner , Doris A. Corradini: Austrian History in the 20th Century. A biographical-bibliographical lexicon (= publications of the Commission for Modern History of Austria. Vol. 99). Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2006, ISBN 978-3-205-77476-1 , p. 287 f.
  • Bruno Jahn (edit.): The German-language press: A biographical-bibliographical handbook . Volume 1: A-L . KG Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-598-11710-8 , p. 721.
  • Adam Wandruszka :  Molden, Ernst. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , pp. 720 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Adam Wandruszka: Molden, Ernst . In: Kurt Skalnik (Red.): New Austrian biography from 1815. Great Austrians . Volume 18: Home you are great sons. 19 posts with portraits . Amalthea-Verlag, Vienna a. a. 1972, pp. 78-87.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Isabella Ackerl : An Austrian Way. From the First Republic to a common European market . Signum-Verlag, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-85436-218-8 , p. 142; Wolfgang Neugebauer : The Austrian Resistance 1938–1945. Edition Steinbauer, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-902494-28-3 , p. 140.
  2. ↑ Fritz Fellner : “… a truly patriotic work”. The Commission for Modern History of Austria 1897–2000 (= publications of the Commission for Modern History of Austria. Vol. 91). Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2001, ISBN 3-205-99376-4 , p. 255.
  3. ↑ a b Fritz Fellner : "... a truly patriotic work". The Commission for Modern History of Austria 1897–2000 (= publications of the Commission for Modern History of Austria. Vol. 91). Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2001, ISBN 3-205-99376-4 , p. 85.
  4. ^ Adam Wandruszka : Molden, Ernst . In: Kurt Skalnik (Red.): New Austrian biography from 1815. Great Austrians . Volume 18: Home you are great sons. 19 posts with portraits . Amalthea-Verlag, Vienna a. a. 1972, pp. 78-87, here: p. 80.
  5. ^ Adam Wandruszka : Molden, Ernst . In: Kurt Skalnik (Red.): New Austrian biography from 1815. Great Austrians . Volume 18: Home you are great sons. 19 posts with portraits . Amalthea-Verlag, Vienna a. a. 1972, pp. 78-87, here: p. 81.
  6. ↑ Harry Carl Schaub: Abwehr-General Erwin Lahousen. The first witness at the Nuremberg trial . Böhlau, Vienna a. a. 2015, ISBN 978-3-205-79700-5 , p. 193.
  7. ↑ a b Harry Carl Schaub: Abwehr-General Erwin Lahousen. The first witness at the Nuremberg trial . Böhlau, Vienna a. a. 2015, ISBN 978-3-205-79700-5 , p. 194.
  8. ^ Theodor Venus:  Schulmeister, Otto. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , pp. 685 f. ( Digitized version ).
  9. ^ Adam Wandruszka : Molden, Ernst . In: Kurt Skalnik (Red.): New Austrian biography from 1815. Great Austrians . Volume 18: Home you are great sons. 19 posts with portraits . Amalthea-Verlag, Vienna a. a. 1972, pp. 78-87, here: p. 84.
  10. ↑ a b Kurt Koszyk , Karl Hugo Pruys (Ed.): Dictionary for journalism . Publishing house documentation, Munich u. a. 1970, ISBN 3-7940-4281-6 , p. 265.
personal data
SURNAME Molden, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Molden, Ernst Hermann Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist, historian and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1953
Place of death Vienna