Erwin Zucker-Schilling
Erwin Zucker-Schilling , pseudonym Hugo Wiener , (born August 24, 1903 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary , † August 16, 1985 ibid) was an Austrian journalist , publicist and Marxist .
Life
Erwin Zucker and his brother Hugo came to the KJVÖ in the early 1920s , where both were soon active in the management bodies. Early on he was involved in the publication of newspapers . From the newspapers of the KJVÖ he soon switched to Die Rote Fahne , the central organ of the KPÖ , of which he was to become editor-in-chief in 1934. In addition to his work as an editor , he was also one of the co-founders of Red Aid in Austria.
In 1935 he went into exile in the Czech Republic with the Central Committee of the KPÖ, into which he was co-opted . There he was also responsible for the theoretical newspaper of the KPÖ Weg und Ziel . 1938 with the party leadership to Paris where he published the exile newspaper Nouvelles d'Autriche . In the illegality he put the pseudonyms Schilling and Hugo Vienna to. Under this name he drew numerous articles in the Rote Fahne and in Weg und Ziel . He was a member of the Central Committee until 1965 and the Politburo from 1946 to 1957. In 1939 he went via Turkey to Moscow , where, among other things, he was involved in the installation and operation of the “Sender Österreich”.
He returned to Austria in May 1945 and became editor-in-chief of the Österreichische Volksstimme, which appeared in August 1945 . After the October strike in 1950 he was expelled from the journalists' union (until 1957). On the 17th party congress in 1957 he was replaced as editor-in-chief by Erwin Scharf . From then on he was the Austrian representative in the magazine Problems of Peace and Socialism in Prague . From 1965 he was editor-in-chief of the information bulletin .
Works
- He served his class A Biography. With speeches and writings by Johann Koplenig. Globus, Vienna, 1971
- Find out more about Austria Erwin Zucker-Schilling. Dietz, Berlin 1958
Web links
- Entry on Erwin Zucker at litkult1920er.aau.at , a project of the University of Klagenfurt
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sugar shilling, Erwin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wiener, Hugo (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian journalist, publicist and Marxist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 24, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 16, 1985 |
| Place of death | Vienna , Austria |