Ferdinand Karpik

Ferdinand Karpik (* 1922 in Poznań ; † April 18, 1997 in Salzburg ) was a former German-Austrian businessman of Polish origin who was involved as an investor and / or straw man for Franz Olah in the affair surrounding the re-establishment of the Kronen-Zeitung .

Life

Ferdinand Karpik spent the period from April 20, 1940 to April 11, 1945 in the Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps . His attachment to Franz Olah stems from these years. After 1945 Karpik was active in the international cattle trade, namely in the east-west business. The businessman, who worked in Frankfurt am Main , also obtained Austrian citizenship through Olah's instigation .

When the Kronen-Zeitung was re-established in 1959, Karpik acted as a discreet financier in the background, but who in fact acted as Olah's front man. In 1968, the younger Olah confidante Kurt Falk succeeded in obtaining an option on Karpik's 50 percent share. The ownership structure of the newspaper was subsequently the subject of several lawsuits, which ended on January 3, 1973 with a settlement that confirmed the half-owners Hans Dichand and Kurt Falk. Karpik left the Kronenzeitung and the Austrian media world.

literature

• Hans Dichand : In the forecourt of power, memories of a journalist , Vienna 1996
• Michael Gehler, Hubert Sickinger (eds): Political affairs and scandals in Austria: from Mayerling to Waldheim, Vienna-Munich 1995
• Helmut Konrad , Manfred Lechner: "Confusion of millions". Franz Olah, the Kronenzeitung, secret services , Vienna 1992
• Michael Konvička: Olahs "party: the Democratic Progressive Party (DFP) , Hamburg 1994
• Andreas Resch: Business with word and image: Economic history of the mass media and the advertising industry in Vienna , Vienna 2008 ...
• Wilhelm Svoboda : Franz Olah. A forensic investigation Vienna 1990
• Profil (magazine) , June 1973 Kriminalfall Kronen-Zeitung (series)