Ferdinand Marek

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Ferdinand Marek (born January 25, 1881 - † May 4, 1947 in Moscow , Soviet Union) was an Austrian diplomat.

Life

Marek became the first Austrian diplomatic representative in the newly founded Czechoslovakia in 1918 , initially as chargé d'affaires, and since 1922 as envoy . He bought a building in the Smíchov district and built the Austrian embassy in Prague . After Austria was annexed to the German Reich , the embassy was closed and Marek retired. But he stayed in Prague and witnessed the occupation of Czechoslovakia by German troops in March 1939.

Immediately after the end of the war, Marek and the former Austrian Consul General in Prague, Herbert Schallenberg, with the approval of the Czechoslovak interim government and obviously without legitimation or commission from the Austrian government, which was just under formation, resumed their work as the Austrian embassy in the same building. Not least because of an announcement on the Czech radio , many thousands of refugees who saw themselves as Austrian citizens or presented themselves as such found admission there until they left Czechoslovakia in a somewhat orderly manner.

Marek was arrested by the Soviet counterintelligence on May 26, 1945 on the pretext that he was a secret agent of the Gestapo and died on May 5, 1947 in a Moscow prison. He was not officially rehabilitated from all allegations until 1993.

literature

  • Herbert Steiner: The first Austrian envoy in Prague FERDINAND MAREK - His fate in the years 1938 - 1947 . Archives of the Academy of the Czech Republic Prague 1995, ISSN  1211-1813
  • Maria Wirth: Christian Broda: A political biography . V&R unipress 2011, ISBN 3-899-71829-1

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b BMEIA The beginnings of the Austrian Embassy in Prague
  2. ^ Maria Wirth: Christian Broda: A political biography . P. 42
personal data
SURNAME Marek, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1881
DATE OF DEATH May 4, 1947
Place of death Moscow