Franz Koritschoner

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Franz Koritschoner (born February 23, 1892 in Vienna , † June 9, 1941 in Auschwitz ) was an Austrian communist politician.

Life

Koritschoner was born in a middle-class family in Vienna. After attending the commercial academy, he worked as a bank clerk. At a young age he became director of the Länderbank branch on Johann-Nepomuk-Berger-Platz in Ottakring . Since 1909 he was a member of the Association of Young Workers . At the end of April 1916, Koritschoner traveled as a delegate of the "Action Committee of the Left Radicals", in which opponents of the war gathered, to the second "Zimmerwald" conference, which took place in the Swiss village of Kienthal. In the January strike in 1918 he played a leading role.

From 1918 to 1925 he was a member of the party executive or central committee of the KPÖ , in 1923 he was briefly its chairman. After the 3rd World Congress of the Comintern in 1921 he was a member of its Executive Committee (EKKI) for a short time. He translated works by Lenin , and for a time he was also the editor and editor-in-chief of the Red Flag .

In 1929 he was sent to Russia by the KPÖ to work in the apparatus of the Red Trade Union International. Until 1934 he headed the secretariat of the International Committee of Telecommunications Employees. From 1930 he belonged to the CPSU until he was arrested on March 27, 1936 on false charges. His sentence of several years in prison in May 1937 was overturned by the Supreme Court of the USSR on October 5, 1940 and replaced by expulsion from the country. Shortly afterwards Koritschoner was handed over to the German authorities. He was sent to the police prison in Vienna as a special prisoner, and later to the inquisition hospital. On June 7, 1941, Franz Koritschoner was transferred to Auschwitz concentration camp, where he was murdered on June 9, 1941.

After Khrushchev's revelations at the 20th party congress of the CPSU in 1956, Koritschoner was politically rehabilitated, and in April 1991 the Soviet side also underwent legal rehabilitation.

literature

  • Herbert Steiner: Franz Koritschoner . In: movement and class. Studies on Austrian Workers' History, ed. by Gerhard Botz, Hans Hautmann, Helmut Konrad and Josef Weidenholzer. Vienna, Munich, Zurich: Europaverlag 1978 (publication by the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the History of the Labor Movement), pp. 159–174.
  • Hans Schafranek : Franz Koritschoner (1892-1941) . In: Yearbook for Historical Research on Communism 1995 . Berlin: Akademie Verlag 1995, pp. 239-261.
  • Herbert Steiner:  Koritschoner, Franz (1892-after June 7, 1941), politician. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1969, p. 128.

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personal data
SURNAME Koritschoner, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian communist politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1941
Place of death Auschwitz