Franz Muhri

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Franz Muhri (born October 12, 1924 in Steyeregg, Limberg bei Wies , Styria , † September 7, 2001 in Vienna ) was an Austrian politician and chairman of the KPÖ for more than 25 years .

Muhri began his professional career as a construction worker; After an evening course at the Graz commercial school , he worked as a payroll clerk.

During the Nazi era , he joined a communist group of young anti-fascists in 1940 . The illegal group was led by Richard Zach , who was later executed by the Nazis . Muhri was drafted into the German armed forces in 1942, fled and joined a resistance group.

He started his career in the KPÖ in Deutschlandsberg and Gänserndorf as a KP secretary. He studied social sciences for three years at the central party college of the CPSU "VI Lenin" in Moscow . In 1958 he became state secretary of the KPÖ Styria, and in 1961 he was elected to the Central Committee and Politburo.

In 1965 he replaced Johann Koplenig as chairman of the KPÖ. After an initial condemnation of the Soviet Union's invasion of the ČSSR during the Prague Spring, the KPÖ finally revised this condemnation and switched to Moscow.

At the 20th party congress of the KPÖ in January 1969, Muhri publicly threatened his resignation in order to achieve the re-election of “Eurocommunist” -oriented members of the Central Committee, and at that time he campaigned against the exclusion of critical party members such as Ernst Fischer .

From around 1970 he took part in the change of the KPÖ to a party “loyal to Moscow” without resistance.

In 1990 he resigned as chairman.

Muhri was buried in the cemetery of the Simmering fire hall in Vienna (department 7, ring 3, group 4, number 12).

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SURNAME Muhri, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (KPÖ)
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Steyeregg, Limberg near Wies , Styria
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 2001
Place of death Vienna