Franz Stamprech

Franz Stamprech (born May 30, 1906 in Vienna , † May 5, 1983 in Eisenstadt ) was an Austrian journalist and writer .

Life

Stamprech was born the son of a locksmith. He first studied law at the University of Vienna and then German , history and newspaper studies . In 1954 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD.

From 1929 until his military service in 1940 he was a columnist and editor for domestic policy for the Catholic daily Das Kleine Volksblatt in Vienna. He became a US prisoner of war , where he remained until August 1945. From 1945 to 1947 editor-in-chief of the ÖVP press service and from 1947 to 1955 deputy editor-in-chief of the Kleine Volksblatt. From 1955 to 1972 he was editor-in-chief of the Wiener Zeitung .

In 1955 he was a board member of the Austrian Association of Journalists and Writers Concordia and chairman of the Association of Parliamentary Editors of Austria.

Stamprech was married and had one child.

Honors

• 1958: Knight's Cross of the Order of Gregory
• 1963: title of Hofrat
• 1966: Medal of Honor of the Federal Capital Vienna in silver
• 1967: State Prize for journalistic achievements in the interests of intellectual national defense
• Great Cross of Merit for services to the Federal Republic of Germany
• Great badge of honor for services to the Republic of Austria

Publications

• Hans Kudlich (1947)
• The animal hotel (1948)
• Novellas (1949)
• Leopold Kunschak (1954)
• Subtenant in Parnassus (1960)
• The oldest daily newspaper in the world (1974)

literature

• Felix Czeike (Ed.): Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 5, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-218-00547-7 , p. 314 ( digitized version ).
• Franz Stamprech , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 49/1975 of November 24, 1975, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of the article freely available)

Web links

• Radio interview with Franz Stamprech in the Ö1 series Selbstportrait - fellow human beings talk about their lives and about their work from 1980.