Franz Stein (journalist)
Franz Stein (born June 1, 1869 in Vienna , † July 17, 1943 in Lienz ) was an Austrian journalist and Pan-German politician.
Life
Franz (Franko) Stein grew up as the son of a factory worker and a small farmer's daughter and did an apprenticeship as a precision mechanic. Since 1888 he has been committed to the national goals propagated by Georg von Schönerer and in 1893 founded the “Pan-German Workers' Union in Bohemia”, based on the Pan-German Union party . Stein's association was renamed "Bund der Deutschen Arbeiter Germania" in 1899. Since 1895 Stein edited his organ “Der Hammer. Journal for Social Reform and Pan-German Politics ”and agitated against cheap Czech competition on the labor market, against social democracy and represented Schonerer's ideology from racial anti-Semitism to the Lot of Rome movement. From 1897 he lived as editor and journalist of Schönerer's Egerer Latest News in Eger , where in 1899 he convened the first “German-Völkisch Workers Day”. Between 1898 and 1937 he published the “Hammer-Jahrbuch”, which also appeared under the titles “Yearbook of German Volkischer Arbeiter”, “Bismarck-Jahrbuch” and “Alldeutscher Zeitweiser”.
From 1899 to 1909 Stein was a member of the Bohemian Landtag . In 1901 he was elected to the House of Representatives of the Reichsrat for the Pan-German Association and moved back to Vienna. In 1903 he stayed on the side of the “National Socialist” MPs (“ German Radicals ”) and became his deputy. In the 1907 elections, the Schönerer party lost significantly and Schönerer and Stein were not re-elected. Stein's candidacy was also unsuccessful in the 1911 elections and then in the Austrian Republic in 1919 and 1920. Stein's followers compensated for their lack of influence by fighting in the Viennese working-class districts. On Bismarck's birthday, Stein regularly gave a celebratory speech at Mariahilfer Strasse 81, and Adolf Hitler could also have been among the audience at the 1908 speech .
From 1914 to 1917 Stein was editor of the völkische Wiener Zeitung "Deutsche Presse". After Schonerer's death in 1921, Stein organized the association “The Last Schoenerians” and continued to propagate the greater German idea. What he continued to live on is unclear. In 1923 he became an honorary member of the Aldania Vienna fraternity .
During the period of the Austrian corporate state from 1934 onwards, he was arrested several times for anti-constitutional activities. In 1937, Hitler made sure that Stein, who was unemployed and impoverished, received financial support from Germany. After Austria's “annexation” to the National Socialist German Reich, Stein became politically active again and ran, albeit unsuccessfully, in the 1938 election for the Greater German Reichstag .
Since June 1, 1939, Stein received a tax-free honorary salary from the NSDAP in the amount of 300 Reichsmarks. In 1942, Stein and Eduard Pichl organized a commemorative exhibition, financed by the party, on the occasion of Schöner's 100th birthday in the Vienna Messepalast .
At Stein's funeral in the Hietzingen cemetery , the Viennese Gauleiter Baldur von Schirach appeared at Stein's widow and daughter's side . Among the speakers were District President Hans Dellbrügge and the Gau Main Office Manager Alfred Frauenfeld .
Fonts (selection)
- Nicer in the labor question . Berger, Horn 1893
- The caller of the Ostmark: Georg Schönerer's life and struggle . Josef Faber, Krems a. d. Danube 1941
literature
- R. Luft: Stein, Franz. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 13, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2007–2010, ISBN 978-3-7001-6963-5 , p. 149 f. (Direct links on p. 149 , p. 150 ).
- Brigitte Hamann : Hitler's Vienna: Apprenticeship years of a dictator . Piper, Munich 1996, ISBN 978-3-492-03598-9 .
- Michael Wladika : Hitler's generation of fathers: the origins of National Socialism in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy . Böhlau, Vienna 2005, ISBN 978-3-205-77337-5 .
- Herbert Tichy : Franz Stein. A great German fighter . Krems 1942. From: Donauwacht, newsletter of the Krems district of the NSDAP of October 14, 1942, 14 pages (contemporary biography).
- Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 491-492.
Web links
- Literature by and about Franz Stein in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Franz Stein (journalist) in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brigitte Hamann: “The sources on Franz Stein are desolate”. Brigitte Hamann: Hitler's Vienna , 1998, p. 617, fn. 2.
- ↑ Michael Wladika: Hitler's generation of fathers , 2005, pp. 263-266.
- ↑ a b c d Brigitte Hamann: Hitlers Wien , 1998, pp. 364–375.
- ^ Yearbook of German Volkischer Arbeiter. Headed by Franz Stein , at ÖNB.
- ↑ a b c d e Michael Wladika: Hitler generation of fathers , 2005, pp 631-633.
- ^ Institute for Contemporary History (ed.): Files of the party chancellery… . Munich: Oldenbourg, 1992, file 11982.
- ↑ GR v. Schönerer on his 100th birthday (commemorative speech) , 1942, at WorldCat .
- ↑ Franz Stein, Grave Site 38, No. 31A
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stein, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian journalist and politician of the Austrian Pan-Germans |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 1, 1869 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 17, 1943 |
| Place of death | Lienz |