Fritz Bruegel

Memorial plaque for the German and Austrian refugees in Sanary-sur-Mer , among them Fritz Brügel

Fritz Brügel ( Friedrich Bruegel , Bedřich Bruegel , pseudonyms : Bedrich Dubsky , Dr. Dubsky , Wenzel Sladek , born February 13, 1897 in Vienna , † July 4, 1955 in London ) was an Austrian (from 1935: Czechoslovakian ) librarian , diplomat and Writer .

Life

Fritz Brügel was the son of the social democratic journalist and historian Ludwig Brügel , who became a victim of the Holocaust in the Theresienstadt ghetto in 1942 . He grew up in Prague and studied history at the University of Vienna . In 1921 he received his doctorate in philosophy with a thesis on the history of the Germans in Bohemia . Subsequently, he was head of the social science study library of the Vienna Chamber of Labor . In addition, he worked as a journalist and was active in social democratic educational work . From 1923 to 1934 he was a member of the Loge Socrates of the Grand Lodge of Vienna .

In 1933 Brügel was one of the founders of the Association of Socialist Writers . He joined the KPÖ and took part in the February uprising of 1934 . After its failure, Brügel fled to Czechoslovakia . After his Austrian citizenship was revoked in 1935 , he accepted Czechoslovakian citizenship . He was a legation councilor in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia and contributed to various magazines. In 1936 he traveled to the Soviet Union . After the Munich Agreement of September 1938 , Brügel emigrated to France . He stayed in Paris and later in the south of France . In 1941 he managed to escape to Great Britain via Spain and Portugal . In London he worked for the Czechoslovak government in exile until 1945 .

After the end of the Second World War , Brügel went back to Prague . He belonged to the diplomatic service of Czechoslovakia , from 1946 he was deputy head and from 1949 head ( Chargé d'Affaires ) of the Czechoslovak military mission in Berlin . In 1950 he resigned from the diplomatic service in protest against arbitrary justice in the Czech Republic . He emigrated again, this time via Germany and Switzerland to London , where he lived until his death.

In addition to his journalistic work, Fritz Brügel also wrote narrative works and poems ; one of his best-known works is the text to the battle song Die Arbeiter von Wien . Brügel also translated from ancient Greek .

Fritz Brügel, Benedikt Kautsky (Hrsg.): German socialism from Ludwig Gall to Karl Marx . Hess & Co., Vienna 1931

Contributions to the history of the Germans in Bohemia . Vienna 1921 (Phil. Diss.)
Appropriation . EP Tal & Co. Verlag, Leipzig / Vienna 1923
From the beginnings of the German socialist press . Vienna 1929 (reprint: Auvermann, Glashütten im Taunus: Auvermann 1972)
Leadership and Seduction. Reply to Rudolf Borchardt . Hess, Vienna [a. a.] 1931
Complaint for Adonis. Poems . Hess, Vienna / Leipzig 1931
The way of the international publishing house of the organization Vienna of the social democratic party, Vienna 1931
Goethe in Latin and Greek . In: Philobiblon 5/1932
The main thing is ... . Hess, Vienna [a. a.] 1932 (under the name Wenzel Sladek)
February ballad . Verlag "Der Kampf", Prague 1935 ( Sozialistische Hefte 9, Vienna 1946)
The publishing history of the "Holy Family" In: The fight. Social democratic monthly . - Vienna. - Vol. 21 (1938), Issue 10, pp. 506-510 ( The Holy Family )
Poems from Europe . The departure, Zurich 1937 (2nd edition Oprecht, Zurich / New York 1945)
The poems of Episthenes . Illustrated by Charles Hug . Oprecht, Zurich 1940
The chronicler of our time . In: Egon Erwin Kisch on his 60th birthday. Unity Publishing House, London 1945 (Voices from Bohemia. Series of the Representation of Democratic Germans from Czechoslovakia)
Conspirators . Zurich [u. a.] 1951

New Year's almanac for subjects and servants . Reprint of the Leipzig edition, Weller, 1850 . Vienna Bibliophile Conference, Vienna 1928
History of socialism in first and original editions. Exhibition from May 25 to June 5, 1925 . Vienna 1926 (together with Otto Mänchen-Helfen )
German socialism from Ludwig Gall to Karl Marx. The reader of socialism . Hess & Co., Vienna 1931 (together with Benedikt Kautsky )

Brügel, Fritz. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 4: Brech-Carle. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. de Gruyter, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-22684-5 , pp. 196-201.
Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of the German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life . Saur, Munich 1980, p. 99.
Karl Stubenvoll: 75 years of the social science study library of the Chamber for Workers and Salaried Employees for Vienna 1921-1996 . Vienna 1997.
Julius Stieber : Studies on Fritz Brügel and his political poetry. From the dawn of Austrian social democracy in the twenties to its defeat in February 1934. Unprinted diploma thesis University of Vienna, Vienna 1999.
Julius Stieber: Fritz Brügel in exile 1934-1955. Studies on the life and work of a social democratic writer. Unprinted dissertation University of Vienna, Vienna 1998.
Eckart Früh: Fritz Brügel . In: Even more . May 2001, Vienna 2001
Gerd Callesen: Fritz Brügel (1897–1955). In: Günter Benser , Michael Schneider (Eds.) "Preserve - Spread - Enlighten". Archivists, librarians and collectors of the sources of the German-speaking labor movement. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Bonn - Bad Godesberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86872-105-8 , pp. 53-57, online (PDF, 273 KB) .

↑ Alexander Emanuely: New light on old questions. Viennese freemasons and writers in exile in the intermediate world. Journal of the Culture of Exile and Resistance. Vol. 27 No. 3 (November 2010), p. 52
↑ Embassy of the Czech Republic: History of the diplomatic mission , as of August 28, 2013

personal data
SURNAME	Brügel, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bruegel, Bedřich (Czech); Dubsky, Bedrich (pseudonym); Dr. Dubsky (pseudonym); Sladek, Wenzel (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian-Czechoslovak librarian, diplomat and writer
DATE OF BIRTH	February 13, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	4th July 1955
Place of death	London