Fritz Stüber

Fritz Stüber (born March 18, 1903 in Vienna ; † July 31, 1978 ibid) was an Austrian lawyer, journalist, author and politician ( VdU / FSÖ ). He was one of the most famous personalities of the extreme right in the Austrian post-war period.

Life

Fritz Stüber, son of the writer Fritz Stüber-Gunther , graduated in 1929 with a degree in Law at the University of Vienna with the promotion of Dr. iur. from. During his studies he became a member of the Vandalia Vienna fraternity in 1923 (in 1962 he became a member of the Gothia Vienna fraternity ). After serving in court as a trainee lawyer until 1931, he worked for the district tax authorities in Baden near Vienna and Bruck an der Leitha as well as at the Vienna Financial Directorate. He also wrote volumes of poetry, including appraisals of Hitler, and joined the NSDAP in 1932 . In 1938 he left his unpopular civil service and became editor of the daily newspaper Neues Wiener Tagblatt . Until the end of the war he wrote perseverance articles and in the last days of the war he took up ground service with the air force.

On the list of literature to be sorted out published by the German Administration for National Education in the Soviet Occupation Zone in 1948 , Stüber appears with one work, on the list of banned authors and books published by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education in 1946 with all of his works. Stüber was arrested in 1948 and released by a people's court in February 1949 after three months of police arrest .

Stüber was co-founder and chairman of the Association of Independents in Vienna . After the party's first run for the National Council election in 1949 , he became a member of the National Council . Stüber was also editor-in-chief of the VdU weekly newspaper Der Independent . His party colleague Viktor Reimann later characterized him as follows: “He was the national bard on duty and an oppositionist out of passion. As a pronounced individualist, Stüber did not come from National Socialism, but from the circle of the Schönerians , who only felt at ease when the nationalists fell at each other's hair. ”For VdU chairman Herbert Alois Kraus , Stüber was“ addicted to the romantic national feeling Poet-journalist ”who runs“ Germanic enthusiasm ”. In 1953 he was excluded from the VdU because of "legal deviations". When the State Treaty was to be ratified on June 7, 1955, Stüber was the only one of 165 MPs to refuse to approve it, since in his opinion the victorious powers drove a wedge between Austria and the FRG. In order not to cause a scandal, he finally stayed away from the vote and the State Treaty was unanimously approved by the National Council, with 164 votes in favor and one absence. Stüber remained a member of parliament until the end of the 1956 legislative period.

From 1956 and until his death, Stüber was the editor of the Eckartbote magazine , which was published by the Austrian Landsmannschaft . The Eckartbote was loud DÖW characterized by revanchist and xenophobic content. For example, in issue 6/1992 the 50th anniversary of the death of "politician Reinhard Heydrich " was commemorated.

Stüber was involved in various relevant organizations: He was a co-founder of the Austrian Freedom Collection , head of the Austrian Landsmannschaft , and second president of the German Cultural Association of European Spirit . He was buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery .

Prizes, awards, honors

• 1958 Golden Ring of Honor “Dem deutscher Gedicht” from the Society for Free Journalism , the largest right-wing extremist cultural association in Germany
• 1963 Dichtersteinschild of the Dichterstein Offenhausen association, which was banned in 1999 due to being re-employed by the National Socialists
• 1972 Ulrich von Hutten Medal from the Society for Free Journalism , the largest right-wing extremist cultural association in Germany
• 1977 Schiller Prize from the German Cultural Association of the European Spirit , a right-wing extremist organization that existed until 1996
• In 1992 the Working Group for Democratic Politics , the most active gathering place of the organized right-wing extremist scene in Austria, named their home in Vienna- Ottakring Dr.-Fritz-Stüber-Heim

Works (selection)

Fiction

• One heart in everyday life. Poems , 1936
• My little way. Poems , 1936
• Fate in Verse , 1937
• Real need. Poems from Austria's struggle for freedom , 1939
• The solid joy. Poems , 1940
• Viennese stories. Cheerful all sorts about the Stefansturm , 1941
• The beehive. A German porcelain booklet from Vienna , 1943
• Stop in Vienna. Poems , 1943
• Heart in the homeland. Poems , 1949
• The fairytale meadow. Book decoration by Erhard Amadeus Dier , 1954
• The Revelation , 1955
• Sails in the south. Poems , 1960
• Democratia. A game of Parliament in verse. With arrows for Achilles heels , 1965
• Written in blood. German poems from three decades , 1966
• The spirit's sacrificial blood is not lost. A consecration game , 1968
• To whom fate speaks so loudly. A Hölderlin play in 5 acts , 1970
• We glow in Olympic fires. Poems , 1971
• The past grows on the wayside. Poems , 1975

Other fonts

• Internationale der Nationalen , 2nd edition, 1952
• The German survey 1813/1815 , Eckartschriften Heft 13, Österreichische Landsmannschaft , 1964
• People, Language and Poetry , 1967
• I was a member of parliament. The emergence of the liberal opposition in Austria . Leopold-Stocker-Verlag , Graz 1974. ISBN 3-7020-0193-X
• The Nibelung poem , 1977

literature

• 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. 560-561.

Web links

• Literature by and about Fritz Stüber in the catalog of the German National Library
• Fritz Stüber on the website of the Austrian Parliament

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolfgang Purtscheller : Aufbruch der Völkischen. The brown network . Picus-Verlag, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-85452-239-8 , p. 82.
2. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , p. 560.
3. ^ German Administration for National Education in the Soviet Zone of Occupation (ed.) List of literature to be sorted out . Second addendum. Berlin: Deutscher Zentralverlag, 1948. Letter S, pages 245-290.
4. ^ Austrian Federal Ministry for Education (ed.): List of blocked authors and books. Relevant for bookshops and libraries . Ueberreuter, Vienna 1946, p. 58.
5. ↑ Viktor Reimann : The Third Force in Austria . Molden, Wien et al. 1980, p. 127. Quoted from: Wolfgang Purtscheller : Aufbruch der Völkischen. The brown network . Picus-Verlag, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-85452-239-8 , p. 83.
6. ↑ Herbert Kraus: Intolerable Objectivity. Political Memories 1917–1987. Amalthea, Vienna 1987, ISBN 3-85002-254-4 , p. 275.
7. ↑ Die Presse : Die Welt bis Yesterday: A Little Woman Who Was a Big One , June 9, 2007.
8. ^ Die Presse: May 15, 1955: The Austrian hero legend , May 14, 2010.
9. ^ Hüttner, Thomas (2011). "Poet and Politician - Dr. Fritz Stüber fought for the German character of his homeland ”. In: The Eckart . Article No. 525 from February 28, 2011. ( Memento from June 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ).
10. ↑ Parliament of the Republic of Austria (ed.) Biographies: Dr. Fritz Stüber.
11. ^ DÖW : (Protection Association) Österreichische Landsmannschaft (ÖLM) ( Memento from January 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ).
12. ↑ Helga Embacher : Haider's casual dealings with the Jews . In: Information from the Society for Political Enlightenment No. 59, December 1998 (PDF; 223 kB).
13. ↑ Purtscheller 1993, p. 50.
14. ↑ Purtscheller 1993, p. 308.
15. ^ Grave site Fritz Stüber , Vienna, Zentralfriedhof, Group 24, Row 3, No. 82.