Genia Quittner

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Genia Quittner (born Genia Lande, November 4, 1906 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died April 16, 1989 there ) was an Austrian communist.

Life

Genia Lande was the daughter of the merchant Isser Lande and Adele Halpern. Her younger brother Adolf Lande became a UN official after he emigrated to the USA. As a teenager, Lande became a member of the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAJ), where she met the physics student Franz Quittner. In 1925 she took part in the delegation of the Communist Youth of Austria (KJVÖ) to the USSR, and in 1928 she was elected to the Executive Committee of the Communist Youth International (KJI). She studied political science at the University of Vienna and received her doctorate in 1928 under Hans Kelsen with the dissertation Public Legal Problems of Austrian Labor Law . She and Franz Quittner married in 1928. They both fell victim to communist persecution in the Republic of Austria: after taking part in a peace demonstration on August 1, 1929, she lost her job as a foreign language correspondent in an industrial company; as a communist, he lost his job as a physicist at the University.

They emigrated to the USSR in 1930 and had children Vera (1931 or 1932) and Georg (1934) there. Genia Quittner was accepted as a member of the CPSU in 1931 . She became an employee of the Institute for Technical and Economic Industrial Research at the People's Commissariat for Heavy Industry under Nikolai Bukharin . From 1932 she studied political economy in evening classes at the Economics Institute of the Red Professorship and in 1935 became a lecturer at the Lenin School of the Comintern in Moscow. In 1935, both received Soviet citizenship. Franz Quittner was arrested in 1938 in the course of the Stalinist purges and died in camp custody. Quittner worked in 1938 as a technical translator in a company in the electrical industry and from 1939 to 1941 as an English lecturer at Lomonossow University .

During the Second World War she fled to Chistopol during the German advance on Moscow and worked in the Comintern School in Kuschnarenkowo from 1942 , and in the Antifa School for Austrian prisoners of war in Krasnogorsk from 1944 . She did war propaganda work for the Comintern.

At the end of 1946 she went to Austria and worked as an education functionary in the KPÖ . She received Austrian citizenship in 1955. After the suppression of the Hungarian uprising in 1956, she left the Communist Party. From 1956 she worked in the economic department of the Länderbank .

Autobiography

literature

  • Quittner, Genia. In: Ilse Korotin (ed.): BiografıA. Lexicon of Austrian Women. Volume 3: P-Z. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2 , p. 2631.
  • Edith Leisch-Prost: Quittner, Genia. In: Brigitta Keintzel, Ilse Korotin (ed.): Scientists in and from Austria. Life - work - work. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2002, ISBN 3-205-99467-1 , p. 603f.
  • Edith Prost: Emigration of Women Scientists. In: Friedrich Stadler (Hrsg.): Displaced reason: Emigration and exile of Austrian science . Vienna: Jugend und Volk, 1987, pp. 454f.
  • Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of the German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, p. 578

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, p. 414
personal data
SURNAME Quittner, Genia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lande, Genia (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian communist
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1989
Place of death Vienna