Georg Auer

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Georg Auer (born August 4, 1922 in Vienna ; † October 22, 2004 there ) was an Austrian journalist .

Life

Georg Auer's travel document for the journey home from Australia in 1946

Georg Auer grew up as the son of Robert and Erna (née Rubinova) Auer in Vienna. Because of his Jewish descent, he had to leave grammar school in March 1938, began an apprenticeship as a glazier and, together with his cousin Emil, was able to leave Austria in December 1938 on a children's transport organized by the English Quakers . Both were taken in by host families in England and Georg worked as a carpenter, house painter and coffin maker. Both were interned as " enemy aliens " in the spring of 1940 , and taken to Australia in the summer of 1940 on the ship HMT Dunera and remained in the internment camp for two years . Georg Auer then spent the rest of the war as a soldier in the Australian Army.

His parents could, after they received in 1941 under difficulties, the entry papers for the US and bought even boat tickets for the flight, do not leave more from Austria, but have been on 13 August 1942 to Theresienstadt deported and the September 26 death camp Treblinka transferred and murdered there. After the “Anschluss” of Austria through “ Aryanization ” on December 10, 1938, according to registration data, they had lost their apartment, had to change their apartment four times before they were deported and last lived in collective accommodation for a year. Until their deportation they kept in correspondence with Georg and Emil and left a farewell letter dated August 5, 1942 in Vienna. On September 12, 2014 a stone of remembrance was relocated to them in Vienna-Döbling (19th), Gebhardtgasse 3.

Memorial stone for Robert and Ernestine Auer

In 1946 Georg Auer returned to Austria, worked for a short time at the Austria Press Agency and from January 1947 to January 1970 at Volksstimme , the central organ of the Austrian Communist Party . He rang the bell of the apartment, which had been stolen in 1938, when a user found someone seriously injured by the war "... and turned around and left" (Martin Auer on September 10, 2014 in Ö1).

In 1956 he unmasked the Heimwehr leader Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg in Schruns . As the editor-in-chief, he was sentenced to four weeks' imprisonment for libel in 1958, a unique case in the history of the press in the Second Republic. In protest against the invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops in Czechoslovakia , he resigned from the KPÖ in 1970 and thereby lost his post in the Volksstimme . To support his family, he first worked as a taxi driver, but soon became a motor journalist for the weekly press . After his retirement he remained active as a freelancer for international trade magazines until shortly before his death.

He is the father of the writer Martin Auer . Georg Auer was buried in the Vienna Central Cemetery .

literature

  • Martin Krist: The destinies of displacement. Jewish students at a Viennese grammar school in 1938 and their lives . Turia + Kant, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-85132-225-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elis Thiel: Only those who are forgotten are dead. The stones of memory. Moment - life today. ORF.at, September 10, 2014, accessed on September 13, 2014 (20 min sound, generally 7 days audible).
  2. ↑ Martin Auer: Stone of Remembrance for our grandparents Robert and Erna Auer. July 17, 2014, accessed on September 13, 2014 (event invitation via Facebook).
personal data
SURNAME Auer, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 2004
Place of death Vienna