Georg Breuer (journalist)

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Georg Breuer (born October 24, 1919 in Vienna ; † November 28, 2009 there ) was an Austrian journalist.

Live and act

Breuer was born in Vienna in 1919 to Jewish parents. After 1934 participation in a left discussion group at the middle school 1080 Vienna, Albertgasse, then in the KPÖ- affiliated anti-fascist middle school student union. At the end of April 1936 arrest and one month in police custody, then amnesty (aided by the weakening of the clerical corporate state regime after the Berchtesgaden Agreement with Hitler). On the day of annexation to the German Reich (March 13, 1938 ), he fled to Italy, where his father was currently staying for work.

One year emigration in Switzerland , then until November 1945 in England . Brief internment in England in the summer of 1940 and contact with Austrian communists. Involvement in the Young Austria movement , editor of their newspaper and board member in the illegal “Communist Youth Association”. There he married Eva Brill (later: Köckis-Stangl ), in 1945 their daughter was born.

At the end of 1945 he returned to Vienna, until 1949 editor-in-chief of "Jugendvors", the newspaper of the Communist Party-affiliated "Free Austrian Youth" (FÖJ), from 1950 to 1955 editor of "Brücke" (newspaper of the "Austrian-Soviet Society"). From 1955 employee of the KPÖ organ " Volksstimme ", later only externally due to his critical attitudes after 1956 . Since then, freelance journalist with a focus on science and peace policy, publication of numerous books and articles.

Motivated by the anger over the inaction of the political public in the " Cuban Crisis " in 1962 , Breuer became the founder and driving force of the non-partisan Austrian " Easter March Movement", which organized peace marches every Easter from 1963 to 1968 against the nuclear threat (and later also against the Vietnam War ) .

1968 supporter of the " Prague Spring ", initiation of a protest resolution of the Easter March Committee against the invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops in the CSSR in August 1968. 1969 exit from the KPÖ , which at that time got rid of its " Eurocommunist " thinking members. 1972/73 founding of the Austrian "Solidarity Committee for Democracy in the CSSR", which existed until 1990 and provided material (over a million schillings in total) and moral support for those who were politically persecuted - e. B. from the " Charter 77 " - performed in the CSSR.

From 1982 to 1988 employee of the " Working Group of Independent Peace Initiatives Austria " (UFI) and organizer of the dialogue seminar "Peace movement and human rights movement - two sides of the same coin?" (August 7, 1982) in Vienna. 1986 lead co-author of the memorandum "Filling the Helsinki Agreement with Real Life" drawn up on the occasion of the Vienna CSCE successor conference.

Breuer was married to the resistance fighter and journalist (editor-in-chief of Voice of the Woman) Rosa Großmann-Breuer. The marriage has two children.

Georg Breuer lived in Vienna until the end of his life and until almost recently he was the initiator of activities such as collecting signatures for the "Abolition 2000" petition for the worldwide abolition of nuclear weapons .

Publications

  • Could Austria Survive? - The consequences of a total nuclear war (Verlag für Jugend und Volk, Vienna 1964).
  • Triumph of the dreamers. The fathers of space travel (Schwann-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1967).
  • Can the end of the world be prevented? - Marxism in the atomic age (Europa-Verlag, Vienna 1968).
  • Interview with the future. Our world in twenty years (Schwann-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1968).
  • People from the catalog? Genetic research on the way into the future (Schwann-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1969).
  • Eyes in space. Sky observation in the age of space travel (Schwann-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1970).
  • On-Demand Suicide. ABC weapons - reality and background (Schwann-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1971).
  • The challenge. Energy for the future - dangers and opportunities (Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 1975).
  • Weather as desired? Perspectives and dangers of artificial weather influence (Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1976).
  • Are we running out of air? Ecological perspectives of the atmosphere (Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1978).
  • Energy without fear. How we can do without fast breeders (Kösel-Verlag, Munich 1980).
  • The so-called human. What we have in common with animals and what not (Kösel-Verlag, Munich 1981).
  • The green car. An alternative traffic concept (Kösel-Verlag, Munich 1983).
  • Flashback. A life for a world with a human face. With a foreword by Erika Weinzierl (Novum Verlag, Vienna 2003).
As editor
  • Peace movement and human rights movement - two sides of the same coin? (Verlag Europäische Perspektiven, Berlin 1983).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The red twins in Standard from April 28, 2008, accessed on February 6, 2012
  2. ↑ Erica Fischer: The most important thing is to be true to yourself , 2005

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personal data
SURNAME Breuer, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 2009
Place of death Vienna