Gustav Canaval

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Gustav Adolf Canaval di Moneta (born August 5, 1898 in Linz , † November 26, 1959 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian journalist and co-editor and editor-in-chief of the Salzburger Nachrichten .

Life

Training and first journalistic activities

Gustav Adolf Canaval came as the son of the railway official of the Mühlkreisbahn Max Canaval and his wife Franziska, nee. Utility loader to the world. He attended secondary school and, in addition to a penchant for electrical engineering and chemistry, developed an inclination for political science. After several attempts at studying in Vienna ( medicine and technology ), he finally received his doctorate in Graz in the subjects of political science and national economy . Since 1918 he was a member of the Catholic student union KaV Norica Vienna .

While still a student, he worked as a journalist for the Reichspost before he became editor of the Sturmscharen weekly newspaper Sturm über Österreich in 1934 . A year later he worked as an editor and partner in the tabloid Telegraf , whose course was sharply directed against the emerging National Socialism . Staying true to his own anti-Nazi attitude towards life, he was arrested in the editorial office after the German troops marched in in 1938 and taken to the Flossenbürg concentration camp and later to the Dachau concentration camp . After several years of detention, he was in 1945, just before the already arranged enforcement of imposed upon him the death sentence by the United States Army liberated.

Founding of the Salzburger Nachrichten

On 23 October 1945 he received together with the printing house director Max Dasch by the American occupiers the Permit No. 1. for the publication of a daily newspaper (Salzburger Nachrichten). He became the first editor-in-chief and undeterred stood up for overcoming the old ideological and party political contradictions and for a policy of reconciliation with the former National Socialists. In addition, he dedicated himself to the renewal of a healthy Austro- German relationship and the restructuring of relations with neighboring peoples. In 1946 he married Antonie Beer, with whom he had three daughters and a son. In 1947 Gustav Canaval founded the Association for the Protection of Citizens' Rights in Salzburg with effect for the whole of Austria on the basis of the American Civilian Rights Organization . The aim of the association was to promote the democratic attitudes of former members of the NSDAP and to reintegrate these people into Austrian suffrage .

Well-known, larger publications by Canaval are his monograph on the Austrian Treaty of Geneva 1922 and the monarchy not yesterday, but tomorrow (1956). In 1957 he received the Great Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria for his achievements . The city of Salzburg honored him in 1971 by naming a street in the Schallmoos district .

Demise and Succession

Gustav Canaval died on November 26, 1959 and was buried at the Salzburg municipal cemetery. Until his death, he had a major influence on the course of the Salzburger Nachrichten as publisher and editor-in-chief. His successor as editor-in-chief was René Marcic . His wife Antonie, who originally did not work for the company, took over his 50 percent stake and was co-editor until her own death in 1975. His four children sold all of their shares to Max Dasch after their mother's death. Today, the Salzburger Nachrichten is wholly owned by Max Dasch jun. and his sister Gertrude Kaindl-Hönig.

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  1. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Canaval, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Canaval di Moneta, Gustav Adolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1959
Place of death Salzburg