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Harry Spiegel (born November 18, 1910 in Vienna ; died January 22, 2000 there ) was an Austrian member of the International Brigades and the Resistance .
Life
Harry Spiegel was born in 1910 to middle-class parents. Even as a teenager he was interested in left social movements . In 1932 he joined the KPÖ . In 1936 he was imprisoned for three weeks on suspicion of high treason. In June 1937 he went to Spain and joined the International Brigades and their fight against fascism in the Spanish Civil War . He was political commissioner in the 4th Battalion of the 11th Interbrigade. He was wounded at the Battle of the Ebro . He met the American nurse Irene Goldin in the British hospital in Mataró and married her in September 1938.
After the defeat of the Spanish Republic , the couple managed to emigrate to France . Spiegel was initially interned as an "enemy alien", but was released again thanks to the intervention of his wife. In Château de la Guette near Paris, the Spiegels, who were themselves Jews, looked after Jewish refugee children from Germany and Austria. After the subsequent occupation of France by the German Wehrmacht , they fled to the “free” part of the country, where Harry Spiegel hired himself as a woodcutter and coal maker and his wife gave birth to their son Peter. They joined the Resistance in Marseille . From January 1943 he worked as "Henri Verdier" as part of the Austrian resistance group in the Resistance as an interpreter in the construction supervision of the German Navy in Marseille.
In 1945 he came back to Austria via Yugoslavia, in 1948 his wife came to him in Vienna after a stay in the USA. Spiegel worked for the KPÖ again. He was the head of human resources for USIA companies, a sales representative and a businessman. In the 1980s he was a member of the board of the Werkstätten- und Kulturhaus WUK in Vienna-Alsergrund, where he founded "Psychopannenhilfe" in 1985, which he managed until his death. Spiegel was buried at the Sieveringer Friedhof (group 36, number 18) in Vienna.
literature
- Hans Landauer , Erich Hackl : Lexicon of the Austrian fighters in Spain: 1936-1939 , Verlag der Theodor-Kramer-Ges., Vienna 2003, ISBN 3901602186 , p. 36. Extended online publication: Austrians for Spain's freedom 1936-1939: “Spiegel, Harry ” , documentation archive of the Austrian resistance , accessed on October 3, 2013.
- Jens Kastner: Don Espejo and the resistance. The somewhat different documentary film: Martin Krenn's Notes on Antifascism of the 1930s and 1940s , in: Graswurzelrevolution Nr. 318, April 2007, p. 15 online , accessed on October 3, 2013.
- Gerald Raunig: The revolutionary happiness of Harry Spiegel. On the film “Aufzüge zum Demokratie” ( Notes on Resistance) , magazine Kulturrisse (01/2007), accessed on October 3, 2013.
Movie
- Notes on Resistance , documentary about Harry Spiegel by Martin Krenn , script Nina Maron and Martin Krenn, produced by Martin Krenn and Amour Fou Filmproduktion , Distribution Poool Filmverleih , A 2006, 65 minutes.
Web links
- Shoot well, but don't be happy! Harry Spiegel and Erich Hackl , a program by Margit Wolfsberger, WUK radio on Orange 94.0 , March 24, 2008
- Les bûcherons et charbonniers de Cazaux-Debat , le site des amis de Cazaux-Debat
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Austrians for Spain's Freedom 1936-1939: Harry Spiegel , Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance
- ^ The case of Noel Field: Key figure of the show trials in Eastern Europe, Volume 1, Basisdruck Verlag GmbH, 2005, p. 315, note 69 online
- ↑ Hans Landauer: Lexicon of the Austrian fighters in Spain: 1936-1939 , documentation archive of the Austrian resistance , introduction to the topic , (PDF; 670 kB) p. 37 f.
- ^ Martin Sugarman: Against Fascism - Jews who served in The International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War (PDF; 1.9 MB), Jewish Virtual Library
- ^ Memorial Service Conference “Jewish Resistance or Resistance by Jews” , Memorial Service 3/1998
- ^ Tilly Spiegel: Austrians in the Belgian and French Resistance , Monographs on Contemporary History, Europa Verlag, Vienna, Frankfurt, Zurich 1969, p. 51
- ↑ Hans Landauer: Les Autrichiens des Brigades internationales dans le maquis français , in: Paul Pasteur, Félix Kreissler: Actes du Colloque Les Autrichiens dans la Résistance , Études autrichiennes 4, Univ. de Rouen, Center d'Études et de Recherches Autrichiennes, Rouen 1996, p. 40 Online , accessed on October 3, 2013.
- ↑ PsychoPannenHilfe ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the WUK (cultural center) , accessed on October 3, 2013.
- ↑ Ute Bönnen , Gerald Endres : The international brigades - volunteers in the Spanish civil war , ARTE / SDR , 1996, see also article on youtube , accessed on October 1, 2013.
- ↑ Martin Krenn's Notes on Resistance , Poool Filmverleih website, accessed on October 3, 2013.
- ^ Notes on Resistance (2006) , Martin Krenn website, accessed October 3, 2013.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mirror, Harry |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian member of the International Brigades and the Resistance |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 18, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 22, 2000 |
| Place of death | Vienna |