Heinrich Kanner

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Heinrich Kanner (born November 9, 1864 in Galați ; † February 15, 1930 in Vienna ) was an Austrian politician, journalist and newspaper editor.

Born in Galatz, eastern Romania, to a poor German-speaking Jewish family, the family moved to Vienna in 1866. Heinrich Kanner attended high school and studied law at the university, where he also heard from the statistician Isidor Singer . From 1892 he was a correspondent for the Frankfurter Zeitung in Vienna. In 1894, Kanner founded the weekly newspaper Die Zeit together with Singer and the writer Hermann Bahr . What distinguished Die Zeit from all the liberal newspapers published in Austria-Hungary at that time was the deviation from the foreign policy course of the German-Austrian alliance. Employees at the time were personalities such as Bertha von Suttner , Theodor Herzl , Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk , Felix Salten and Anton Wildgans . Hermann Bahr was the director of the Kulturfeuilleton, the editor was Grete Schmahl-Wolf . In 1902 Die Zeit became a daily newspaper that appeared until 1918 and was subject to the strictest censorship measures during the First World War.

Heinrich Kanner began his research into the question of war guilt during the Second World War. For this purpose, he interviewed a number of prominent representatives of public life during the war, including several times Leon von Bilinski , who was the joint finance minister of the Danube Monarchy from 1912 to 1915 and who took part in the decisive meetings and discussions on foreign policy during this period. Bilinski testified in talks with Kanner that Emperor Franz Joseph had been determined since the spring of 1913 to approve an action in the Balkans if necessary, regardless of the risk of a clash with Russia.

After the World War, Kanner continued to work as a political journalist on the political issues of the First World War. For this purpose, he visited the Austrian House, Court and State Archives in Vienna several times to study the original files.

Works (selection)

  • Typewritten manuscripts 1914-1917 The Hoover Institution On War, Revolution and Peace ; Stanford University , California - two boxes [ID: CSUZ25001-A].
  • Latest historical lies , Vienna 1921.
  • Wilhelm II. Farewell letter to the German people. A mirror for the Germans. , Berlin 1922.
  • Imperial Disaster Policy , Leipzig 1922.
  • The key to the war guilt question , Munich 1926.
  • The war. Political Monthly , Vienna 1929.
  • Gunslinger journalist and bank manager. What the former director of the Hungarian General Credit Bank Baron Kornfeld said. A personal memory. Neues Wiener Journal, 34 (1926) # 11613, 7. (March 21, 1926)

literature

  • Marcell Klang (Red.): “Elite”: Austria's intellectual elite. A handbook of leaders in culture and business. Vienna 1936.
  • Robert A. Kann : Emperor Franz Joseph and the outbreak of the world war. Hermann Böhlaus successor to commission publisher of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1971.
  • Donald G. Daviau: The man of the day after tomorrow. Hermann Bahr 1863-1934. Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1984.
  • Herbert Gantschacher : Witness and Victim of the Apocalypse. ARBOS, Vienna-Salzburg-Arnoldstein 2007.
  • Kostrbová, Lucie; Kurt Ifkovits; Vratislav Doubek: The Viennese weekly Die Zeit (1894-1904) as a mediator between Czech and Viennese modernism. Prague, Vienna: Masarykův ústav a Archive AV ČR, Austrian Theater Museum 2011. On the biography: pp. 412–413.

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personal data
SURNAME Kanner, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist and newspaper editor
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Galați
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1930
Place of death Vienna