Jacques Hannak

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Jacques Hannak (born March 12, 1892 in Vienna ; † November 14, 1973 ibid) was an Austrian writer and journalist, a functionary of the Social Democratic Workers' Party , the Austrian Labor Committee (ALC) and the Socialist Party of Austria (SPÖ).

Life

Simmering fire hall - urn grave of Jacques and Hilde Hannak

Jacques Hannak, son of Hermann and his wife Fanny, b. Happy, studied law at the University of Vienna and was awarded a Dr. iur. PhD . He then worked as an editor for the Arbeiter-Zeitung , initially for the sports and local area, and later for politics and culture. From 1920 to 1928 Hannak was an employee of the social democratic monthly magazine Der Kampf and from 1921 to 1934 editor-in-chief for the union newspaper Arbeit und Wirtschaft .

After the February fights in 1934 , Hannak was a member of the so-called "shadow committee", which, under the leadership of Oscar Pollak and Otto Leichter, was the central resistance movement against the corporate state and consisted primarily of former party editors and employees of the Arbeiter-Zeitung. This resulted in a “five-man committee” with Manfred Ackermann as chairman, which from March 1934 called itself “Central Committee of Revolutionary Socialists” and a. published the news service , the editor-in-chief of this newspaper was Hannak.

Immediately after the "Anschluss" of Austria , Hannak, a Jew and Social Democrat, was arrested several times and taken to the concentration camps of Dachau and then Buchenwald .

In 1939, after his release, Hannak was able to flee to Brussels , from where he came to Paris in 1940 . After after the German invasion in 1940 in Le Vernet had been interned again, he succeeded in 1941 to emigrate to the United States where he worked as an employee for German-language broadcasts of the "Office of War Information." From 1942 to 1945 he belonged to the small group of functionaries of the Austrian Labor Committee , an official successor organization to the foreign representation of the Austrian socialists, which was dissolved in 1942 .

In 1946 Hannak returned to Vienna and continued to work as a journalist for the Arbeiter-Zeitung and book author. His rounds of talks became known across party and political boundaries.

His honorary grave is in the Simmering fire hall (ALI department, number 56A).

Awards

Works

Own publications:
  • Sexuality. A paraphrase of Weininger's ideas . Verlag der Verlage, Vienna 1918.
  • Austria's economy and the renovation . Presentation for the second German-Austrian trade union congress. Together with Karl Renner . Publishing house “Arbeit und Wirtschaft”, Wiener Volksbuchhandlung, Vienna 1923.
  • Sport and business . Socio-Pedagogical Society, Vienna 1925 (pamphlets of the Socio-Pedagogical Society; No. 11).
  • Wilhelm Steinitz . The Michel Angelo of the game of chess . Verlag der Wiener Schach-Zeitung, Vienna 1936
    Edition Olms, Zurich 1989, ISBN 3-283-00105-7 (reprint of the 1936 edition under the title Wilhelm Steinitz. The Michelangelo of the game of chess ).
  • Semmering-Baden 1937. Collection of all the games from the tournament . With an introductory essay by Jacques Hannak. Magyar Sakkvilág, Kecskemét 1937 (German Library of the Hungarian Chess World; Vol. 5).
  • Emanuel Lasker . Biography of a world chess champion. With a foreword by Albert Einstein . Engelhardt, Berlin 1952.
  • The prince who sold his land. From the memories of Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg . Verlag der Wiener Volksbuchhandlung, Vienna 1949.
  • Four years of the Second Republic. An accountability report of the socialist party . Verlag der Wiener Volksbuchhandlung, Vienna 1949.
  • In the storm of a century. A Popular History of the Socialist Party of Austria . Verlag der Wiener Volksbuchhandlung, Vienna 1952.
  • Outpost of Freedom. Austria 1950 to 1953 . Verlag der Wiener Volksbuchhandlung, Vienna 1954.
  • The case of Hans Weigel . A necessary settlement . Self-published, Vienna 1959
  • Inventory of Austria 1945–1963 . Forum Verlag, Vienna 1963.
  • Men and deeds. On the history of the Austrian labor movement . Verlag der Wiener Volksbuchhandlung, Vienna 1963.
  • The way to today. Twenty years of the Second Republic . Europa Verlag , Vienna 1965.
  • Karl Renner and his time. Attempt a biography . Europa Verlag, Vienna 1965.
  • Johannes Schober . Middle path to catastrophe. Portrait of a representative of the lost center . Europa Verlag, Vienna 1966.
  • From subject to fellow citizen. 100 years of basic state laws . Publishing house of the Austrian Federation of Trade Unions, Vienna 1967.
As editor or employee:
  • New Vienna Chess Newspaper . Together with Albert Becker . Vienna 1923–1949.
  • Rubinstein wins! 100 brilliant games of the great chess artist . Explained by Hans Kmoch. Biographical introduction by Jacques Hannak. Publisher of the Wiener Schachzeitung, Vienna 1933.
  • Oskar Helmer : Selected speeches and writings . Europa Verlag, Vienna 1963.
  • Karl Renner: The Nation. Myth and Reality. Speeches and writings . Europa Verlag, Vienna 1964.
  • Adolf Schärf : The part and the whole. Speeches and writings . Europa Verlag, Vienna 1965.
  • Ernst Haeusserman : Under the spell of the Burgtheater. Speeches and essays . Europa Verlag, Vienna 1966.

literature

  • Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna. Volume 3: Ha-La. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-218-00545-0 , p. 50.
  • Ursula Moriggl: Jacques Hannak. A social democrat, a journalist. Biography and topic analysis of his journalistic achievements for the "Arbeiter-Zeitung" between 1946 and 1955 . Thesis. Vienna 1994.
  • Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century. Volume 1: A-I. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 503.

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personal data
SURNAME Hannak, Jacques
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hannak, Johann Jakob; Schackerl, Loisl (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian publicist and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1973
Place of death Vienna