Jakob Rosner (journalist)

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Jakob Rosner (born March 25, 1890 in Sniatyn , Austria-Hungary ; died June 18, 1970 in Vienna ) was an Austrian political journalist and Marxist .

Life

Jakob Rosner came to Vienna in 1905 and worked as an employee. In 1919 he became a member of the Communist Party of Hungary. From 1926 he worked for Georgi Dimitrov . He stayed in Vienna until 1928 and in Berlin until 1933 . From 1936 to 1939 he was Dimitrov's personal secretary in Moscow . From September 1939 to December 1944 he lived illegally in Sweden , where he published the Comintern magazine “Die Welt” . Then he worked again as a colleague of Dimitrov and came to Austria in September 1945 .

At Volksstimme , the central organ of the Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) , he was in charge of foreign policy editors until his retirement. One of Rosner's particular merits was the promotion of journalistic and political talents, including Eva Priester and Ernst Wimmer . Until 1965 he was the personal secretary of the chairman of the KPÖ Johann Koplenig . In his book from 1966 he took up Erich Kulka's idea (1963) of an “industrialized” killing in the concentration camps, which found dissemination in the magazines Die Zukunft and Das Argument in the following year . In October 1967 he was one of the signatories of a "call to found a revolutionary workers' party based on Marxism-Leninism ", from which on June 22, 1968 the Union of Revolutionary Workers Austria (Marxist-Leninists) arose. He remained a functionary of this organization until 1969. In 1970 he rejoined the KPÖ.

Fonts

  • Communist and Catholic , 1965
  • Fascism: its roots, its essence, its goals , 1966

literature

  • Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of the German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, p. 619

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ mass murder and profit ; P. 135f
  2. ↑ Fascism ; P. 129
personal data
SURNAME Rosner, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist and active communist
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Sniatyn , Galicia
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 1970
Place of death Vienna