Johannes Eidlitz

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Johannes Eidlitz (born September 27, 1920 in Vienna ; † November 14, 2000 there ) was an Austrian resistance fighter, journalist and co-founder of the Austrian People's Party .

youth

Johannes Eidlitz was born in Vienna in 1920 as the son of the actor couple Alma Seidler and Karl von Eidlitz . At the age of 13 he became a member of Jung-Vaterland , the youth organization of the Heimwehr . In 1936 in Austrofascism , he founded the local group Freikorpsfähnlein Helmuth Wenger of the Austrian Young People , the youth organization of the Fatherland Front , in the Theresianum grammar school , and became their local youth leader. In 1938 he joined the Assault Corps Reserve .

After Austria was " annexed " to the German Reich , Eidlitz joined the Wehrmacht in autumn 1938 .

resistance

Eidlitz began to make contacts with opponents of National Socialism and tried to establish connections abroad. By Guido Zernatto who had settled abroad, allegedly promised him support, but this connection broke off.

In 1941 he was discharged from the Wehrmacht for tuberculosis . He now set about building a resistance group, the Austrian Combat League , together with Herbert Braunsteiner and Hans Radvany . The Kampfbund was able to organize weapons through contacts with military circles. There were acts of sabotage and propaganda activities carried out. By the end of 1944, military cells of the resistance group could be established in several barracks in Vienna and in the XVII medical department. Local military posts in Waidhofen an der Ybbs and Göstling an der Ybbs made it possible for around 70–80 refugees and Wehrmacht deserters to flee across the Alps to areas controlled by Slovenian Titopartisans .

Contact with the O5 group was established through Hans Sidonius Becker . In April 1945, during the liberation of Vienna , Eidlitz and his unit occupied the police headquarters on Schottenring before the arrival of the Red Army .

Second republic

In the spring of 1945, Johannes Eidlitz was co-founder and first organizer of the Austrian People's Party.

As a journalist he worked for various newspapers, such as the Wiener Zeitung and the Wochenpresse , and from 1959 to 1967 he was deputy editor-in-chief of the press . In Fritz Molden Verlag he was then chief editor, the ORF consultant for contemporary history.

Johannes Eidlitz died on November 14, 2000 and was buried in the shared grave of his parents at the Vienna Central Cemetery .

Honor

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Johannes Eidlitz: Ready to shoot at each other. DÖW , accessed on November 12, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Hubert Jurasek : Johannes von Eidlitz in memory . In: ÖVP comradeship of the politically persecuted (ed.): The freedom fighter . tape 51 , no. 4 . Klosterneuburg December 2000, p. 4 ( online on the publisher's website (PDF; 3.19 MB)).
  3. ↑ a b Johannes Eidlitz: The bike suddenly ran, so to speak. DÖW, accessed on November 12, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Fritz Molden : The fire in the night . Amalthea, Vienna / Munich 1988, ISBN 3-85002-262-5 , p. 114 .
  5. ↑ a b Resistance fighter Johannes Eidlitz is honored posthumously. In: The Standard . February 27, 2004, accessed November 12, 2017 .
  6. ^ Johannes Eidlitz, Awards in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
personal data
SURNAME Eidlitz, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian resistance fighter, journalist and co-founder of the ÖVP
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 2000
Place of death Vienna