Josef C. Wirth

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Josef Carl Wirth (born November 22, 1884 in Vienna ; † 1959 ) was an Austrian civil servant and journalist.

Josef Carl Wirth was the son of the writer and journalist Bettina Wirth and the economist and journalist Max Wirth . His grandfather was the journalist, politician and co-organizer of the Hambach Festival Johann Georg August Wirth .

After studying at the University of Vienna, Wirth was a journalist for the Generalanzeiger in Breslau from 1911 to 1914 . During the First World War he served as a war correspondent for New York World , Frankfurter Zeitung , Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger and Schlesische Zeitung .

In 1918 he became deputy press chief at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Vienna. From 1919 to 1926 he was director of the Telegraph Correspondence Bureau (renamed Official News Agency - ANA in 1922) - today's Austria Press Agency . As a member of the Austrian peace delegation in St. Germain , he negotiated the resumption of the relations between the Austrian official agency and the Reuters and Havas agencies, which had been interrupted by the war .

From 1926 to 1938 Wirth was editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper Die Stunden and the theater magazine Die Bühne . In 1938, after the National Socialists came to power in Austria, he was arrested and expelled from the journalistic profession. From 1938 to 1945 he was editorial director of the Compass publishing house and from 1945 to 1947 he was, together with Ernst Kirchweger , the public administrator of the Compass. From 1945 Wirth was section head and head of the press service in the Federal Chancellery in Vienna.

Josef Carl Wirth was married to Tilde Koegler.

literature

  • Tano Bojankin: The History of Compass Publishing-An Interim State ; in: Sylvia Mattl-Wurm / Alfred Pfoser (ed.): Die Vermessung Wiens, Lehmann address books 1859–1942. Metroverlag, Vienna 2011, p. 347 f.
  • Robert Teichl: Austrians of the present . Vienna 1951, p. 340
  • Oscar Friedmann: Celebrity Almanac . Vienna-Leipzig 1930, p. 291
  • Franz Klein: Saint-Germain, in the summer of 1919, In: Volume 1 of sources on the history of the 19th and 20th centuries, p. 362, W. Neugebauer, 1977 ISBN 3853760120
personal data
SURNAME Wirth, Josef C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wirth, Josef Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian civil servant and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 1959