Karl Anton Rohan

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Karl Anton Prince Rohan (born January 9, 1898 in Loosdorf , † March 17, 1975 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian political writer.

Life

Karl Anton Rohan came from the noble family of the same name and was the landowner in Albrechtsberg Castle near Loosdorf in Lower Austria. From 1916 to 1918 he did military service. In 1924 he founded the Association for Cultural Cooperation ("European Cultural Association"). From 1925 to 1936, Karl Anton Rohan published the European Review . He represented an elitist-conservative concept of the " Occident ", which he opposed to the Christian Democratic idea of ​​a pan- Europe. At the international meetings of his cultural association, u. a. Hugo von Hofmannsthal , Paul Valéry , Max Beckmann and Carl Schmitt took part.

Karl Anton Rohan and Richard Nikolaus Coudenhove-Kalergi were considered to be personally enemies; Rohan considered the Paneuropean idea to be constructed, hostile to tradition and rationalistic. Josef Redlich was one of the sponsors of his Kulturbund ; but Ignaz Seipel felt Rohan West ideology connected.

During the 1930s, like Alois Hudal, he advocated a rapprochement between Christianity and National Socialism . However, he was in favor of an independent National Socialist Austria. Nevertheless, after Austria's annexation to the German Reich in 1938, Rohan contributed to the confessional book of Austrian poets (published by the Association of German Writers in Austria ), which enthusiastically welcomed the annexation. Since May 1, 1938, he was a member of the NSDAP (No. 6.234.513). However, since he was not ready to give up his idea of ​​an independent Austria and a united Europe on a Catholic-aristocratic basis, he quickly fell into political sideline in the “Third Reich”. In addition, in his book The Fateful Hour of Europe, he had warned of preparations for a new world war.

During the Second World War Rohan was active in the intelligence service. After 1945 he worked for the magazines The Aula and New Order .

In the German Democratic Republic his writings Moscow (subtitle: "A sketchbook from Soviet Russia"; G. Braun Buchverlag, Karlsruhe 1927) and Fateful Hour of Europe (subtitle: "Findings and Confessions, Realities and Possibilities"; Leykam, Graz 1937) on the List of literature to be discarded.

In 1972 he received the Liebieg Medal from the Reichenberg home district in Augsburg .

Publications

  • Change of the time 1923-1930 , Berlin 1930.
  • The fateful hour of Europe , Graz 1937.
  • Home Europe. Memories and experiences , Düsseldorf 1954.
  • The Germans and the world. How do the other peoples see the Germans? , Eckartschriften Heft 32, Österreichische Landsmannschaft , Vienna 1969

literature

  • Guido Müller: From Hugo von Hoffmannsthal's “Dream of the Reich” to Europe under National Socialist rule - The “European Review” 1925-1936 / 1944 . In Hans-Christof Kraus (Hrsg.): Conservative magazines between the empire and dictatorship. Five case studies. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11037-4 ( Studies and texts for the study of conservatism . 4), pp. 155–186.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anita Ziegerhofer-Prettenthaler: Ambassador of Europe. Richard Nikolaus Coudenhove-Kalergi and the Pan-European Movement in the 1920s and 1930s. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-205-77217-2 , p. 172.
  2. ^ Association of German Writers Austria (ed.), Confessional Book of Austrian Poets, Krystall Verlag, Vienna 1938
  3. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 493.
  4. ↑ Guido Müller: European social relations after the First World War. The Franco-German Study Committee and the European Cultural Association. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2005 ISBN 3-486-57736-0 , p. 455
  5. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1953-nslit-q.html
personal data
SURNAME Rohan, Karl Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rohan, Karl Anton Prinz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian political writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Loosdorf
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1975
Place of death Salzburg