Karl Czernetz

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Karl Czernetz (born February 12, 1910 in Vienna , † August 3, 1978 in Vienna) was an Austrian politician (International Secretary of the SPÖ ) and a functionary of the diplomatic mission of the Austrian Socialists (AVOES).

biography

Vienna Central Cemetery - Karl Czernetz's grave of honor

Karl Czernetz was politically active in the Social Democratic Party (SDAP) from 1924 , while he was still attending the graphic teaching and research institute (training as a photographer) in Vienna. He began in the First Republic as an education officer for the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAJ) in Leopoldstadt , the 2nd district of Vienna. After the SDAP was banned in 1934, he continued his political activities with the illegal Revolutionary Socialists (RS) and was arrested several times in the “corporate state” .

After the “Anschluss” of Austria, he fled to Paris in 1938 and then lived in London from 1939 to 1945. As a member of the diplomatic mission of the Austrian Socialists (AVOES), he ran the London Bureau together with Oscar Pollak as the AVOES party office and played a decisive role in shaping Austrian exile policy (for details, see AVOES ). In 1939 he married his wife Margit in London.

After the war, Czernetz returned to Austria with his wife and had been a member of the SPÖ's federal party executive since 1946. He took over the management of the newly created training department of the SPÖ, which in 1948 was expanded under his direction to become the Socialist Education Center . He also headed the education department of the SPÖ Vienna and the Vienna party school . Then he acted as the international secretary of the SPÖ.

In addition to his work as a member of the National Council (nine legislative periods from November 1949 until his death), Czernetz was also active at the European level: from 1952 to 1955 he acted as an Austrian observer at the Council of Europe , from 1956 until his death as an Austrian delegate to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe ; from 1975 until his death he was president of that congregation.

From 1963 until his death he was editor-in-chief of the SPÖ monthly magazine “Die Zukunft”, which cemented his reputation as a “party ideologist”.

Awards

In 1960 he received the Great Silver Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria and in 1973 he was awarded the title of professor. In 1977 he received the Great Gold Medal of Honor on Ribbon for Services to the Republic of Austria and the Medal of Honor for Services to the Liberation of Austria . In 1978 the urban residential complex in Vienna's 15th district, Clementinengasse 11-17, was named after Czernetz, in 1983 Czernetzplatz in the 22nd district.

Works

  • Socialism and its opponents (Vienna 1949)
  • Before the decision (Vienna 1958)
  • Austria and the Unity of Europe (Vienna 1960)
  • Europe and Peace (Vienna 1968)
  • The Socialist International - Idea and Reality (Vienna 1972)

literature

  • Hans Waschek (Ed.): Karl Czernetz. European and socialist. Talking u. Essays . Verlag der Wiener Volksbuchhandlung, Vienna 1980.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
  2. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
  3. ↑ Thanks to resistance fighters. In: The New Reminder Call . Volume 30, No. 6 June 1977 (online at ANNO ).

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personal data
SURNAME Czernetz, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (SPÖ), member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH August 3, 1978
Place of death Vienna