Karl Hans Sailer

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Karl Hans Sailer (born October 15, 1900 in Vienna ; † October 22, 1957 ibid) was an Austrian journalist and functionary of the Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP) and the Revolutionary Socialists .

Life

Sailer graduated from the workers' college in 1926 and then worked as editor of the Kleine Blatt , a popular social democratic daily newspaper, in Vienna. After the party was banned by Engelbert Dollfuss ' dictatorship on February 12, 1934, he joined the (illegal) Revolutionary Socialists . After the arrest of the chairman of the Revolutionary Socialists, Manfred Ackermann , he took over the chair himself in 1934. He was arrested together with those functionaries who had participated in the Reich Conference of Revolutionary Socialists in Brno at the turn of the year 1934/1935 and sentenced to imprisonment in the socialist trial in 1936 .

In 1938 he fled abroad, where he became a founding member of the diplomatic mission of the Austrian Socialists (AVOES). In 1940 he emigrated from Lisbon to the USA (details from his wife Erna Sailer ), where from 1942 together with Otto Leichter he edited the organ of the Austrian Labor Committee (ALC), Austrian Labor Information . In 1946 the Sailers returned to Austria. He then worked in the editorial office of the Arbeiter-Zeitung until his death , where he became deputy editor-in-chief.

After several years of suffering, tied to the hospital bed for weeks , Karl Hans Sailer died in the late hours of October 22nd, 1957. He became mayor of Vienna on October 26th, Franz Jonas, at the Hietzinger Friedhof (13th district) in one buried in an honorary grave (group 42, no. 6). He was married to the lawyer Erna Zaloscer , who outlived him by more than 46 years. His son John (Hans) Sailer, born in 1937, founded an art gallery in Vienna.

Fonts

  • Secret correspondence between Mussolini and Dollfuss . (Appendix: From Starhemberg's memoirs ). Explanatory text by Karl Hans Sailer. 2nd unchanged edition. Verlag der Wiener Volksbuchhandlung, Vienna 1949.

literature

  • Joseph Buttinger : Using Austria as an example. A historical contribution to the crisis of the socialist movement . Publishing house for politics and economy, Cologne 1953.
  • Franz Goldner: The Austrian Emigration. 1938 to 1945 . Herold, Vienna (among others) 1972. ( Collection The lonely conscience , Volume 6, ZDB -ID 1179400-8 ).
  • Helene Maimann : Politics in the waiting room. Austrian policy in exile in Great Britain 1938–1945 . Böhlau, Vienna ( inter alia ) 1975, ISBN 3-205-08566-3 , pp. 39, 48, 87, 1003, 249 ( publications of the Commission for Modern History of Austria , Volume 62, ZDB -ID 520755-1 )
  • Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (ed.): Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933 . Volume 1: Politics, Economy, Public Life . Saur, Munich 1980, p. 630.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Hans Sailer . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna October 24, 1957, p. 1 , top right ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  2. ^ The farewell to Karl Hans Sailer . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna October 27, 1957, p. 2 , middle right ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
personal data
SURNAME Sailer, Karl Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian editor
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1957
Place of death Vienna