Karl Hartl (diplomat)

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Karl Hartl

Karl Paul Ernst Hartl (born June 30, 1909 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died May 19, 1979 in Wiener Neustadt ) was an Austrian politician, diplomat and writer.

Life

Karl Hartl was a son of the salesman Karl Hartl (1880–1957) and Ernestine Buchar (1887–1920). He studied from 1928 to 1932 at the University of World Trade to obtain a degree in business administration and from 1930 to 1934 philosophy at the University of Vienna , in 1934 he was expelled from the university for political reasons. From November 1931 to May 1932 he carried out research for the research team of the sociological Marienthal unemployment study . Hartl wrote three non-fiction books for children between 1935 and 1937, partly in collaboration with Sergei Feitelberg (1905–1967). In 1936 Hartl married the doctor Franziska Grünhut (1908–1997), they had a daughter.

politics

Hartl joined the Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP) in 1926 and the paramilitary Republican Schutzbund in 1927 , in which he was a member of the "technical management of Vienna" from 1932. He was active in the Association of Socialist Middle School Students in Austria and from 1929 a board member of the Association of Socialist Students in Austria . With the establishment of Austrofascism , these organizations were banned and their functionaries were persecuted and driven into illegality.

From 1933 Hartl was a leading member of the group Der Funke , which Marie Jahoda also belonged to. The group was in 1934 after the February battles the Austrian Revolutionary Socialists incorporated (RSO) where Hartl under the pseudonym Hermann , among others, for the distribution of the now illegal "workers' newspaper. Organ of the Austrian Social Democracy (Brno) ”. From 1936 to 1938 he worked as a Viennese contact for Leopold Kulcsar's office at the Republican Spanish Embassy in Prague .

After the annexation of Austria in 1938, he fled to Paris , where he found employment as a legal adviser at the embassy of the Spanish Republic until the government of the Republic went into exile in April 1939.

In August 1939 he resigned from the party in protest against the all-German perspective of the diplomatic mission of the Austrian Socialists (AVÖS). At the beginning of the war in September 1939, Hartl became head of the “Organizing Committee of the Austrian Social Democrats” and was involved in the negotiations on the formation of an Austrian representation in exile recognized by France. From September 1939 to June 1940 Hartl worked for the “Austrian Freedom Broadcasting” in Fécamp and in May 1940 he was one of the founders of the “Action Committee for the Liberation of Austria”.

After France surrendered in June 1940, Hartl fled to the unoccupied Vichy France in the Lot department , where he fought as a farm worker. Hartl had worked with the French Resistance since 1942 , and in 1943 he became a sergeant and armorer in the 3rd Regiment of Francs-tireurs et partisans (FTP). In autumn 1944 he was interned in Puy-l'Évêque for several weeks after disputes with the local Resistance leadership .

After the war, Hartl became a member of the Socialist Party of Austria (SPÖ) and entered the Austrian diplomatic service. From 1946 to 1947 he was consul and prisoner of war commissioner at the Austrian embassy in Paris, and from 1947 to 1949 legation secretary at the embassy in Rome. Hartl did not return to Austria until 1949. From 1950 to 1955 he was sent to Israel as consul general and was the first Austrian representative there. From 1955 to 1958 he was head of the cabinet of State Secretary Bruno Kreisky in the Foreign Ministry in Vienna , from 1958 to 1963 ambassador to Turkey and from 1963 to 1968 ambassador to Yugoslavia . From 1968 to 1974 he was head of the Department of Culture in the Foreign Ministry and then retired.

Hartl was appointed officer of the Legion of Honor and was awarded the Great Silver Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria .

Fonts (selection)

  • "How ... when ... where?" History of small and large things . With seventy-eight pictures and map sketches by Leo Friedrich and Walter Pfizner. Vienna – Leipzig: Steyrermühl, 1935
  • "Why ... what for?" What is behind it all . With seventy-four pictures and map sketches by Franz Katzer. Vienna – Leipzig: Steyrermühl. 1936
  • Karl F. Sergius [that's Karl Hartl & Sergei Feitelberg]: The way of life. A biology . With pictures by Franz Katzer. Vienna – Leipzig: Steyrermühl, 1937
  • Rolf Steininger (Ed.): Reports from Israel: an edition of files. Vol. 4 1954-1955; Consul General Dkfm. Karl Hartl . Munich: Olzog, 2004
  • Rudolf Agstner (Ed.): Turkey 1960: political reports from Ambassador Karl Hartl to Foreign Minister Bruno Kreisky . Vienna: Lit, 2011

literature

  • Ursula Seeber (Hrsg.): Small allies: expelled Austrian children's and youth literature . Vienna: Picus, 1998 ISBN 3-85452-276-2 , p. 128
  • Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of the German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, p. 306

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personal data
SURNAME Hartl, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hartl, Karl Paul Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician, diplomat and writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1979
Place of death Wiener Neustadt