Karl Konrad Bauer

Karl Konrad Bauer (born March 8, 1910 in Vienna-Lichtental ; † July 3, 1984 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian sports official, National Socialist activist and publisher .

Life

Bauer, the son of an innkeeper, joined the National Socialists in his youth and was involved in the Hitler Youth . At the same time, he was active in the German Gymnastics Federation , a preliminary organization of the NSDAP in Austria, and in the German School Association, where he became the trainer for Vienna in 1931. There he tried to spread the National Socialist worldview. In the same year he joined the NSDAP .

Within the Turnerbund, Bauer became honorary director of the association's bookstore in 1936 and editor of the association's magazine Der Turner in 1938 . In the illegal Austrian NSDAP he was in the NSDStB “external leader of the German student body”.

When the publishing world was “ Aryanized ” after the “Anschluss” of Austria , Karl Bauer and Ernst Sopper took over the Adolf Luser Verlag, which was called “Wiener Verlagsgesellschaft mbH”, then “Wiener Verlag Ernst Sopper”, probably on the initiative of Odilo Globocnik & Karl Bauer ”. The publisher received massive financial support from the German Labor Front . It was considered a "war-economically important company" and was preferred for material deliveries. In 1938 he was appointed Gau dietwart of Gaues XVII, Ostmark, of the German Reich Association for physical exercise by the Reich Sports Leader. In 1940 Bauer became a member of the Künstlerhaus Wien .

After the end of the Second World War , Bauer was charged with the "Aryanization" of the Adolf Luser Verlag, but acquitted in 1947. A short time later, Bauer began to work again in a nationalist sense and in 1948 founded the “Mont Blanc Verlag” - this published books by u. a. Maria Grengg , Josef Nadler , Heinrich von Srbik , Franz Spunda , Max Mell and Kurt Ziesel . However, this company failed to achieve economic success.

literature

• Murray G. Hall: Austrian Publishing History 1918–1938. Volume 1: History of the Austrian publishing industry. ISBN 3-205-07258-8 . Volume 2: Fiction Publishers of the First Republic. ISBN 3-412-05585-9 (= literature and life , NF, volume 28 / I and II) Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Graz 1985.
• Hans Peter Fritz: Book City and Book Crisis, Publishing and Literature in Austria 1945–1955. Dissertation, Vienna 1989.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Baptismal register of the Roman Catholic parish Lichtental in Vienna Volume 57, Folio 28 ( online ).