Karl Mark

Memorial plaque at the Karl-Mark-Hof

Karl Mark (born August 1, 1900 in Vienna ; † January 24, 1991 ibid) was an Austrian politician ( SPÖ ) and member of the National Council .

biography

After attending the Academic Gymnasium and the Döblinger Gymnasium, Karl Mark studied law and political science at the University of Vienna for a few semesters and was District Secretary of the party in Döbling from 1921 until the Social Democratic Party was banned in 1934 . Mark was one of the leading representatives of the "Left in the SDAP", the party wing around the later communist Ernst Fischer . After the armed uprising by social democratic and communist workers on February 12, 1934, Mark was temporarily in police custody and interned in the Wöllersdorf detention center . According to his own statements, on April 10, 1945, he reported to the Russian commandant in Döbling to campaign for the concerns of the district. After he had given the acquaintance of the communist Ernst Fischer as a reference, the army commander named Mark Döbling district chairman . He then organized a district administration from twelve party friends, six representatives of the parishes and two liberals. However, Mark only remained district chairman of Döbling until October 1945, but held the office of district party chairman until 1970. From December 1945 Mark represented the SPÖ in the National Council (until 1966) and between 1946 and 1948 he was General Secretary of the Bund of Politically Persecuted People .

Karl Mark's daughter Susi Schneider-Mark (1943–2009) lived as an adult in New York State for decades and worked as a USA correspondent for the Arbeiter-Zeitung and from 1991 as a correspondent for the Vienna daily Der Standard . She last lived, seriously ill, with her sister in the family's country house in Saalfelden , which her grandfather had bought .

Awards

In 1997 in Vienna-Döbling a community building was renamed Karl-Mark-Hof and one street was renamed Karl-Mark-Gasse .

literature

Karl Mark: 75 years old red dog. Life memories. Böhlau, Vienna 1990, ISBN 978-3-205-05317-0 .

Web links

Commons : Karl Mark - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Karl Mark on the website of the Austrian Parliament
Karl Mark: "There was nothing ..." Interview with Karl Mark on tvthek.orf.at (video, 33 min.)
Contemporary history podcast about Karl Mark on stubat.at (audio, 01:19:43)

Individual evidence

↑ Susi Schneider. STANDARD correspondent and the Standard.at blogger died on Thursday - an obituary. In: derstandard.at . November 6, 2009, accessed May 19, 2015 .
^ Christoph Prantner: Susi Schneider 1943–2009. Unusual life between Austria and the USA - STANDARD correspondent and the Standard.at blogger died on Thursday. In: derstandard.at . November 6, 2009, accessed on May 19, 2015 (also in the print edition of November 7/8, 2009).
^ Karl Mark in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna .

personal data
SURNAME	Mark, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian politician (SPÖ), member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH	August 1, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	January 24, 1991
Place of death	Vienna

[1] Susi Schneider. STANDARD correspondent and the Standard.at blogger died on Thursday - an obituary. In: derstandard.at . November 6, 2009, accessed May 19, 2015 .

[2] Christoph Prantner: Susi Schneider 1943–2009. Unusual life between Austria and the USA - STANDARD correspondent and the Standard.at blogger died on Thursday. In: derstandard.at . November 6, 2009, accessed on May 19, 2015 (also in the print edition of November 7/8, 2009).

[3] Karl Mark in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna .