Karl Tomann

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Karl Tomann (born January 2, 1884 , † February 5, 1950 in the Soviet Union) was an Austrian politician of the Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ).

Life

Tomann, who came from a working-class family, worked in Austria as a secretary of the goldsmiths ' union before 1914 . As a prisoner of war in Russia he joined the Bolsheviks and in 1918 became chairman of the “All-Russian Congress of Internationalist Prisoners of War”. He was also the editor of the Moscow German-language newspaper "Weltrevolution". In December 1918 Tomann returned to Austria and in 1919 was a member of the party executive of the Communist Party of German-Austria (KPDÖ). Tomann signed the resolution of the Communist Party of Austria of August 27, 1919 on joining the Communist International ( Comintern ) , published in the newspaper “Kommunistische Internationale” . In 1932 he was expelled from the KPDÖ after wing battles.

From 1932 to 1934 he was a member of the Social Democrats in Austria. In 1940 he became a member of the NSDAP and SA . From 1939 to 1945 Tomann was mayor of Eichgraben in Lower Austria . In 1945 after the end of the war Tomann was arrested by the Soviet occupation authorities and died in 1950 in the gulag .

plant

  • Is German Austria ready for the Soviet republic? , Vienna, 1920.

Individual evidence

  1. Wladislaw Hedeler , Alexander J. Watlin (ed.): The world party from Moscow. The founding congress of the Communist International in 1919. Protocol and new documents . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 3-05-004495-0 , pp. 436 . ( limited preview on Google Book Search )
  2. Ruth Fischer , Arkadij Maslow : Abtrnig gegen Willen: From Letters and Manuscripts of Exile , p. 669 ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).