Leopold Husinsky

Leopold Husinsky (born December 21, 1890 - March 31, 1951 ) was an Austrian journalist.

Leopold Husinsky studied German and philosophy up to a doctorate at the University of Vienna . During the First World War he was taken prisoner as a first lieutenant and did not return to Vienna until 1921. In August 1921 he began his journalistic career with the Catholic, anti-Semitic “ Reichspost ”. From 1928 to 1938 he was also editor of the “ Wiener Mondagsblatt”, which appeared in the same publishing house and tended to have the same orientation, and also published under the pseudonym “Attila”. Husinsky's application for an editor's card to be issued was rejected by the “Reich Association of the German Press” in July 1938 because he was considered a “first degree hybrid” under the Nuremberg Laws . He then tried in vain to be exempted from the requirement of Aryan descent and had to resign from the editorial office of the Reichspost in August 1938. Subsequently, he worked as an accountant in the Archbishop's Office of Vienna until 1945.

In 1945 Husinsky was first deputy editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper “ Neues Österreich ”. From August 1945 head of service and deputy editor-in-chief of the publication “ Das Kleine Volksblatt ”. Eventually he became editor-in-chief of this newspaper in 1948 and remained so until his death in 1951. After the war, Husinsky was a member of the investigative committee of the journalists' union. His son Heribert Husinsky (* 1923) also emerged as a pronounced Catholic journalist.

literature

• Fritz Hausjell : Austrian Daily Newspaper Journalists 1947 , Vol. 2, Dissertation University of Salzburg, 1985
• Mathias Peschta: The employees of the Catholic daily newspaper "Die Reichspost" and the National Socialist takeover in Austria - a collective biographical study (diploma thesis, University of Vienna 2009)
• Gisela Wibihall: The political-ideological anti-Semitism in the corporate state and the Wiener Mondagsblatt , Vienna 1994