Leopold Spira

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Leopold Karl Spira (born May 2, 1913 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died December 20, 1997 in Vienna) was an Austrian publicist and political author.

Life

Leopold Spira was the son of the civil servant Emil Spira and Doris Langbein. His sister is Emma Plank, born in 1905 . As a student, Spira was involved in the inter-war period on the side of the political left. He participated as a volunteer in the ranks of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War in part and sat under the authoritarian regime of the Austro-fascist Austrian corporate state for nearly a year in prison.

Leopold Spira survived the Second World War in exile in Great Britain , where he worked as editor of the exile magazine Zeitspiegel and in 1940 married Eva Zerner. The couple's daughters, Elizabeth T. Spira and Margaret were born in Glasgow . In 1946 Leopold Spira returned to Austria with his wife and children and became one of the leading intellectuals of the KPÖ in Vienna . Together with Ernst Fischer and Franz Marek, Spira belonged to the circle of the Wiener Tagebuch , which in the 1960s took a line in line with Eurocommunism , which is why he and his colleagues were forced out of the party in 1969. After Franz Marek's death, Spira was editor-in-chief of the “Wiener Tagebuch” until 1988 and published several books. He was buried in the cemetery of the Simmering fire hall (Department 5, Group 3, number 135).

Fonts (selection)

  • A failed attempt: Austro-Eurocommunism . Vienna 1979.
  • Enemy Jud . Vienna 1981.
  • Goodbye communism. An ideological biography . Europa-Verlag, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-203-51178-9 .
  • The century of contradictions . Böhlau, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-205-98609-1 .
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SURNAME Spira, Leopold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spira, Leopold Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian publicist and political author
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1997
Place of death Vienna